## TL;DR

Zoho found a duplicate during the API call. Decide the dedup policy: update the existing record, skip, or merge, and handle the duplicate error explicitly.

## Error

```text
zoho crm api error 4403: duplicate data found
```

## Steps

1. Find the existing duplicate record Expected: you see the collision.
2. Decide: update it, skip the new one, or merge Expected: the policy is explicit.
3. Implement the duplicate-error branch in your code Expected: duplicates are handled, not crashed on.
4. Re-run the operation Expected: it succeeds.

## When to use

- Zoho 4403 duplicate data
- The record already exists

## When not to use

- It is not a duplicate (then check the unique fields config)
- You want to allow it (then adjust the unique field settings)

## Tool compatibility

- Zoho duplicate check
- CRM data loads

## Variant phrasings

### zoho 4403

The record already exists. Update, skip, or merge explicitly.

### zoho duplicate data found

Same: handle the duplicate instead of crashing.

## Why it happens

Zoho's unique fields trigger this, and agents treat it as a fatal error instead of a branch in the logic.

## Edge cases

- The duplicate check runs per unique field; know which ones are unique
- Merging needs the right permissions

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_fi5hy9YLwif2Zk83lZq1Kw

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