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What can anyone tell me about using the Check Digit on the Finder number?

Pamela Hassler

We are evaluating using OCR to process our remittance devices. One requirements is that we provide a check digit on the finder number. Is anyone out there utilizing this in their marketing efforts? I am looking for any pitfalls or things to look out for. If I understand correctly, once you turn on the setting on the Finder # to provide a check digit for all efforts going forward. How does this impact data entry in a Enhanced Revenue Batch, does the check digit need to be included with the Finder#? Any feedback/input is appreciated.

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David Wanless

Dear Pamela,

All our Finder Numbers have check digits. I wasn't even aware (or had forgotten) that you could have a Finder Number which didn't include a check digit, but I presume there's a setting for that! You shouldn't have to do anything special to use the check digit - it's just part of the number.

Kind regards,

David.

Chris Kastner

@Pamela Hassler I seem to recall taht once you turn on the check digit option you can't turn it off.

It does add a number to the end of the finder numbers that's calculated based on the preceding numbers… effectively this means that when manually entering the numbers there's only a 10% chance that a typo will result in a valid number.