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Re: What is the POSTNET™ barcode? | SmartyStreets KB

Street Genius — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:13:35 -0000

You're absolutely right.. The IMB has replaced the PostNet barcode. Thank you. I'll make the update.

Re: What is the POSTNET™ barcode? | SmartyStreets KB

Matthew E Kaiser — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:10:04 -0000

footnote here, Intelligent Mail barcode was required as of Jan 23, 2013.

Re: Pricing for address validation API — LiveAddress API | SmartyStreets

Street Genius — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:20:19 -0000

Already got it for you. Here's a secret URL that will enable you to use the 5,000 lookup/month subscription:

https://smartystreets.com/chec...

Re: Pricing for address validation API — LiveAddress API | SmartyStreets

Jim Maynard — Wed, 01 May 2013 17:15:28 -0000

It would be nice if you had a 5,000/month category.
Even a 7,500/year would be good.
Our business is seasonal and 80% of a year's orders come within two months.

Re: How can I use a regular expression (regex) to verify a street address? | SmartyStreets KB

Street Genius — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:10:43 -0000

Precisely. As long as you have a reference dataset that is complete and accurate, regex can be a good tool for extracting data. Definitely don't want to say that it can't be used, only that in absence of a valid referential dataset, it is inconclusive. Good catch!

Re: How can I use a regular expression (regex) to verify a street address? | SmartyStreets KB

Benjamin Bauman — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:02:22 -0000

I don't see any problem with using regex given your example. If you have a reference dataset that contains all Ohio addresses, and there exists two candidates of equal probability for the input 123 Main St. Louisville, OH 43071 (123 Main St., Louisville, OH 43071 and 123 Main Ave, St. Louisville, OH 43071, then you deem that address a tie, as no further disambiguation is possible.

Re: LiveAddress API Documentation

Street Genius — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:40:10 -0000

That would need to be some post-processing that you do on your end. Our service always outputs the standardized address format. Along with the output we return the address components. Street type is one of the data types. That's where you find the street type abbreviations. Manipulating the data in that field would allow you to accurate replace the data with the format you want.
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Jeffrey - Street Genius
SmartyStreets.com

Re: LiveAddress API Documentation

StaciAnne — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:29:41 -0000

Is there a way when integrating with Little Green Light to have the addresses either come in as Lane or remain as Ln. Having no punctuation looks messy in my mail merge letters?

Re: Can we have multiple users on the same account?

Street Genius — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:28:47 -0000

Good questions. First answer is yes. You can utilize the same account from any number of up addresses or locations simultaneously. We don't require a new license per access point.
This should help you understand how our subscriptions work:
http://smartystreets.com/kb/fa...
You will always receive an email from our system when you have 10% remaining on your account. (Unless you are on the unlimited plan, since running out wouldn't be an option then.)
Currently the API doesn't return a count of the lookups remaining

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Jeffrey - Street Genius
SmartyStreets.com

Re: Can we have multiple users on the same account?

Street Genius — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:22:09 -0000

1. Yep. See our answer to your question here: http://smartystreets.com/kb/li...

2. Currently there's no API query to check the status of the account. (That's on our list.) We do, however, send you an email when you have 10% remaining.

Re: LiveAddress API Documentation

Street Genius — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:20:27 -0000

Yep. We don't impose any concurrency limits for server-side requests using secret API key pairs from your account.

Re: LiveAddress API Documentation

Street Genius — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:18:19 -0000

You'll get an email when you have 10% remaining. At any other time, you can login and click "Subscription" to see how much is left and has already been used. https://smartystreets.com/acco...

Re: LiveAddress API Documentation

jonathan.chong — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:53:16 -0000

How do we check the the lockup counter is about to exhaust based on the plan that we purchase?

Re: LiveAddress API Documentation

jonathan.chong — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:52:39 -0000

Can we use the same account on multiple web servers that runs on different data centers simultaneously?

Re: Can we have multiple users on the same account?

Jonathan Chong — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:48:47 -0000

Hi, RingCentral has evaluated your service and believe it's appropriate for us. I've a few questions before making the monthly subscription.

1. We've many web servers and they're spread across different geography locations. Can we use the same account on multiple web servers simultaneously?

2. How do we know when the lookups that we purchased has exhausted? Is the a query to get the remaining lookups?

Thanks,
Jonathan

Re: Do you verify international addresses?

Street Genius — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:50:58 -0000

We do not work with any international data at this time. We've been looking at it, especially Canada, but it's a ways out yet.

Street Genius
(877) 216-8883
support@smartystreets.com

Re: Do you verify international addresses?

Marcio — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:29:26 -0000

Is this FAQ updated? Do you still don't validate address in Canada?

Re: LiveAddress API Documentation

Street Genius — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:54:30 -0000

Our expertise is with US addresses. Here's why: http://smartystreets.com/kb/fa...

Re: LiveAddress API Documentation

Brian — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:51:29 -0000

Which countries do you support, is it just USA?

Re: How can I fix incomplete or broken addresses?

Street Genius — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:21:07 -0000

You are correct, it's not be just a simple script. It's also not too difficult as long as you have access to the right data. For example, if you have a current list of states, cities, streets for each city, and ranges for each street, you could perform a number of agressive filters. First, look for the ZIP code. If a valid 5 digit (or nine digit) number from the string matches one in the ZIP code database, then you limit the next searches to city/street/range for that ZIP code. Next look within the string for all the possible street names that are valid for that ZIP code. In this case they could start with any of the following letters: b, u, r, d, s, a, l... and so on utilizing every letter in the string. You could search automatcially for a street in that ZIP code that starts with "b" followed by the next letter. If you find one, keep going with the street until you get a match. Once you do, you know the correct street name. Anything other than that is primary number or predirectional. So, it can be done very effectively and efficiently (oh, and very fast) if you have the right data.

Also, an autosuggest feature which would begin matching the address data as soon as you enter 5112 would work. That would help to eliminate an address entered like this in the first place.

Re: How can I fix incomplete or broken addresses?

God_Fodder — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:02:52 -0000

You can't really have a script automatically insert the space. What if the intended address was as follows:

5112B Urdsall Rd
Williamsburg, OH 45176

Re: LiveAddress API — REST endpoint | SmartyStreets KB

SmartyStreets Support — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 11:24:32 -0000

The default response from our LiveAddress API is JSON. You simply make a request (as shown on this page) http://smartystreets.com/kb/li... and the response will be a JSON object.

Re: LiveAddress API — REST endpoint | SmartyStreets KB

Sachin — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:35:33 -0000

How can i receive the addressee in response JSON from the given input address?

Re: LiveAddress API Demo — Test-drive the fastest & smartest address validation API | SmartyStreets

SmartyStreets Support — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:56:18 -0000

For that, you'll need to go to a company that sells ZIP Code lists. As a validation tool, we don't provide that. Google "ZIP code lists" and you'll find it.

Re: LiveAddress API Demo — Test-drive the fastest & smartest address validation API | SmartyStreets

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:37:50 -0000

For a 5 digit zip code, how do i get list of all 5 +4 digit zips that falls below it. Say i want to know what are valid 4 digit codes under this city/State (12345) and want to know how many valid +4 digits are there.