Contact Management 2020

Our Contacts typically tend to move around in the same industry, so odds are, when they leave one Company they'll show up later in another Account we service - which is why we'd like to retain any associated history. 

Over time, as users began to edit Contacts, rather than sending the info to admin, many fields were left untouched (which made them still "mailable," visible, etc), so I'm looking to make this more efficient (because all teams use Sugar for all things, Contacts have to be editable - not sure a Role can fix this one).

QUESTION: could this work?

If all Users had to do was replace the Account name with one established for this sole purpose i.e.<Contacts Moved Co.> (versus being orphaned or left on the account), this could all easy filtering to either clean up records or searching for a contact before creating.  Is there a better method? What is the considered best practice for removing or disassociating a Contact no longer at a Company, but whose information is worthy of keeping? 

Is this true?  

once removed from the Account, any linked records the Contact had remain at the Account level and Contact level until manually unlinked from both, record x record, no matter the Contact's Account name? 

Brieanne Rowe user administration 

#contacts account management contact management crm administration sugar q2 2020

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  • Practice we use is to have a Contact Status which when changed to a certain value, triggers BPM to update a range of fields. There was a couple of limitations atm with BPM - e.g. not being able to change the email address to invalid. So we have BPM create a task that is assigned to a specified user to tidy that up.

    When the contact turns up somewhere else, create a new contact by copying hte existing contact.

    We do this because it retains history but most importantly keeps history for a contact confined to when they were with an Account. If you just use the existing Contact and relink it, then the history is all together even though they worked at different places.

  • Thanks Greg Barrass - so to clarify:

    • when you copy the existing Contact, it copies the related records (histories) as well?
      • I'm just worried about our data :/ 10y in Sugar, 20K Contacts,  5K accounts, 100K archived emails
      • ...and about the BPM - need, want, wish there were ready to go templates for Enterprise! I believe this should be a standard feature  for the commoners. Brieanne Rowe

    Thanks!

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