We are delighted to announce that our International Address Autocomplete service is now live.

The Portal is the first place where we are showing it off. If you have an Agile plan or higher, then you can try it out now. Just click the Postcode Finder link in the Portal sidebar.

As an example, here’s the address of a great cafe in Vancouver, Canada:

Launch countries

We are launching the international address autocomplete service with support for the following countries:

• Belgium
• Canada
• Czechia
• Denmark
• France
• Germany
• Ireland
• Portugal
• Singapore
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Kingdom
• United States

These countries have been selected because they have a close connection with Australia and New Zealand. We intend to add new countries to this list on a regular basis.

We’d love to hear if there are countries you’d like to see included. We’ve already heard that Denmark and Belgium are wanted, and these will be the first additional countries to be included. Send an email to us at support@addressfinder.com and tell us of any other countries you’d like to see included.

See a code example

We have a code example that shows how to enable the International Address search.

Code example of International Address search

What is included?

We include the individual address attributes, as well as GPS coordinates. Here is an example of the JSON response:

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{
  "id": "_wIyMzMA_lYadSbnAP5TAyT-TB8Yjv8BT04A_wJONVcA_wI0Ujk",
  "address": {
    "full_address": "233 Vancouver St, London ON N5W 4R9",
    "address_line_1": "233 Vancouver St",
    "address_line_2": null,
    "address_line_combined": "233 Vancouver St",
    "city": "London",
    "city_line": "London ON N5W 4R9",
    "state": "ON",
    "postcode": "N5W 4R9",
    "country_name": "Canada",
    "country_code": "CA"
  },
  "metadata": {
    "street": "Vancouver St",
    "street_number": "233",
    "state_code": "ON",
    "state_name": "Ontario"
  },
  "position": {
    "latitude": 42.993184,
    "longitude": -81.184534
  },
  "success": true
}

Getting started with International Address Verification

If you wish to use the International Address services, then start with the code example.

International address autocomplete is only available for customers on Agile or higher plans. These new search capabilities are now available with the existing Addressfinder widget. You will likely need to make a few minor code adjustments for handling the different address format.

To add international addresses to your existing address autocomplete, follow the instructions on the documentation pages below.

Additional documentation:

• International Autocomplete Reference Documentation
• Additional code examples related to International Autocomplete

Nigel Ramsay