Vicinity's Data Updater is designed to take your source file and compare the data it holds with the records in Vicninty - giving you the ability to compare, ignore or make changes to your database.

Vicinity iterates over each row of data the council provides and tries to find a matching record in Vicinity using a property reference number and a combination of billing reference and liable party name.

Based on what Vicinity finds, users are presented with a series of decisions to make

Your source file for Data Updater must be provided in the same format each time without formulas or merged cells. It must be a CSV file.

📂 Find out more about Preparing your data for the Data Updater here.

Once you're ready to use the Data Updater, you can find this in the left-hand main menu.

📂 Find out about the decisions there are to make in Data Updater here.

You can search our collection of help articles here 👉🏻 Vicinity Help Desk or we have a useful video of using the system basics here 👉🏻 Back to Basics