Address Validation API for Europe

Invalid addresses can lead to costly mistakes such as delayed shipments, missed deliveries, and incorrect pricing. Address verification helps avoid these errors by checking and correcting addresses before they are used in business processes. For example, it can identify whether an address is a commercial or residential property to improve shipping and billing operations. It can also validate the format of an address to ensure that it conforms to the standards set by the Postal Service for mailing and addressing.

Using an API to verify addresses improves user experiences at account signup and checkout, reduces costs, and eliminates the need for users to submit proof of residence documentation such as utility bills or lease agreements. It can also improve the accuracy of courtesy rate quotes and reduce delivery failures. In addition, the API can identify individual address components and return them with an accuracy confirmation level as well as provide other important metadata such as Plus Code, geocode, and place identifier. It can even discriminate between commercial and residential addresses in certain geographies.

The API can check addresses for the most common issues, including spelling errors, mismatched or duplicated data, and missing information. It can also standardize global addresses for mailing, ensuring that the data is in a format acceptable to postal service providers. It can also identify the best known latitude and longitude coordinates for an address. This information can be used in location-based applications, such as GIS and mapping software.