DOTS Address Validation - Canada Example

DOTS Address Validation - Canada

Address Validation Web Service For All Provinces and Territories

DOTS Address Validation - Canada is a multi-operational address validation service that instantly verifies and corrects Canadian street addresses by checking them against a continuously updated database of Canadian Post valid street addresses.


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Overview

What is it?

DOTS Address Validation – Canada (AV-CA) is a programmable XML Web Service that can be integrated with any Internet-based system to verify and validate contacts in Canada, in real time, at the point of entry.

What does it do?

DOTS Address Validation – CanadaSM validates, corrects and parses Canadian addresses. It checks them against a continuously updated database of over 2,000,000 unique, valid Canadian Post street addresses and returns clean data, ready for processing.

Why use Address Validation - Canada?

With an on-demand system in place, addresses are processed the moment they’re entered into your online forms.

According to Canada Post, every year approximately 140 million pieces of mail are sent to either incorrect recipients or inaccurate addresses. Don't let bad address data ruin your database. DOTS Address Validation – Canada improves the quality of your data, improves deliverability of your mail pieces and helps reduce wasted resources in mail campaigns and shipping.

 
Features & Benefits

FEATURES


  • Thousands of updates made monthly
  • Return data delivered in hundredths of a millisecond.
  • Returns standardized, corrected, and appended postal address information for over 1.17 million unique addresses throughout Canada.

BENEFITS


Increased returns on sales and marketing efforts. Instant address verification quickly identifies serious leads and updates your CRM with clean data, maintaining the integrity of your contact list and reducing the potential for re-keying errors and the time and effort required to follow up on bad leads. Improved shipping process and reduced costs. Mailing labels that are prepared with valid and standardized addresses help assure deliverability and speed up delivery rates, reducing the high costs and amount of support issues associated with lost and returned packages.
 
Security

SECURE SERVICES GUARANTEED 99.995% AVAILABILITY


Secure solutions, available around the clock, with rock-solid redundancy. Guaranteed.
Data security is a critical component of our web services. Service Objects offers the highest level of security available, to keep you in control of your customers’ data, at every touch point.

Security

  • No customer data is captured, sold, or shared
  • HTTPS protocol encrypts transactions sent to and from DOTS Web Services
  • Primary and backup data centers in separate geographic locations
  • 24/7/365 manned state state-of-the-art data centers with secured access
  • Fully redundant, load-balanced hardware and Internet connections
  • SSL with a minimum of 128-bit symmetric encryption and a 1024-bit authenticated key agreement

Availability

  • Real-time XML Web service interface
  • Service Level Agreement of 99.995%
  • Redundant switches, firewalls, load balancers, servers, and backup systems ensure high availability
DOTS Security
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Pricing

PRICING CONVENIENT SUBSCRIPTION OPTIONS TO CHOOSE FROM


We've made it easy for you by presenting our most popular packages. You may change your package settings at any time. If none of these packages meet your needs, or you would like to package multiple services, please contact us for a custom quote.


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Monthly Subscription Free $119 / mo $289 / mo $479 / mo Special pricing available for larger volume orders
One Time Setup Fee* None $95 $95 $95
Transactions 500 Total 3,000 / mo 12,000 / mo 24,000 / mo
24-7-365 Support Not Included Included Included Included Included
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* A one-time $95 activation fee applies on month-to-month agreements. No activation fee for one-year prepaid agreements.
Payment due upon account activation. Please call for additional volume discounts.
 
Developer's Tools

EXAMPLES & RESOURCES


Developer's Guide

Download the developer-written guide. It covers AV-CA integration, Web service structure, request types and other pertinent information that will help you be successful in understanding and implementing this service.

Service Path

See the service path for AV-CA and access several samples of SOAP requests and responses.

XML WSDL

See XML WSDL for descriptions of AV-CA data types, details, interface, location and protocol.

Sample Code

See sample code available in ASP,C# and PHP.