HubSpot Ideas

song

Let us pick which value to keep when merging records, and merge multiple records at once

As of right now, when merging records, the latest value overwrites the older value. However that is not always accurate! there might be some properties where the older value is true, some where the new value is true

 

It is especially confusing when you merge more than 2 records together

 

So a table where properties are rows, and merging records name are colums, and i can pick which value to keep from which record, or even append all values if it is a multiple checkbox would be amazing

9 Replies
MSchmidl
Participant

absolutely needed, the way the company merge is currently set up makes this feature pretty much useless. If a duplicate company is created (different domain name) and I want to merge this into an existing customer company, obviously the values in the customer company are older than the ones in the newly created company. 

The feature in its current version forces me to overwrite old (correct) values with newer values that are not relevant.

As a user I would like to choose (if possible for each field which should be the "dominant" value).

 

However, it would be great to split up these ticket into two, the two issues are not directly related (picking the value vs. merging multiple records).

djc225
Participant

I'm surprised that it doesnt doesnt work this way.  i came from salesforce and we had the option to choose the resulting value in each field when merging duplicates.  

GYoder
Participant

Yes please!! I'm given the choice of which of two profiles to merge. The system is ALWAYS selecting the wrong information to keep. We are tracking membership. Unfortunately, the system keeps deferring to "Archived" instead of "Active". That throws off everything.

 

If I can choose the A or B Contact to merge to... it should defer to the infomation that I choose, not some arbitrary date that has nothing to do with anything. 

CamW
Participant

Any additional update here?

 

This lack of function leads to many inconsistencies in data hygiene. Surprised it's not more requested.

 

Salesforce has a great process for merging, 2 columns showing the fields with discrepancy and option to select correct field from each record - Image example attached:

 

Salesforce merge exampleSalesforce merge example

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hoping this gets added soon from the Hubspot team!

JBlack8
Member

Bringing this back up to the top as it is still an issue. Please @hubspot do something about this.

3535113
Member

Any answer on this @hubspot? I thought you used to be able to see the two columns and decide which data to maintain.  When did that change to only be the latest update info?  Many instances where I need to maintain the older data and only update some areas- I'd like to be able to pick.

MGerber18
Participant

Has there been no update on this topic @hubspot ? This is a critical function. Just because a value was more recently updated doesn't mean it's the right value. Please take a lesson from Salesforce on this one and copy their process for merging records. 

LTargett
Member

This has recently become a major issue for our organization. We were having records created with different email addresses from the same individual that we want to merge but keep the first created contact's sourcing information - we are losing all this Original Source data from that first record that may not have the "right" email but we want to track the first touchpoints. 

MichelleMassung
Contributor | Platinum Partner

Complete agree this is needed, especially for source! I want to retain the orignal source info of the record that came in first which I am choosing to be the primary. Instead, HubSpot uses the original source most recently updated.