18 Jul 2017

Data Appends: What They Are and What You Need to Know

Most people think that NCOA is just for Direct Mail, but did you know that NCOA processing can greatly improve your match rates on phone appends, email appends, and demographic appends? Typically, about 20% of households move each year. Keeping track of move updates and data changes is a constant challenge for

11 Jul 2017

What is a 92 or 93 Error Code from NCOA or CASS Processing?

Are you confused why a record looks deliverable but is being returned by your CASS or NCOA provider as non-deliverable? Address correction (CASS) or National Change of Address (NCOA) Processing will provide this error code for all returned addresses even if they were corrected successfully.  Error codes 0-86 are deliverable.

05 Jul 2017

Deliverable Records out of an NCOAed File

We know that an NCOAed file can be confusing so we're here to help you understand which records are mailable or not mailable. When FreeNCOA runs a change of address we automatically split out the deliverable and non-deliverable records for you and here are some of the codes we look

28 Jun 2017

Interesting Fields During NCOA Processing

National Change of Address Processing (NCOA Processing) is a crucial step in maintaining a clean customer database. It is easy to understand how your records were updated through NCOA processing once you know what each field means. This processing helps you gain insight on when and where to mail, reducing the