Business Coder
Important Announcements
None
General Information
- Business Coder Wiki Page
- Business Coder FAQ
- Quick Start Guide
- Support contact information: tech@melissa.com or 1-800-MELISSA (1-800-635-4772)
Build History
8.0.1.1084
Released on: October 2024
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- Fixed an issue where ampersands (&) were returning an escape character incorrectly
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8.0.1.1082
Released on: June 2024
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- Fixed an issue where Business Coder did not append latitude and longitude when doing a reverse MEK append.
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8.0.1.1081
Released on: April 2024
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- Fixed an issue where FS** Result Codes would return for garbage inputs.
- Fixed an issue where the CensusBlock, CensusTract, CountyFIPS, CountyName, Latitude, Longitude, PlaceCode and PlaceName did not output values when doing a reverse MAK Lookup.
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7.0.1.1071
Released on: April 2023
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- Fixed an issue where random SE01 errors returns when performing Fuzzy Matching on Business Names.
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7.0.1.1070
Released on: April 2023
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- Reworked Business Coder back-end to now use .NET Core and compiled in .NET 7. No expected changes to client side interface.
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2.0.24.0
Released on: November 2022
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- Fixed an issue where the response should have escape sequences for the Quotes in order for the JSON to be in an acceptable format.
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2.0.23.0
Released on: January 2021
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New Result Code: AS12
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Melissa's BusinessCoder service has a new functionality to handle historic addresses of businesses and companies by returning the most current address of companies. If a move is detected, a new result code (AS12) will get returned. This result code indicates that the record moved to a new address.
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1.3.16.0
Released on: December 2017
New feature released for Business Code can be found here
Added
- Melissa Enterprise Key (MEK) input now available
- Input a Business Coder generated unique id to get the same business back
- Available in both REST and JSON
- ReturnDominantBusiness now defaults to Yes
- Change to ReturnDominantBusiness:No for original behavior
- New Business Suggestions field now available
- Returns list of possible businesses, if input is only given a company name
- Return Dominant Business needs to be set to ‘No’
- Must add option ‘EnableSuggestions:true’ for suggestions to show
- ‘TotalSuggestions’ field now adding, indicating the number of suggestions in the Suggestions array
- Max number of suggestions is 500
- Phone appends will now only append if the phone input is blank
- Company output is now limited to 50 characters
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Fixed
- Fixed issue with certain characters not handled correctly
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1.3.10.0
Released on: July 2017
Added
- Contact Phone – Phone numbers for Contacts
- Contact Emails now return data
- MEK – Melissa Enterprise Keys; unique keys for each individual business.
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EIN is now populated by GrpBusinessCodes column Security
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1.2.8.0
Released on: March 2017
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Past Announcements
Disable Multiple Record Requests in JSON - November 2022
Multiple Record Requests are currently disabled in JSON. All JSON Requests should only include exactly 1 record in the request.