# People Business Search

## People Business Search Overview ##
Search, verify and correct consumer and business data across millions of records through powerful People Business Search API.

People Business Search can be used to:
- Search for individuals and businesses across the US.
- Perform searches with partial/limited information on the address, name or company to correct records that would otherwise be unresolvable.
- Locate individuals for billing purposes, such as tracking down people who have skipped out on their bills.
- Validate policyholder addresses before issuing policies, to reduce the risk of fraud and errors.
- Find potential customers by targeting your marketing campaigns to specific locations.
- Retrieve contact phone information for an individual or business.

**Documentation**
- [People Business Search Documentation](https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/people-business-search/people-business-search-index.html)

**Useful Resources**
- [GitHub - People Business Search Open API Specification](https://github.com/MelissaData/MelissaCloudAPI-OpenAPI-Specification/blob/main/openapi/apis/people-business-search.yaml)
- [Release notes](https://releasenotes.melissa.com/cloud-api/people-business-search/)
- [Result codes](https://docs.melissa.com/cloud-api/people-business-search/result-codes.html)

**Product Page**

[https://www.melissa.com/en-in/people-search](https://www.melissa.com/en-in/people-search)

**Support Center**

[https://www.melissa.com/company/product-support](https://www.melissa.com/company/product-support)



## Servers

Contact Search Server
```
https://search.melissadata.net/V5/WEB/contactsearch
```

## Download OpenAPI description

[People Business Search](https://developer.melissa.com/_bundle/apis/people-business-search.yaml)

## Contact Search

Use Contact Search endpoint to search for an individual or business name.

### Search for a contact

 - [GET /docontactSearch](https://developer.melissa.com/apis/people-business-search/contact-search/docontactsearchget.md): The service requires at least one of the following input combinations:

Set A - a1, loc, adminarea, postal

Set B - phone

Set C - full / last / anyname / comp, adminarea

Set C - full / last / anyname / comp, postal

### Search contacts

 - [POST /docontactSearch](https://developer.melissa.com/apis/people-business-search/contact-search/docontactsearchpost.md): Submit a batch request to search business contacts.

The service requires at least one of the following input combinations:

Set A - addressline1, locality, administrativearea, postalcode

Set B - phonenumber

Set C - fullname / lastname / anyname / companyname, administrativearea

Set C - fullname / lastname / anyname / companyname, postalcode