Ensure International Shipping Accuracy

Address Standardization API Designed for Global Businesses

Shipium’s address standardization allows enterprise shippers to format and correct addresses to ensure high delivery accuracy, regardless of destination.

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Quality assurance for your fulfillment workflow

How address standardization works

Working as part of Shipium’s broader suite of solutions, our Address Validation API analyzes addresses against the requirements of local postal systems. It provides details on how to update them as needed to ensure accuracy.

Address input

Our API accepts raw street address data from your system of record (e.g., your order management system). When automated, this first step ensures that all your customer information is standardized, regardless of the source or format.

Parsing and initial standardization

Once received, the complete address is broken down into individual components, such as street and city. The API will then identify and help to correct formatting errors, such as wrong abbreviations or missing ZIP+4 codes.

Validation and Correction

After initial parsing and standardization, we verify address details against validated databases. This step confirms every component of the address matches carrier delivery requirements, ensuring high delivery rates.

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Final formatting and output

The API formats the final validated address according to the standards of the chosen carrier within your fulfillment network. It generates a standardized output with all necessary components for fulfillment processing.

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Automated shipping address standardization

Addressing the intricacies of processing international fulfillment wastes valuable time, whether it’s fixing mixed-up apartment number formatting for customers in Tokyo or adjusting postal code conventions for buyers in São Paulo.

Sometimes, postal address formatting issues only become apparent after a failed delivery attempt. The customer is likely unsatisfied at that point, and additional carrier fees will be triggered automatically. With our address standardization API, you can adjust customer shipping details in real time, increasing the accuracy of your shipments.

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Built for delivery simplicity and consistency

Address API that enhances domestic and international shipping

Understanding address formatting for each region where you actively sell products is crucial to ensuring your deliveries get from warehouse shelves to customer houses, flats, and businesses. Shipium’s address standardization API streamlines this process.

Managing multiple languages

Street names and designations vary across languages, creating headaches for global operations with large volumes internationally. Shipium’s address standardization software recognizes and interprets these regional differences, correctly identifying components of address data regardless of its language.

Handling format inconsistencies

Countries have unique rules for structuring mailing addresses, from postal code formats to building number placements. Shipium recognizes and adapts to these regional differences, transforming diverse address formats into carrier-ready data.

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Ensuring first-time delivery

Address verification needs to happen before packages reach your warehouse operations. With the Shipium platform, you can do more than just standardize formats. You can also check addresses for deliverability early in the process, flagging potential issues before they impact fulfillment.

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Meeting carrier-specific compliance

National postal services and private carriers enforce specific standards. Shipium makes it easy to meet their requirements, formatting addresses to ensure compliant shipments across all delivery partners.

Maximizing operational efficiency

Failed deliveries and address correction charges affect your profit margins. Shipium’s standardization minimizes these unnecessary costs while cutting the number of delivery-related issues your customer service team needs to manage, improving performance and satisfaction.d increase positive reviews — all of which enhance your reputation.

Enterprise-grade shipping capabilities

Address standardization designed for scale

High-volume enterprise shippers can decrease shipping errors, enhance customer experience, and keep delivery promises — no matter how many packages their fulfillment centers process.

Real-time processing

Process thousands of addresses simultaneously with a platform designed for high-volume enterprise operations. Our API handles peak periods effortlessly, ensuring your checkout and fulfillment processes never slow down.

Predictive accuracy

Our machine learning models analyze millions of successful deliveries to catch costly errors that basic validation methods may miss — especially at scale. Our system becomes more intelligent over time, using predictive analytics to identify subtle mistakes that often slip through traditional rule-based checks.

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Future-proof integration

As carriers update their requirements and new shipping partners join your network, our API adapts to changes. You eliminate the need for manual system updates, freeing your development team to focus on core business initiatives.

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Frequently asked questions

What is an address verification API?

An address verification API is software that validates components of customer shipping details before fulfillment. It checks each field against verified address databases to confirm deliverability and proper formatting. The solution automates identifying and resolving potential errors early in your supply chain.

Why do I need an API for address standardization?

Manually formatting international addresses across multiple carriers and countries is time-consuming and error-prone. Address standardization software uses automation to reduce shipping issues, prevent failed deliveries, and minimize costs.

What carriers are compatible with Shipium's address standardization tool?

Shipium’s address standardization tool works with all the partners within our pre-integrated carrier network, which currently handles 99.2% of all domestic parcel shipments. However, our API is not meant to be a standalone solution but instead be used as part of our larger ecosystem of shipping solutions.

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What are the benefits of standardizing address formats automatically?

Address standardization reduces delivery failures and the costs associated with them. When shipping details are correct and complete from the start, your current fulfillment process can benefit from the following:

Operational efficiency: Automated address standardization is much quicker than manually verifying shipping details, improving your overall productivity.
Faster processing: Standardized addresses enable quicker sorting and processing of deliveries at the warehouse level, speeding up overall operations and improving the customer experience.
Reduced customer service inquiries: Minimized delivery issues mean fewer customer service inquiries related to undelivered or missing shipments, freeing up operational resources.