Melissa Address Verification validates, corrects, parses, and standardizes postal addresses for organizations that collect or maintain shipping, billing, and contact records. The service supports real-time address validation at data entry and batch processing for existing address lists.

Key Capabilities

Global address validation: Checks address completeness and deliverability for addresses in more than 250 countries and territories.
Address correction and standardization: Adds or corrects address components, such as postal codes and localities, and formats addresses according to local postal conventions.
Address parsing: Returns addresses as separate components, including house number, street, locality, and postal code.
Address capture: Provides address autocomplete and suggestions for incomplete or unverified entries in supported countries.
Transliteration: Converts addresses between supported native scripts and Latin characters.
Geocoding: Returns latitude and longitude coordinates, including rooftop-level coordinates where available.
U.S. postal processing: Supports USPS address-validation data and related services, including Delivery Point Validation (DPV), LACSLink, SuiteLink, and eLOT.

Audience & Use Cases

Audience: Data-quality teams, ecommerce operations, customer-data administrators, logistics teams, and application developers.
Use case: Organizations can validate address data during customer entry, cleanse existing address lists, and integrate address verification into business applications through an API.

Technical Specifications

Processing modes: Single-address lookup, batch address cleansing, and API-based validation.
Output: Standardized mailing labels, parsed address fields, validation results, and available geographic coordinates.
Integration: Cloud API endpoint for address-verification requests.

Melissa Address Verification

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