# Unique company

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/unique-company/24992>\
**Category:** CRM\
**Tags:** companies\
**Created:** [September 3, 2020, 10:16am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/unique-company/24992 "2020-09-03T10:16:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![luismm01](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/luismm01/32/82797_2.png) [@luismm01](https://community.hubspot.com/u/luismm01)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 10:16am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/unique-company/24992/1 "2020-09-03T10:16:22Z")

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Good morning, I am facing with a sales issue which is 2 different sales people created and contacted the same customer. Is there a way to prevent this? By using a field that, when filled, other person trying to create the same company is alerted that customer already exists. Could be VAT number. Thanks a lot

Luis

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**Author:** ![AdamLPW](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/adamlpw/32/29368_2.png) [@AdamLPW](https://community.hubspot.com/u/AdamLPW)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 10:50am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/unique-company/24992/2 "2020-09-03T10:50:11Z")

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Hi @luismm01,

HubSpot differentiates companies based on domain (and contacts based on email). If you already have a company “[www.company.com](http://www.company.com)” and someone tries to add a new company with the same domain, you’ll get a pop-up saying :  
“Gosh, that looks familiar. Did you mean:”

Then listing any existing companies with that same domain, below.

I don’t think there’s anything you can do to **prevent** companies from being created with the same domain, but you can’t create a contact with the same email as one that already exists. There may be something you can do with Workflows (how I wish I had access to Workflows) - perhaps someone with a pro subscription could advise?

If you do end up with duplicate contacts or companies you can, of course, merge them. Here are some links for [merging contacts](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/contacts/how-do-i-merge-contacts) and [merging companies](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/companies/how-do-i-merge-companies).

Hope this helps.

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**Author:** ![WHoegerman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce73a5/32.png) [@WHoegerman](https://community.hubspot.com/u/WHoegerman)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/unique-company/24992/3 "2023-04-24T18:39:34Z")

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Can someone tell me the exact property name of the domain property that will enforce uniqueness on Company records? (Is it the property named ‘domain’ or ‘website’?)