Merge Purge

Merge/Purge is offered as a service allowing you access to our experience, tools and techniques for solving the common yet difficult problem of identifying duplicate records.

When you need to combine information from multiple data sources or mailing lists it involves more than a simple data reformat. Duplicate records can appear in multiple sources and need to be properly identified and eliminated. Using our advanced matching techniques developed over the past 16 years we’re able to accurately identify these duplicate records that exist in your mailing list.

Often duplicate records contain valuable information that needs to be retained on the final surviving record. For example, let’s take a scenario where two records have the same name and address information. However one record also contains an e-mail address, while the other record contains a telephone number. We can create an output record that retains both of these valuable fields creating a “best” record. We refer to this process as a Master File Update.

Our powerful Merge Purge software can also be used to increase your knowledge about your customers by calculating recency, frequency and monetary (RFM) information you are able to make better decisions on how best to market to your customers. This information can be used to create powerful marketing campaigns to target your best customers, newest customers, or inactive customers.

During a merge/purge we can also suppress records from appearing on the output file. Common uses include suppressing a list of current customers from a mail campaign targeting new customers. We can also suppress people who have registered with the DMA’s DMAchoice (Do Not Mail) program to remove people that have requested to be taken off certain mailing lists. Additional suppression services are also available, such as our Deceased Suppression and Prison Suppression service.

When you work with Peachtree Data we create a custom merge/purge solution to tailor our matching system to your exact criteria.