Detecting duplicates in leads

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We import a lot of leads into the system but many have similar names to existing accounts or uses abbreviation (ie, IBM vs IBM Inc. vs International Business Machines Inc.)

Is there a way to catch these types of duplicates?

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Adrian Begovich 1,014 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at

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Detecting duplicates in leads

Hi HYC1,

You will need to create custom logic to meet this requirement as duplicate detection rules will not be sufficient on their own.
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Thanks for the replies.

We already have the duplicate detections in place. The problem is that they're not able to filter for what we want.

I'm guessing there is no way to detect abbreviations except using custom scripts?
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Hello HYC1,

Please refer to the Microsoft article on Enable the detection of duplicate leads | Microsoft Learn

Example: for IBM v/s IBM Inc, you can use duplicate detection with specific criteria

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Adrian Begovich 1,014 Super User 2024 Season 2 on at

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Hi HYC1,

You can basic duplicate detection by setting up duplicate detection rules.

For more complex logic, create JavaScript, Business Rules, or a Plugin to conditionally populate custom fields based on what constitutes a duplicate and then run duplicate detection rules on the custom fields.