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Specifying Address Validators by Country

Paige Freeman
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You can assign the appropriate address validation interface to a specific country during Country and State Code Setup.

You must have access to the Settings.ApplicationSettings security application to access this page.

To assign the appropriate address validation interface to a specific country:

  1. From the Settings section of the left navigation menu, select Application Settings. From the Application Settings page, select Specify Address Validators by Country from the Address Validation > Specify Address Validation section.
    -OR-
    Select Country and State Code Setup from the Localization section.
    The Countries and States page displays.
  2. To edit an existing Country code, select the edit pencil in the grid.
    The Edit Country page displays.
  3. From the Address Validation section, enter the following.
  4. Interface: The interface with which to perform the validation. For example, Group1 Universal Coder.
    Select Spectrum Universal Address.
  5. Validate States: When selected, indicates that validation will be performed when information is entered in a state field. It is deselected by default. This validation is needed for the ZIP100 process to function properly.
    State codes can only be entered for countries where the Validate States checkbox is checked.
  6. Validate Postal Codes: When selected, indicates that validation will be performed when information is entered in a zip (postal) code field. This validation is needed for the ZIP100 process to function properly.
  7. Click Save.

If you do not select Spectrum Universal Address for a country and try to validate an address from that country, the Personify application will not complete a check on that address and will determine the address as “undefined” or “incorrect,” but will not affect your database.

When setting up Address Validation by Country, it is recommended that no address validation be set up for France. This is because there is an inherent issue with the way that France validates its addresses, where the validation returns the address on Line 3 of the address, and needs to be manually moved to Address Line 1 for the AVS of PayPal to correctly charge the card. Setting the address validation for France to NONE will retain the address on Line 1 when entered. If French addresses were previously entered with the address validation set up, they will need to be manually updated.