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If a phone number or email address disappeared from a customer profile, it’s almost always one of two things: the contact was reassigned to another customer during deduplication, or someone removed it manually.

Possible reasons

1. Duplicate contacts in the database

In Maestra, an email address or phone number can’t belong to more than one customer at a time. When the same contact shows up on two different customer profiles, Maestra keeps it on one of them based on a set of priority rules and removes it from the other. A record of the removal — including the reason — is written to the customer’s change history.

2. Manual removal

The contact may have been deleted by hand while someone was editing the customer profile.

How priority is decided

When the same email or phone exists on two customers, Maestra uses several signals to decide which customer keeps it:
  • Order history — the contact stays with the customer who has purchase history.
  • Personal actions — engagement with emails, product views, and other individual activity raise a customer’s priority.
  • Recency — more recent data wins over older data.

Where to find this information

You can see exactly when and why a contact was changed in the Change history tab of the customer profile. Links to related profiles — the other customer the contact moved to or came from — are available in the Personal information section of the profile.