# Find&merge for customers and suppliers

**URL:** <https://forum.manager.io/t/find-merge-for-customers-and-suppliers/35255>\
**Category:** ideas\
**Created:** [May 29, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/find-merge-for-customers-and-suppliers/35255 "2021-05-29T12:32:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Shamsuddin\_Esaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Shamsuddin\_Esaf](https://forum.manager.io/u/Shamsuddin_Esaf)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/find-merge-for-customers-and-suppliers/35255/1 "2021-05-29T12:32:32Z")

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Dear Lubos, possible in the future Find and merge option for customers and suppliers, because some time the user is mistakenly creating the same customer or suppliers

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**Author:** ![ShaneAU](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/shaneau/32/10122_2.png) [@ShaneAU](https://forum.manager.io/u/ShaneAU)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2021, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/find-merge-for-customers-and-suppliers/35255/2 "2021-05-29T16:21:54Z")

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On a similar note, it would make sense for the application to warn the user if they are creating a Customer or Supplier that looks like it might be a duplicate. Doing so would prevent this scenario from occurring in the first place.

A similar name or email address would be a clear indicator that the new record being created is a potential duplicate.

Then prompting the user: “It looks like this Customer/Supplier already exists, would you like to continue?”

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Similarity of the name can be handled using [Levenshtein distance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance) (see also [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9453731/how-to-calculate-distance-similarity-measure-of-given-2-strings)). It’s something that we’ve implemented at work for our application.

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**Author:** ![Ali12](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/ali12/32/35133_2.png) [@Ali12](https://forum.manager.io/u/Ali12)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 5:43pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/find-merge-for-customers-and-suppliers/35255/4 "2022-11-23T17:43:17Z")

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How to deal with the customer, if he is a supplier, what is the solution?

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**Author:** ![Tut](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.manager.io/tut/32/3286_2.png) [@Tut](https://forum.manager.io/u/Tut)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.manager.io/t/find-merge-for-customers-and-suppliers/35255/5 "2022-11-23T19:20:02Z")

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Read the Guide about that.