UK Address Postcode Validation
This extension provides realtime address autocompletion lookup on your address forms, including billing and shipping. Ideal Postcodes address tools validates and accelerates customer entered address information to reduce cart abandonment and ensure correct delivery address capture.
Ideal Postcodes provides address autocomplete for your WooCommerce address forms. We specialize in the UK addressing data, drawing the most up-to-date & accurate UK dataset from Royal Mail on a daily basis. We have over 1,000 clients that use our address validation tools to speed up checkout, increase deliverability, and ensure data quality.
This extension adds address validation including realtime address autocompletion on your address forms. Our tools appear on your checkout and user account pages (for billing and shipping addresses). Our address validation tools speed up the checkout process and ensure that correct addresses are collected, thereby reducing cart abandonment and ensuring deliverability.
This extension is free to download and install. However, our address validation services requires a paid account at ideal-postcodes.co.uk.
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Benefits
- Speed up the Checkout Process. Reduce the time it takes to accurately insert an address on your checkout
- Increase Deliverability. Reduce failed deliveries by making address entry easier and less error prone
- Ensure Data Quality. Access the most up-to-date and accurate address dataset in the UK with Royal Mail’s PAF® dataset
Features
- Address autocompletion on checkout shipping and billing pages
- Address autocompletion on accounts pages
- Post towns now capitalised by default (instead of all caps)
- Checks if key is usable before enabling autocomplete
- Optionally populate organisation name from selected address
- Optionally populate county information
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.