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Address Verification System
Address Validation or Verification?
Before we explain the benefits of this service we must make sure that you understand the difference between address verification (which is what we do) and address validation (this is what the competing products do). Address validation is a free service that the United States Postal Service offers at its web site or you can subscribe to the USPS database from multiple vendors. Validation simply 'cleans' an address to make sure that it is in a deliverable format. This doesn't mean the address actually exists.
Our service, address verification, assures you that the address provided in the check form actually exists and matches your customers' phone numbers.
The PayByCheck AVS database is built from multiple data sources including telecommunications, call centers, consumer goods, insurance, credit, and many more. This service is used by thousands of e-commerce web sites and call centers.
There are over 120,000,000 residential and business telephone numbers linked with CASS certified addresses, names and associated data in our proprietary database. This includes approximately 30 million telephone numbers and addresses not appearing in any white page source.
Like all of our services you can either use our secure servers to access the AVS database or use your systems to securely communicate directly with us. We can provide you with various tools to help with your implementation. AVS is available as one of the verification settings within your account Utilities.
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