What is Melissa Address Verification?
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Technical Details
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FAQs
What is Melissa Address Verification?
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.