Matchcode Names

Matchcode DC with NamesUsing the National Canvasse Lifestyle database supplied under licence from Experian, Matchcode Names links the National Canvasse name to the relevant household PAF address and allows the householders names to be used as part of an interactive or batch search for the address. This not only increases match rates, but also allows misspellings in the both the name and the address to be corrected.

Features and benefits

Matchcode Names:

  • Validates files of names and addresses. Improves accuracy and quality of data.
  • Validate input address with Royal Mail’s PAF file of 27 million UK addresses.
  • Validate input name against over 44 million names on Experian's National Canvasse Lifestyle database.
  • Helps improve security where parties are contracting over the internet or remotely.
  • Returns a full postal address from a postcode or partial address.
  • National Canvasse name helps fill in missing premise information.
  • Notified changes to Electoral Roll incorporated in National Canvasse updates to ensure currency of data.
  • Specially developed name matching and scoring routines developed to optimise searching.
  • Allows you to bulk postcode or cleanse large quantities of address data.

Technical features

  • Runs on Windows 95, 98, 2000, Me, NT4, UNIX, VMS and OS/390.
  • Supports AS/400, Oracle and .NET.
  • Supports Client/Server architecture.
  • Java, CGI (HTML and XML), Active-X and ISAPI versions available.
  • Software Developers Kit (SDK) includes comprehensive HTML manuals and sample code.

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