Verifying Addresses Online
Online Address Verification is a feature that allows you to verify addresses as you enter or change them. The Verify Addresses button is accessible through the following windows:
- Customers > Manage Customers
- Events > Register a customer > select the Attendees tab
- Orders > Enter and edit orders > in the Bill to ID field, click Add
- Orders > Enter and edit order > select the Ship to Info tab
- Exposition > Process booth orders > click Options and choose Address
- Fund Raising > Enter and edit gifts > select the Donor tab
- Fund Raising > Enter and edit gifts > select the Soft Credit tab and click Add

Example of Verify Addresses button
To request address verification
- Click Edit. The Verify Addresses button becomes available. You can click this button at any time during entry or edit.
- Click Verify Addresses. The system will attempt to verify the member's address(es). If successful, the Zip+4, carrier route, and delivery point fields are added and you receive a message that all addresses were successfully matched. If any of the addresses cannot be matched, the program starts the Browse process.
The system attempts to verify the following:
- All three member addresses in the Member/Contact Maintenance or Address Maintenance window.
- The ship-to address in the Order Entry and Meeting Registration window.
To automatically verify addresses
You can elect to have the system automatically verify the member's addresses every time a member record is saved.
- Select Membership> Utilities> System Setup from the main menu.
- Click Address & Notes from the Membership Setup window.
- Click Edit.
- Mark the Automatically Verify New/Updated Addresses and Accept Address Correction options.
Note: Selecting the Accept Address correction option does not override the selection to correct addresses when running the Batch Address Verification process; it only affects online verifications.
- (optional) Opt to update the county and congressional district fields in the iMIS member database. If you choose this option, you can select which of the three addresses to use in order to determine the appropriate county and congressional district. This option applies to both the batch verify process and the online verification.
- Click OK.