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.

**To use the Data Updater the source file must always be a full list of hereditaments and their Property Reference numbers each time the process is run.

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.

You can find this in the left-hand main menu once you're ready to use the Data Updater👇🏻

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

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