Ensure Postal Discounts with NCOA Live
If your business uses direct mail, you know that postage is one of your biggest costs, and are probably aware that the USPS offers a range of discounts ...
E-Commerce is Still Growing – Are You Ready?
Retail is undergoing a dramatic transformation, from bricks and mortar to clicks and orders. This shift was visible to nearly everyone during the 2020 pandemic, as deliveries piled ...
Challenges With Administrative Areas Around the World
Since Service Objects released Address Validation International in 2016, we have occasionally had questions about some of the data fields being returned by our service. Each country is ...
The Growth of Buy Now, Pay Later
A major trend in retail recently is the growth of “buy now, pay later,” or BNPL for short. It is an old idea with a very recent spin ...
Adding Validation to Address Autocomplete Tools
Address autocomplete tools have become ubiquitous with ecommerce sites, web forms and business applications. For the customer, they start entering the first few characters of an address, and ...
FAQs about Our Free Download of all Postal Codes
As you may have heard Service Objects offers a downloadable list of all the postal codes in the US and Canada. This list had gotten quite a bit ...
How to Select an Address Autocomplete Tool
Autocomplete capabilities have become ubiquitous in online applications nowadays. From Google Maps to local service providers, more and more web-based forms now autosuggest addresses as you start to ...
ZIP Codes are not Boundaries
It is a common misconception that 5-digit US ZIP Codes are topographic boundaries that can somehow be accurately represented on a map. They are not. ZIP Codes are ...
How Google Maps Can Be Problematic
Google Maps is a great tool for geocoding. But if you are looking at legitimacy of addresses and/or the existence of a certain address, this is something that ...
