Can I use AddressAccelerator to verify addresses of non-constituents?

Cheyenne Canon

AddressAccelerator in the Data Health Center only seems to let me update addresses for full constituents. Is there a way to update addresses of non-constituents? This is important for us as we send mail to non-constituent acknowledgees for tributes.

Ryan Hyde

Cheyenne Canon:

AddressAccelerator in the Data Health Center only seems to let me update addresses for full constituents. Is there a way to update addresses of non-constituents? This is important for us as we send mail to non-constituent acknowledgees for tributes.

You can on a case by case basis, and in fact this is an important part of my workflow for honor/memorial tribute acknowledgees. If you open a relationship record, you'll see that there's a small envelope icon above the address fields. Click it and you are good to go. Conversely you can click on Relationship > Validate with Address Accelerator (or cntrl+a,v) to get to the same place. 


To my knowledge, there is no way to do this in bulk like there is for constituent records, but I still tend to use the tool at the moment I create an address record in a constituent anyway, as opposed to waiting until later to do it in bulk. There are errors that you can visually inspect and correct for when doing it within a record that you can't see when doing it in bulk, and if these kinds of errors exist in your bulk data, Address Accelerator tends to just skip the record altogether instead of guessing at the best solution. I only use the bulk tool when importing a group of new records, and then I visually inspect the results after the fact (typically by creating a query and outputting the preferred zip code - if it has a 4 digit extension at the end, I know the process went well, and if not, I know I have to fix something).