https://forum.productcart.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:42:40 +0000 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:08:27 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.productcart.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=4153 https://forum.productcart.com/forum_images/pc_logo_50.png https://forum.productcart.com/ https://forum.productcart.com/automate-address-verification-and-zip-plus-4_topic4153_post16644.html#16644 Author: Brett
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Posted: 24-January-2011 at 3:08pm

Actually, this pretty much sums it up: http://www.telnet80.com/2010/09/address-validation-using-google-maps.html

Looks like a lot of work, so your best bet is probably to contact one of the developers on the list of developers page.]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:08:27 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/automate-address-verification-and-zip-plus-4_topic4153_post16644.html#16644 https://forum.productcart.com/automate-address-verification-and-zip-plus-4_topic4153_post16643.html#16643 Author: ProductCart
Subject: 4153
Posted: 24-January-2011 at 3:04pm

njessen42 wrote: Does anyone know if this will be a feature in the next product cart upgrade?

This is currently not on the short-term development roadmap.
]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:04:12 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/automate-address-verification-and-zip-plus-4_topic4153_post16643.html#16643 https://forum.productcart.com/automate-address-verification-and-zip-plus-4_topic4153_post16642.html#16642 Author: Brett
Subject: 4153
Posted: 24-January-2011 at 2:56pm

This might be a good place to start:

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/v2/examples/geocoding-extraction.html

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/v2/services.html#Geocoding_Structured

The first link takes an address and shows the point on the map. It also formats the address and shows it in the text bubble. Extracting the formatted address would probably be sufficient. However, not displaying the map alongside the address is probably a violation of the API's terms of use.]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:56:34 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/automate-address-verification-and-zip-plus-4_topic4153_post16642.html#16642 https://forum.productcart.com/automate-address-verification-and-zip-plus-4_topic4153_post16641.html#16641 Author: njessen42
Subject: 4153
Posted: 24-January-2011 at 2:15pm

Does anyone know if this will be a feature in the next product cart upgrade? ]]> Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:15:21 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/automate-address-verification-and-zip-plus-4_topic4153_post16641.html#16641 https://forum.productcart.com/automate-address-verification-and-zip-plus-4_topic4153_post16200.html#16200 Author: whizzinpc
Subject: 4153
Posted: 17-November-2010 at 8:01pm

I agree it would be a very useful feature. We get customers putting in wrong addresses all the time...then we get charged from UPS for address changes...]]> Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:01:42 +0000 https://forum.productcart.com/automate-address-verification-and-zip-plus-4_topic4153_post16200.html#16200 https://forum.productcart.com/automate-address-verification-and-zip-plus-4_topic4153_post16198.html#16198 Author: Russ Nobbs
Subject: 4153
Posted: 17-November-2010 at 3:00pm

Earlier I asked about an enhancement that would verify customer customer entered address and postal code against a database and offer a correction based on the external database. This would help customer give complete and accurate deliverable address.  see http://www.earlyimpact.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3934&KW=zip+code

Turns out the USPS API I suggested is expensive and limited to postal shipments. I recently found another data source for US and Canada address verification at http://www.melissadata.com/. I don't know cost or details but I'm again suggesting that it would be a great enhancement to help (or force) the customer to give a deliverable address.

In another software package (MAS90) we use Melissa Data supplied through Avalara's destination based sales tax software (Avatax) to make sure the system knows the exact location to charge the correct jurisdictional based tax. It works well there.

This would be a very useful feature for Product Cart in a future release.
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