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# Unify products from the suggestions module

📍 [What does unify mean? ](#2-what-does-unify-mean)

📍 [When will products be unified automatically?](#2-when-will-products-be-unified-automatically)

📍 [When will I need to unify products?](#2-when-will-i-need-to-unify-products)

📍 [Step by step](#1-step-by-step-to-unify-products)

📍 [Products with a match](#2-products-with-a-match)

* With the same unit of measure
* With a different unit of measure

📍 [Products without a match](#2-products-without-a-match)

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Your database may contain duplicate products if products are digitized with significant differences (unit of measure, name, etc.).

## What does unify mean?

To unify means telling haddock that **a new purchase belongs to an existing product**; therefore, once unified, **they will become a single product** and share the reference price and total purchases.

## When will products be unified automatically?

If the products **match in name and unit of measure, they will be unified** automatically. **Otherwise**, **certain rules will apply** to assess whether they should still be unified automatically (95% match).

## When will I need to unify products?

When there are matches, but not enough for automatic unification.

**🍽 Practical case**

A delivery note is digitized in which **a new product appears as Soda Z** and a suggestion is identified with a product in your database: **Soda Zero.**

​**If you unify these products, the system will learn and will not ask you again whether to unify when this same difference appears.**

# 📚 Step by step to unify products

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/helpdesk-haddock-images/products/unify-products-from-the-suggestions-module/images/01-step-by-step-to-unify-products.gif)

1. Inside the ***Products*** module, click the **new product suggestions** to unify.

2. You will reach a list of product suggestions among which we have found similarities so you can confirm whether they are the same product or not.

**⚠️** Only **users with permission to view and edit products** can unify products.

| Soda Zero | Soda Z | Products with a match |
| ---- |
| Soda Zero | Soda Light | Products without a match |

## ✅ Products with a match

3. You only need to click the dropdown to unify the new product with one from the existing product base.

**📏 With the same unit of measure**

If the products have the same unit of measure, they will be unified directly.

**❗️ With a different unit of measure**

If the products do not have the same unit of measure, you will need to convert them to a base unit and tell haddock what it corresponds to.

**🍽 Practical case**

**Existing product:** Soda Zero (1 box) = 16.50€/box

**New product:** Soda Z (24 units) = 0.68€/unit

The expected conversion is:

**1 box = 24 units**

**🚨 You can undo a unification** if you go to the product and separate any purchase lines that are different and therefore haddock allows you to separate.

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/helpdesk-haddock-images/products/unify-products-from-the-suggestions-module/images/02-products-with-a-match.png)

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/helpdesk-haddock-images/products/unify-products-from-the-suggestions-module/images/03-products-with-a-match.png)

## ❌ Products without a match

If the products do not match, we will create a **new product** that you can see in the *Products* module.