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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.
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 Standardise
Conforms an address to Royal Mail standards or local country format.
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.
Verify a UK or international address. Output includes latitude/longitude coordinates.
Load DemoUtilise 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, standardised and complete address enters your database.
For 35 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 RoyalMail PAF, USPS and CASS certified provider we utilise the following to keep your addresses correct, up-to-date and deliverable:
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 address systems internationally so you can quickly 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:
Domestic and international address management can be difficult due to over 130 different global address formats from 240+ countries and territories, 3,000+ languages and 140 character scripts used.
To effectively process domestic or worldwide address data, it is of the utmost importance to ensure that in-country formatting rules and norms are followed. Melissa's address verification service does this all for you... even in emerging and hard-to-address markets.
See Country CoverageWe support multiple language scripts, including:
Melissa's Data Quality tools help organisations of all sizes verify and maintain data so they can effectively communicate with their customers via postal mail, email, and phone. Our additional data quality tools include
Address verification is the process of confirming the accuracy and validity of a physical mailing address. It is commonly used by businesses, organisations, and individuals to ensure that the addresses they have are correct and deliverable. Address verification helps prevent issues such as returned mail, lost packages, and misdirected communications.
There are various methods and tools available for address verification. Here are some commonly used ones:
Address verification has numerous applications, including reducing shipping costs by eliminating incorrect addresses, improving customer data quality, enhancing direct mail marketing campaigns, and preventing fraud by validating customer information. It is particularly useful for e-commerce businesses, logistics companies, financial institutions, and any organisation that relies on accurate address information.
To verify an address, you can follow these guidelines:
By employing these steps and utilising available tools and resources, you can effectively verify an address and ensure its accuracy and deliverability.
There are several reasons why an address may not be verifiable or why the verification process may encounter difficulties:
It's important to note that while address verification methods and tools aim to improve accuracy, they are not infallible. There can still be instances where the verification process encounters difficulties or inaccuracies.
In general, it is advisable to ship to verified and recognised addresses to minimise the risk of delivery issues, lost packages, or returns. Verifying the address helps ensure that the recipient can receive the package successfully.
If you need to ship to an unverified address, it is recommended to take extra precautions such as confirming the address directly with the recipient, obtaining additional contact information, or using delivery confirmation services that require a signature upon delivery. These measures can help mitigate the risk of shipping to an unverified address.
It's always best to check with the shipping carrier or service you plan to use for their specific requirements and guidelines regarding shipping to unverified addresses.
Address verification is necessary for several reasons:
Address verification serves as a proactive measure to ensure the reliability, efficiency, and effectiveness of various business processes including shipping, customer service, database management, compliance, and marketing. It helps streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and reduce costs associated with incorrect or undeliverable addresses.
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