Re: World Address Info
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2003
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 52318
interpreted = N
texte = Thought I'd chime in here. I would most definitely NOT eliminate postal codes on address forms. I ship all over the world, processing credit cards through Authnet with AVS turned on. Not only are postal codes present in nearly 100% of the addresses submitted (I'd even venture to say 100%, but then I'd have to check my records) but the AVS system actually works most of the time for England, Canada, and sometimes other foreign countries; I get "Y" and "Z" codes returned frequently. An additional address field, or a textarea field for street address to allow multiple lines would accommodate places like England with unwieldy addresses, and businesses with building names, c/o, etc. But there's no need to elimate fields like State. Even though not all countries are broken into states, people ordering from those countries are no doubt used to writing n/a into irrelevant form fields. I just had an order from Singapore this morning, which you may know is a city and country rolled into one. But the address DID come with a 6-digit postal code. Terry >StateProv and ZipPostCode are not used for outside of the US and >Canada (and may be made unavailable for addresses outside of the US >and Canada). > >If one's business is not slanted towards US/Canada, one could >eliminate the StateProv and ZipPostCode fields, and label the "City" >line something like "City, Post Code, State or Province". ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Thought I'd chime in here. I would most definitely NOT eliminate postal codes on address forms. I ship all over the world, processing credit cards through Authnet with AVS turned on. Not only are postal codes present in nearly 100% of the addresses submitted (I'd even venture to say 100%, but then I'd have to check my records) but the AVS system actually works most of the time for England, Canada, and sometimes other foreign countries; I get "Y" and "Z" codes returned frequently. An additional address field, or a textarea field for street address to allow multiple lines would accommodate places like England with unwieldy addresses, and businesses with building names, c/o, etc. But there's no need to elimate fields like State. Even though not all countries are broken into states, people ordering from those countries are no doubt used to writing n/a into irrelevant form fields. I just had an order from Singapore this morning, which you may know is a city and country rolled into one. But the address DID come with a 6-digit postal code. Terry >StateProv and ZipPostCode are not used for outside of the US and >Canada (and may be made unavailable for addresses outside of the US >and Canada). > >If one's business is not slanted towards US/Canada, one could >eliminate the StateProv and ZipPostCode fields, and label the "City" >line something like "City, Post Code, State or Province". ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
Terry Wilson
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