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API Validation - Shipping Address
API Validation - Shipping Address

Learn how to connect your custom-built ecommerce site to Address Guard

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Written by Ryan Haidinger
Updated over 4 months ago

Overview

This guide will help you validate the customer's address during their online order or form submission individually via our API service. Our service will indicate if an address suggestion exists, any RDI underlying information and related rules to the type of address.

Our API service supports the same list of countries that our eCommerce integrations support (240+ countries), for a full list please review our support guide.

To access our API documentation, please click here


Base URL

Body

There are various parameters allowed within the request Body:

  • order_id - this is optional, but recommended if you're validating an eCommerce based order.

  • customer_name - this is optional, but helpful for post-validation follow up.

  • customer_email - this is optional, but helpful for post-validation follow up.

  • address_line_1

  • address_line_2

  • city

  • state

  • postal_code

  • country

Responses

Based on the address provided, our API will respond with a series of results including an in-depth overview of the address details and relevant information to help your brand reduce carrier & redelivery fees from invalid shipping addresses. The below table provides a description of each of these values:

Name

Example

Description

Validation Code

1000

Internal value related to the validation text.

Validation Text

The provided address is valid

Detailed description of the related validation code.

RDI

residential

The type of address, such as residential or commercial. Available for US & CA only.

Rules

missing_house_number

Detailed breakdown of any related issues to the address or the type of address, such as a PO Box.

Address Suggestion

postal_code: 95054-1770

If the postal authority recommends an updated address, such as an updated postal code the full address suggestion will be shown.


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