Quickstart

Quickstart#

Introduction#

Personator™ Identity cloud service is a single web service that checks and verifies your client/contact data globally. An individual’s data can easily be verified against trusted reference data.

These data verification points include:

  • Name

  • Address

  • Phone

  • Email

  • Date of Birth

  • National ID

New to Melissa Cloud Services?#

We highly recommend first time users of our web services to review our Using Melissa Cloud APIs section. It will cover critical topics like:

System Requirements#

  • SSL/TLS 1.2+

Getting Started - What Can I Do?#

Determines whether the data within a submitted record is valid, e.g. whether or not a given postal code contains the given city. It can also make limited corrections and appends to the data. Check looks at each data point separately.

/v1/doContactVerify

Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.

  • GET JSON
  • POST JSON
curl -X GET "https://globalpersonator.melissadata.net/v1/doContactVerify?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&act=check\
&comp=Melissa\
&phone=1-800-635-4772\
&email=info@melissa.com\
&a1=22382%20Avenida%20Empresa\
&loc=Rancho%20Santa%20Margarita\
&admarea=CA\
&postal=92688\
&ctry=US" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"

curl -X POST "https://globalpersonator.melissadata.net/v1/doContactVerify" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{
      "TransmissionReference": "Test",
      "CustomerID": "{{customerId}}",
      "Actions": "check",
      "Company": "Melissa",
      "PhoneNumber": "1-800-635-4772",
      "Email": "info@melissa.com",
      "AddressLine1": "22382 Avenida Empresa",
      "Locality": "Rancho Santa Margarita",
      "AdministrativeArea": "CA",
      "PostalCode": "92688",
      "Country": "US"
    }
   '

After the data has been checked, identity verification is performed and result codes (KV*) are returned to indicate what pieces of input data have been matched against trusted referenced data.

/v1/doContactVerify

Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.

  • GET JSON
  • POST JSON
curl -X GET "https://globalpersonator.melissadata.net/v1/doContactVerify?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&act=verify\
&comp=Melissa\
&phone=1-800-635-4772\
&email=info@melissa.com\
&a1=22382%20Avenida%20Empresa\
&loc=Rancho%20Santa%20Margarita\
&admarea=CA\
&postal=92688\
&ctry=US" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"

curl -X POST "https://globalpersonator.melissadata.net/v1/doContactVerify" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{
      "TransmissionReference": "Test",
      "CustomerID": "{{customerId}}",
      "Actions": "verify",
      "Company": "Melissa",
      "PhoneNumber": "1-800-635-4772",
      "Email": "info@melissa.com",
      "AddressLine1": "22382 Avenida Empresa",
      "Locality": "Rancho Santa Margarita",
      "AdministrativeArea": "CA",
      "PostalCode": "92688",
      "Country": "US"
    }
   '

Screens the provided input against various government sanctions and watchlists and returns back a list of matches. For a list of used watchlists, see Personator Identity Watchlists.

/v1/doContactVerify

Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.

  • GET JSON
  • POST JSON
curl -X GET "https://globalpersonator.melissadata.net/v1/doContactVerify?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&act=screen\
&comp=Melissa\
&phone=1-800-635-4772\
&email=info@melissa.com\
&a1=22382%20Avenida%20Empresa\
&loc=Rancho%20Santa%20Margarita\
&admarea=CA\
&postal=92688\
&ctry=US" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"

curl -X POST "https://globalpersonator.melissadata.net/v1/doContactVerify" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{
      "TransmissionReference": "Test",
      "CustomerID": "{{customerId}}",
      "Actions": "screen",
      "Company": "Melissa",
      "PhoneNumber": "1-800-635-4772",
      "Email": "info@melissa.com",
      "AddressLine1": "22382 Avenida Empresa",
      "Locality": "Rancho Santa Margarita",
      "AdministrativeArea": "CA",
      "PostalCode": "92688",
      "Country": "US"
    }
   '
Contents