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101 Ways To Use Address Verification - #1: Deduplication - Smarty
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Deduplication means finding and removing duplicates. Every database or address list in the world..
401? 402? What does that mean? - Smarty
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I'm getting an HTTP status code when I try to use the API. What does it mean?
9-digit ZIP Code (ZIP+4) for Finding Representatives & Legislators - Smarty
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If you have a website that lets people lookup U.S. Government legislative districts or find...
9-digit ZIP Codes for Medicare Claims - Smarty
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We've had a couple of customers call us about changes that Medicare has made regarding billing.
Address list management - Smarty
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So, you've got a list of addresses. That requires some maintenance, especially if you use those....
Append Counties - Smarty
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There's a little more to it than you might think. Did you know...?
Append missing ZIP Codes - Smarty
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If, for any reason, your list doesn't have ZIP Codes, they can easily be appended with LiveAddress.
Benefits for clients using our NCOA service - Smarty
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With the upcoming launch of the NEW NCOA services from Qualified Address...
Best-kept secrets: Our REST LiveAddress API endpoint - Smarty
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NOTE: This post is somewhat technical but very important for all users of our LiveAddress...
Can I get suggestions for apartment info? - Smarty
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When attempting to validate an address, is there any way get a suggestion of possible...
Can I use POST with the RESTful API?? - Smarty
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Hello! Love your API. After working with it I noticed that if I POST the address data and auth-token, I...
Can I use your web service without internet access? - Smarty
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I did use the service and it worked well but unfortunately I am not supposed to use a web service in...
Can I validate two addresses in a single form? - Smarty
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I have billing and shipping address in single form and i want to implement the address...
Can you provide demographic data about specific addresses? - Smarty
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I do prospect research in the development office here, and we're always trying to find new potential donors.
CASS™ Certification - Smarty
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The Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) enables the USPS to evaluate the accuracy of software
CASS™ Processing - Smarty
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CASS™ is a certification system from the United States Postal Service (USPS) for address validation.
Changes to the USPS Change of Address Policy - Smarty
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Starting October 10, 2007, the USPS has changed its policy for Temporary Change...
Delivery Point Validation (DPV™) - Smarty
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Delivery Point Validation™ (DPV®) is the process of verifying that an address is actually deliverable...
Do I need to install anything to use your service? - Smarty
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Does your product use software that is installed to my computer?
Do you provide time zone data? - Smarty
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I've been using your Live Address API for many years, but I wonder if there could be something added to...
Do you support address verification of US military addresses? - Smarty
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For example, when I tried to verify this address through your website I got "invalid address error"
eLOT
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eLOT
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(Enhanced Line of Travel) was developed by the USPS to allow mailers to sort their mailings...
Free Address Verification - Smarty
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As of today, we are now offering completely free address verification to everyone, including...
Free Address Verification for the Masses - Smarty
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One of the great things about working at Smarty has been offering our great services to nonprofits...
How can I parse and verify freeform addresses? - Smarty
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I receive addresses in a single-line, or freeform, format; they're not split into pieces like most forms...
How can I test the LiveAddress API jQuery Plugin on any website? - Smarty
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This is fairly easy using your browser's web inspector tools. Here's a quick video showing...
How can I use autocomplete without the jQuery plugin? - Smarty
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I'd like to use the LiveAddress autocomplete feature with my own implementation, and without using...
How can I use LiveAddress API for batch processing? - Smarty
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We have an existing thirty- or forty-thousand addresses that we'd like to have cleaned up and then...
How do I avoid using localhost as the domain with the Javascript API? - Smarty
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I'm the developer doing the integration of Smarty for my company. It's pretty much done...
How Do I Download/Unzip My Processed List? - Smarty
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A question we hear quite often at Qualified Address concerns the procedure for downloading and...
How do I get the address components? - Smarty
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We have been evaluating Smarty and all is going well. We now have a requirement to separate the...
How do I resolve ambiguous addresses with LiveAddress? - Smarty
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I'm getting an error message trying to normalize an address.
How Do I Upload My List of Addresses? - Smarty
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In order to upload a list of addresses, first you need to have a free account with us. Once you...
How do I validate the secondary (or unit) number? - Smarty
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Does LiveAddress check for apartment number and suite and those types of data?
How much does autocomplete cost? - Smarty
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How does autocomplete fit into the LiveAddress billing? What does it cost?
How To Print Barcodes (In Microsoft Word 2007) - Smarty
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Printing barcodes for mailing envelopes speeds up delivery time andif done correctlyreduces postage prices.
How To Print Barcodes (In OpenOffice.org 3.1) - Smarty
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Printing barcodes for mailing envelopes speeds up delivery time andif done correctlyreduces postage prices.
How To Use LiveAddress API On Your Website - Smarty
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Implementing LiveAddress API on your website may seem like a challenge if you are new HTML...
Instructions For Popular Shopping Carts - Smarty
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Many hosted shopping cart services (BigCommerce, Volusion, 3dCart...) can very easily have our...
LiveAddress API Field Definitions - Smarty
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This guide is about understanding the response payload from the API To learn how to obtain a response...
LiveAddress API Outage - Smarty
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Last Thursday morning, October 14, we experienced a significant address verification outage...
LiveAddress API Samples - Smarty
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Sometimes the best way to learn a new API is to hit the ground running. Or, as Tony Stark says...
LiveAddress API with Javascript - Smarty
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Making requests to LiveAddress via Javascript is easy: just follow REST endpoint documentation Let's look...
LiveAddress API's REST endpoint - Smarty
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If you can already make requests, see how to parse the JSON/XML response.
NCOA
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National Change of Address (NCOA
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New ZIP Codes - Smarty
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A recent press release announced that forty-five new ZIP Codes are being added to the USPS data.
Qualified Address - "Software as a Service",- Smarty
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If you've looked at the various alternatives available for address software, you've probably noticed that...
Qualified Address Receives USPS CASS Certification for New Online Software - Smarty
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Orem, Utah (August 20, 2007) Qualified Address, a company specializing in...
QualifiedAddress.com PAVE Certification - Smarty
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As many of you know, we have been working on a web-based, on-demand PAVE solution for our customers.
QualifiedAddress.com Provides a "Green",Alternative to Mailing Software - Smarty
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The green color that represents QualifiedAddress.com does more than just contribute to an attractive...
RDI - Smarty
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RDI means. Basically, it indicates whether an address is a residential or commercial location.
Residential or Commercial? Yep, it's included. - Smarty
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The USPS provides a delivery status indicator for each address. They call this the Residential...
Salesforce Plugin Documentation - Smarty
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Please be aware that this plugin is no longer supported by Smarty. The plugin and its...
Should addresses be in UPPERCASE? - Smarty
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I heard that addresses must be in all caps or UPPERCASE in order to qualify for bulk mailing discounts.
USPS Publication 28 - Smarty
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In USPS Postal Addressing Standards (Publication 28 or, affectionately, "Pub28"), the USPS presents a...
Valid address isn't validating. Can you add it to your database? - Smarty
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We have a valid address of a customer that is not being validated by your service...
We know where you live. - Smarty
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Seriously, we know where you live. Meaning we could find it with just a GPS device.
What constitutes a "bad address"? - Smarty
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Excellent question, and one that we have never specifically answered in writing...
What does an LIL# footnote indicate? - Smarty
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Upon reviewing other posts in the forum, I understand that a footnote such as LIA# is the equivalent...
What does the extra info at the end of the address mean? - Smarty
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I have an address that you validated but I'm not sure what to make of it. The address is:v5600 Post...
What exactly is a Street Genius? - Smarty
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Street Genius, is that like a Jedi?
What happens to non-address information such as ID or phone number? - Smarty
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Will I get back the phone number, email address, ID, and other non-address data that I submit...
What IP addresses do we need to access the LiveAddress API? - Smarty
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My IT group wants to know what range of IP addresses they need to allow through our firewall to access the
What is a CMRA (private) mailbox? - Smarty
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Just what is a CMRA? Why is knowing this important?
What is causing the Exception in this LiveAddress Java code? - Smarty
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I am trying to determine if my customer will be able to use your web service for a web application that...
What is the response time for the API in milliseconds? - Smarty
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How long does it take to get a response from your API once we submit the address for validation?
Where can I find a County FIPS list? - Smarty
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I have processed some addresses through your address verification service and I need to be able to...
Where can we get the 13-digit city abbreviation? - Smarty
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We have labeling constraints that require that our city names are often 15 characters or less.
Why are rural addresses not included in your database? - Smarty
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I am familiar with a rural location that I have been testing on your liveaddress API. It is 30 Ash Grove...
Why is the address data combined onto one line? - Smarty
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We've recently started supplying a separate Unit Number field to your address validator. The validator...
Why is the city name not corrected? - Smarty
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I processed a list with the following address: 324 10TH Ave Ste 285 Salt Lake Cty UT 84103...
Why is the validated address different from the original address? - Smarty
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I have checked multiple sources and all my records show that this address is correct. Why then is your...
Why is there additional validation happening? - Smarty
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We have 5 fields for address entry: Street1, Street2, City, State, and ZIPCode.
Why We Started a Web-Based (SaaS) Address Verification Company - Smarty
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We're technical guys. We're Internet marketing guys. We have had a lot of success over...
Why would autocomplete suggest invalid addresses? - Smarty
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Why does autocomplete sometimes suggest addresses that don't validate?
ZIP4 Code
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Out of all the components of a mailing address, the ZIP Code is one of the most essential.
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