#addressese

Ensure your mail reaches its intended destination. Regular scrubbing of addresses will help you reduce return rates, increase customer satisfaction and cut costs by reducing postage charges for undeliverable mails.

Address standardization is a key function in data management. It involves converting an address into a format that is compliant with the country’s postal authority. It focuses on the individual components of an address and makes them conform to standards for their structure, capitalisation, abbreviations and spellings. It also fixes erroneous data, such as misspellings and incorrect capitalisation, to eliminate duplicates.

It can take a long time to do this manually for each record in your database, especially if you have a large number of addresses. However, this can be reduced by using automated processes. This means that addresses can be standardized and validated to local postal standards in just one step.

Loqate’s address verification tool is powered by the best global data in 245 countries and territories. It uses a combination of data scrubbing, parsing, matching, standardisation and formatting to verify, correct, enrich and enhance addresses.

The benefits of verifying and standardising addresses are huge for businesses. On-time deliveries are a key driver for repeat business and can only be achieved with clean data that is free of errors.

A single error can cost a business a great deal of money through missed delivery rates and the associated lost revenue. By ensuring that addresses are standardized and validated to national postal guidelines, businesses can avoid the financial consequences of bad data.

Bulk/Batch Verification is an essential service that helps clean and verify huge lists of addresses for improved inbox placement of your email marketing campaigns. This results in better ROI and customer relationships. It also prevents your business from wasting huge amounts of money by shipping to incorrect or undeliverable addresses. It will help avoid huge postal charges and will also qualify you for huge discounts from your delivery vendors.

The process of verification starts with the cleansing of the address records by removing duplicates and validating the existence of the record. Then it moves on to parsing and standardization of the addresses so that they fulfill the requirements of the postal services. They should be in a format that the postal services can easily sort and distribute for delivery purposes. This ensures fewer errors in the deliveries and allows you to use your delivery vendor’s discounted rates for residential and commercial deliveries.

After the parsing and standardization of the addresses, the pVerify application will validate whether or not the address is a real one by comparing it against the existing database. In case of a duplicate, the record will be flagged for correction. It will then move on to check if the address is a commercial or a residential one so that you can determine which delivery vendors to select.

Moreover, it will check the transfer currency and then calculate the batch control sum at batch ID level. It will check if the control sum is positive or negative and in case of negative value, the transaction is moved to process exception queue. The original request date is stored for each transaction.