Verifying Batch Addresses
The Batch Address Verification procedure allows you to match or verify a subsection or all of the addresses in your iMIS database.
Note: This procedure updates a large number of the database records; therefore, it must run with only one user logged into the system.
- Select Membership> Utilities> Other Data Utilities> Verify Addresses from the main menu. A warning displays about the length of the process; click Yes to continue or No to cancel.
The following window opens.

- You will use this window to select the addresses to verify, the member records to choose, and the printing options.
- Check the addresses you want to verify.
- Check the Include ONLY Active Members box if you want to ignore all inactive, suspended, or deleted member records.
- Enter specific member types, separated by commas, in the Member Types box if you want the program to only verify those types of members.
- Include a date in the Include addresses verified prior to box if you do not want to verify addresses that have been verified and have not changed since the date entered. With this option, addresses verified prior to this date or any changed address will be verified now.
- Check the Print CASS Report and Print Error Report boxes if you want to print the U.S. Post Office 3553 CASS report and an error report. The CASS report will print to your default printer, while the error report will print to the destination you have currently selected for your iMIS session. The CASS report gives you the number of addresses that met the specified criteria and the percentage successfully matched. The error report lists the addresses that did not match and a brief description of the problem.
- Check the Accept Address Correction box if you want to standardize your addresses to meet the U.S. Post Office preferences. For example, with address correction, "Avenue" will be changed to "Ave" and streets that have alias names will be changed to the Post Office accepted name.
- Click Run.
You may be required to include the CASS report with your mailings; therefore, make sure to make copies of the report. You can generate a current error report at any time by selecting Membership> Utilities> Other Data Utilities> Print Error Report from the main menu.