Revela offers built-in address verification to ensure that addresses used across your workflows are accurate and standardized. This is especially valuable in scenarios where a physical document needs to reach the right person reliably, such as a check payment.
What Is Address Verification?
Address verification is the process of validating and standardizing a mailing address against a trusted postal database to confirm it is real, complete, and deliverable. When an address is submitted, whether entered manually or imported from a data source, address verification checks it against authoritative records (such as the USPS database in the United States) and returns a standardized, corrected version if needed.
This process typically includes:
- Validating that the address exists and is active in postal records
- Standardizing formatting to meet postal guidelines (e.g., abbreviating "Street" to "St", correcting zip codes)
- Correcting minor errors such as misspelled city names or transposed digits
- Flagging addresses that are undeliverable, vacant, or incomplete
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Why Address Verification Matters
Unverified addresses create real problems across nearly every business workflow that involves mailing or shipping. Some of the key benefits of address verification include:
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Reduced returned mail and wasted spend - Undeliverable mail means postage, printing, and fulfillment costs with nothing to show for it. Verifying addresses before sending eliminates the majority of these failures.
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Faster, more reliable delivery - Standardized addresses are processed more efficiently by postal carriers, reducing delays and misrouting.
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Cleaner data - Address verification improves the overall quality of your contact and customer records over time, making future outreach more accurate.
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Compliance and audit trails - For commmon property management workflows, such as owner disbursements, having a record that an address was verified before a document was sent adds an important layer of accountability.
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Better customer experience - Recipients get what they're supposed to receive, when they're supposed to receive it, at the right location.
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How Do I Verify an Address in Revela?
To verify an address in Revela, simply click on the Verify button located near the address record. Property addresses, tenant forwarding addresses, entity addresses, and vendor addresses can all be verified in Revela.
Once you click the Verify button, you will be prompted to either select address syntax recommended by the verification tool, or proceed with the address field as it was manually entered. Both options will verify the address on the associated record in Revela. Verified addresses are denoted with a green check mark next to the address field, as shown below:
Address verification is particularly valuable when sending check payments through our integrated mail provider, PostGrid. By requiring a recipient's address to be verified before a check is mailed, Revela's embedded address verification ensures payments arrive on time and reach the right destination.