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  Address Object   MAILERS+4 Professional
  Canadian Address Object   matchIT
  dedupeIT   MatchUp
  dedupeIT LE   Name Object
  Email Object   Personator 4
  GeoCoder Object   Phone Object
  GlobalAddress Batch   Presort Object
  GlobalAddress Interactive   RBDI
  GlobalAddress Web   RightFielder 3
  MAILERS+4   StyleList 5
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Citation Software offers a variety of solutions for automated data cleansing that allow you to manage name/address/phone-number data, etc.

Use these products to prepare bulk mailings, or use them for general data-cleanup tasks and address-standardization tasks.

Scroll down this page to learn about the various solutions — or read more here first to get a general overview.

Some of these solutions handle data for the United States and Canada only; others deal with data for many countries.

Here is an overview of what you can do with these solutions.
If you have a list of names, addresses, and other data, you can:
  • make sure that the addresses are all valid
  • add missing Zip codes
  • add a special U.S. Postal Service code called a "Delivery Point Code"
  • add phone numbers
  • add gender information depending on name
  • re-arrange name-and-address data so that the various pieces of information are in the right place
  • clean up and organize jumbled mailing lists
  • get Standard Industry Codes (SIC) for individual businesses
  • remove duplicate information from a name-and-address list
  • combine several name-and-address lists into one list
  • get the geographical location (latitude & longitude) for an address
  • put names and addresses into the order needed for taking advantage of U.S. Postal Service discounts
  • print special forms and package labels, etc. that the U.S. Postal Service requires
  • merge names and addresses into a form letter
  • print U.S. Postal Service POSTNET bar codes on your documents
  • and much more!
Also, if your company has a computer system that allows people to type an individual name and address into an electronic form, we can provide software that will:
  • automatically make sure that the address is okay as soon as it is typed!
  • find out what the complete address is even if the person typing it does not know the whole address!
To find the solution that best meets your requirements, please look through the information below — or, contact us via e-mail at info@CitationSoftware.com or by phone at 508-436-2543.


NOTE: Some of the terminology and abbreviations on this page can be confusing! Feel free to contact us if you need help understanding some of this information.










dedupeIT


dedupeIT is an affordable, streamlined duplicate-detection program. Designed for low-volume use, dedupeIT runs on a Windows desktop and is extremely easy to use.

Two versions of dedupeIT are available:
  1. dedupeIT. This is the "regular" version. It can handle up to 50,000 records at a time.

  2. dedupeIT LE. This is the "lite" version. It can handle up to 5,000 records at a time.
dedupeIT's user interface is designed to allow the user to quickly pull in a single file and identify suspect duplicates. The majority of the processes are pre-defined.
dedupeIT utilizes sophisticated, best-of-breed matching algorithms to identify potential duplicate records. bulk mailing software

dedupeIT is extremely simple to use and is compatible with most common data-file formats.

Because dedupeIT is inexpensive and simple to use, some people might think that it is not a powerful or sophisticated program. Don't be fooled! At the heart of dedupeIT lies the very latest matching technology — the same matching technology that is used by some of the best de-duplication software on the market today.

dedupeIT costs $585.00 USD, and dedupeIT LE costs $160.00. (Pricing is subject to change without notice.)
 
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A free trial version of dedupeIT is available. To request your free trial version, call us at 508-436-2543, or send e-mail to info@CitationSoftware.com.










MatchUp


  MatchUp (formerly named DoubleTake) is an extraordinary merge/purge solution that allows you to process files in different formats, with different field structures, without taking the time to manipulate the files and get them all into the same format with the same field structure. For example, you can process dBASE, Xbase, and ASCII files in one run — and it's okay if the names and addresses are not in the same fields in all of the files.

Complete CASS certification reports are provided. (CASS version only)

You can do direct processing of Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, dBASE, ASCII, SQL Server*, DB/2*, and Oracle* tables. Both input and output of these formats are supported.

MatchUp does suppression and intersection runs; parses street addresses; gives you precise control over how matching is done; splits name fields, address fields, and city-state-zip fields on the fly; and much more. And, it generates editable reports.

Save time de-duping up to 512 files in one run!

You can also work with ODBC-accessed files directly.

MatchUp does suppression and intersection runs; parses street addresses; gives you precise control over how matching is done; splits name fields, address fields, and city-state-zip fields on the fly; and much more.

You can merge files with different field structures directly.

MatchUp is lightning-fast: about 500,000 records per hour, depending on processor.
 
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MatchCodes

  Match Up allows for the use of up to eight "matchcodes" in a single run for quick, thorough results. You can set one code to search on addresses, a second to search on on phone numbers, etc. If any matchcode hits, dupes are recorded! You can easily create unique matchcodes that look for any length of data from any place in any field.

Select from exact matching, Soundex, or Phonetics matching (which recognizes phonemes like "ph" and "sh"). MatchUp also recognizes nicknames (Liz, Beth, Betty, Betsy, Elizabeth) and alternate spellings (Gene, Jean, Jeanne).

You can also save matchcodes and use them again in the future — a great time-saver for frequently-used files.

MatchUp is available as a desktop application with a graphical user interface (GUI), and it's also available in the form of a programmer's toolkit (API).

Two desktop versions of MatchUp are availalbe:
  • MatchUp With CASS. This is a subscription-based product. It costs $3,350.00 USD for the initial purchase, which includes a one-year CASS subscription. The annual renewal fee for the CASS subscription is $1,250.00 USD.

  • MatchUp Without CASS. This is not a subscription-based product. Our price for this product is $2,895.00 USD.
Our price for the MatchUp programmer's toolkit is $3,895.00 USD. This is a one-time cost — the programmer's toolkit is not a subscription-based product.

(Pricing is subject to change without notice.)











matchIT

The matchIT products are data-quality systems. These products are available as a desktop system with a graphical user interface (GUI) for Windows, and they are also available as programmer's toolkits/libraries/SDKs.


DESKTOP SOFTWARE:  matchIT Data Quality Suite

The matchIT Data Quality Suite is an accurate and modular batch data-quality software system for the Windows desktop. The suite consists of several scalable configurations and individual modules for de-duplication, suppression, enhancement, address validation, extraction and standardization of customer data — all within one streamlined workflow.
matchIT utilizes sophisticated, best-of-breed matching algorithms to identify potential duplicate records. bulk mailing software

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matchIT offers a user-centric interface designed to minimize the skill level required to perform complex tasks. The matchIT Data Quality Suite is modular and scalable, yet even when fully configured it operates as one seamless work environment.

matchIT can automatically read and map data based on a sampling of the contents of each field — even when the data is supplied without a header row (i.e., without field names).

Features

Here are just some of the features supported by the matchIT software:
  • Imports all common file types: Access, DBF, ASCII (CSV, tab-delimited, or pipe-delimited), fixed width, Visual FoxPro, Paradox, more.
  • Exports to all common file types: Access, DBF, ASCII (CSV, tab-delimited, or pipe-delimited), fixed width, Visual FoxPro, Paradox, more.
  • ODBC support for imports and exports.
  • Interactive verification of matches.
  • Effective matching of business data.
  • Effective matching of consumer data.
  • Phonetic matching.
  • Non-phonetic fuzzy matching.
  • Drill down to suspect data.
  • Detailed reporting.

matchIT's "addressIT" module

Accurate addresses are an integral component of effective marketing and customer-data management. matchIT's addressIT module extends the capabilities of the matchIT suite to standardize addresses to USPS regulation and provide address validation for each individual delivery point. The addressIT module is fully certified by the U.S. Postal Service to:
  • Correct misspellings, directionals (N, SE, etc.) and designators (ST, BLVD, etc.).

  • Update 5-digit ZIP codes and add the ZIP+4 codes and carrier routes.

  • Assign Line -of-Travel (LOT) for greater postal discounts.

  • Add congressional and county codes.

  • Correct multiple lines of address information.

  • Identify and analyze un-coded addresses so previously undeliverable addresses can be corrected and included with the rest of your mailings.
Delivery Point Validation takes address correction to the highest level by interrogating the address at the building level to determine whether an address is deliverable.


matchIT's "suppressIT" module

The suppressIT module is designed to screen your data against a multitude of industry-standard suppression files. It can accommodate multiple file comparisons of both mailing-suppression data and telephone-suppression data.

Proprietary matching algorithms ensure that you achieve the highest hit rates and accuracy when comparing suppression files against your database or marketing lists. suppressIT can detect potential matches such as "Bill Dayton Jr." at CNN, and "Deighton, William Robert" at Cable News Network, LP, even if address information is entered incorrectly. And, suppressIT can perform this matching process across dozens of files in one single job.

Suppression files currently available include
  • DMA do-not-mail (MPS)
  • Deceased do-not-contact (DDNC) lists for both the US and UK
  • the Equifax disConnect file (encompassing over 25 million records), for the UK.
  • DMA Telephone Preference Service (TPS)
  • Wireless Block Identifier (WBI)
  • Wireless Ported Number list (WPN)
Third-party party suppression files may also be loaded into the suppressIT module, including the National Do-Not-Call registry.


PROGRAMMER'S TOOLKITS/LIBRARIES/SDKs:  matchIT APIs

The matchIT API is divided into three programmer's toolkits:
  1. matchIT Batch Toolkit: Use this toolkit for batch data quality and identification of matching records for de-duplication, merge/purge, etc. The matchIT Batch Toolkit, unlike most competing products, deals effectively with poorly structured data.

  2. findIT Duplicate Prevention Toolkit: This toolkit can help you to eliminate duplicate contact entries at the point of entry. The toolkit accomplishes this by performing a fuzzy-matching lookup as the record is keyed to check whether the record already exists. To further improve data entry, there is an available toolkit to incorporate rapid addressing. This technology is designed to greatly reduce the number of keystrokes required to complete an address (typically requiring fewer than 15 keystrokes) and validate the address against the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) data file.

  3. cleanseIT Web Entry Toolkit: This is a cleansing component for case correction, genderization, salutation, and name-splitting. The cleanseIT Web Entry Toolkit can help you to make the most of your Web data by screening for garbage and offensive entries. You can specify your own parameters for this and instruct cleanseIT on how to deal with such data. Not only can cleanseIT work directly with Web data as it is entered, but it allows you to simplify Web forms. It can case the data correctly, expand abbreviations, split data into the correct fields, and create salutations to personalize the dialog.

Pricing

Pricing for the matchIT software depends upon your specific requirements. Contact us for a price quote.



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MAILERS+4 and MAILERS+4 Professional

 
MAILERS+4 is CASS-Certified mailing-list software (bulk-mailing software). Available for Windows computers, this easy-to-use software lets you automate your mailing process so that you can meet the U.S. Postal Service's requirements for maximum postage discounts. MAILERS+4 is one of the most affordable bulk-mailing solutions availalbe.

Two versions of the MAILERS+4 software are available. One version is called, simply, MAILERS+4, and the other version is called MAILERS+4 Professional. Click here to learn about the differences between MAILERS+4 and MAILERS+4 Professional.

The MAILERS+4 software verifies and standardizes addresses against a U.S. Postal Service database called the DPVTM database; adds nine-digit ZIP codes; eliminates duplicates (merge/purge); does postal presorts; prints bar-coded labels, tags, and required postal forms; and handles other, miscellaneous tasks.

The MAILERS+4 products are CASS certified, PAVE certified, and POSTNET certified by the U.S. Postal Service. The software prints the required 3553 CASS form.

Using the MAILERS+4 software will help you save on postage and printing, eliminate costly duplicates, boost response rates for direct-mail campaigns, and get your mail delivered faster.
 
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Address Check feature

The "Address Check" feature appends the nine-digit ZIP code (ZIP+4), the Delivery Point Code (DPC), and the check digit (parity digit) to each record. The Address Check feature can also append marketing data to your files such as county name, time zone, MSA, PMSA, congressional district, latitude & longitude, address type, Line of Travel (LOT) number and more.




Automatically presorts for postal discounts

MAILERS+4 presorts First-Class, Periodical and Standard Mail. The sort is optimized to get you the lowest possible postage. It handles letters, flats, and postcards. It works with both profit and non-profit mailings. It supports the Enhanced Carrier Route subclass with Line of Travel (LOT). It also prints bar-coded bag and tray labels required by the USPS.



You can save even more with destination discounts. You select from a list of Bulk Mail Centers (BMC), Sectional Center Facilities (SCF) and Destination Delivery Units (DDU). The software does all the work for you, and you get the best discounts. The software even prints the 3600 series report and the Tray and bundle report that are required by the U.S. Postal Service. It's easy to use and very fast!




Differences between MAILERS+4 and MAILERS+4 Professional

As the name implies, MAILERS+4 Professional does some things that MAILERS+4 does not do. MAILERS+4 Professional can do the following things, but MAILERS+4 cannot:
  • batch-mode processing
  • latitude & longitude append
  • demographic profiling
  • name parsing
  • genderization of first names
  • area code update, verification & correction
  • finding records in a radius
  • finding ZIP codes in a radius
  • mail merge
  • process more than 5,000 records at a time (MAILERS+4 imposes a 5,000-record limit on the databases that are processed).


Add-ons

Several "add-on" products are available for MAILERS+4 and MAILERS+4 Professional:
  • Canadian Addresser. Lets you SERP-verify the Canadian addresses in your list and print out labels standardized to Canada Post requirements. Lets you download updates for seamless integration into MAILERS+4. Runs concurrently with U.S. address verification.

  • eLOT. Lets you sort qualifying Regular 3/5-digit Standard mail by approximate carrier-casing sequence (Enhanced Line Of Travel) for lower postage rates.

  • GeoCoder. Lets you append latitude/longitude coordinates and census tract & block data to address records. Latitude/longitude coordinates are accurate to the ZIP+4 level. You can use the latitude/longitude information to determine distance between two sites, pinpoint customer locations, or find dealer closest to customer. You can use the census tract & block information to link addresses to marketing data.

  • RBDI. Lets you determine whether an address is a business address or a residential address. Reduce parcel-shipping costs, improve shippingt efficiency, select the best carriers, allow customers to choose shipping methods & costs when placing an order for a product on your Web site,.

  • SmartMover. Lets you update internal or client lists using secure data storage and SmartMover. You can process files in-house as a USPS-certified End-User and get monthly NCOALINK change-of-address data sent directly to you. A SmartMover package is available for Limited and Full-Service Providers.


Pricing

Pricing for the MAILERS+4 software starts at $229.00 USD. (Pricing is subject to change without notice.) Call us at 508-436-2543 to discuss your particular needs and get a price quote.





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A free trial version is available. Contact us at 508-436-2543 to get your free trial software.












Personator 4

  Personator 4 is a solution that splits name fields into prefix, first name, middle name, last name, and suffix/title; does genderization (adds the correct prefix); and makes perfect salutations. Personator 4 can also split addresses into components.

Personator 4 accurately splits full-name and inverse-name fields into their components, splits city/state/zip fields, and much more. It works with your own field names and layouts, and it recognizes multi-word name parts like
Dr. – Mrs. – de la Rosa.

Personator 4 increases response rates and profits from direct mail by:
  • splitting full-name or inverse-name fields into Prefix, FN, MN, LN, and Suffix/Title

  • adding correct prefix (genderizing)

  • making perfect salutations

  • splitting one-line, two-line, and three-line street addresses into components.
 
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Splitting full-name, inverse-name, and even double-name fields


  • With double names, you control what's done with the second name: split it, move it, discard it, or make a second record.

  • Simple, but also flexible. Reusable setups. Extensive user-definable preferences. Editable lookup tables.
Personator 4 comes with the GenderBase 100 database. This is a database of over 100,000 first names matched with a seven-level range from strongly female to strongly male. There is a rich mixture of ethnic names from every national and cultural group on the planet. The GenderBase 100 database includes a correction file that will fix abbreviations and typos such as "Wm" and "Ahrry," enhancing processing speed and accuracy.

The Personator 4 software is offered both as a desktop application with a graphical user interface (GUI) and as a programmer's toolkit with an API. The desktop version costs $675.00 USD, and the programmer's toolkit costs $945.00 USD. (Pricing is subject to change without notice.)










RightFielder 3

  RightFielder 3 is a program that straightens out jumbled databases! If you have databases with fields in different orders and/or with the wrong information in the wrong fields (for example, company name is in the city field, state is in the Zip code field, etc.), RightFielder 3 is for you!

Believe it or not, RightFielder 3 even works in situations where you've got more than one kind of data in the same field (for example, if the city and state are together in one field).

RightFielder 3 can even convert "print image" files and "label format" files to flat files! And, it handles addresses outside the United States.

RightFielder 3 is fast! It can process up to 1,000,000 records per hour (depending upon the complexity of the processing tasks, and depending upon your computer's configuration).

RightFielder 3 examines each field in a record, figures out what you've got, and "right fields" the data, moving names into name fields, companies into company fields, etc. RightFielder 3 distinguishes between name fields, titles, departments, companies, street addresses, cities, states, zip codes, and phone numbers.
 
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Gets the job done with ease and flexibility

The picture below shows a sample record from a "top justified" file. Notice that SUITE 120 is below the primary address, ONTARIO is spelled out, and the Postal Code is off on its own. To top it all off, somebody put ATTN: SUSIE as the last address line!

In the record's output, RightFielder 3 has moved SUSIE into the "Name" field and SUITE 120 into the "Secondary address" line. With RightFielder 3 you have the option to keep your address lines as entered, put primary above secondary, put secondary above primary, bottom justify, or top justify. It's all up to you!

Next, RightFielder 3 went to work on the city/st/zip data. TORONTO and ONTARIO have been parsed and ON given its proper abbreviation.

So in fell swoop you've converted unorganized chaos into accurately fielded data.




The RightFielder 3 software is offered both as a desktop application with a graphical user interface (GUI) and as a programmer's toolkit with an API. The desktop version costs $675.00 USD, and the programmer's toolkit costs $945.00 USD. (Pricing is subject to change without notice.)











StyleList 5


 
StyleList 5 is software that converts ALL UPPER to Upper/Lower case or vice versa, expands user-definable abbreviations or creates them, corrects punctuation, and controls field lengths.

StyleList is the perfect tool to control the formatting of data within mailing list fields. Now you can quickly and easily add the personal look that will boost your mailing's success – and yours.

StyleList 5 is offered both as a desktop application with a graphical user interface (GUI) and as a programmer's toolkit with an API.
 
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Look how StyleList 5 improves this label
D/M J MCHUE JR PHD
GM
GM
21 NW ST LOUIS ST
S SF CA 94080
  Dr. & Mrs. J. McHue, Jr. Ph.D.
General Manager
General Motors Corporation
21 NW St. Louis Street
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Above, StyleList 5 is enhancing the data's appearance. This makes labels and letters look more personal and more attractive to the recipient's eyes. It is converting to U/L case, adding proper punctuation, and expanding abbreviations from easily customized tables.

Below, StyleList 5 is shortening field lengths. You set the field lengths desired and select from 6 different methods to compress the data without truncation. Either way, StyleList 5 meets all U.S. Postal Service specifications.
Dr. and Mrs. J. McHue, Jr. Ph. D.
United States Sales Company, Inc.
123 East Sixth Avenue, PO Box 99
South Miami, Florida 33131
  D/M J MCHUE JR PHD
US SALES CO INC
123 E 6TH AVE POB 99
S MIAMI FL 33131
StyleList 5 is so easy to understand and use that you won't even need the manual. You point to the file you want to process, select the fields and settings on a single Setup Screen, and GO. It's that simple!

The desktop application costs $675.00 USD, and the programmer's toolkit costs $945.00 USD. (Pricing is subject to change without notice.)











Address Object


  Address Object is a developer's toolkit that can be integrated into your custom applications. It lets you protect against fraud, waste and excess shipping and mailing costs by cleaning up the inaccurate, incomplete and undeliverable addresses in your database.

Address Object can catch data-input errors and ensure the integrity of your database. It is powered by a CASS Certified address-verification engine and meets the strictest U.S. Postal Service specifications for address accuracy and ZIP+4 codes.

Address Object allows you to:
  • Print CASS form 3553
  • Verify data at point of entry or in batch mode
  • Resolve data inconsistencies
Sample source code is included.

Address Object has a COM interface (for Windows developers). It is also available for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris.

The current version of Address Object includes the Delivery Point Verification (DPV) functionality, which allows Address Object to ascertain whether a particular address actually exists. (With earlier version of Address Object, this was an add-on.)
 
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 • MatchUp
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 • Phone Object
 • Presort Object
 • RightFielder 3
 • StyleList 5
 • international-address products
Batch or real time

You can use the Address Object software to process addresses in batch mode, or you can do real-time processing.

For example, you can use Address Object to develop a program that verifies batches of addresses on demand or at scheduled times.

And, you can also use Address Object to ensure the integrity of your database by preventing errors before they occur. For example, if visitors to your Web site enter their addresses into an HTML form, you can use the Address Object software to verify each address right then, when the person enters the information.


Features

Address Object offers the following features:
  • Verify data in batch or at point of entry
  • Append CASS Certified postal codes
  • U.S. Postal Service address standardization
  • Get latitude & longitude coordinates
  • Append county name and time zone
  • DPVTM processing for greater accuracy

Visual Basic code snippet

   INPUT DATA:
      Address: 2512 Tulip Ln
      City: Las Vegas
      State: NV
      ZIP: 89101

'Create an instance of the object
Dim addPtr as New AddressCheck

'Set the properties with the input data
addPtr.Address = "2512 Tulip"
addPtr.Zip = "89101"

'Call the VerifyAddress method
add.Ptr.VerifyAddress()

'Display the results
Add = addPtr.Address + " " + addPtr.Suite
City = addPtr.City
State = addPtr.State
ZIP = addPtr.ZIP + "-" + addPtr.Plus


How it works

Address Object’s functionality is divided into four interfaces:
  1. AddressCheck
  2. Parse
  3. StreetData
  4. ZipData
The AddressCheck interface can verify that an address is a properly formatted address that matches a valid range of addresses found in the U.S. Postal Service's ZIP+4 database. The CASS Certified address-checking logic enables you to claim discounted postage rates for your mailings. Address Object even generates the form required by the Post Office to claim those discounts.

Address Object can automatically update rural route addresses that have undergone 911 conversion to standard street addresses.

The AddressCheck interface also enhances your mailing list by providing additional information, such as Congressional District, County name and FIPS code, time zone, and several others.

The Parse interface breaks down a street address into its component parts, such as street number, directional (S, NW and so on), street name and suffix (ST, RD, BLVD). If the first pass does not yield the expected results, because the street address follows a non-standard format, the ParseNext method will offer an alternative parsing.

The AddressCheck interface also parses the submitted data, but the Parse interface can be used without initializing the data files required for AddressCheck, making Parse faster to use when full address checking is not necessary. This interface can also parse Last Line data (city, state and ZIP Code) into the separate parts. This is handy if your address data comes to you as lines of plain text instead of discrete fields.

The StreetData interface can match a street name or just a partial name against a ZIP Code and return the known valid address ranges that match that pattern. In conjunction with the AddressCheck interface, StreetData can be used to match incorrect or misspelled addresses to a valid address range. For example, if "123 Main Ave" is not a valid address for the ZIP Code, the StreetData interface can determine that the number 123 falls within a valid range for "Main St," allowing you to use an address record that would otherwise result in an undeliverable mailpiece.

The ZipData interface performs several functions, matching geographic data to ZIP Code and city information. First, the FindZip method returns geographic data about one or more city names that match the input ZIP Code, including automation (or carrier route) information, country name and FIPS code, postal facility type, official "last line" indicator, latitude and longitude for each match. The FindZipInCity methods can return the same information for every ZIP code that matches that input city and state combination. The FindCityInState methods can determine if the input full or partial city name matches a valid city name with the state. This can be useful to help correct misspelled city names in your mailing list.

Certifications

The Address Object software is CASS-certified by the U.S. Postal service and SERP-certified by Canada Post.


Highest level of accuracy

Address Object validates addresses to the highest level of accuracy — the physical delivery point — using the DPV and LACSLink systems, made mandatory in 2007 by the U.S. Postal Service for CASS Certified processing and Postal discounts.


Add-ons for Address Object

The following add-ons are available for Address Object:
  1. Canadian Address Object. This add-on allows you to validate, correct, standardize, and enhance Canadian addresses. It standardizes to Canada Post SERP requirements. It also adds postal code, municipality, provice, and time zone.

  2. RBDI. This add-on allows you to determine whether a particular address is a residential address or a business address. (RBDI stands for "Residential/Business Delivery Indicator.")

System requirements

Address Object is available for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and Windows.


Pricing

Pricing for the Address Object software is dependent upon your specific requirements. Call us at 508-436-2543 for a price quote.











GeoCoder Object


  GeoCoder Object is a developer's toolkit that can be integrated into your custom applications. It allows you to get latitude/longitude based on a ZIP+4 code; it’s also possible to get census tract & block number, county name, and FIPS code.

Not only can you find coordinates of an address — you can use the tract and block numbers to link to Census Bureau demographic data.

Benefits
  • Add geographic data to the ZIP+4 level

  • Improve customer relations with dealer-locator lookup

  • Enhance target marketing with links to 2000 Census data

  • Locate map coordinates from street address

Features
  • Appends latitude/longitude coordinates to the 6th decimal place

  • Appends ce