NetSuite ERP for Administrators

Duplicate Detection

Duplicate Detection is another form of mass update, where NetSuite identifies duplicate customers, contacts, vendors, and/or partner records, and can merge the duplicates into a master record or delete the duplicates.

The administrator sets the criteria that NetSuite will use to search for duplicates on the Setup | Company | Duplicate Detection screen. One can choose an individual criterion, such as a name, or use multiple criteria simultaneously. This selection is as much an art as it is a science, and it relies on knowing the intricacies of the data. If you are too aggressive, you risk deleting non-duplicates, whereas the opposite is also true; by making the search too specific, actual duplicates will be excluded. A ...