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Business Coder

Important Announcements

Effective April 2026: Credit Changes - March 24, 2026

The current charge of 5 credits per call to Business Coder will be adjusted to 15 credits per call. Appending business contacts will now incur an additional charge of 10 credits per business contact returned. For more details, see the advisory here.

General Information

Build History

9.0.1.1095

Released on: November 2025

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Security

  • Updated Prometheus to stable version.

9.0.1.1094

Released on: October 2025

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Security

  • Response Headers now comply with Industry Standards. Please see the advisory here

9.0.1.1091

Released on: June 2025

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Security

  • Service now compiled in .NET9

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

  • 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

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  • 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 issue with certain characters not handled correctly

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1.3.10.0

Released on: July 2017

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  • 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.