# Change rules for merging

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/change-rules-for-merging/71508>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** object\
**Created:** [December 19, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/change-rules-for-merging/71508 "2022-12-19T14:23:43Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![LRehn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@LRehn](https://community.hubspot.com/u/LRehn)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2022, 2:23pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/change-rules-for-merging/71508/1 "2022-12-19T14:23:43Z")

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When we merge companies the latest information can overwrite the correct information, say we have a custom field called “customer status” and the options are “lead, SQL, customer, churned customer”. I can merge 2 companies and the data “customer” gets overwritten by “lead” if we have duplicates of the same company.

This makes managing duplicates much more annoying because it messes up the workflows we have created in regard to customer status.

Would be great if we could set our own rules when i comes to merging.

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**Author:** ![ghib](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/ghib/32/34870_2.png) [@ghib](https://community.hubspot.com/u/ghib)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/change-rules-for-merging/71508/2 "2023-06-17T17:39:57Z")

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I would be great to require email + phone number for merging contacts. In insurance there can be multiple people sharing the same email address but they have a unique cell phone number.