M2: customer address increment_id column

Question

There's a column called increment_id in customer_address_entity. Is this used for anything?

Answer 1

Magento gives you the option to generate Human Friendly IDs for customer accounts. It's disabled by default. If you want to enable this feature, you can go to: Stores > Configuration > Customers > Customers Configuration > Create New Account Options and set Generate Human-Friendly Customer ID to Yes. That will generate Increment IDs for customer accounts.

Answer 2

I've come to the conclusion that customer_address_entity.increment_id serves no purpose.

Answer 3

Just an addition to the answer by the original author:

The increment_id serves no purpose at the moment, but can easily be transformed to a working one (although I see no business case for this). In the column eav_entity_type, just add an increment_model for the entity customer_address. Then add an observer for customer_address_save_before and call that model to generate a new increment_id.