Detecting Territories

Your records may not always have complete or consistent types of address data. To help resolve this issue Distribution Engine has the ability to detect the country and state a record is from using a variety of field types.  

Detecting countries

DE classifier can detect what country a record is from using:

  • Country: A field containing country name, including variations on country name e.g. USA, U.S.A, United States
  • State: A field containing a state name e.g. California would resolve the country to USA even without a country field being present
  • Phone: A field containing a phone number can be used to resolve a country by its international dialing code e.g. +44 will resolve the country to United Kingdom
  • Domain: A field containing a website or Email address can be used to resolve a country by its domain extension e.g. www.google.de will resolve the country to Germany

Detecting states

DE classifier can detect what state a record is from using:

  • State: A field containing a state name, including variations e.g. California, CA
  • Phone:  A field containing a phone number can be used to resolve a state using its area code

Priority

The resolution will happen in order of the fields entered top to bottom. In the example below, to resolve a country, it will check the Country field, and if no match is found, then check the State field, then Website, and so on until a country match is found, or it has exhausted the list. Likewise, to resolve the state, it will check the state field, and if empty or not a recognised state, it will move to check the phone number and attempt to use the area code to determine the state.

 

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