Discover built-in address verification: Popular platforms with Smarty integrations

Address verification isn't just a nice-to-have feature—it's a critical business function that directly impacts your bottom line and customer satisfaction.

The impact of reliable address verification extends throughout your entire operation. Every returned package or piece of mail represents wasted shipping costs, lost time, and potential damage to customer relationships. Most importantly, it's an entirely preventable problem. When addresses are verified before shipping, businesses see immediate improvements in delivery success rates and significant reductions in associated costs.

Address verification goes beyond simple delivery success. Modern verification systems provide crucial data points that enhance your business intelligence. For instance, knowing whether an address is residential or commercial helps optimize shipping quotes and delivery routing. Access to detailed address components allows for better database management and customer segmentation.

The best part? These powerful capabilities might already be at your fingertips through the business tools you use every day. Let's explore some popular platforms that have directly integrated Smarty's address verification capabilities into their systems.

**NOTE: These integrations were developed by the providers themselves, not Smarty, and Smarty does not offer support for issues with these platforms. However, if you need help troubleshooting anything Smarty-related, we're happy to assist you.

Ecommerce Platforms

WooCommerce

• Integration documentation: https://www.checkoutwc.com/documentation/smartystreets-address-validation/
• What it does: When a user enters their address and continues with their purchase, the entered address is checked against Smarty's address verification software, which suggests potential changes to the address as necessary.
• Benefits: Address verification is essential for accurate shipping and delivery, fraud prevention, and return cost reduction. It also helps validate billing addresses to ensure smooth payment processing and flag potential fraud when billing and shipping addresses don't match.

Americommerce

• Integration documentation: https://support.americommerce.com/hc/en-us/articles/203271934-Smarty-formally-SmartyStreets
• What it does: Americommerce offers its users address verification and autocomplete solutions through the Smarty integration. When a user begins to enter their address, it’ll offer up to ten valid suggested addresses for the user to select rather than typing the entire address. If an option isn’t selected, the entered address is checked against Smarty's address verification software and will suggest potential alternatives if needed.
• Benefits: Address verification is essential for accurate shipping and delivery, fraud prevention, and return cost reduction, and using autocomplete makes it easier for the user to give accurate information. It also helps validate billing addresses, flagging potential fraud when billing and shipping addresses don't match.

Volusion

• Integration documentation: https://help.volusion.com/s/article/SmartyAddressVerification
• What it does: Smarty verifies the shipping address when shoppers click Continue on the Premium Checkout page. If the address is incorrect, a warning message with suggestions appears.
• Benefits: Accurate address validation, provided by Smarty, ensures smooth payment processing and helps flag potential fraud by identifying mismatches between billing and shipping addresses. This feature is exclusively available with the Premium Checkout option.

Swell

• Integration documentation: https://www.swell.is/help/integrations/smarty
• What it does: Swell's Smarty integration adds US address autocompletion to customer checkout and admin dashboards, improving speed and accuracy.
• Benefits: Swell's integration with Smarty streamlines checkout and reduces cart abandonment by using autocompletion for accurate addresses.

Forms and documentation

JotForm

• Integration documentation: https://www.jotform.com/widgets/smartystreets
• What it does: JotForm's Smarty integration verifies addresses in real-time as users fill out forms, ensuring accurate address collection for deliveries, employee records, and other business needs.
• Benefits: JotForm users can automatically verify addresses when forms are filled out to save time and money by preventing address errors. This is helpful for users who collect addresses for shipping, employee records, and customer data.

DocuSign

• Integration documentation: https://apps.docusign.com/app-center/app/04bfc1ae-1ba0-42d0-8c02-264417a7b234
• What it does: DocuSign's integration with Smarty verifies and standardizes US and international addresses, improving accuracy and speed during document signing.
• Benefits: DocuSign users handling legal documents and contracts need to ensure address information is accurate and standardized at the time of signing to maintain document validity and reduce legal risks or the need for re-execution.

Healthcare and compliance

American Immunization Registry Association

• Integration documentation: https://www.immregistries.org/address-cleansing
• What it does: Immunization Information Systems (IIS) members, which include state and local health departments, immunization registries, and their implementation partners, have free access to Smarty's address validation tools through AIRA.
• Benefits: Accurate address data is essential for public health organizations to fulfill their mission. They can track vaccination coverage rates, prevent duplicate patient records, ensure vaccine reminders reach the right households, monitor disease outbreaks effectively, and conduct targeted outreach to under-vaccinated communities. The ability to validate addresses in real-time or batch processes, with options for both manual and automated systems, helps these organizations maintain data quality standards required by USCDI while improving their operational efficiency and the accuracy of their public health initiatives.

Accurate address data is essential for many—if not most—business operations, regardless of your industry. Many popular business platforms have recognized this and have integrated Smarty's address verification tools directly into their systems.

These integrations allow you to leverage Smarty's address verification capabilities without needing custom technical implementations (though those are available). By using these integrations, you can enhance your data quality, reduce costs, and improve your customer experience. The features offered by each platform vary, but they all aim to ensure accurate address data.

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