# Mortascreen creates Salesforce App for suppressing deceased records

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/06/26/mortascreen-creates-salesforce-app-for-suppressing-deceased-records/
- Published: 2015-06-26T12:06:02+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Data company Mortascreen, which helps charities and retailers remove records of 
deceased people from their databases, has created an app that helps achieve that
on Salesforce.

Their suppression Salesforce app can be downloaded from Salesforce’s app platform
[AppExchange](https://appexchange.salesforce.com/). While it is in its beta phase,
the organisation is inviting charities that host their database on Salesforce to
test it at no charge.

The app will help organisation identify and remove records of people who have died,
to ensure that they or rather their family do not continue to receiving mailings.

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![Mortascreen](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/mortascreen.
jpg)

## Paid-for version

Even after the test phase, organisations will still be able to download the Mortascreen
app and match their data against the file at no charge. However, to flag the record
on their own database will cost 50p per match.

The app also has an automatic schedule option. This gives charities the facility
to run Mortascreen automatically through the Salesforce data at regular intervals
to ensure that the data is clean and compliant with Data Protection principles in
terms of accuracy and currency.

Karen Pritchard, Product Director, Wilmington Millennium, said:

> “We believe that by making Mortascreen available on Salesforce we will stop even
> more direct mail (and email) being sent to people that have passed away, which
> serves as a painful reminder to those family members left behind. Our market research
> shows that increasingly smaller companies and charities are turning to Salesforce
> to host their consumer datasets and therefore it makes perfect sense to create
> a suppression solution for this market.”

Charities wishing to take part in the test phase should contact Karen Pritchard 
at [Wilmington Millennium](http://www.wilmingtonmillennium.co.uk/solutions/mortascreen.aspx)
on 01274 538888.

## Preventing mailings being sent to dead people

Mortascreen contains the names and address details of over 10 million deceased individuals,
with around 50,000 new records added each month. Many charities use it to avoid 
upsetting relevatives of deceased supporters and to save money by reducing wasted
mailings.

 

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