Title: Data import
Last modified: February 21, 2020

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# Data import

 *  Resolved [empresa87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/empresa87/)
 * (@empresa87)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-import-2/)
 * Hello,
    First congratulations on the plugin and for allowing people to start 
   for free and grow from there.
 * I have a question about importing data. Is it possible to use one of the fields
   as the company’s unique ID? I know that the plugin already works with an ID for
   each listing. I wanted to use the company’s tax number (it’s unique) as a reference
   point.
    The intention is that I can upload a csv file with a list of closed companies
   and related by that id field and disable them in the directory.
 * Thanks for your time, any help or guidance is always welcome.

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 *  Plugin Author [Business Directory Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/businessdirectoryplugin/)
 * (@businessdirectoryplugin)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-import-2/#post-12470785)
 * Hi [@empresa87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/empresa87/),
 * Thanks for contacting me here.
 * Right now, BD has a way to generate a unique ID on export. When you import records
   for the first time, you don’t need to worry about uniqueness then as you have
   no listings and we assume that your data is as a clean as you want it to be then.
 * We don’t have a way to change that unique ID to what you want, only our generated
   key unfortunately. But as long as you use that on export and want to do bulk 
   edits and re-import, it should work just as good as your tax number (and avoid
   issues with privacy if that’s relevant)
 * I hope that helps.
 * Please let me know if you have any other questions or issues!
 *  Thread Starter [empresa87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/empresa87/)
 * (@empresa87)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-import-2/#post-12482857)
 * Hello and thanks for the reply,
 * The tax number for companies is public information, and essential to validate
   whether it is a real company or not. On a daily basis companies go out of business
   and I intend to do this daily work and remove closed companies. the information
   I have about them is the tax number, relate this reference to the website in 
   some way and automatically disable them. That is why exporting and bulk edits
   and re-import is not the most efficient way to do it.
 * Is there a way to do this with custom programming by you or a programmer? Any
   direction is welcome.
 * thanks
 *  Plugin Author [Business Directory Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/businessdirectoryplugin/)
 * (@businessdirectoryplugin)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-import-2/#post-12494389)
 * Hi [@empresa87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/empresa87/),
 * Right now, BD doesn’t have a way to support that. Unfortunately, with our hefty
   feature list and our ongoing support work, we lack the bandwidth to do that kind
   of customization for sites. There are a few great resources to help you out here.
 * 1) Tilden Tasks: [https://tildentasks.com/](https://tildentasks.com/) They will
   also do longer WordPress tasks, but they break it down to 1 task per day.
    2)
   Codeable, which has WordPress expert developers available for short-term projects:
   [https://codeable.io/](https://codeable.io/)
 * They may be able to help if this isn’t something you’re willing to tackle on 
   your own. But if you make custom changes to the plugin, you’ll have to be careful
   on upgrades because those changes will be lost when you update from us in the
   future.

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