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Export to Excel, fix the data, import it back. It's the workflow every CRM team knows — and the one that causes the most headaches. Here's why Corral Works is the better way.
The round-trip works fine for a one-time migration. But when your team needs to make batch updates every week — or every day — the cracks show.
Excel doesn't know that a constituent code must be one of twelve valid values. You find out about the bad data after the import fails — or worse, after it succeeds with wrong values.
When someone asks 'who changed these 200 addresses last Tuesday?', the answer is 'the service account that runs the import'. Not helpful for compliance.
Was it address_cleanup_v3_FINAL.csv or address_cleanup_v3_FINAL_really.xlsx? The spreadsheet gets passed around, edited by multiple people, and nobody's sure which version is canonical.
The import window is Tuesday and Thursday between 2 and 4 PM. Your 200 address fixes sit in a queue behind three other requests. Meanwhile, mail goes to the wrong addresses.
47 rows imported, 153 failed. The error log says 'validation error on row 148' but doesn't tell you which field or why. Time to start over.
Corral Works connects directly to your CRM database. No exports, no imports, no version confusion. Just reviewed, validated, audited batch updates.