 How
to Determine Address Types
RBDI is a data quality solution that helps shippers
maximize parcel shipping costs by verifying the
address delivery type as either business or
residential. RBDI – short for Residential & Business
Delivery Indicator – works its magic by increasing
your savings potential and reducing residential
delivery surcharges.
Developers will see this as a very simple, yet
ingenious tool. RBDI is available as an add-on to
Melissa Data’s leading data validation tools – the
Data Quality Web Service and Address Object
developer’s component. These tools are used to
correct and standardize addresses, real-time or
batch processes, by comparing the address submitted
against the U.S. Postal Service’s national database
of 142 million addresses.
What does a developer need to do to utilize the
tool? According to Bud Walker, a product manager at
Melissa Data, the RBDI add-on to Address Object
contains two new properties and two new methods.
The PathToRBDIFiles property and SetPathToRBDIFiles()
method will be used to set the path to the RBDI
files, Walker notes. The GetRBDIDatabaseDate() is
used to determine the date of the RBDI database.
An additional RBDI property will return an indicator
if a specific address is a business or residence. R
will stand for residential; B for business and U for
unknown. RBDI flags the address as one of these
types. This designation helps shippers determine
carrier rates, avoid surcharges and provide
rate-shopping services to online customers.
“RBDI is an easy-to-use tool that can be implemented
very easily,” Walker says.
RBDI has many potential uses for businesses. Online
merchants can build the function into their websites
to provide rate-shopping services to their
customers. Commercial shippers and agents can use
this product to plot more efficient delivery routes.
Click here to take a stab at RBDI:
http://www.melissadata.com/dqt/rbdi.htm
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