COVID-19 has dramatically changed business around the world, especially small business. It has touched all of our lives in some way or another: from the daily anxiety of how it might affect you or your...
DOTS Lead Validation is an ever-evolving service that helps companies improve lead quality at the point of entry, using combinations of name, address, email, phone, IP address and business name for...
Service Objects is pleased to announce a new service: DOTS Address Geocode – International. This service aggregates many datasets from all around the world to return the best latitude, longitude and...
DOTS Phone Exchange is Service Objects’ entry level reverse look-up API. It packs a lot of value, providing carrier data, line type, porting and location information for numbers around the world.This...
DOTS Address Validation - US is a CASS certified service that validates, corrects and standardizes all USPS addresses. It combines the strongest data set for US addresses with unmatched proprietary...
Introduction Our DOTS Address Insight - US API is a composite address-based service that provides insight and intelligence for a given location. The service has three core areas: Address validation to...
Our DOTS Address Detective service is an address-based service looking to help clients clean up the most challenging of addresses. It works well as a secondary check to our DOTS Address Validation - US...
Our DOTS Geophone Plus, a reverse phone lookup service, is our top of the line phone validation service. This article provides a guided tour of some of the most important data that this product returns....
This blog concludes a series of deep dives into our DOTS Lead Validation (US and Canada) and DOTS Lead Validation - International (Global) services.In the first blog, we dove into the core components...
Last month, we published a blog about DOTS Lead Validation, taking a deep dive into the services and core components that make up the building blocks of the service. This blog is designed to be a...
How good are your leads? DOTS Lead Validation, Service Objects’ most popular composite service, is designed to measure lead quality – helping our clients reduce fraud, increase conversions and enhance...
What is DOTS Lead Validation - International? For over a year now, Service Objects has been validating leads around the world with DOTS Lead Validation – International. This service looks at six key...
Our company has been building APIs and web services to solve data quality problems since 2001. Who creates these services? We do – the Engineering team here at Service Objects. In this blog, I would like...
Service Objects has been returning location-based tax rates in the DOTS FastTax API since 2001. Back then, we identified sales tax rates using only zip code. Since zip codes could cross multiple city and...
Service Objects is pleased to welcome a new service to our lineup, DOTS Address Insight - US. Built on the core of our USPS CASS Certified DOTS Address Validation - US and DOTS Address Geocode - US...
DOTS Address Detective International is our latest addition to our international suite of products. The new service attempts to append a country to a lead or contact record that either doesn’t have one...
Service Objects has been providing USPS CASS-Certified Address Validation services for over 17 years. Over this time, we have developed one of the best systems for validating, correcting and appending...
Late in 2017, Service Objects released a new service, DOTS Lead Validation International, which is helping companies validate their residential and business leads from around the world. Lead Validation...
DOTS Lead Validation is a service combining many of Service Objects’ key contact validation features: you could think of it as our “greatest hits.” It provides validation for name, address, email,...
Service Objects works with multiple data sources to provide the most accurate, complete and up-to-date telephone number services for our clients’ needs. Our product development team is constantly...
At Service Objects, we are fully committed to our customers’ success, which is a main factor in why over 90% of our business is from repeat customers. And with over 16 years of experience in contact...
Service Objects has recently released a new member of the Lead Validation family, DOTS Lead Validation International. Lead Validation International builds on the strengths of our DOTS Lead Validation...
Applications programming interfaces or APIs continues to be one of the hottest trends in applications development, growing in usage by nearly 800% between 2010 and 2016 according to a recent 2017 survey...
Service Objects recently released the latest and greatest version of DOTS Lead Validation, our lead verification API that cross-validates five critical lead quality components: name, street address, phone...
Service Objects, Inc. is fanatical about customer support, we love working with clients and prospects to build the kind of APIs that they want and need. Some of our best ideas come from listening to our...
Service Objects, Inc. has been standardizing and cleansing even the messiest of USPS valid addresses for years. The core purpose of our DOTS Address Validation-US service is determining if addresses are...
Service Objects runs an agile Engineering team that likes to be ready to run with a great new idea at any given moment. We view it as one of the cornerstones of our fanatical customer service plan.As...
In a recent blog we discussed how to identify Incorporated and Unincorporated places. There are a number of reasons this is important, one of them being to determine accurate area tax rates. As mentioned...
Colorado is a very difficult state to accurately calculate sales tax in. We estimate there are thousands of tax rates that vary based on location. As with most states, sales tax rates in Colorado are a mix...
The US Census Bureau uses the term "place" to refer to an area associated with a concentrated population, such as a municipality, city, town, village or community. These statistical areas have a defined...
What's in a name? Everything -- especially if you're trying to connect with customers and prospects. If you're emailing, mailing, or calling someone and you have her name wrong, you've already lost her....
With every new year, tax season quickly approaches. Rates change all the time across the United States and Canada. Every month brings new tax rates across cities, counties, states, provinces, and even...
Name Validation It's very important in a lot of ways - it’s one of the easiest ways for someone to provide fake information on a web form but can be very tricky to properly detect. Take this example of...
Imagine launching an online business and associating your email address with your business domain. For example purposes, let's say your domain is XYZ.com and your name is John. Your email address would be...
Sending letters, packages, and other items has its risks. What if the address is incomplete or the recipient has moved? Three essential address verification services work together to reduce risk and...
