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View the main T3 Auto-Address for ACT! page here.

Introduction

T3 Auto-Address provides a quick and accurate address correction plugin that is integrated into ACT. Customer address information is verified against the United States Postal Service’s National and Delivery Point Validation databases. You have the option to accept the verified address information and write it the ACT database.

The following example demonstrates an address before and after:

After the address comes back validated, you will have the option to write the validated address back to the ACT database.

System Requirements

ACT 2010 or greater.

Installing T3 Auto-Address for ACT

1. Browse to the folder where you downloaded the Installer.
2. Double-click on the file T3Auto-AddressSetup.exe
3. The following screen will appear:

1. Click Next.
2. The following screen will appear:

1. The T3 Auto-Address installs the plugin into the ACT plugin directory.

Registering T3 Auto-Address

When you open ACT for the first time after the installation process is complete you will be asked to register the T3 Auto-Address software. This will register the software with Twelve/Three Marketing, Inc. Below is a screen of the registration screen.

After the registration process you will need to configure T3 Auto-Address.

Configuring T3 Auto-Address for ACT

You will receive an email from Twelve/Three Marketing, Inc. that will include your username and license keys. The username and license keys will need to be input into the T3 T3 Auto-Address configuration screen in ACT.

1. From within ACT, go to the Tools | T3 T3 Auto-Address Configuration menu option.
2. The following screen will display:

1. Cut and Paste the License key, Toolkit License Key and Username into the fields on the form from the email that was sent by Twelve/Three Marketing, Inc.

If for some reason you have not received your License keys, please call us at 716-837-5727.

1. Options:
   1. Standardize Streets:

i.    This would take Avenue and change it to Ave. Or it would take Road and change it to Rd.

1. Use Alias:

i.    A name by which a street may be known locally which is different from the official name used by the U.S. Postal Service.

1. Mixed Case:

i.    Return the address information in Mixed case rather then in Upper case.

1. Click on the T3 Auto-Address tab.

T3 Auto-Address can store all of the information that is shown above in the ACT database. You would need to create the ACT fields in your database, if you wanted to have them stored. T3 Auto-Address will still update the address information without you having to create the above fields.

If you decide to save some of the above information in your ACT database, check the fields above and make sure that nobody is in ACT. Then click on the “Create Fields in ACT” button.

At the end of this manual is a description of all of the fields listed above.

T3 Auto-Address Tab in ACT

Below is the T3 Auto-Address tab in ACT. The fields that are in turquoise will be the fields that are written back to ACT when you click on ‘Write corrected fields to ACT!’ If any of the fields in in the configuration where check they would be in turquoise also.

Above is the AccuMail tab in ACT. The fields that are in turquoise will be the fields that are written back to ACT when you click on ‘Write corrected fields to ACT!’ You have the option of setting any of these fields to turquoise to be written into ACT!.

Using T3 Auto-Address

Click on the ‘Check Address’ button on the T3 Auto-Address tab and after a couple of seconds, the the corrected address will be displayed on the screen. All of the fields that were returned by the service will be displayed. But only the fields that are turquoise will be written back to the ACT database.

If you want to keep the changes click on the ‘Write corrected fields to ACT!’ and only the fields that are turquoise will be written back to the ACT database.

T3 Auto-Address Fields