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What is global address autocomplete - A comprehensive guide
Explore how global address autocomplete technology can reduce cart abandonment, increase customer satisfaction, and transform your business operations worldwide. Address autocomplete reduces the number of keystrokes required to give users a streamlined experience, reduces form friction and fatigue, and decreases time spent filling out forms. That has a nice side perk of also decreasing the likelihood of errors cropping up in your data.
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Global address autocomplete fundamentals
To fully understand global address autocomplete, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with a few definitions. For an even deeper understanding, click the definition links.
Address autocomplete - Address Autocomplete is a form feature that enhances the checkout and form-filling process by automatically suggesting street addresses as users type in an address field by using an address autocomplete API. The API retrieves standardized and validated addresses, which are displayed in a drop-down menu for the user.
As users continue to type, their address suggestions dynamically narrow down to the most relevant options based on various parameters you can configure, such as IP address, state, and city. When a user's address appears, they can select it from the drop-down, and the address fields are automatically populated with the correct and validated information.
Implementing this functionality in your processes can significantly reduce customers' time filling out forms and checking out by minimizing the number of keystrokes needed to complete them. Additionally, it helps prevent typos, misspellings, and incomplete addresses at the point of entry.
As users continue to type, their address suggestions dynamically narrow down to the most relevant options based on various parameters you can configure, such as IP address, state, and city. When a user's address appears, they can select it from the drop-down, and the address fields are automatically populated with the correct and validated information.
Implementing this functionality in your processes can significantly reduce customers' time filling out forms and checking out by minimizing the number of keystrokes needed to complete them. Additionally, it helps prevent typos, misspellings, and incomplete addresses at the point of entry.
Address APIs - An Application Programming Interface (API) that processes, changes, or manipulates addresses to make address data more accurate, useful, standard, complete, or valid (real) in real time.
Address Line 2 - A text field on an address form that prompts the user to input their secondary address information when applicable, such as suite numbers, apartment numbers, PO Boxes, etc. A good autocomplete street address tool will include secondary indicators in the valid address prompts it provides to the user.
Address verification/validation - Address verification (also known as validation) is the process of checking that an address is real and deliverable by checking it against an authoritative database source, such as the USPS or other third-party services. If any of the address information is incorrect, verification will fix typos and include missing information (such as a secondary unit number).
API - Short for “Application Programming Interface,” an API is a set of programmatic instructions that allow one program to interface with another or part of another. It’s the tool that helps one program “talk” to another program in real time, and acts as both a contract and translator, setting up the rules for the communication and translating the requests into a common language so that the desired output can be reached.
Bad address data - When incorrect, falsified information and/or out-of-date or improperly standardized address information appears in your database. Bad addresses can come from customers' mistakes, internal user mistakes, computer glitches, street name changes, and many more.
Cart abandonment - When a customer puts items in their cart but leaves your site before completing a purchase. Using a global address autocomplete solution reduces your cart abandonment rate.
Conversions - The act of a customer moving from thinking about a purchase and putting it in their online shopping cart to actually making a purchase. Money can be exchanged for goods and services (e.g., a customer filling out an online form).
Enhanced mode match - Enhanced matching is a mode in Smarty's system that uses additional data and more sophisticated matching algorithms to ensure the highest level of accuracy and completeness in address validation. Through machine learning, this mode goes beyond the standard USPS data to include other reliable data sources, making it capable of validating a broader range of addresses, including non-postals (Non-USPS). Although this is used in address verification tools, it’s listed here because global address autocomplete solutions rely on validated addresses, and it can be helpful to know whether your address data provider is using strict or enhanced matching approaches to provide those addresses.
False positives - A dangerous data form, false positives occur during the validation process when an incorrect or non-existent address matches with an authority dataset without providing an error message or sufficient indication that the address is incomplete or wrong.
IP address - IP addresses (also known as Internet Protocol addresses) are unique labels assigned to every device with internet access. These addresses act as digital IDs to allow devices like phones and computers to communicate with each other and can be used to create more targeted ad campaigns. Autocomplete can use IP addresses to suggest more accurate addresses even more quickly to the user.
Keystroke - Anytime you push a button on your keyboard, that is considered a keystroke.
Non-USPS (non-postal) addresses - Addresses that, while not recognized by the United States Postal Service as valid and real, are still verified by outside sources as deliverable and, therefore, can receive packages from other logistics and shipping companies such as DHL, FedEx, UPS, etc. Some address data providers, like Smarty, provide non-postal and postal addresses in their autocomplete tools.
Real-time - In-the-moment or instantaneous actions happening live.
SDKs (Software Development Kits) - Installable tools or sets/blocks of code that are typically open source and assist developers with building applications on specific platforms or systems with ease.
Secondary address indicators - Indicators that show a more specific area, such as a unit number, suite number, apartment number, etc.
Single address lookup - Verify the validity of an address by checking it against an authoritative source or database to verify its deliverability. Smarty’s verification gives you 55 metadata points with each address.
Standardized addresses - Also known as normalized addresses, standardized addresses have a consistent format recognizable by the local postal authority (like the USPS for Americans or La Poste for the French). Smarty’s global autocomplete tools provide only standardized addresses as suggestions for your users to select, making sure you have the most usable version of an address. Smarty’s global verification tools fix and validate formatting issues with addresses against authoritative databases.
Strict mode match - This is exactly what it sounds like—rigorous validation that follows strict parameters to determine validity of a match. Although this is used in address verification tools, it’s listed here because global address autocomplete solutions rely on validated addresses, and it can be helpful to know whether your address data provider is using strict or enhanced matching approaches to provide those addresses.
Type-ahead prediction - This is another term used to describe address autocomplete. As your customer starts typing, the API is called with each keystroke to provide relevant real-time address predictions. These predictions narrow in specificity with each additional keystroke your user enters into the form. You can see an example of what type-ahead predictions look like here.
USPS addresses - These are addresses that have been verified as real, mailable addresses by the United States Postal Service, one of the main address database authorities in the USA.
VPN - VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. This is a secure service that encrypts your internet traffic while hiding your true IP address. People often set up VPNs while traveling or working in public networks to enhance their security and privacy while browsing or working with sensitive information in an unsecured network.
Address autocomplete tools
You want your customers to have the best online experience with your brand. Investing in address autocomplete software or API is one way to speed up form fills and the checkout process, and boost your ROI. Below are the 2 tools we recommend you implement to make online forms quick and easy for anyone who fills them out.
US Address Autocomplete
US Address Autocomplete gives your USA-based customers a dropdown as they type, showing only valid US addresses for faster checkout, increased conversion rates, enhanced user experiences, and improved fulfillment quality. The default parameters in the API allow dropdown options to populate after the first keystroke. This autocomplete API can easily integrate with your existing forms via the cloud. This tool can be used for customer-facing or internal form operations to streamline your business processes in the most comprehensive and efficient way possible, all while keeping your database full of accurate addresses.
International Address Autocomplete
International Address Autocomplete gives your internationally based—or global—customers (and international teams dealing with internal forms) all the power of validated addresses. After the first keystroke, this cloud-based international autocomplete API begins predicting the user’s address based on their IP address, offering up only validated addresses for them to select. Mastering international address autocomplete has never been so slick.
US Address Autocomplete API tool
US Address Autocomplete API tool—This playground is a full API arena where you can test away. Play around with the parameters and watch autocomplete work right before your beautiful eyes. It’s free to test out, and we won’t even ask for your mother’s maiden name (let alone your email address). Try it out now!
International Address Autocomplete API tool
International Address Autocomplete API tool—Do the same thing you did with one tool above, but in French. Ok, just kidding, it won’t be in French (unless you select French addresses). You can also test multiple international address formats, or use our free trial or a paid subscription to verify international addresses.
Address autocomplete software integrations
Part of a great experience is how smooth (or horrific) it is to integrate with a provider. We make easy-to-implement address autocomplete software APIs with a ton of high-quality documentation. We believe it’s crucial to play well with others, and as a developer-friendly company, you can be up and running in minutes. Here is a list of pre-built or guided integrations with popular software to check out:
Zeroqode and Smarty (Here's another format of Zeroqode if that's more your speed.)
We also have SDKs (Software Development Kits) for autocomplete to make the implementation process even faster. Here’s a list of those for you to check out:
Java and Smarty Oh, and here’s a nifty JavaScript SDK tutorial for you to look at for this one!
.NET and Smarty (check out .NET/CLI language!, too)
JavaScript and Smarty (Android development)
In case reading’s not your thing, here are some videos
If you’re strapped for time, we’ve got you covered. Watch autocomplete videos! Here’s a list of our most useful tutorials, webinars, and videos to get you started on your global address autocomplete journey:
Smarty’s address autocomplete solutions pricing page
Find the perfect fit for your autocomplete needs from our popular subscriptions (without talking to a human), or contact us to create a custom plan (we can’t wait to talk with you!).
How global address autocomplete works
Global address autocomplete tools work similarly to the US address autocomplete ones you just read about, but on a worldwide scale. After selecting the country, as a user types, the validated address suggestions populate and narrow down further with each keystroke.
We created a webinar to show you how you can master your international autocomplete game.
The steps for setting up autocomplete
Using autocomplete is simple! Follow these 5 steps to ensure your autocomplete experience is the best one possible:
Select your area: US addresses only or International addresses? Choose the one that fits your industry and customer base best.
Install the autocomplete code (form): The autocomplete code will need to be installed on your form.
Install the API on your page: Hopefully, you know how to do this. If not, support is here to help you with any questions you may have.
Configure your parameters: Need only addresses in Utah (or anywhere else) to populate? Set the parameter up! Want the number of suggestions that appear to be fewer than 10? The world is your oyster.
Enjoy a cleaner database: Reap the rewards of having only valid addresses suggested to your users, ROI through boosted conversions, improved user interface, and streamlined internal operations.
The experience for the user is also super simple and goes like this:
Type in your address: Only verified and accurate addresses will appear after 1 keystroke if you’re using Smarty’s autocomplete tools. 😘 We even offer you access to over 20 million non-USPS/non-postal addresses for the most comprehensive address autocomplete solution available on the market.
Select the correct address: US-based or internationally-based addresses populate in the drop-down suggestions (depending on the style you selected in the “You do” section, step 1). Users pick the right one. Most customers find their address within 5 keystrokes.
Receive the correct format: Standardized and validated data output is now here to stay, keeping your database clean by providing your customers with only verified and standardized addresses to choose from.
Benefits of using address autocomplete software
Whether you're a retailer trying to boost checkout conversions, a logistics team fighting failed deliveries, or a B2B creating an effective customer onboarding process, autocomplete is the secret weapon you didn’t know you needed.
By implementing a cost-effective and straightforward integration like global address autocomplete solutions, you’ll benefit from:
1 Keystroke before type-ahead suggestions start.
210 million+ verified US addresses (20 million of these are non-USPS/non-postals)
56 million addresses with apt, suite, floor #, etc.
Your customers hit the “Place Order” button at record speeds by finding their correct address in a dropdown after as little as 1 keystroke.
Local addresses (based on a customer’s IP address or other business-set parameters, such as only suggesting addresses in your serviceable areas, etc.) appear first in the dropdown results, speeding up the checkout process even more.
Only verified USA addresses formatted to USPS guidelines are suggested to your customers, so you know your data is always accurate.
Slash shipping, returns, and customer service costs by sending mail, packages, and people to the correct international or USA address the first time.
Streamline user input time and effort, reducing friction at checkout and boosting conversion rates. Depending on your form's structure, this can be done in a single line or parsed out into address parts.
Lower cart abandonment rates by minimizing shopper fatigue.
Eliminate typographical errors (misspellings, typos, etc) from your database.
Improve operational efficiency.
Reduce returned packages and the associated costs.
Providing accurate shipping estimates.
Gaining and retaining customer loyalty.
Standardized addresses to the local postal authority format for the most streamlined global experience.
Validate and verify that an address is accurate and mailable.
Enhanced address data quality by limiting invalid entries and reducing the risk of dealing with fraudsters.
Bonus points: You also avoid the curse of the wrong address. OOOOH. Spookiness.
What can address autocomplete be used for?
Different industries use address autocomplete in unique ways—and see big wins from it. We’ve broken down the benefits by industry, so scroll to find your perfect match. See how global or US address autocomplete can help you—and dodge the 5 hidden costs of not using address autocomplete.
Retail/ecommerce specific
You’ve probably used address autocomplete while shopping online—it’s that magic moment when you start typing and your full address just appears. Super handy, right? But not all autocomplete tools are created equal. That popular version might be silently draining the company budget, while a smarter solution could actually save you money.
Want to level up? Check out our best practices for ecommerce autocomplete or dive into our handy ecommerce checkout guide to get started.
With autocomplete:
Customer onboarding is so much quicker for your users who enter address data manually (especially for your mobile users) and for your internal teams who may not know how to spell various street names or could fat-finger an invalid number.
Faster, hassle-free checkout is possible as autocomplete removes friction for anyone dealing with your forms, especially if they live on GEN DE WIT HA Lane. It’s one less step to block customers from purchasing and one way to keep them coming back for more.
Bad data is blocked from the start as customers are dissuaded from entering the wrong address and encouraged to select only valid addresses from the populated drop-down options.
Cart and form abandonment issues shrink (because who likes filling out long forms anyway, especially our mobile users?)
Failed deliveries and extra shipping costs diminish to almost nothing because only valid addresses are shown in the drop-down menu. You’re sure to taste success.
You can say bye-bye to typos and missing apartment numbers (secondary indicators). These mistakes are corrected so your database quality (and the marketing decisions you make based on that info) are always up to snuff.
With autocomplete + address verification:
Your entire database gets cleaned. Autocomplete stops bad addresses at the door, but what about the ones already inside your database? And what about bad address data from people who ignore the autocomplete suggestions and get it wrong? That’s where address verification comes in—scrubbing your existing records to ensure every address is accurate, mailable, and squeaky clean. You always have the most up-to-date data. Because addresses change over time, it’s smart to run your entire database through address verification on a regular basis to catch updates and keep everything current.
Your addresses get enriched with valuable data. Every address you verify gets enhanced with up to 55 data points, adding valuable metadata that boosts data quality. This includes ZIP+4 geocodes (rooftop accuracy also available), ZIP+4 codes, RDI status, county FIPS codes, and the persistent SmartyKey® to spot duplicates and unify datasets.
With autocomplete + verification + rooftop geocoding:
You get the most powerful results. Autocomplete cuts down on input errors and saves time. Verification ensures that what’s submitted is actually valid. And geocoding turns that clean address into a precise physical location.
Mapping solutions are bolstered with the most accurate and valid addresses from address autocomplete and verification, and boosted by a geocode pin that lands right on the structure's roof. Using these products together makes life a whole lot easier for delivery drivers. Instead of arriving at the wrong house or circling a block trying to find an unmarked building, they know exactly where to go—on the first attempt.
You’ll have faster deliveries, fewer missed packages, and less time wasted. This precision can significantly boost same-day and next-day delivery success rates, especially in dense urban areas or tricky rural locations.
Precision for drones, self-driving delivery bots, and other high-tech drop-off methods. Autonomous systems need pinpoint accuracy to operate safely and efficiently, so rooftop-level geocoding is a must. These systems can’t interpret vague directions like “third house on the left” or “next to the gas station.” They need exact coordinates. With the trifecta of autocomplete, verification, and geocoding, businesses can future-proof their delivery infrastructure to support these next-gen tools, no matter how futuristic things get.
Have smoother checkouts. Autocomplete reduces the number of fields a customer has to fill out, making it easier to complete a purchase. Fewer errors mean fewer failed orders, fewer returns, and less time spent on customer service.
Reduce the need for post-order address corrections, and rooftop geocoding ensures deliveries arrive exactly where they’re supposed to—no calls, no confusion. According to Shopify, streamlining your checkout process can increase conversions by up to 35%.
Zero-keystroke autocomplete when you combine the powers of reverse geocoding (where you give us the lat/long coordinates and we give you an address) with your autocomplete and verification tools, making it even easier for customers who have location-sharing enabled to click “BUY NOW.”
Healthcare specific
Healthcare forms can be long and cumbersome for just your patients, sure, but think of how burnt out your staff must be from filling these forms out on repeat for the rest of their careers! Address autocomplete, and other address tools can save anyone dealing with lengthy healthcare forms the headache, and there are also some other surprising benefits to reap as well.
With autocomplete:
Patients can book appointments more easily and faster without as many mistakes.
You’ll ingest only clean, accurate addresses in your database. You’ll send prescriptions, medical supplies, and bills to the right place the first time, avoiding costly returned mail and poor patient experience.
With autocomplete + address verification:
You’ll clean your entire database and keep it current for optimal communications. Addresses change more often than you'd think, so regularly verifying your database ensures updates are applied and your communications, bills, and statements always reach the right place.
With autocomplete + address verification + rooftop geocoding:
Home healthcare providers find patients easily by navigating to the right spot the first time. The geocoded pin lands right on the roof of the home they’re supposed to be visiting.
Telemedicine services are more precise when qualifying serviceable areas are boosted with the power of all of these address data tools.
Reporting is razor-sharp with rooftop-accurate geocodes, giving you the highest level of geolocation precision for top-tier epidemiology and public health reporting.
Want more ways that address data tools can boost your healthcare operations? Check out the guide: 13 costly address data mistakes in healthcare you can’t afford to ignore (and how to fix them).
Telecom specific | Field service
Whether you're planning infrastructure expansion, optimizing serviceability checks, or ensuring accurate customer installations, bad address data leads to delays, costly errors, and unhappy customers. Smarty’s address data solutions help telecom and field service companies ensure that optimized network planning and service deployment happen with precision.
With autocomplete:
Customers can check service availability in seconds, and they’ll always get the right answer on whether or not they qualify for specific deals or programs because their address will always be right.
Sign-ups with bad or incomplete addresses can be blocked from ever entering your systems.
Customer service headaches from address-related errors disappear. No more missing service appointments due to bad address data. No more angry customers who thought they qualified for service but actually did not.
With autocomplete + address verification:
Addresses are confirmed before scheduling installations, cutting down your truck roll costs.
You can distinguish between homes and multi-unit buildings or businesses by looking at the metadata provided on an address, especially by analyzing the RDI (residential delivery indicator) field.
More accurate fiber expansion plans can be built to serve real locations instead of estimated ones from the ZIP Code.
With autocomplete + address verification + rooftop geocoding:
More efficient fiber rollouts are possible with pinpoint accuracy becoming the backbone of your standardized, deduplicated address data tech stack.
Gain access to optimized technician routes for faster installations and the ability to serve more customers in a day. Powering your routing software with Smarty’s address precision helps smooth out the bumps.
You get improved customer service experiences (for your customers and your internal teams) by accurately identifying serviceable locations the first time.
Financial services & banking
Whether you're expanding branch locations, verifying customer addresses for compliance, or streamlining loan approvals, accurate address data is key to efficiency and security. With Smarty’s address solutions, financial institutions can seriously increase their competitive edge. Precise address data means fewer errors, faster transactions, and stronger regulatory compliance, helping banks and financial services operate confidently and accurately.
With autocomplete:
Online application speed increases for loans and credit cards. Fewer keystrokes are required for your user to find and select their address's correct, validated, and standardized version. Some find it in as little as 1 keystroke, and most find it in 5.
Billing errors are significantly reduced because only valid addresses are suggested to your users. This means that your organization isn’t wasting time, resources, or mental energy tracking down bills that went to the wrong place (or got returned to you a few days after you sent them).
Fraud prevention is more possible than before because synthetic profiles can’t link to invalid or incomplete addresses.
With autocomplete + address verification:
Your business remains compliant with KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) regulations.
Identity theft risk significantly decreases as you have a historical record (SmartyKey®) of the address and any aliases or changes it may have gone through.
Important financial mailings are prevented from being delayed, and important reports, statements, or other communications are sent to the right place the first time.
With autocomplete + address verification + rooftop geocoding:
You can assess risk more accurately for home insurance and mortgages by knowing exactly where the address of a property lies, gaining insight into elevation, distance to the coast, etc. Even a 500 ft. difference on a land parcel can make a huge difference in how you assess and manage risk.
Your organization is empowered with precise locations for fraud detection and property valuation.
Real estate investment analysis is significantly enhanced. By understanding distance to coast, elevation, and much more about a property, your investment portfolio can be built with more confidence than ever, and the risk you assume will be minimal.
Shipping logistics & delivery
In shipping and logistics, every mile, minute, and misdelivery impacts efficiency and costs. Ensuring precise address data means fewer delivery failures, optimized routes, and seamless last-mile execution. With Smarty’s address solutions, logistics providers can beat out their competitors because clean and validated address data keeps operations running smoothly and on schedule, from warehouse management to doorstep delivery.
With autocomplete:
Shipping errors are significantly reduced. Form checkout features like autocomplete APIs suggest only valid addresses in their drop-down menu. Say goodbye to not having those secondary indicators needed for accurate and timely delivery. Autocomplete catches those, too, including every unit, apartment, or suite number you need.
Customers find it easier to enter the right delivery address quickly. This reduces your form friction and increases your conversions while eliminating form abandonment.
Fulfillment and warehouse processing speeds increase. Work smarty-er, not harder. If autocomplete is doing the work behind the scenes, you’re making more successful deliveries and, hopefully, more cash, too.
With autocomplete + address verification:
Packages aren’t sent to non-existent locations, especially ones that you delivered to previously but have since changed or been renamed. ZIP Codes and street names can change over time. Address autocomplete will make sure addresses are clean at entry, but verification of your whole database will make sure that those repeat customers will still have the best experience ordering and shipping anything with you. Effective address correction helps you and your customers.
Addresses can be categorized as residential or commercial (RDI) for accurate shipping rates. Never pay more than you need when shipping parcels to an address, and never get stuck with a fee you didn’t know about, either.
Mischief is managed. Your undelivered packages and costly redeliveries decrease significantly when you verify address validity at entry and over time.
You can easily blend third-party data for better business decisions and strategy. A persistent, unique identifier like SmartyKey allows you to mix and match data without the risk of incorrect data being tied to incorrect addresses.
With autocomplete + address verification + rooftop geocoding:
Your company’s mapping service is empowered with the best geocoding data for routing software. Your database contains addresses that are updated, standardized, validated, and geocoded (to rooftop-level accuracy), so any delivery driver can say with confidence that they've delivered something to the correct destination.
Fuel efficiency has never been better. Cut costs by preventing unnecessary detours or neighborhood circling with an accurate geocode that lands the pin right on the roof of the structure the address is tied to, instead of just to the parcel center.
You can offer more precise estimated delivery times, and who doesn’t want that? More accurate predictions from you mean fewer angry calls from anyone wondering where their package is.
Insurance
For insurance and reinsurance agencies, accurate address data is critical for accurate risk assessment, precise policy pricing, and speedier time-to-quote. Knowing the exact location of a specific property, down to the rooftop, helps insurers confidently evaluate exposure to natural disasters, crime, and other hazards. With Smarty’s address solutions, smarter business solutions are possible as carriers can reduce underwriting errors, streamline policy issuance, improve claims accuracy, and boost insurance quote conversion rates.
With autocomplete:
Policy applications are streamlined, and you aren’t wasting precious employee hours trying to enter complicated, lengthy, or commonly misspelled addresses into your database manually.
Accurate customer addresses are added to your database the first time, making your brokers, agents, and claims teams breathe a sigh of relief.
Address-related errors in underwriting go to almost 0 because national and even global address autocomplete can be implemented for your internal use.
With autocomplete + address verification:
Policyholders receive documents at the correct address, even if the address changes over time. Address autocomplete keeps the info coming in clean, valid, and standardized. Address verification keeps the information stored in your systems up to date by incorporating street name changes, ZIP Code changes, and anything else that may have shifted. (Note: It also catches and corrects addresses that may have snuck past your autocomplete with a manual entry).
Disputes caused by incorrect addresses in a claim dissipate. No more playing detective with your invalid addresses and chasing down customers who don’t answer calls from numbers they don’t recognize. No more wasting money and time (and patience!) answering phone calls from angry people wanting to know why their claim was denied.
With autocomplete + address verification + rooftop geocoding:
You can confidently assess flood, wildfire, and disaster risks with pinpoint accuracy. The geocode lands right on the roof of the structure in question, so you have elevation, distance to coast, and a plethora of other data points to analyze for the most accurate risk assessment.
Claim adjusters can find the right locations quickly as your mapping solutions are empowered by the most accurate data with the most accurate geocodes. Never lose an adjuster to bad address data again!
Insurance pricing models are elevated with more precise location data. You can say goodbye to overinsuring and underinsuring properties from the second your global address autocomplete solutions are in place.
Global address autocomplete use cases at Smarty
We’ve shown how various industries might and often do use Smarty’s autocomplete products and tools to grow their businesses. You also probably want to see actual customers who are currently using our products and what they have to say. Most like us so much that they did a case study with us! Below, you can find out how our global autocomplete tools are helping companies just like yours!
Choosing an address lookup autocomplete
When choosing an address lookup autocomplete, you should remain aware of a list of things before fully pulling that trigger. For example, a good address autocomplete API will:
Geolocate your customers to improve address predictions
Provide addresses with secondary unit designators
Handle PO Boxes, APOs, FPOs
Identify alias addresses (and accept or reject them from your database according to your parameters)
Accept alternate city names
Standardize the address (Here’s why that’s important)
Validate the address
Discourage customers from entering fake house numbers by providing only valid ones to choose from
Include non-USPS addresses from authoritative sources
Require the least amount of keystrokes before the correct address appears (hint, that’s 1)
Not require special considerations
Work efficiently with your current product stack
Offer at least a 42-day free trial so you can test drive it before fully committing
Have easy-to-understand pricing