subject: Courier Software And Address Verification [print this page] Whenever you look at the courier software options that are out there for your company, the number of features that they advertise can be overwhelming at times. Courier dispatch software comes in a lot of different shapes and sizes based on the needs of various types of courier companies. So which features are absolutely essential to your own organization?
Big or small, the concern of every courier company should always be to reduce mistakes as much as possible. Courier companies that can claim a high on time success rate on their deliveries are able to do so because they have taken the steps necessary to minimize the number of things which might go wrong during any given transaction.
That is why buying courier software with a feature called address verification is a good idea. This will obviously just be one of many features that you will see advertised as part of the software, but it is a good one to keep an eye out for. You might see it called address validation instead, but they are basically the same thing.
The entire point of this feature in a courier program is to reduce errors that are made when addressing packages. Most courier software now contains the ability for customers to either place an order online, or to store their common client shipping addresses in an address book. Address verification can check all of those addresses before shipping to help reduce mistakes.
When entering an address for the first time, either into a shipping order or into an address book, a typo of any kind will virtually guarantee that the package is going to end up at the wrong address unless you are very, very lucky. This is what makes this software feature so valuable. It can check any address in the system to make sure that it is a real US address. Street addresses and zip codes correlate in a certain way, and if the software sees a conflict it can red flag the item so that someone can double check the address.
Using a feature like this constantly will only do good things for your company. It will help your organization to build a reputation for reliability because there will a much smaller chance of mistakes happening on most shipments. Also, it is something that you can use in your marketing materials to help your customers know that your company is helping their deliveries get made correctly.
