Address Verification

Approximately 20% of addresses entered online contain errors - spelling mistakes, wrong house numbers, incorrect postal codes, formatting errors that don’t comply with a country’s postal regulations. This can result in late or undeliverable shipments, a big and costly concern for companies doing business domestically and across borders.

Melissa’s Global Address Verification service verifies addresses for 240+ countries and territories at the point of entry and in batch to ensure only valid billing and shipping addresses are captured and used in your systems.

Leverage a postal certified address engine using official government data including CASS (USPS), SERP (Canada Post), PAF (Royal Mail) and more
Correct international addresses by adding missing components such as postal codes, locality, and more
Standardize addresses to meet local in-country formatting rules
Transliterate to and from native country languages and Latin
Add precise lat/long coordinates up to the rooftop (delivery point) level

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With the help of Melissa’s solutions, we have been able to realize a customer onboarding process which makes registration faster and simpler – and reduced manual validation costs. Elisabeth Ihmels @ car2go

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How Address Verification Works

1 Capture

Autocompletes and/or verifies an address at point of entry so bad data never enters your system.

2 Parse

Uses proprietary lexicons & rules to parse an address into its component parts.

3 Standardize

Conforms an address to USPS standards or local country format.

Inputted Address

22382 Avenida
22382 220th St
22382 Ainsowrth Dr
22382 Alaska Dr

Parsed Address

22382 Avenida Empresa

Address

Rancho Santa Margarita

City

State

92688

ZIP

Inputted Address

22382 avenida empresa, rancho margarita santa, ca

Standardized Address

22382 Avenida Empresa, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688

Verified Address

22382 Avenida Empresa Rancho Santa Margarita CA 92688

Valid Address

Deliverable Address

Russian Translation

Привет, мир

Transliterated Version

Privet, mir

Address Output

Address Line 1: 22382 Avenida Empresa
City: Rancho Santa Margarita
State: CA
ZIP Code: 92688

4 Verify

Uses authoritative, in-country reference datasets to check the validity & deliverability of a physical address.

5 Transliterate

Transforms foreign languages into Latin characters so an address can easily be validated.

6 Output

A clean, deliverable address ready for mailing, order fulfilment, or analytics.

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Verify a U.S., Canadian or international address. Output includes latitude/longitude coordinates.

See How it Works

Start with Address AutoComplete

Utilize Melissa for fast, accurate address capture at point of entry. Our Express Entry solution powers your web forms and CRM with type-ahead address autocompletion – ensuring only a verified, standardized and complete address enters your database.

Autocomplete addresses to speed up order entry with reduced keystrokes
Real-time verification eliminates shipping costs due to incorrect addresses
Autofill all address fields – misspellings are prevented, abbreviations completed and missing information is added

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Address Verification - A Wealth of Data Returned with Every Verified U.S. Address

The U.S. Address Experts

For 30 years, Melissa has been a leading address management and mailing solutions provider. We have decades of experience handling the irregularities and common mistakes that arise when people write addresses. As a USPS CASS-certified provider, we utilize the following to keep your addresses correct, up-to-date and deliverable:

DPV® (Delivery Point Validation) data to verify the address is deliverable and mail can be sent to that address
LACSLink® (Locatable Address Correction System) data to match your address data to addresses that have been converted, modified, or changed by the USPS
SuiteLink® data to add missing known secondary information including suite numbers
eLOT® (Enhanced Line of Travel) which helps sort mailings in approximate carrier-casing sequence

Melissa also provides a wealth of proprietary capabilities including RBDI (residential or business delivery indicator), AddressPlus® (adds known apartment numbers to residences), Non-USPS data (5+ million addresses not supported by USPS) and MAK® persistent address identifier key technology which tracks all changes to addresses over time.

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A Single Interface for All International Addresses

The Melissa global address verification service empowers you to verify and correct addresses in a single country or in 240+ countries around the world – from a single interface. We’ve done all the heavy lifting to combine the varied addressing systems internationally so you can quickly and accurately verify an address in real-time, at point of entry. When you submit an address, our solution performs advanced lexicon and parsing for each country and we can return the address as either:

Formatted and standardized to a specific postal authority’s regulations in a mailing label or database storage format.
Parsed in separate address fields such as house number, thoroughfare, locality, postal code, etc.

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