Yes, we offer both premise and street-level address look-ups. Premise-level address look-ups will return everything including the house name or number. The "street level" option will not return the house name or number.

Licensing for the Royal Mail's PAF® file depends on whether you’re using it within a website or an internal application. Information to help you find the licence to suit your requirements.  Please discuss with a sales consultant so you get the solution you need.

Yes, you may capture full UK addresses from a postcode, or to search for a postcode/full address using part of the address. The service can be used in a website or integrated into any desktop application and is simple to set up and use.

The Postcode Address File (PAF)®/ data is owned and maintained by Royal Mail.  Daily updates (around 5000 each day) are made to ensure the information you receive is as accurate as possible.

Each address processed has a return code to indicate the degree of match success, this ranges from 100% accurate, corrected with minor mistakes, ambiguous results (multiple matches possible with interactive review) or no match found.

The contact addresses used for batch cleansing will be under your control, most clients simply append the matching addresses returned into columns to the right of the addresses you currently hold. You can then simply choose which parts of your addresses you want to replace with those returned by our Address Toolkit API.

The time taken to run any address data cleanse obviously depends on the number of records in the file being cleansed, but it also depends on the quality of the data inputted. You can, however, expect your file to be cleansed at a rate of up to 100 cleanses per second, or 350,000 records an hour.

Absolutely. The Address Toolkit takes the input you provide and, after making matches, returns the results according to the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF®) or International Postal Authorities reference data. This means you will always get consistently formatted results, even if there wasn’t at point of data input.

The API can be accessed using most development environments and from the web as: SOAP, XML over HTML or AJAX.

Yes. We have the ability use the international addressing service for non UK data and then switch over to Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF®) data whenever a UK postcode is searched.

Yes, we can charge for the service on a pay-per-click basis. The advantage to this is that you can access addresses anywhere in the world using one credit pack, costing from just £50 per annum.

There are over 120 different address formats globally, and 30 different language scripts, so keeping global address data correct is no small task. The Address Tookit API International also removes the need to spell all those tricky foreign words!

Yes, this available as an extended data set, please ask one of our sales consultants.

Yes, this available as an extended data set, please ask one of our consultants.

Yes, it may be called via SOAP, XML over HTML or AJAX.

Up to 230 countries are supported to varying degrees of completeness.  As this list and completeness varies from time to time, please ask one of our sales consultants.

It references trusted postal authority data sources to ensure local or International addresses are captured correctly.

This ensures your data is right first time, hence avoids data scrap and re-work.  Means your deliveries or letters, parcels, statements, invoices etc. get delivered which improves customer satisfaction, improves cash flow and make you more profitable.

• Assist during address data capture to reduce the errors during address data capture
• Reduce address input time for your call centre staff
• Eliminate database spelling mistakes and formatting errors
• Improve or remove poor quality address data and validate your customers' identity
• Create new customer mailing lists
• Allow people to look-up addresses online
• Save time and re-posting costs by correctly addressing mailings
• Capture "verified" customer address details
• Quicken your web checkout process with "address auto-fill" and help avoid abandonment's
• Use postcode data for customer profiling
• Promote a professional image by getting it right first time

The Postcode Address File (PAF®) is the most up-to-date and complete address database in the UK, containing over 28 million addresses. PAF® is an invaluable tool for creating and maintaining mailing lists and databases, as well as reducing the number of returned or undelivered items.

Every house and business in the United Kingdom has been given a postal address by Royal Mail. This address is used as a routing instruction by Royal Mail staff to sort and deliver mail quickly and accurately.

The PAF file is the basis of reference for address checking through the Address Toolkit.

There are a variety of data sets available for extending the basic PAF lookup including:

• Grid reference data (100m detail only)
• NHS Health Authority codes
• Local Authority Ward information
• Business data including: SIC, Turnover, Number of Employees, financial status and risk
• Consumer Data including: Lifestyle, GeoDemographic, SocioEconomic, Financial status and risk
• Suppression data sets including: Bereaved and Gone Away
• NCOA

As this data is constantly changing and evolving please contact one of our sales consultants for up to date information.

Yes, we have extended data sets which allow you to obtain GeoCodes for special analysis.  These can be returned as Lat, Long or Easting and Northing as required.

You can use it in any application which captures postal addresses, including the web, business applications, desktop applications, call centre applications.

It is a component which will standardize, format and validate your local or international address data.  It will work at point of address capture or for batch address processing to deliver accurate and trusted data.