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calculates a total match score based on the total weighted field scores. The weighted field score ensures fields that can help uniquely identify a company have more impact on the total match score than a field that is common among many records.

For example, the company name is likely to uniquely identify a record. Conversely, the billing city does not uniquely identify a record because many people and businesses can share the same city. You can give the company name a higher weighting than the city name field to ensure the company name score has a greater influence on the total match score.

The weighting is a percentage between 0 and 100. If you set the weighting to 50 and the field score is 75,

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calculates the weighted field score as 50% of 75. The weighted field score in this example is 37.5.

You can also set the weighting to 200 to ensure a field is an exact match. If you set the weighting for a field to 200 and the fields are not an exact match,

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sets the total match score to zero. You can use a weighting of 200 for the country ISO code field. A company with branches in two different countries might have many matching fields, but you might not want

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to consider the two branches a match because they are two separate business entities. Set the weighting to 200 on the country ISO code field to ensure

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does not consider these two separate business entities as the same entity.