This applies only to clients that have NCOA enabled for their tenant (US and Canada only) We are now surfacing NCOA processing attributes as part of Actions filters (under the “Customer Summary” folder in Audience filters). This enables you to easily select all customers who have recently been processed through NCOA, and select only the ones who moved recently (for instance), or by move type as well. Here are the new filters, and their capabilities :

• NCOADateUpdate : this is the date at which the record last went through NCOA processing. This is currently in a UNIX epoch format (e. g. “1507060487001”), but we will soon release a “human-readable” translation (e.g. YYYYMMDD format) of that filter.
• MoveType : this is the type of move that was registered within the USPS NCOA database. The possible values are : I for Individual Match, F for Family Match, B for Business Name Match.
• MoveDate : this is the date at which the move was registered with USPS in the NCOA database. This is in the format “YYYYMM”, e.g. “201401” is a move that was registered on January 2014 (the actual move could have happened earlier or later, the NCOA database cannot provide that information).

We made various improvements to the logic we used to pick the best attributes for mastercustomer records from each of their child records (from different source systems).

We also split the existing “Preferences” field into 4 different fields : DoNotEmail, DoNotCall, DoNotText, DoNotMail. Those represent the same type of “optin/optout” tracking for each customer, with the same allowed values, but splitting them makes it easier to manage complex use cases when merging records from different source systems. It also allows a much more granular control over how each customer’s preferences are surfaced at the mastercustomer level after deduping.

The documentation for the standard Customer feed has been updated to reflect this change. Along with that change, we are deprecating the “Preferences” field in the standard feed. However, you do not need to change your existing feeds, please review the feed documentation for more details.

This applies only to clients that have NCOA enabled for their tenant (US and Canada only) We are now surfacing NCOA processing attributes as part of Actions filters (under the “Customer Summary” folder in Audience filters). This enables you to easily select all customers who have recently been processed through NCOA, and select only the ones who moved recently (for instance), or by move type as well. Here are the new filters, and their capabilities :

• NCOADateUpdate : this is the date at which the record last went through NCOA processing. This is currently in a UNIX epoch format (e. g. “1507060487001”), but we will soon release a “human-readable” translation (e.g. YYYYMMDD format) of that filter.
• MoveType : this is the type of move that was registered within the USPS NCOA database. The possible values are : I for Individual Match, F for Family Match, B for Business Name Match.
• MoveDate : this is the date at which the move was registered with USPS in the NCOA database. This is in the format “YYYYMM”, e.g. “201401” is a move that was registered on January 2014 (the actual move could have happened earlier or later, the NCOA database cannot provide that information).

We made various improvements to the logic we used to pick the best attributes for mastercustomer records from each of their child records (from different source systems).

We also split the existing “Preferences” field into 4 different fields : DoNotEmail, DoNotCall, DoNotText, DoNotMail. Those represent the same type of “optin/optout” tracking for each customer, with the same allowed values, but splitting them makes it easier to manage complex use cases when merging records from different source systems. It also allows a much more granular control over how each customer’s preferences are surfaced at the mastercustomer level after deduping.

The documentation for the standard Customer feed has been updated to reflect this change. Along with that change, we are deprecating the “Preferences” field in the standard feed. However, you do not need to change your existing feeds, please review the feed documentation for more details.