This product sheet defines match quality assurance in the context of product linkages held for the client.

Matches may have been established by any means and identified by the client for QC.

The Match Quality Control service:

• Checks the correctness of selected matches
• The matches may be identical, variant or comparable and will be checked where necessary against rules specified by the client
• Incorrect matches are removed from the client's linkage file, identified as a non-match and prevented from being automatically suggested in the future
• Marks matches in query and reports these separately to the client if there is any uncertainty over a product pairing until the client can resolve the query

• Target match list (product and competitor) requiring Quality Control
• Response to query reports to resolve match QC queries
• Matching principles for variant and comparable match QC (where not already supplied in the context of a matching service