Importing ticket sales from third parties

Hi All

I just wanted to know what are the ways to avoid creating duplicate constituents when we do a order import. Manually finding duplicates is a time-consuming process. I tried running the import utility and shows potential duplicates however, it still misses a lot of duplicate constituents. Can we create a criteria to match the ones having same name and email address? Any thoughts or ideas? 

Thanks

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  • Hi,

    we do piles of imports so I feel this annoyance!

    what we’ve done is developed a “translation “ spreadsheet that takes the native format of the report and puts it into the Tessitura import format using lots of references and formulas.

    As part of this, we pull a list of all active records every so often and have it as a reference tab to run a lookup against. When it finds a match it adds the ID to that column in the translated tab. 

    overall the whole spreadsheet has really reduced the amount of time it takes to prepare a file. it’s a treasure. 

    hope that helps?

    cheers,

    N