# 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**
- [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://md-developer-portal-staging.redocly.app/_bundle/apis/people-business-search.yaml)

## Contact Search

Use this endpoint to search for an individual or business name.

### Search for a contact

 - [GET /docontactSearch](https://md-developer-portal-staging.redocly.app/apis/people-business-search/contact-search/docontactsearchget.md): Uses HTTP GET to accept one input record and returns the response in JSON format.

### Search for a contact

 - [POST /docontactSearch](https://md-developer-portal-staging.redocly.app/apis/people-business-search/contact-search/docontactsearchpost.md): An HTTP POST is issued with the "ContentType" header specifying the format of the request and the "Accept" header specifying the format of the response.