Customer success stories

Here are some case studies from a selection of our customers. All of them have implemented Postcode Anywhere services into their websites or desktop applications in order to drive business efficiency and bring a significant return on investment.

You can also view our reseller case studies page, which takes a look at some of our Postcode Anywhere partners, all of whom have successfully passed on the benefits of Postcode Anywhere products to their customers.

England Hockey Board

England Hockey Board use the Postcode Anywhere desktop application.

EHB uses Postcode Anywhere with internal database software because of its ease of use and effortless, cost-free integration. "Once people start using Postcode Anywhere they never want to go back."

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Newhall Publications - Candis magazine

Newhall Publications use Postcode Anywhere and Payment Validation from Postcode Anywhere.

"Before using Postcode Anywhere, a member of the admin team would spend a minimum of ten hours per week correcting data manually. The consolidation of the two services has also saved us £1,500 in licence fees, making an overall yearly saving of £9,600."

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Coriolis

Coriolis use Postcode Anywhere, Postcode Anywhere International, and Payment Validation.

"We’re extremely pleased with the Postcode Anywhere service. Previously we would have had to purchase a PAF license from the Post Office, and then somehow obtain similar data from other postal regions around the world, which would have been far too expensive."

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Comic Relief

Red Nose Day 2007- Comic Relief used Geocoding from Postcode Anywhere.

Comic Relief needed a way to to add location data to thousands of fundraising events registered across the UK, through the Artez Interactive-powered online fundraising system at www.rednoseday.com. "With the help of Postcode Anywhere our fundraising event registration system took on a new lease of life. Brilliant results!"

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ThinkBDW

ThinkBDW use Postcode Anywhere and Customer Profiling from Postcode Anywhere.

"We found in some circumstances we were actually targeting the wrong area and the wrong people... Postcode Anywhere’s demographic profiling stops us putting thousands of pounds into a campaign and getting nothing back. The money saved can be pretty big."

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Fiat

Fiat uses Postcode Anywhere.

"Capturing clean and accurate address data from Fiat Consumer Services customers at the point of entry plays an important function as information for credit checks and finance agreements is highly sensitive and it's imperative that correspondence is delivered directly to the addressee."

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Virgin holidays

Virgin Holidays use Postcode Anywhere.

Virgin Holidays needed to ensure that customer address details are accurate at the point of entry - expediting the booking process as well as capturing clean data for further proactive marketing activity. "The Postcode Anywhere integration has enabled us to make our online booking process quicker and easier for our customers."

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Blue Peter

Blue Peter's ShoeBiz Appeal for UNICEF used Store Finder and Government Areas from Postcode Anywhere.

By implementing Store Finder from Postcode Anywhere, donors were able to click on the BBC's link to the Blue Peter Shoe Biz Appeal and by keying in their postcode would be immediately signposted to the nearest shoe collection point to where they live. UNICEF also uses Government Areas from Postcode Anywhere to enable real-time lobbying.

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ScooterMAN

ScooterMAN use Geocoding from Postcode Anywhere.

ScooterMAN needed to locate customers quickly and calculate mileage to give customers a consistent quote at the point of enquiry. "Postcode Anywhere's solution really does integrate seamlessly. The guys at Postcode Anywhere have been extremely helpful and as a small customer we feel we've received big customer service in terms of their time investment."

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Honeywell International

BW Technologies (Honeywell International) use Postcode Anywhere International.

"With 240 countries in the world, over 120 different address formats and more than 30 separate language scripts across 6,000 different languages, not having to manage this information is one less headache for the staff at BW Technologies. It has the intelligence to read characters and linguistic denotations such as the German umlaut and the French grave, for example."

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Traveltek

Traveltek uses Postcode Anywhere and Payment Validation from Postcode Anywhere.

"With the advent of dot.com competition the travel sector is very much consumer-led, which means that airlines, tour operators, travel agents and other affinity sectors are constantly challenged to deliver competitive prices without compromising quality. Automation and technological optimisation to improve efficiency and reduce operational costs is therefore crucial."

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OneBill Telecom

OneBill Telecom (YourCalls.net) use Postcode Anywhere and Payment Validation from Postcode Anywhere.

"A totally automated business model that delivers an efficient online, user-friendly service is not easy to achieve, but when it works successfully, it’s glorious. Forgive the pun, but in my opinion Postcode Anywhere is streets ahead of other data capture vendors."

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Clark & Taylor

Clark & Taylor use Postcode Anywhere International.

"Postcode Anywhere’s plug-in solution took minutes to deploy through the salesforce.com platform and integrated easily with the client’s legacy system and other data sets, if required, can also be added easily."

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Dow Jones

Dow Jones uses Postcode Anywhere International.

"We needed to capture accurate address data for the effective deployment of our customer hub (salesforce.com CRM system) for subscription billing information. With offices in Asia, Europe, North and South America our requirement was for an address validation solution that had the ability to populate addresses over a wide range of international territories and formats."

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Career Academies UK

Career Academies UK uses Postcode Anywhere and Payment Validation from Postcode Anywhere.

"With the advent of dot.com competition the travel sector is very much consumer-led, which means that airlines, tour operators, travel agents and other affinity sectors are constantly challenged to deliver competitive prices without compromising quality. Automation and technological optimisation to improve efficiency and reduce operational costs is therefore crucial."

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Signature Balloons

Signature Balloons use Postcode Anywhere.

"We wanted to offer our customers a simple, speedy and efficient checkout process. One of our criteria was for our customers to not have to enter their full address. Postcode Anywhere provided us with the best option for this and at a good price."

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Pizza Hut

Adactus provide Pizza Hut and Wagamama with Store Finder from Postcode Anywhere.

"When discussing customer needs, address verification and store locators are standard features you expect to see. We need to meet their needs in an affordable and reliable way – and we can’t afford to get it wrong.

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LSC

The Learning & Skills Council used a custom solution from Postcode Anywhere.

Postcode Anywhere was asked to provide prototype functionality to enable users of the Learner Registration Service to generate a Unique Learner Number (ULN) with provision for securely recording personal data such as name, date of birth and address details, for identification and traceability purposes.

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Graze.com

Graze.com uses Postcode Anywhere.

"Postcode Anywhere is seamless, it’s easy to customise, and using the sample code it took a few seconds to be up and running. Once it was set up, all we’ve had to do is sit back and let you guys get on with it."

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