- nCode meets and handily exceeds the SERP performance thresholds established by Canada Post Corporation. Tests have demonstrated that nCode's performance exceeds that of most, if not all, of our competitor's products.
- SERP certification assures you that our software product has been tested by Canada Post and meets their rigorous standards for postal address accuracy. Most of our customers demand SERP certification as a minimum standard for address management software.
- nCode has always achieved the highest SERP accuracy ratings. nCode version 8 has been certified by Canada Post as recognizing 99.63% of correctable addresses (75% required to pass). This means that nCode is very aggressive, enabling it to find errors other products might not and nCode is very accurate, resulting in extremely high quality and consistency.
Online systems support
- When designing new systems, a key data management strategy is to ensure that data is accurate at the time that it is captured or changed. This means that thorough testing of the data must occur at the time of data capture. nCode fully supports such testing.
- Using nCode at the point of capture allows the person entering address data to usually complete a full address with only an accurate postal code and street number being provided.
- The robust Web Services interfaces provided by nCode allow your programmers to determine if an address is correct and to interact with your users to help them find the correct address when nCode cannot correct the data automatically.
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Address searching and postal code lookup
- Using nCode, your applications will have the ability to search for addresses using any partial information. Furthermore, you will be able to drill down from higher levels, such as provinces and municipalities, to lower levels, such as streets and postal codes using the industry leading power and flexibility of nCode's searching and browsing features.
- nCode handles routine tasks like finding postal codes for uncoded addresses easily. But nCode can do much more. nCode can also use postal codes to retrieve other aspects of an address. In fact, the vast majority of postal addresses in Canada can be completely determined using only a street number and a postal code. With this information and nCode's address searching feature, your call center applications, for example, will experience much faster data capture due to dramatically reduced keystroking. This improves your customer service levels and your operating costs by reducing call times and improving accuracy.
Address verification
- nCode verifies the elements of an address against the standard elements in the Canada Post address database. nCode will tell you if an address is valid, valid-but in need of minor adjustments, or invalid. You may act on this information manually or you can instruct nCode to make corrections automatically.
Automatic address correction based on your needs
- nCode provides you with the option to let it automatically correct incorrect addresses if you should so choose, thereby eliminating any manual handling for these addresses. You advise nCode of the level of confidence that it must have in the probable validity of the correction. Using this mechanism, you, the customer can control any risk associated with automatic correction.
Address correction options and advice presented to user
- Once nCode determines that there is an error in an address that it has analyzed, it has the capability of presenting one or more suggested corrections to your staff to allow them to decide which correction should be made. The rich set of functions available in nCode allow you to provide this capability within your systems with minimal development costs.
Automatic reformatting of addresses to your or Canada Post Standards
- An organization's address data often exists in a wide variety of formats. nCode can work with addresses in any formats that you specify. nCode can break down (parse) free-form addresses into address elements for processing or you can provide addresses in a more rigid format. Whatever formats you require, nCode can accommodate you.
- Just as address data may be stored in a variety of formats, there are many different formats that may be required to meet the demands of specific applications. While one format is well suited to addressing mailings, another format may be required for online display, while yet another may be required for transmission of information to a credit bureau.
- nCode is the ideal tool for transforming addresses from one format into any number of others. You may define specific address formats with the nCode Configuration Utility or you can define them at runtime using API calls. nCode can enforce formatting rules such as placement of address elements, standardization of capitalization and use of accents. Similarly, nCode can standardize the abbreviations used for province names, street types and directions.
- nCode Web Services is the perfect tool for business to business and e-commerce applications where your customers and partners provide and require addresses in any number of different formats.
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Bilingual address support
- nCode fully supports English and French addresses, including accents on street, municipality, and province names. For systems without accent support, nCode can be configured to omit accents. nCode will also perform any necessary translation on street types and other standard address elements.
Monthly updates of master Postal Code database
- Nova Marketing ensures that your data is current by updating the nCode database each month using address data published by Canada Post. Updates of the compressed nCode database are then made available to our clients for download from our web site.
