Clean data entry user profile company name

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After creating their username, I’d like the user to enter their company. Traditionally, this is where we have issues. If 2 users work for ACME, and one lists it as ACME, the other as ACME, Inc, I now have two different versions of the same company.

What’s a good workaround?

A few we have tried:

  1. Company is not editable and is a lookup field based on domain, but we have some domains (say gmail) that throw things off.
  2. They get a company “code” and have to use it instead. Getting this code to the user is cumbersome.

Another note, I don’t really want them to choose from a dropdown. I don’t want them to see all the other companies who are part of the organization.

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Unless you work some sort of AI you will have to manually review every submission and merge companies from time to time.

Listing a company wouldn’t necessarily imply that the company is doing business with you, in case you want to let the users search for companies…it will be just a convention for listing companies and finding names.

Then you can have a premium list of the companies or employees that actually are doing business with you.