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    • Melissa Data Quality
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    Melissa Data Quality Verify, correct & cleanse contact data in 240+ countries. View Country Coverage

    Address Verification

    Clean your addresses to improve mail & fulfillment.

    Phone Verification

    Ensure mobile & landlines are accurate & callable.

    Email Verification

    Validate emails before hitting send.

    Name Verification

    Parse & standardize first & last names for personalization.

    Matching / Dedupe

    Combine multiple records into one golden record.

    Customer Data Management

    Discover best-in-class data quality in one platform.

    Profiling

    Analyze your data to improve its quality over time.

    Generalized Cleansing

    Cleanse any type of data fast & easy.

    Popular Products


    • Data Quality Suite
    • Global Address Verification
    • Unison
    • MatchUp
    • Product Index

    Industry Solutions


    • Healthcare
    • CRM
    • Insurance
    • Ecommerce
    • Mailing & Shipping
    • Real Estate
    • Banks
    • Transportation & Logistics
    • GOVT & Public Sector
    Melissa Identity Verification Reduce fraud and comply with KYC/AML laws.

    U.S. & Canada Consumer

    Protect your business quickly & cost-effectively.

    Global KYC & AML

    Access best-of-class eIDV tools for 70+ countries.

    ID & Document Scan

    Verify documents, biometrics & liveness.

    Popular Products


    • Personator Consumer
    • Personator Identity
    • Melissa ID (Mobile ID app)
    • Product Index

    Industry Solutions


    • Healthcare
    • CRM
    • Insurance
    • Ecommerce
    • Mailing & Shipping
    • Real Estate
    • Banks
    • Transportation & Logistics
    • GOVT & Public Sector
    Melissa E-Commerce / CRM Improve customer onboarding, marketing & fulfillment.

    Address Autocomplete

    Capture verified addresses on forms quickly with autocomplete technology.

    IP Location

    Validate IP & append geolocation data.

    Street Route

    Find distance & travel time by lat/long pairs.

    Shopware

    Ensure accurate customer data at checkout.

    Salesforce / Dynamics CRM

    Verify & enrich data for better sales & marketing.

    Popular Products


    • Express Entry
    • IP Locator
    • Clean Suite for Salesforce
    • Clean Suite for Dynamics CRM
    • Product Index

    Industry Solutions


    • Healthcare
    • CRM
    • Insurance
    • Ecommerce
    • Mailing & Shipping
    • Real Estate
    • Banks
    • Transportation & Logistics
    • GOVT & Public Sector
    Melissa Enrich Gain insight into who and where your customers are.

    Geocoding / Reverse Geocoding

    Convert street addresses to lat/long pairs.

    U.S. Property Verify & Append

    Add 400 fields of property & mortgage data.

    Consumer Verify & Append

    Access data on 2.1 billion consumer records.

    Business Verify & Append

    Get firmographic data based on company name & address.

    Popular Products


    • Personator Consumer
    • Listware
    • Property Web Service
    • Clean Suite for CRM
    • Product Index

    Industry Solutions


    • Healthcare
    • CRM
    • Insurance
    • Ecommerce
    • Mailing & Shipping
    • Real Estate
    • Banks
    • Transportation & Logistics
    • GOVT & Public Sector
    Melissa Mailing Qualify for postal discounts with USPS CASS & PAVE Certified solutions.

    Postal Presorting

    Group mail by ZIP for postage discounts.

    NCOA Change of Address

    Update the addresses of U.S. & Canadian customers that have moved.

    Popular Products


    • Mailers Online
    • Mailers+4 Software
    • SmartMover NCOA Web Service
    • Product Index

    Industry Solutions


    • Healthcare
    • CRM
    • Insurance
    • Ecommerce
    • Mailing & Shipping
    • Real Estate
    • Banks
    • Transportation & Logistics
    • GOVT & Public Sector
  • Our Services
    • Data Hygiene
    • Data Enhancement
    • SaaS
    Data Hygiene Keep your mailing list up-to-date, qualify for postal discounts & reduce UAA mail.

    Address Verification / CASS® & DPV®

    Correct addresses to improve mail piece deliverability.

    DSF2®

    Save on postage with premium address verification.

    NCOALink®

    Find the addresses of U.S. customers that have moved.

    Canadian NCOA & Address Verification

    Update addresses for moving Canadian customers.

    MCOA & PCOA Change of Address

    Capture new moved to addresses not recorded by USPS.

    International Address Validation

    Clean & correct street addresses around the world.

    Email Verification

    Validate your email addresses to improve email marketing.

    Dedupe

    Eliminate duplicate records from your mailing list to reduce costs.

    Suppression

    Remove undesirable records who shouldn't receive your mail.

    Data Enhancement Enrich your consumer or business records for greater insight & omni-channel marketing success.

    Consumer Demographics

    Learn more about who your customers are.

    Business Firmographics

    Improve lead scoring with detailed company info.

    Premium Phone Append

    Add consumer or business mobile/landline numbers.

    Reverse Phone Append

    Find mailing addresses with a phone number.

    Premium Email Append

    Add consumer or business email addresses to postal lists.

    Reverse Email Append

    Find mailing address with an email address.

    Geocoding

    Add precise location data to your list.

    Property Append

    Add property & mortgage data for better analysis.

    SIC / NAICS Coding

    Identify companies by business type.

    SaaS Clean and update your data in the cloud, no software to maintain.

    Listware

    Data cleansing in Excel or Online.

    Mailers Online

    Cloud postal processing for USPS/Canada Post mail.

  • Our Data
    Our Data Verify & enrich your records with multi-sourced, authoritative reference datasets.

    Why Melissa?

    Multi-sourced global datasets, persistent address key technology, 37+ yrs experience.

    Global Address Database

    Complete your master address file for improved mapping/visualization.

    U.S. Geographic Data

    Add lat/long coordinates to the ZIP+4 level.

    Parcel Boundary Shapefiles

    Find parcel boundaries & attribute data for 155 million properties.

    ZIP Code Data

    Verify 5-digit ZIP Codes and append census demographics.

    U.S. Phone Data

    Access all area codes & prefixes for the U.S. & Canada.

    Canadian Geographic Data

    Append postal codes, area codes, time zones & lat/longs.

    U.S. Property Data

    Enrich records with 400 fields of property & mortgage data.

    U.S. Consumer Data

    Access demographic, financial & lifestyle data.

    U.S. Business Data

    Add industry, revenue, location, sales volume & more.

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  • Geocoding / Reverse Geocoding
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  • Postal Presorting
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