business database program.

I'm starting a business soon and decided i need a program to run the data base of customers, I know already that i'm going to use an mysql database (i'm running slackware 1.0 so dont tell me to use ms access ) im planning it all out now, but im a little lost as to how to go about it, i decided to write a class customer to hold the info here is what i've come up with.

Code:

class customer
{
public:
customer ();
customer (string Tname,
          string Taddress,
          string Torder,
          string Tphone,
          int Tserial,
          float Tcost_total,
          float Tshipping,
          float Tcost);
~customer ();

protected:
    string name;
    string address;
    string order;
    string phone;
    int serial_number;
    float cost_total;
    float shipping;
    float cost;
};

//I'm only adding the constructor that's mainly used

customer::customer(string Tname, string Taddress, string Torder, string Tphone, int Tserial, float Tcost_total, float Tshipping, float Tcost)
{
    name = Tname;
    address = Taddress;
    order = Torder;
    phone = Tphone;
    serial_number = Tserial;
    cost_total = Tcost_total;
    shipping = Tshipping;
    cost = Tcost;
}

I know i have to use mysql++ to connect with the database and such but am I on track on making a class like this?

try mysql API doc