AddressAccelerator

Melissa Steinbach

Hi Everyone,  Just looking for feedback on AddressAccelerator.  We currently do not use it.  Let me know if you use it and any pros/cons you have encountered.  And is it worth the money!


Thanks for your feedback

Austen Brown

To me, it is worth the money.  It validates addresses as you add them into your system, and you know immediately whether you have been given a valid address or not.  If you have preference on how the address is formatted/written out (abbreviated or not), it can edit any new or existing addresses in your system and update them to your formatting preference. It makes entering addresses easier as all you need are the address lines and the city/state or the zip and it can populate everything else (including postal codes and county).  I honestly cannot think of any cons other than if the address entered is not validated (e.g. an address missing an apartment number), AddressAccelerator cannot provide you with the correct address but this can usually be remedied with a quick internet search . 

Leslie Choitz

It is absolutely worth the price.  Our undeliverable mail rate has decreased significantly since we started using AddressAccelerator. 

Tom Klimchak

We use AddressAccelerator and I agree with everyone else: it's totally worth the money.  If you're not hosted you'll have to update the address file every 3 months or so, but if you're hosted it's done automatically AND it seems to run faster than when we were running off our own servers.


Here's one benefit that's (slightly) less important now that we have NXT:


AddressAccelerator will automatically fill in the COUNTY in addition to checking to make sure the mailing address is correct.  This means that something like 95% of our addresses have a county listed, so we can very quickly use county to query on people in a certain area.  


We inevitably find that querying on 6 counties is much easier than trying to query on 45 different zip codes.


 

Ryan Hyde

I agree with everyone else, and want to add on that you can batch screen records. You create a query, go to Data Health Center, then the Data Health Center tab, and then the "Validate Addresses" link on the right hand side, middle of the page. Plug in your query and let it do its thing. You can then query your results to see which addresses didn't update as expected (they'll be missing 'county,' along with a few other things) and figure out why they didn't validate, or flag them as invalid if you want.

Heather Pauli

We use AddressAccelerator and I agree that it's worth the cost, even without the ability to validate Canadian addresses (we are a US charity that borders Canada, so have some support across international lines.)  We also signed up for Automatic National Change of Address updates that periodically bring our database addresses to current mailing standards.