As well as developing Royal Mail’s UK addresses software since 1998, Allies Computing develops and retails its own range of address lookup and cleaning software, PostCoder. Developer tools are provided to allow integration into Web sites and internal applications as well as being compatible with all Microsoft Office Software. The advantages of using addressing software include:

• Ensuring goods and services are delivered to the correct address first time
• Maintaining a correct postal database for mailing purposes,
• Fast, accurate address collection to save staff and online customers’ time
• Increased business efficiency
• Reduced returned and undelivered mail.

The PostCoder developer tools can be used with all Microsoft development languages. Examples and support for VBA (Acces 97-2003), #C, VB.NET, Visual C++.NET, VB6, Classic ASP (VBScript), ASP.NET and Visual C++6 are all provided. The company’s API Developer solutions can be used with a number of other servers or applications.