Recently we ran our data through addressfinder and when we received it back some of the addresses that had data in the address box that was not recongnized by addressfinder was deleted. ex: Some of my donors don't give a home address and their prefered address is the business with the business name...

I am having a disagreement with my boss, so I thought I would poll everyone to see what they do with their phone numbers. I prefer to put the correct phone number with the correct address (i.e., main phone number is with main address on bio one, work phone is with business information, winter phone is...

Hello, I am in the process of doing a magazine mailing to my entire database and have been told to only send on magazine to each address. I'm looking for the quickest, least painful way to make this happen. In some cases there are 4 constituents per household. In the past, I've manually gone...

[quote user="Charmaine Desmeules"]This happens to our database a lot, especially if they are only moving a few blocks away. My solution is: go to ADDRESS tab, click on current address, go to Address in toolbar, copy/share address. You will now have 2 versions of the same address. I mark one...

Please guide how to incorporate additional digit(s) in already stored phone number. Example - all those constituents based in Karachi previously had two digit area code '21' are now require to replace with three digits code '201'.

I am wondering how other organizations handle records when a couple are separated and each have different addresses. I am thinking it makes the most sense to break the link between the two so that both of them will be Head of Household and receive mailings at their different addresses. But I do not like...

Is there a way to limit access to specific address types? In this case, most users should be able to view constituent addresses, but a few constituents have addresses in "sensitive" areas of the world; and we want only a few staff to be able to see those particular addresses. These same constituents...

We are required by the USPS to store a participant code on every record in our database that would be pulled on a mailing list. This is because we will be participating in the electronic address change service. The code will consist of seven alpha characters and will be the same for every record. The...

In an earlier blog post , I discussed how Address Processing works for Individual records. In this follow-up segment, we will look at how Organization and Contact records are processed in Mail. For Organization Address Processing, if you have marked the option Mail Only to the Organization in Step 1...

In a better world , every Individual, Organization, and Contact record would have one all-purpose address. Because the world isn't that perfect, The Raiser's Edge accomodates multiple addresses on each record. When it's time to send a mailing, Address Processing shuffles through those addresses...