With innumerable formats and unfamiliar spellings, standardizing and validating global address datasets can be a real pain. But it doesn't have to be. International Address Validation is an essential part of virtually every business that works with international address data. But how can you keep your address data in multiple countries accurate while not wasting your time and money? In these slides you'll learn: - What exactly is International Address Validation - How to use address validation tools - The limitations of those validation tools - How you can utilize different address validation tools - What it takes to get started and implement You can watch the video recording here: https://youtu.be/JMYXYfv0VRo Learn more at: https://www.smarty.com/products/international-address-verification

2. Why do I need INTL address validation
● It is difficult, without having local knowledge, to understand the
addressing nuances of each country.
● Different countries have different address formats.
● Address formats change on occasion.
● Customers don’t consistently input addresses in the correct format.
● INTL addressing is HARD.
● Language can be a barrier.
● Smarty handles all of that!

3. What exactly is International Address Validation
● Address validation by itself regardless of whether it is specific to one
country or for the entire world is the process of taking in an input address
and normalizing it to where we can understand the concepts of that
address and then matching that address to a known address in a specific
country.
● Different countries have different address formats. In order to manage all
the address information, you’ll benefit from having a standardized address.

4. How to use address validation tools
● Smarty provides an easily accessible cloud service that can be reached, or
integrated into just about any application or website
● When you have an address, whether it is real time, or after the fact, you
simply submit that address to our API And the response will come back,
letting you know the quality of the match and the standardized address,
based on the match.
● Many of our clients make use of our international auto complete service to
help their customers. Enter addresses more quickly, to correct, spelling, and
to check addresses at the point of entry. That is a very good way to ensure
good addresses are being put in.

5. Limitations of validation tools
● Results can only be as good as the underlying data. Our data is updated
quarterly from various sources.
● Not a lot of metadata from different countries.
● List of supported countries and their data quality
(https://www.smarty.com/docs/cloud/international-street-api#countries)
● Not all countries are supported for Transliteration

6. How you can utilize different address validation
tools
● As-you-type (autocomplete)
● After entry (address validation)
● Bulk (address validation)
● Single line addresses input or Multi line address input

7. What it takes to get started and implement
● Try it out with a list right on our website
● Try it out one address at a time right on our website
● Integrate using our API (HTTP GET + JSON Response)
● Multiple libraries (SDKs) available to help
● Clear documentation on our website
● Reach out to us for any help you need.

8. Try International Address Validation FREE
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