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The Company Merchant™ is a leading supplier of data/technical services to businesses. Many of our customers know they want to use a service but also know they dont always have the technical knowledge to be able to make use of it. We strip away much of the technical requirements to supply you with a complete solution.

Whether your website uses 2500 postcode lookups per year or 1000 per day, we are happy to have you as a customer and the solution is just the same. EASY.

The Royal Mail provide accurate data for addresses, and whilst the purchase of a full data file with regular updates for your own use is out of reach for many small to medium business (at around £9000 per year), a simple online per-lookup solution is definitely within the reach of every forward thinking, customer focused business

OK, now you are sold on the principle, what do you need to do ?

Unless you are operating on free webspace with restricted services, every web server usually has access to a service called PHP or ASP. If you have a web form already asking your customers questions, the form is likely to be sending the information entered to a program. If this has a ".asp" or a ".php" ending to the filename, you know you can successfully run this service. If not, a simple question to your provider asking if they supply ASP or PHP service as part of what you pay already will answer the question.

You then use our QuickStart Wizard to generate a working example for you. Then the example can be simply copied into your web page.

The only bit you need to know is what the entry boxes on your website are called - i.e. do you have a single address box where the entire address appears or do you have a line1, line2, line3, line4, town and postcode boxes individually. We give you a working example and hey-presto, you have just given your customers an easy way to ensure accurate entry of their address and beefed up your website perception to your potential customer base.

If you are technically minded, and want to develop your own interface to our data, you can also link any web accessable application into our system via a simple XML service. Making a call to our data initially provides you with a list of matches and a unique id for each one, then, when your user has selected the match they require, you pass the unique id back to get a second XML data set with all of the address information supplied.




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