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title: Types of Matches
slug: altrata-web-resource-center/types-of-matches
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createdAt: 2025-04-03T19:14:22.194Z
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Contacts are matched against the Altrata data set, and there are three types of results that can happen when uploading a file.



**Types of Matches:**

1.      Match: Contacts (records) that Altrata is confident exist in our dataset and are the same individual that appear in the file you uploaded

2.      Possible/Potential: Contacts that the system was not 100% confident in, but believe have a match to a profile(s) in the system. This type of match requires manual confirmation from the user. 

3.      No Match: Contacts from your file that either do not exist in the Altrata dataset or that we could not match confidently due to lacking information.