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Why address verification is the necessary complement to autocomplete
By John Hickey on April 14, 2025
Address autocomplete is a powerful tool for improving form completions and ensuring users select real, deliverable addresses at entry. However, to maintain long-term data integrity and enhance address-related insights, address verification is a necessary complement. Here’s why:1. Gain up to 55 points of metadata per verified addressAutocomplete provides real-time address suggestions, while address verification appends additional metadata. Address verification enhances each address with up to 55 points of data, such as:ZIP-9 level accuracy geocoordinates (rooftop accuracy also available)ZIP+4 CodesResidential Delivery Indicator (RDI) to identify residential vs.
The API whisperer: How to analyze Smarty's API output like a pro
By Andrew Townsend on December 18, 2024
Smarty's US Street Address API and International Street Address API provide a lot of output. Things like Carrier Route, Congressional District, geocode, eLOT sequence, timezone, and much much more are available with every address check. But there may be points of data that you’re not entirely sure what it means or how to use it. In a recent webinar, we brought Lyle Durland, Head of Support, and Jeffrey Duncan, Technical Product Manager, together to outline some of the more useful points of data, and how to interpret it.
An interview with Smarty’s experts on the new Excel plugin
By Andrew Townsend on September 3, 2024
We had a sit-down with Smarty crew members, Caroline Roweton, Associate Product Manager, and Landon Fackrell, Software Engineer, and delved into Smarty's innovative new Excel plugin. This powerful tool makes address validation easier than ever, allowing users to clean and verify their address data directly within Excel. With a focus on simplicity and efficiency, Caroline and Landon talked about the features and benefits of the plugin, demonstrating how it can save time and enhance data accuracy without any need for coding.
Effortless address validation in Excel: No coding needed
By Andrew Townsend on August 2, 2024
Webinar recap: We recently hosted a webinar that featured a detailed demonstration of our Excel plugin for address validation, showcasing its powerful capabilities. If you use Excel and need to validate addresses, this is for you. Introducing the Excel pluginOur Excel plugin is designed for simplicity and ease of use, allowing users to validate addresses without any coding skills. By highlighting a range of addresses, the plugin batches them, sends them to Smarty, and returns formatted data directly in the spreadsheet.
Address Autocomplete API JavaScript SDK tutorial
By Andrew Townsend on July 24, 2024
Webinar recap: Ready to take your web forms from "meh" to "wow"?In our recent webinar, we gave tips and tricks and demonstrated live coding magic. The essentials of Smarty's address autocomplete APIJavaScript SDK magic made easyIntegrating Smarty’s Address Autocomplete API using our JavaScript SDK is a breeze. Smarty also has SDKs for . NET, Android, Go, iOS, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Rust, making setting up client credentials, building functions, and handling address lookups look like child’s play.
Legal insights for using Smarty™ services
By Gianmarco Rosborough on June 24, 2024
In our recent webinar, Gianmarco Rosborough, Smarty's legal counsel, provided valuable insights on smart practices and legal considerations for using address data. Smarty offers the most accurate and easy-to-implement address intelligence suite, processing billions of addresses daily with a reliable API. This tool helps businesses clean data, lower shipping costs, and enhance user experiences with exceptional support. If your organization works with addresses, it's important for you to be aware of the legal ramifications of storing bad address data.
When to use strict vs enhanced matching in your address API
By Andrew Townsend on May 20, 2024
In our recent webinar, we invited Easton Gibson, one of our US Street API software engineers, to discuss key features of address validation and give insights into the functionalities of both strict and enhanced modes. In this blog, we'll cover:Understanding strict modeIntroduction to enhanced modeFAQ for enhanced modeWebinar about "enhanced mode"Understanding strict modeStrict mode is precisely what it sounds like—it rigorously validates addresses against the official USPS database, ensuring that only fully accurate, postal-verified addresses are accepted.
Dealing with address data from multiple countries
By Andrew Townsend on May 1, 2024
In our recent webinar, we hosted Jeffrey Duncan, our Technical Product Manager, who discussed the complexities and nuances of managing address data across various international formats. While seemingly straightforward, addresses are quite complex, especially when dealing with international data. Jeffrey highlighted the variability in address formats, which can range from the number of address lines to the order of address components, differing significantly from one country to another. For instance, while a US address typically follows a structured format, addresses in countries like Germany or India can have a completely different setup, impacting data entry and management.
Webinar recap - Ensuring you have Project US@ data
By Andrew Townsend on November 21, 2023
Smarty™ recently hosted an enlightening webinar on Project US@, a vital initiative in health information technology. The webinar, led by Wes Arnold, Team Lead of Product Marketing, provided insights into Project US@ and its significant role in patient data management. What is Project US@?Project US@ is led by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in collaboration with HSC and AHIMA. The final version 1. 0 was released on January 7, 2022. The goal? The initiative's main objective is to establish a standard approach for representing patient addresses across all health IT systems.
Smarty® expands US address database to over 210 million delivery points
By Trent Howell on February 21, 2023
PROVO, Utah--Smarty, a leader in location data intelligence, announced a significant upgrade to its US Address Verification - Enhanced Matching product by adding 5 million addresses to its list of U. S. non-postal addresses, increasing total non-USPS addresses from 15 million to 20 million. With the additional addresses, Smarty’s total list of U. S. valid addresses reaches over 210 million—the most complete,US Address Verification - Enhanced Matching validates and standardizes the messiest of addresses, and easily integrates into most systems.
Helpful hints to authenticating your APIs
By Andrew Townsend on November 2, 2022
We brought out the big guns in the way of our Development Team Lead, Kent Gividen, in a webinar all about authenticating your APIs. He went over some of his most useful tips and tricks that he uses to ensure APIs are authenticated. Was it helpful? You betcha. You wanna get the SparkNotes? Read on. Common and not-so-common APIs to know aboutKent began by outlining the APIs that he has run into the most in his years as a developer. Some of them he dug into a little deeper than others, but these are all useful to be aware of.
New feature: Log into Smarty with your Google account
By Davin Perkins on October 11, 2022
You've asked for it, and now you’ve got it. The next time you log into your Smarty account, you’ll see the option to log in to Smarty using your Google account. In this blog, we'll cover how to:Merge an existing Smarty account with GoogleVerify your loginCreate a new free Smarty account with GoogleMerge an existing Smarty account with GoogleMerging your account with your Google account will not affect your available lookups, security keys, or any other part of your Smarty account. Merging your Smarty account will:Increase security by reducing the number of managed passwords and how often you have to enter your password.
Common mistakes when calling Smarty APIs
By Andrew Townsend on July 28, 2022
There are two types of frequent errors: 401 "Authentication Required" errors, and 402 "Payment Required" errors. If you keep reading, you can learn about both, as well as these other hot topics:Status code 401 - Authentication requiredHow to authenticate API requestsCommon mistakes in client-side requestsCommon mistakes in server-side requestsStatus code 402 - Payment requiredWhen in doubt, contact supportStatus code 401 - Authentication requiredIf you're seeing this error there's a chance that there's an issue with your API key, there's a mistake inside your client-side request, or a mistake in the server-side request.
An advanced look at US Autocomplete Pro API
By Andrew Townsend on June 28, 2022
Improving address form completion rates—whether in a shopping cart, request for quote, or other form—can be a sinch if you’re using an address autocomplete tool. Not sure what that is? When you see an address line on a form and think “oh shoot this is going to take a minute” and then it fills it in after only a few keystrokes, that’s address autocomplete. And no, not all address autocomplete tools are created equal. Some check against their own address database only that is not frequently maintained.