Verified and Correct Worldwide Customer Addresses Reduce Shipping Costs and Eliminate Online Fraud; Fast, Address Auto-Completion Boosts Shopper Conversion Rates
Rancho Santa Margarita, CALIF. – March 24, 2015 – Melissa, a leading provider of contact data quality and data integration solutions, today announced a new global address verification plugin for users of the Magento content management system for ecommerce websites. The Magento plugin was developed by Crafty Clicks, a Magento technology partner and address lookup service provider, and incorporates Melissa’s Global Address Verification cloud service so online merchants can verify, correct, and auto-fill addresses as they are entered, validating information for more than 240 countries and territories in real-time. Crafty Clicks and Melissa are now engaged in an exclusive partnership enabling data quality in Magento-based ecommerce sites, with plans for continued strategic development of high-value data quality plugins for other popular ecommerce platforms.
“Melissa’s global address capabilities complement our own expertise in UK-based address verification. Using proven solutions and without wasting development resources, Magento users can now extend the value of contact data quality across a worldwide customer base,” said Adam Stylo, founder and president, Crafty Clicks. “By adding address auto-completion and post-checkout address verification to their sites, online merchants not only assure fewer lost parcels and reduced delivery support, but also increase overall usability for customers. Shopper conversions improve, boosted by a fast, accurate, and convenient checkout experience so essential to online sales.”
Magento-based sites can seamlessly validate and cleanse international addresses at point of entry, correcting and standardizing them into the official postal format of each geographic locale, and adding missing components such as postal codes or region. Address fields are also populated automatically after the first few digits or letters have been entered using Melissa‘s Express Entry address auto-completion functionality. This speeds data entry with up to 50 percent fewer keystrokes; online shoppers have an improved shopping experience with just one step between shopping cart and checkout, drastically reducing the drop-off rate during the checkout process.
“By working with Crafty Clicks, we are helping merchants maintain data quality as an essential business strategy,” said Gary Van Roekel, COO, Melissa. “Online merchants can improve shipping costs and customer satisfaction, as well as the success rate of their direct marketing activities. Magento users have a distinct competitive advantage in reaching new markets and customer groups based on better data.”
Click here to download the Magento data quality plugin, configurable through the Magento Admin Panel. A free trial is available so interested users can test the global address verification and address auto-completion functionality.
