Author Archives: mike-whatcott

NOTE: This post is somewhat technical but very important for all users of our LiveAddress API–please forward it to your IT people and programmers! A few months ago we released a new method for accessing the LiveAddress API – a … Continue reading →

One of the great things about working at SmartyStreets has been offering our great services to non-profits at absolutely no charge. But this was just an initial step.  We’re now pleased to announce an absolutely free subscription to our LiveAddress … Continue reading →

We’ve had hearings, seen the evidence, heard testimony, and after cross-examination and long deliberation, the jury is now in.   The case was a hard one to unravel. The prosecution’s main argument came from Section 212 of Publication 28  of the … Continue reading →

Every once in a while our users need to analyze their addresses at a very granular level. While it’s true that our “everything” file contains a lot of data, it groups all of the street address data into a single … Continue reading →

Consider the following fact: Because your usage of our LiveAddress web service is (probably) determined by traffic and transactions from your customers, you may not be able to predict if your LiveAddress subscription will have enough credits to match demand … Continue reading →

Even though we’re very satisfied with our new free preview feature, we’re taking this feature to the next level.   How about this: a nicely rendered preview that doesn’t require you to download a .zip archive, extract the file you want, … Continue reading →

For a long time, our address verification customers have had to deal with one extremely wide output file when downloading scrubbed lists.  This meant wading through all sorts of codified mailing industry information just to get to the data you … Continue reading →

For a while now, our address scrubbing service has only deducted scrubbing credits from your account when you download the finished list—a huge improvement over the previous method of deducting credits when the list is submitted for processing.  We’ve also … Continue reading →