Addressfinder Launches Shopify Plus App Bringing ANZ Address Expertise to Your Checkout

The need for reliable address verification

In today's fast-paced e-commerce landscape, speed and accuracy are more important than ever. Customer expectations are at an all-time high and accurate delivery has evolved from a competitive advantage to a basic requirement.

Reducing operating costs continues to be a key challenge and that's where address verification can help. Reliable address verification ultimately means accurate delivery addresses. This leads to increased customer experience and reduced operational costs such as redeliveries, replacing lost goods and also customer service resources.

We constantly hear that international address verification services struggle with ANZ differences. For over a decade, Addressfinder has been solving these address challenges in Australia and New Zealand, diving deep into regional complexities and edge cases to increase accuracy of our service.

Addressfinder for Shopify Plus

In response to growing customer demand and the expanding Shopify Plus ecosystem in Australia and New Zealand, we've developed a seamless integration that deals with the limitations of Shopify Plus's default Google autocomplete. The app combines our global address verification with Addressfinder’s unique knowledge of ANZ addresses and postal carriers.

The Addressfinder for Shopify Plus app provides:

• Real-time address autocomplete - providing accurate addresses.
• Australia Post and NZ Post verified addresses - ensuring every address is deliverable.
• Handling of regional complexities - unit numbers, PO boxes, and rural deliveries etc.
• Comprehensive database - covering 15+ countries.
• Data freshness - monthly database updates to include new builds and changes.
• Seamless checkout experience - reducing cart abandonment.
• Expert support

Doesn’t the default Google autocomplete do this?

Shopify Plus offers Google autocomplete as the default option at Checkout and at first glance, it works well. However it falls short in several critical areas which quickly compound as you scale:

• Google autocomplete simply suggests addresses that are not necessarily verified or deliverable.
• It struggles with PO Box, unit, and level number addresses - which comprise approximately 37%* of all Australian postal addresses.
• It lacks validation against official regional postal databases, increasing the risk of failed deliveries.
• Doesn’t understand New Zealand and Australian addresses like we do.

Getting started

The Addressfinder for Shopify Plus app helps Australian and New Zealand e-commerce organisations prevent failed deliveries and streamline their customer experience from checkout to delivery.

We provide a free trial of 100 address lookups so you can test in your Shopify Plus store. Installation is straightforward, requiring no technical expertise and if you have any questions we are always here to help.

Following the trial, the services is pay-as-you-go for successful lookups; when someone selects a verified address from the drop down. These are included in your monthly Shopify bill, which means no additional paper work. Easy.

Ready to streamline delivery and reduce operational costs?

Start your trial and install the Addressfinder Shopify Plus app.

Addresses are hard. Let us make it easy for you.

*figure from Addressfinder Australian address databases.