Lob vs. Smarty

Lob is working well for batched or scheduled jobs where timing isn't as critical. For items that need to be sent quickly, it's still faster to manually produce.

Incentivized

The only situation in which Smarty is not the way to go is if you are validating less than 300 addresses a day. The big disclaimer is that I work with data, so I have a pretty good pace for this kind of work. That being said, any more than that and you're looking at parking someone for hours every day for work that largely doesn't warrant the effort - just go with Smarty.

Incentivized

• Address Verification and NCOA Cleaning
• Autocomplete for our forms that allow a user to SKIP typing
• Printing and mailing documents automatically over API

Incentivized

• Helps customers input address information.
• Integrates seamlessly with an easy-to-use API.
• Provides pre-filtered address data to reduce shipping errors..

• I'm not sure why it defaults to the test environment once we're logged in.
• Make it easier to navigate back to the search results without starting a new search.

Incentivized

• The cost/hit for type-ahead lookups. We have people "try" a lot of addresses, which drives up the cost of obviously wrong data input.

will continue to use for specific mailing requirements

Incentivized

It is very useable and and words cannot express the amount of time saved from having to mail 1000s of checks on a weekly basis.

Incentivized

The tool is very easy to use. Just typing in the first three characters of the first line of the address of the user will return an accurate list of address result options to choose from. Simply select the appropriate address and all the address fields will prepopulate without the need for additional manual address entry.

Incentivized

i never witnessed a problem with lob

Incentivized

perfect except from a minor tracking options missed

Incentivized

good support, not many examples I can think of

Incentivized

didn't participate but as for my information it was smooth

Incentivized

lob has a more overall greater pricing and apis and their costumer service is very easy to deal with

Incentivized

I didn't try other specific products. I went straight to the source, USPS API tools, but their limitations, hard to follow instructions, and consistent downtime made me reconsider. I knew I needed a reliable service that would be implemented and work every day without my attention, and it provided exactly that.

Incentivized

it can be better because the volume pricing method doesn't benefit the clients much but lob itself

Incentivized

it will scale very well if its for saas companies

Incentivized

decent overall

Incentivized

• Extremely positive reducing cost of managing the mail production process and spending on paper, printers, and printer supplies.
• More secure than sending spreadsheet to a mailing house.

Incentivized

• Vastly improved our address database deliverability. We now have over 95% of addresses in our customer database verified, thanks to Smarty.
• Our bi-annual catalog cost went down. Already-verified address = lower cost for pre-mailing address correction and verification.