DataFlux Data Management Studio 2.5: User Guide
AddressDoctor provides an estimate of how likely successful delivery of mail to an address might be. This is a simplification of the process status values and gives a measure to determine whether an address should be bothered with for mailing in a specific usage scenario. This is returned by selecting an output type of DATAPARAMETER with the name of “MailabilityScore”.
Addresses with a mailability of 5 and 4 may always be considered for sending mail, while 0 or 1 should not be used independent of the scenario. Addresses marked with 2 or 3 may be used, but should be treated with caution: 2 indicates that the results are not corrected and therefore may still contain an incorrect address component. 3 indicates a correction which may require a review before sending the mail piece.
If there is a requirement to understand exactly what was validated or corrected in the address, the ProcessStatus value, ElementInputStatus, and ElementResultStatus fields should be used instead of the MailabilityScore.
| Score | Description | What it means |
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| 5 | Completely Confident | All relevant elements of the address that have been entered were checked in the processing and have been verified in the process. |
| 4 | Almost Certain | An address is considered to be Almost Certain when one of the following two scenarios is present. Scenario 1: Some of the relevant elements of the address could not be checked due to reference data and the rest of the address have been verified in the process. Scenario 2: All relevant elements have been entered and some of the relevant elements of the address have been corrected in the process with a very high confidence. This happens only if the match was unique and the number of discrepancies was very low. |
| 3 | Should Be Fine | Some of the relevant elements of the address have been corrected in the process. A correction only happens if the match was unique and the number of discrepancies was acceptable. |
| 2 | Fair Chance | The address could not be corrected or validated in the process based on two scenarios. Scenario 1: A candidate match could not be made that had sufficient confidence. Scenario 2: The address matching ended with multiple candidates with similar confidence levels (multi-match situation). The input address, therefore, has a Fair Chance to be mailable as the relevant elements exist. |
| 1 | Risky | The address entered could only generate a partial match. |
| 0 | Undeliverable | The address entered is either missing too many components or a majority of the components could not be verified as they generate no matches against the reference data. |
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