does your address data fit the fields?

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Can US addresses fit into 35 characters?

At Melissa, we have seen this request where users of address verification software have predefined length and field-type restrictions. Most commonly, we have seen people using versions of SAP that restrict an address into the following fields with the maximum length in parenthesis. Address1 (35), Address2 (35), City (35), State (10), Zip (10). We will look at the feasibility of fitting an entire country’s possible addresses into this constrained format.… Read More

Unique U.S. ZIP Codes + SERP-Certified Canadian Addresses Now Support Global Express Entry

Melissa Team | Address Check, Address Correction, Address Quality, Address Standardization, Address Validation, Address Verification, Global Address Verification |

Melissa’s address Autocompletion tool, Global Express Entry, has recently been enhanced to include two new features: support for unique ZIP Codes in the U.S.; and, new Canada data supported by Melissa’s Master Address Table.

Unique ZIP Codes are the specially designated ZIP Codes assigned to large corporations, hospitals and universities that have their own internal mail delivery.  Some unique ZIP Codes include 12345 in Schenectady, NY for General Electric, and 00544 in Holtsville, NY for the IRS Service Center. … Read More

Introducing Business Coder for United Kingdom

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Melissa is
happy to announce the release of our Business Coder service for UK, where you
can verify, validate, and append firmographics for businesses in the UK.
Originally servicing only the US, our webservice now expands to the UK as one of our more popular demands for business
identification.

Our
Business Coder UK webservice can help provide address cleansing and
verification, along with business verification and appending of firmographic
data.… Read More

5 Ecommerce Issues You Forgot–And How to Fix Them

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Want to increase conversions, provide
customers with a better shopping experience, and cut down on cart abandonment?
Check out these five ecommerce issues you probably forgot and how to fix them
to solve these problems and more.

1.
The Fat Finger Syndrome

Customers
are terrible at typing–especially when it comes to filling out incredibly small
contact forms on their smartphones. The fat finger syndrome accounts for many
name misspellings, incorrect addresses, email bouncebacks, and invalid order
submissions.… Read More

TIPS & TRICKS: How to Improve Processing Speed with Our APIs

Blog Administrator | Address Standardization, Address Validation, Address Verification, Analyzing Data, Data Quality, Global Address Verification, Global Data Quality, Global Phone Verification | , , ,

Melissa
provides numerous APIs to handle the standardization, cleansing and
verification of various data elements such as addresses, names, phones and
emails. Often times we get asked by our customers as to what are some ways to
improve the speed when processing records using our APIs. Below are some
performance tips to consider when implementing our APIs:

 

Storage

The
type of medium where the data files are stored may have an impact on processing
speed.… Read More