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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

  • 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.