A Quick Guide to Address Verification

Addresses are the foundation of successful business operations—whether you’re delivering packages to a customer or verifying identities, address verification saves you time and money on shipping, improves communication to customers, creates a more personalized experience, and standardizes your data so it’s clean and usable. 

Use Global Address from Melissa to verify global address data for over 240 countries and territories, standardize addresses to the host country’s preferred standard and transliterate addresses to either native, Latin or the input script. (Interested in a comprehensive, interactive map of Melissa’s data coverage along with address formats and examples for each country? Check it out here!)

Global Address can be used as a single lookup or in batches of 100, and you can put in either fielded or freeform addresses. The great thing about Melissa’s global address validation? It comes with result codes that tell you if your address is fully verified and what is missing from your address. 

Make sure you leverage our batch processing tools, as well as our transliteration capabilities for the most efficiency.

Go ahead and try it for yourself now and check out some of our sample addresses! 

To hear more insights on global address verification with an in-depth demo, check out Melissa’s 10 minute microwebinar on Global Address Verification, hosted by SD Times, featuring John DeMatteo, a Solutions Engineer at Melissa.

You can view our entire 5 part microwebinar series with SD times now, where we also cover email, name, phone and identity verification.

Learn more about Melissa’s Global Address Verification solution on our website, or call 1-800-MELISSA. Don’t forget to subscribe to our blog for everything related to data quality!