CASS, NCOA & Presort Hot Folder Automation
Your client uploaded a file. Now what? In an automated shop, the answer is nothing. The file is cleaned, updated, presorted and personalized before anyone opens it.
From FTP to press, hands-free
With file flow automation, we trigger the complete processing of files placed in FTP or network hot folders, straight through to printing presses, with full CASS, NCOA, presorting and personalization along the way.
A typical hot folder workflow we build for a mail shop:
- A client drops a list into their FTP, SFTP or portal folder.
- The file is detected, logged and normalized: headers, field mapping, encoding and duplicates.
- CASS certification standardizes every address and assigns delivery point data.
- NCOA updates records for people and businesses that have moved.
- The list is presorted for the best postage rate, with Intelligent Mail barcodes assigned.
- Personalized, print-ready files are produced and dropped where your press or operator picks them up.
- Reports and the updated list go back to your client automatically.
Address hygiene that never goes stale
Address issues damage response rates. Undeliverable mail wastes postage and print, and an aging database quietly gets worse every month. We automate address verification and NCOA move updates so every mailing starts clean, and so your clients' databases stay in their most accurate, productive state between jobs.
In a world of connected big data, an aging database isn't an option.
Built on the tools your shop already runs
We automate the postal and data software mail shops already rely on, including AccuZIP hot folders, SQL Server, PowerShell and Jetletter PSL Page Builder. You keep your certified software and your workflow. We remove the clicking.
If a step can be scripted, it can be scheduled, triggered or chained to the next step: CASS, NCOA, presort, merge, output and delivery of the files.
Who it's for
- Mail shops processing many small client lists every week
- Lettershops that want to stop re-keying the same job setup
- Printers adding data services without adding data staff
- Agencies that need clean, updated lists before every drop