Deduplication
Matching against existing records rather than creating a new contact each time.
CRM Integration
CRM Integration That Keeps the Data Worth Having
Connecting a form to a CRM is straightforward. Keeping the CRM usable afterwards is not — duplicates accumulate, attribution is lost, and half the records show no source. CRM integration should deliver every enquiry with the context that makes it actionable, without degrading the data already there.
We Care What the CRM Looks Like in a Year
An integration that creates a new contact for every submission destroys the CRM slowly.
Attribution Preserved
Source, campaign and landing page carried through so marketing can be measured.
Delivery Guaranteed
Queued and retried, so a CRM outage does not lose an enquiry.
Fields Mapped Deliberately
To the fields your team actually uses, not to whatever matched by name.
Failures Alert Someone
A silent integration failure means lost leads nobody knows about.
CRM Integration, Explained
What Should Reach the CRM?
More than name and email, and less than everything.
Discuss Your CRM →- 1
The Enquiry Itself
What they asked, mapped to fields sales will actually look at.
- 2
Attribution
Where they came from, which campaign, which landing page.
- 3
Behaviour Where Useful
Which pages preceded the enquiry, when that helps qualification.
- 4
Not Everything
Fields nobody uses make records harder to read, not more informative.
What CRM Integration Covers
Connection, data quality and the attribution that makes reporting possible.
Attribution for paid campaigns is covered in conversion tracking.
How We Integrate CRMs
Start with how sales uses the CRM, because that determines what is worth sending.
Review CRM Usage
Which fields are used, which are ignored, and what sales needs.
Define Matching Rules
How an existing contact is recognised.
Build the Connection
Queued, retried and validated.
Preserve Attribution
Source captured at entry and carried through to submission.
Verify and Monitor
Test submissions checked in the CRM, with alerting for failures.
Data Quality
Why Attribution Gets Lost
It is captured on arrival and needed at submission, and most of the loss happens in between.
Where does the source disappear?
A visitor arrives with campaign parameters in the URL. They browse for ten minutes, the parameters leave the address bar, and the form submits with no record of where they came from.
The fix is capturing those parameters on arrival, storing them for the session, and including them in the submission. It is simple and it is frequently missing.
The consequence is a CRM where a large share of records show no source, which makes it impossible to tell which marketing produced revenue.
How do duplicates accumulate?
The default integration behaviour is to create a record per submission. Someone who enquires twice becomes two contacts; someone who fills two different forms becomes two more.
Within a year the CRM holds several records for the same person with different histories, and nobody trusts the reporting because the counts are inflated.
Matching on email before creating, and updating where a match is found, prevents this. It has to be decided at integration time, because cleaning it up afterwards is manual work.
Questions,answered.
CRM integration connects your website to your CRM so enquiries arrive automatically with the attribution and context sales needs — including deduplication and reliable delivery.
Because the integration creates a record per submission rather than matching against existing ones. Adding matching rules prevents new duplicates; the existing ones need a separate cleanup.
Usually because campaign parameters were captured on arrival and never carried through to the form submission. They leave the URL as the visitor browses, and nothing stored them.
With a queued integration, the submission is stored and retried, so nothing is lost. With a direct submission, the enquiry may simply fail — which is why we queue by default.
Only where the website needs to reflect CRM state, such as a customer portal showing account status. One-way is simpler and sufficient for lead capture.
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Talk to UsThe CRM Degrades One Submission at a Time
Nothing dramatic happens on the day a CRM integration goes live. Enquiries arrive, sales works them, and everyone considers it a success.
What accumulates is invisible for months. A second record for a contact who enquired before. A record with no source because the campaign parameters were dropped. A field mapped somewhere nobody looks.
By the time someone tries to report on which marketing produced pipeline, the data cannot answer the question — and the cause was a set of decisions made in an afternoon, a year earlier.
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