{"id":1420,"date":"2022-11-01T13:59:39","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T13:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serviceobjects.wpaladdin.com\/?post_type=serviceobjects&#038;p=1420"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:06:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T11:06:22","slug":"dots-address-detective","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-detective\/","title":{"rendered":"DOTS Address Detective"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1420\" class=\"elementor elementor-1420\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-619c6f8 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"619c6f8\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a9cf521 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"a9cf521\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Introduction<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3afa805 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3afa805\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>DOTS Address Detective (&#8220;AD&#8221;) is a phone and name-assisted address validation tool. When an address does not resolve, additional clues such as having a phone number or name can help determine an address for the contact. Without these clues, or if these clues do not produce a hit, the service has the same functionality as our DOTS Address Validation \u2013 US\u00a0products. A score is used to give an idea of how likely it is that this address is correct for this contact. This service utilizes the latest .Net Framework, WCF, and can be used as a RESTful service or with SOAP.\u00a0<\/p><p>AD can provide instant address verification and correction to websites or enhancement to contact lists.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-99c3feb elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"99c3feb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Resources<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0aea07e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"0aea07e\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2fbf1ac e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2fbf1ac\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element 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There you can test our recommended operation GetAddressInsight.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-detective\/ad-service-reference\/\">Service Reference<\/a><br \/>In this section you&#8217;ll find all the different endpoints supported by this service, input and output schema information as well as an opportunity to try the other endpoints as well.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/docs\/dots-address-detective\/ad-frequently-asked-questions\/\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/a><br \/>This is a list of some of the questions we hear more often that you can reference and get answers on right away<\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"e-n-tab-content-339556932\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"e-n-tab-title-339556932\" data-tab-index=\"2\" style=\"--n-tabs-title-order: 2;\" class=\" elementor-element elementor-element-4f0182c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4f0182c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7358506 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7358506\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Integration Basics<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c93dfb4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c93dfb4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Integrating AD into your application should be easy and straightforward.\u00a0 If you are using a common platform, Service Objects may already have sample code built that you can use:\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/developers\/sample-code\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.serviceobjects.com\/developers\/sample-code\/<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>However, if you are using a common platform that does not already have sample code, you can ask Service Objects to build you an example.\u00a0 Email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:support@serviceobjects.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">support@serviceobjects.com<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/p>\n<p><br><strong>Web Service Structure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Web services are methods that integrate with other applications via the web, and encapsulate tricky business logic.\u00a0 Web services are too large of a topic to cover in this document, but Service Objects has developed its web services to be as easy to integrate and as accessible as possible.<\/p>\n<p>AD is a public XML web service that supports SOAP, POST and GET operations, using RESTful paradigms or simple HTTP transport calls.<\/p>\n<p><br><strong>The host path, or physical location of the web service is here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trial.serviceobjects.com\/ad\/api.svc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/trial.serviceobjects.com\/ad\/api.svc<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br><strong>A test page for the web service can be found here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trial.serviceobjects.com\/ad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/trial.serviceobjects.com\/ad\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br><strong>The location of the WSDL, or Web Service Definition Language document, is here<\/strong>\u00a0(This is also accessible via the &#8220;Service Definition&#8221; 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