De-Duplication of contacts by LinkedIn URL (or other non-E-mail property)

[MStagen]

HubSpot Community - does anyone have any suggestion as to how someone can de-dup their HS database using a contact field that is NOT an E-mail address.

Many of our contacts have multiple E-mail addresses but have a singular other type of contact field (i.e. LinkedIn URL).

If our use case, it would be EXTREMELY helpful if we could de-dup using a contact's LinkedIn URL.  

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

[MStagen]

Thanks @PamCotton.  In our experience, people have so many E-mail addresses these days that using E-mails as the primary de-duping mechanism for HubSpot is becoming increasingly ineffective.

It would be GREAT if HubSpot could allow people to pick other fields to use for de-duping contacts.  For example, people might have a bunch of E-mail addresses over their careers but will likely keep the same LinkedIn URL.  In that use case (ours LOL), it would be SO MUCH EASIER to de-dup via LinkedIn URL.  (P.S. - This use case could also be applied to other fields - Instagram URL, Facebook URL, mobile phone number, etc...)  

Thanks for all of your help!!

- Mark

[PamCotton]

Thank you @karstenkoehler!

@MStagen, 

I would highly recommend you to please post this idea at our ideas forum (here).

Our product team, who monitors the forum regularly, can read your specific use case and understand why this would be a useful functionality or change. It also helps other customers facing the same issue to advocate for its implementation on your behalf by upvoting on the thread as well.

Thank you,

Pam

[MStagen]

I just submitted it to that link

[PamCotton]

Thank you for submitting your idea @MStagen, I just upvoted to help.

I will also include the link here in case other user wants to upvote as well.

Kindly,

Pam

[karstenkoehler · Accepted solution]

Hi @MStagen,

This is currently not supported within HubSpot, automatic contact deduplication is based entirely on email addresses as unique identifier.

I haven't used it myself yet, but Insycle for HubSpot might offer deduplication on specific fields. It isn't stated explicitly on the product page but there is a free trial: https://www.insycle.com/hubspot/

Thank you for tagging, @PamCotton!

Best regards!

[PamCotton]

Hello @MStagen, I would like to invite some top experts to this conversation @Josh, @karstenkoehler @vickisonne what would you recommend to @MStagen matter?

Thank you,

Pam