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Integrated CASS, NCOA, DSF2, Deduping, and Presort equals more RECURRING REVENUE!  Your clients are asking for it, we have to tools to make it happen!

What is it? A simple way of improving your clients work flow by integrating data hygiene and mail preparation services in your hosted CRM, web to print, VDP, or direct mail solution.

Who’s it for? Vendors of hosted CRM, web to print, VDP and direct mail solution providers, however, certain components of TEC Mailing’s family of services can be distributed dependent on need to a variety of organizations that have a need for updated contact information or those who may utilize direct mail.

Business use case: An increased demand for data hygiene and mail preparation software has resulted in a 50% increase in sales from 2009 to 2010 according to Quick Printing Magazine. What’s more, the integration of these services allows you to deliver on the promise of improved profitably and efficiency through enhanced workflow because the consumption occurs within your hosted environment. In addition to recurring revenue, your organization will have a competitive advantage having these features available in one unified platform.

A better way of achieving the results your clients demand: Consider the nature of how your client base currently perform mandatory data hygiene and mail preparation tasks with legacy based desk top software. Constant updates and maintenance, cumbersome user interfaces, increased operational and capitol expenses, and disrupted work flow, are a few of the outcomes of today’s systems. Browser based accessibility is clearly a superior method of delivering these functions and solve nearly every challenge present in legacy based software solution. Nearly every industry that depends on service bureaus has abandoned desktop software and for good reason. We invite you to participate in the inevitable future of hosted data hygiene and mail preparation solutions. Consumption of these services fundamentally changes due to the distributed nature of hosted solutions, and allows your organization to maximize your average revenue per client.

How we work with partners: At it’s heart, TEC Mailing Solutions is a technology play and provides the infrastructure that allows your organization to provide robust, hosted, data hygiene and direct mail preparation functionalities. The service can be branded and resold or simply referred; you choose your level of involvement and depth of integration. Our API is battle tested, well documented and ready for your implementation team.



How does it work?  The TEC Mailing Solutions Web Service API is an Application Programming Interface, which allows you to connect your application with TEC Mailing Solutions’ web interfaces. Using the Web Service API, you can seamlessly process address files through a number of services directly in your application.

The TEC Mailing Solutions Web Service API is a SOAP-based web service. Some of the advantages of offering integration using a web service include:

  • Platform independence — Any application that can send and receive SOAP messages can communicate with the Web Service API. Because the Web Service API is built using open standards, you can choose any technology that suits your needs (e.g. J2EE, .NET, PHP, ASP, etc.) for integrating with the TEC Mailing Solutions Web Service API.

  • Ease of integration — Communicating with a web service is simple. Your application builds a SOAP request message encoding your transaction, sends it via HTTPS to the web service, and waits for a SOAP response message, which contains your transaction’s status. Since SOAP and HTTPS are designed to be lightweight protocols, building requests and parsing responses is a straightforward. Furthermore, rarely do you have to do this manually, since there are a number of libraries available in almost every technology. In general, building a SOAP request and handling the response is reduced to a few lines of code.

  • Security — All communication between your application and TEC Mailing Solutions Web Service API is SSL-encrypted. Your application has a client certificate, which identifies it uniquely with the web service. The Web Service API holds a server certificate, which your application checks to ensure that it is communicating with the Web Service API. The Web Service also requires HTTP basic authorization (user name and password) in order to communicate with the web service. These security mechanisms guarantee that the transaction data sent to TEC Mailing Solutions Web Service API stays private and is available only to your application.

Some great ideas for integrating TEC’s web services are web-to-print solutions, subscription\circulation management tools, CRM applications, etc... The current Web Services supports CASS, NCOALink (18 and 48 Month), DSF2, Merge/Purge (deduping), Presort (Including IMB and Mail.dat generation), and Mail Piece Tracking.

If you have any further questions about our web services and\or API, please call us toll free at 866-379-9437 or send us an email at info@tecmailing.com


For more detailed information on TEC Mailing Solutions' Integrated Products
Integrated Web Services Overview