{"id":10835,"date":"2025-05-19T14:39:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T21:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/?page_id=10835"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:58:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T06:58:44","slug":"av3-operations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-us-3\/av3-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"AV3 &#8211; Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"AV3-Operations-ListofOperations\">List of Operations<\/h2>\n<nav aria-label=\"AV3 Operations Navigation\">\n<ul class=\"is-style-no-bullets-indented-list\">\n<li><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-us-3\/av3-operations\/av3-getbestmatches-recommended\/\"> AV3 &#8211; GetBestMatches <\/a> <mark class=\"has-inline-color\" style=\"color: #008000;\">(Recommended Operation)<\/mark> <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article aria-label=\"Description of AV3 GetBestMatches operation\">Returns parsed and validated address elements, and make corrections where possible. Multiple address candidates may be returned if a definitive decision cannot be made by the service.<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-us-3\/av3-operations\/av3-getsecondarynumbers\/\"> <strong>AV3 &#8211; GetSecondaryNumbers<\/strong> <\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article aria-label=\"Description of AV3 GetSecondaryNumbers operation\">Returns parsed and validated address elements along with a list of potential secondary numbers for a given input address.<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-us-3\/av3-operations\/av3-findaddresslines\/\"> AV3 &#8211; FindAddressLines <\/a> <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article aria-label=\"Description of AV3 FindAddressLines operation\">Organizes bad address data by sorting up to six possible address lines and return what it thinks are the most probable candidates for Address1 and Address2.<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-us-3\/av3-operations\/av3-validateaddresswithdpv\/\"> AV3 &#8211; ValidateAddressWithDPV <\/a> <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article aria-label=\"Description of AV3 ValidateAddressWithDPV operation\">Returns parsed and validated address elements including Delivery Point Validation.<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-us-3\/av3-operations\/av3-validateaddresswithrdi\/\"> AV3 &#8211; ValidateAddressWithRDI <\/a> <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article aria-label=\"Description of AV3 ValidateAddressWithRDI operation\">Functions identically to ValidateAddressWithDPV except it also returns the &#8220;Residential Delivery Indicator&#8221; (RDI) flag.<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-us-3\/av3-operations\/av3-validateaddresswithslk\/\"> AV3 &#8211; ValidateAddressWithSLK <\/a> <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article aria-label=\"Description of AV3 ValidateAddressWithSLK operation\">Functions identically to ValidateAddressWithDPV except it accepts a business name to potentially append Suite data if it&#8217;s missing.<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-us-3\/av3-operations\/av3-parseaddress\/\"> AV3 &#8211; ParseAddress <\/a> <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article aria-label=\"Description of AV3 ParseAddress operation\">Parses an address into its individual address elements. This is purely a parsing method and it does not validate, correct or verify an address.<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-us-3\/av3-operations\/av3-validatecitystatezip\/\"> AV3 &#8211; ValidateCityStateZip <\/a> <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article aria-label=\"Description of AV3 ValidateCityStateZip operation\">This operation will validate that a given city-state-zip validate together properly. The inputs can be marginally incorrect, and this operation will correct them.<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-us-3\/av3-operations\/av3-getbestmatchessingleline\/\"> AV3 &#8211; GetBestMatchesSingleLine <\/a> <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article aria-label=\"Description of AV3 GetBestMatchesSingleLine operation\">Takes a single address line as input and returns the validated and parsed address candidates. This operation may return more than one address if a definitive decision cannot be made by the service.<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-us-3\/av3-operations\/av3-getpossiblematches-deprecated\/\"> AV3 &#8211; GetPossibleMatches <\/a> <mark class=\"has-inline-color\" style=\"color: #ff0000;\">(Deprecated)<\/mark> <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article aria-label=\"Description of AV3 GetPossibleMatches deprecated operation\">This operation is almost exactly like ValidateAddressWithFragments, but may return multiple address with fragments.<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-us-3\/av3-operations\/av3-validateaddresssingleline-deprecated\/\"> AV3 &#8211; ValidateAddressSingleLine <\/a> <mark class=\"has-inline-color\" style=\"color: #f40000;\">(Deprecated)<\/mark> <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article aria-label=\"Description of AV3 ValidateAddressSingleLine deprecated operation\">ValidateAddressSingleLine behaves almost exactly like ValidateAddressWithFragments, but takes all of its input as a single field<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-validation-us-3\/av3-operations\/av3-getpossiblematchessingleline-deprecated\/\"> AV3 &#8211; GetPossibleMatchesSingleLine <\/a> <mark class=\"has-inline-color\" style=\"color: #fb0000;\">(Deprecated)<\/mark> <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article aria-label=\"Description of AV3 GetPossibleMatchesSingleLine deprecated operation\">Often, users have addresses as a single line of data, which may or may not be separated by commas, slashes, spaces, etc. For this reason, ValidateAddressSingleLine behaves almost exactly like ValidateAddressWithFragments, but takes all of its input as a single field.<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; List of Operations AV3 &#8211; GetBestMatches (Recommended Operation) Returns parsed and validated address elements, and make corrections where possible. Multiple address candidates may be returned if a definitive decision cannot be made by the service. 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