Checkpoint
Ensure the accuracy of customer information, ensure deliverability of your mailings and identify potential fraud with Checkpoint from Experian—one of the most accurate and comprehensive authentication tools available.
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Reliable Customer Authentication Tool
Checkpoint is a reliable customer authentication tool that allows you to quickly verify the information of a potential customer, whether it’s a consumer or a business.
Checkpoint verifies the name, address, telephone number and Social Security number for a consumer or the name, address and telephone number of a business.
With Checkpoint, you can:
Help manage risk:
Checkpoint identifies high-risk addresses and telephone numbers.
Improve the effectiveness of your customer mailings and ensure the accuracy of your customer address database:
Checkpoint provides complete address hygiene, standardization and ZIP+4 coding. It also provides change of address information.
Spot potentially fraudulent transactions:
Checkpoint identifies information that does not match the data entered.
Improve application processing:
Checkpoint identifies and indicates correction on name and address entered.
Quickly look up validation information:
Checkpoint has a powerful search engine built into its database and generates summarized or detailed result codes instantly with every inquiry.
The Advantages of Checkpoint
Value-added feature:
To find missing telephone number or validate a new telephone number, you have the option to conduct an electronic search of the Regional Bell Operating Company databases through Electronic Directory Assistance. Updated daily, Electronic Directory Assistance delivers multiple telephone numbers from one request, saving you an average of 50% ion costs for most voice operator services.
An effective solution for a wide range of industries:
Checkpoint is a powerful business tool for any business that needs to verify and ensure the accuracy of customer information, including:
- E-commerce companies
- Credit grantors
- Retail point-of-sale
- Insurance companies
- Telecommunications, energy and cable companies
- Medical institutions
- In bound call centers
Powerful database with information available in seconds:
Checkpoint stores its data sources internally on a powerful core database that resides in a state-of-the-art data center in McKenney, Tx. The database contains information on 150 million households and 25 million businesses. Simply enter the information and instantly, its powerful search engine returns a complete standardized address, appends ZIP+4 coding and searches for matches against over 70 different types of result codes for:
- Address verification
- Telephone verification
- Social Security number verification
- High-risk businesses and telephone numbers
Plus, you can customize Checkpoint reporting to fit your needs. You select which result codes you want highlighted to flag a warning response.
Your choice of convenient access options:
Checkpoint can be accessed in a batch mode, through user-friendly interactive front ends, or online via system-to-system. The outline and interactive access methods are:
- Web
- PC Windows
- Mainframe
- CPU to CPU
- IP to IP
Save time with checkpoint's batch process:
Our batch process is a time-saving access method that delivers in batch mode the verification results within a guaranteed 24-hour turnaround time. You simply send us files through a variety of file transfer methods and we the searching for you.
New access method enhancements:
We are constantly enhancing the methods of access to fit your business needs. Our latest enhancement allows you to pull a credit report or other credit-type products simultaneously with a Checkpoint request. Plus, we are integrating Checkpoint access into other Experian solutions in the coming months.
For crucial information, check with checkpoint first:
Make Checkpoint your first step in verifying and ensuring accurate customer information.