How real-time phone verification works
Customer phone numbers are an essential tool for marketing, sales, and customer service. From text message marketing to customer service follow-ups, you need the correct phone number to make a connection. Real-time phone number validation helps you make sure you’re getting accurate, updated customer phone information before it even enters your database.
Typos and incorrect formatting can ruin the phone numbers you collect, so make sure you’re getting a customer’s real number from the start with phone verification.
- Collect real, accurate phone numbers for customers online, over the phone, or in your store
- Easy, pre-built software integrations can be used in almost any application
- Dig into details like phone type, country code, and operating network
Try Experian’s phone verification tool
See how Experian’s real-time phone API works. Get started by typing a phone number you want to validate in the box below. You’ll get all the data you need—from phone type to operating network.
Phone append
Do you have email and postal address information for your customers but lack phone data? You don’t have to ask each contact for their phone number. Experian’s phone append services help cross-reference your existing data with third-party databases. Our software looks for matching name, email, and postal address data to add phone numbers to your contact list.
Bulk phone validator
Your existing phone data might be inaccurate. Checking each number manually might take hours or even days. Verifying numbers in bulk automates the process of checking and correcting phone data. Experian’s bulk phone validator verifies numbers on your contact lists in just seconds.
Full feature set
- Reach customers around the globe with phone validation for both domestic and international numbers.
- Implement real-time phone verification on your website, point-of-sale software, or call center database software with easy-to-use integrations.
- Make sure customer phone numbers are genuine and accurate before they enter your contact records.
- Validate numbers instantly—Experian’s powerful software cuts down on processing times.
- Learn whether a phone number is mobile or landline to perfect your marketing and stay in compliance with telemarketing regulations.
- Do more than validate—get information on phone type, country of origin, operating network, and more.
Make real-time phone number validation part of your data quality strategy
Real-time phone verification replaces manual validation processes with systems that automatically check and verify numbers. See how it works with Experian’s free phone number lookup tool, which lets you check 10 numbers per day.
Adding real-time phone data validation makes your data quality strategy stronger. Get in touch with Experian’s data quality experts to see how phone number validation can improve your data quality.
