Anytime you are entering a new company location, contact, or vendor, you should always use "Searching for Existing Records" to ensure the company location or contact does not already exist in your database. Although e-manage is designed to keep duplication from happening, it cannot account for users entering companies using acronyms or simply supplying the wrong information. Hint: Try to refrain from using acronyms.
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Although you can manually enter all of the company information into e-manage, we recommend using the "Prospecting " tool Tool to find the company information (even if you have a business card in front of you) and enter the company portion of the data from the results to ensure accuracy and increase efficiency.
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