Capture and validate international addresses from over 60 countries

• Save time and money
• Saves over one minute of typing time – that’s one month’s salary for every 10,000 addresses captured
• Increase data accuracy
• Gets the data right at the point of capture reducing the need to clean it once it’s in your database
• Reduce e-commerce cart abandonment
• Saves frustration by reducing check out time in e-commerce applications by over 30%
• Avoid the cost of missed deliveries
• Helps ensure online orders are delivered first time, every time
• Improve customer service
• Improves trust in your website by creating a more professional feel whilst also giving your customers a more personalised experience

Although the web opens up your shop window to a global audience, it can also cause major headaches because capturing accurate, correctly spelled and formatted address details for international countries is far from straightforward.

Overseas address data is just not the same

Beside the obvious language differences, the situation is further complicated by the fact that there are more than 120 different address formats around the world. How you deal with accents and unfamiliar characters that may not exist on your own keyboard; or address formats, such as for Germany - where the house name or number appears below the street - is a typical issue which you need to get right if you are to avoid offending potential overseas customers.

The key is in the data

At Postcode Anywhere we take a master international address dataset, which is provided by TomTom - the company that supplies the data behind Google maps - and we supplement it with additional, richer, address data from some of the world’s major postal service providers including Royal Mail and USPS (United States Postal Service) to suit your requirements. This gives you maximum choice with simple, cost effective cross-border licensing.

Address look-up in a few clicks

As with all Postcode Anywhere solutions, integration is both fast and easy, with a wide range of options to choose from. These range from our smart form (which works “out-of-the-box” in your e-commerce forms) to web services that you can customise to suit yourself.

Quickly and accurately capture addresses

IP range recognition suggests the correct country address format, while real-time address filtering enables users to find the required address quickly from a large list of possibilities. Postcode Anywhere's standard features make the complexities of international address capture a thing of the past.