Email and Phone Validation

Enhance the quality of your Email and Phone data through comprehensive validation, minimizing errors and ensuring reliable information.

Introduction

To perform email and phone validation we will use Pluggable Data Processing(PDP) modules effectively leveraging the Loqate Harmony APIs.

PDP for EMAIL: HostedEmailValidation

PDP for PHONE: HostedPhoneValidation

Email Validation

To complete email validation, HostedEmailValidation PDP can be chained within email data model to achieve a specific data cleansing exercise.

Performs a full mailbox validation on the supplied email address.

Email Validation works GLOBALLY, however, Harmony Suite requires Default Locale to be selected.

This service calls Loqate Harmony APIs Email Validation see API Specification.

Phone Validation

To complete phone validation, HostedPhoneValidation PDP can be chained within phone data model to achieve a specific data cleansing exercise.

Performs Phone Validation for Australian, New_Zealand and international numbers.

Phone Validation works GLOBALLY, however, Harmony Suite requires Default Locale to be selected.

Note: Loqate Phone Validation requires precise international number format (ITU E.123), which includes prefix plus '+' followed by country code eg '+##'.

This service calls Loqate Harmony APIs Phone Validation see API Specification.

Prerequisites:

A comprehensive guide that signifies the essential requirements that needs to be met to access Email or Phone Validation.

Prerequisites

Configurations for Phone and Email Validation:

This section provides insights into configuring the Phone Validation and Email Validation PDP setup using Harmony Management Console.

Phone and Email PDP Configuration Setup

Using Phone Validation

After completing the necessary Prerequisites and configurations for PDPS provided in Phone and Email PDP Configuration Setup, the system is prepared for phone and email validation runs through both Harmony Batch System and Harmony WS.

1. Alignment of Default Locale and 'hosted.defaultCountry' for Phone Validation Users

Phone validation users are advised to synchronize the 'Locale' parameter set in Harmony Batch System or Harmony Webservices with the hosted.defaultCountry configuration. This alignment ensures seamless operation. The 'hosted.defaultCountry' parameter defines the default country for validation.

Any numbers that do not have country codes will be set to the Default Locale.

For instance, when users perform phone validation with Australia as the default country:

Locale: AUSTRALIA

hosted.defaultCountry: AU.

Numbers from non-Australian countries/locale will still be processed if they contain country codes prefix eg '+##'.

Similarly, for users conducting phone validation with New Zealand as the default country:

Locale: NEW ZEALAND

hosted.defaultCountry: NZ.

Numbers from non-Australian countries/locale will still be processed if they contain country codes prefix eg '+##'.

This alignment ensures accurate validation processes according to the specified country settings. For further clarification on 'hosted.defaultCountry', please refer details provided in Default Country for Phone Validation.

2. Guidance on Reviewing guides

It is advisable to review the Guides section, which provides explanations on phone validation and email validation enriched information. Prioritizing this section before examining the detailed sample illustrations in the following pages is recommended.

Refer Phone Validation using Harmony Batch System /Email Validation using Harmony Batch for an illustration of sample batch run.

Refer Phone Validation using Harmony WS/Email Validation using Harmony WS for an illustration of sample webservice calls.