Capture Address
Autocompletes and/or verifies a postal address at point of entry so bad data never enters your system.
Parse Address
Uses proprietary lexicons & rules to parse an address into its component parts.
Standardized Address
Conforms an address to USPS address validation standards or local country format.
Verify Address
Uses authoritative, in-country reference datasets to check the validity & deliverability of a physical address with our address validation service.
Transliterate Address
Uses language-specific transliteration to convert addresses between native scripts and Latin characters.
Validate Address
A clean, deliverable postal address checked & ready for mailing, order fulfilment, or analytics.
Leverage decades of experience in US Addressing
Melissa started as a US mailing company in 1985. This gives us decades of experience with the ins and outs of the many patterns people use in writing addresses, the common mistakes made, and evolution of the mail stream. We are a long standing USPS CASS Certified™.
We leverage DPV® (Delivery Point Validation), LACSLink®(Locatable Address Correction System), SuiteLink™, and eLOT®(enhanced Line of Travel) from the USPS.
We have also developed our own priority data for RBDI (Residential vs Business Delivery Indicator), AddressPlus (residential apartment append), 5+ million non-USPS addresses, and our own address identifier that is persistence through time and zip code changes called MAK.
Access all countries and territories through a single interface
Our engine allows you to verify and correct addresses in a single country or in all countries across the world, all from a single interface. We have done all the hard work on combining the varied addressing systems across the world so that all you have to do to verify an address in a new country is to send it in.
Our engine gives you the address back as:
- Formatted in the standard set by the postal authority in mailing label or in database storage format.
- The Parsed address fields like house number, thoroughfare, locality, postal code for categorization and analysis
Languages
We support multiple language scripts, including:
- Cyrillic (Russia)
- Hellenic (Greece)
- Hebrew (Israel)
- Arabic (United Arab Emirates)
- Kanji (Japan)
- Chinese (China)
- Hangul (South Korea)
- Thai (Thailand)
Our engine will allow you to transliterate between these scripts and latin so you can store your address data in the preferred format.
Address Suggestions for Unverified or
Incomplete Addresses
When an address cannot be fully verified, Address Suggestions returns a list of standardized, deliverable address candidates so users can quickly select a valid match instead of re-entering their information manually. Powered by global address intelligence, this resolves incomplete or ambiguous inputs in real time, improving data quality while preserving the user experience and recovering transactions that would otherwise fail.
Key Benefits
- Enhance downstream data quality for shipping, marketing and compliance workflows
- Reduce checkout abandonment and address entry friction
- Improve address accuracy globally with minimal user effort
Available in: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil and additional countries worldwide
How It Works
Address inputs are matched against global reference data to surface valid, deliverable candidates. Users are then presented with a list of verified addresses to choose from, helping resolve incorrect or missing house and suite numbers, street misspellings and ambiguous address components.
More information about this feature can be found in the Address Suggestions documentation.
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