USPS Address Validation for Acumatica Cloud ERP - GitHub Project

Address Validation Via USPS-Acumatica API

USPS address validation project was developed during Acumatica Summit Hackathon 2017 and shared as Github project

Cleanse your address records within Acumatica through USPS API, it's free to use USPS API, setup a new account on USPS website and utilize their user id within our plugin.

The Address validation custom package for Acumatica allows to interface with Contact address or any address that you can pass and validate street, city, state and zipcode.

Prerequisites

You must have USPS account https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/welcome.htm

Quick Start

Register with USPS and obtain an API user account
Download the address validation custom package, import into Acumatica and publish the package
Proivde access to custom button on leads screen
On leads screen you will notice a new button called "Verify address"
On click it will open a new window and validate the address on record and display corrected address
Click Update address, validated address is updated to lead
Click save and there you have it folks

Benefits

Cleanse all your leads, Opportunities, Contacts address by validating their mailing address
Cuts down your shipping and mailing expenses
Improves customer relationship management - CRM

Download USPS address validation project from Github

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