Avalara's address validation
Aids in authenticating customer's addresses
Address validation tools are used to organize, validate, and check the veracity of the customer's address.
In saaslogic, address validation is significant, since tax is computed based on this address that is added during the customer onboarding process. Additionally, this address is crucial for handling correspondence and any other legal matters that may or may not arise in the future. For accurate address validation, the complete address of the customer, including the Country, State and Postal Code should be provided.
In saaslogic, you can integrate with Avalara's address validation to verify the addresses of all your customers (only from US and Canada).
After completing an offline registration process with Avalara, you will be provided with the following:-
An Account Number
License Key
Company Code
These can be used to integrate with the Avalara's Address Validation and once this is done you can start using their services.
Integrations > Avalara's Address Validation > New Avalara Address Validation
Click the +New Avalara Address Validation tile in the integrations menu to begin the integration process.
Enter all the mandatory details like the Account Number and License Key that you have received during the registration process. Additionally, include an arbitrary Integration Name for identifying your association with Avalara.
The next step in the integration process is to confirm your address for the Address Validation.
Under the Address validation, you need to select a Company Code against which your address will be automatically displayed in Please confirm your details box.
You need to review and confirm the address given against the company code. If there is any error in the displayed address please contact Avalalra's team and get it resolved.
Once you have verified this address, you can enable the toggle button that will allow Avalara to validate the addresses of all your customers.
Click on Save and now a new tile signifying the completion of the integration process will appear in the Integration tab with the Enabled tag on it.
Enabled tag ensures that the address validation happens when a customer address is added. On disabling, the address validation tile will show a Disabled tag and the customer address will no longer be validated.
Now, Avalara will validate your customers addresses. The validation will happen during the onboarding process of each of your customer. While saving a new address, Avalara will validate the address and show the validation results that is displayed as below (Avalara's address validation result).
In case you want to keep the address suggested by Avalara, you can do so by clicking on the Use Validated Address tab.
But, on the other hand, if you want to go ahead with the address that you have entered, then you can click on the Use Original Address tab.
If at all you have entered a wrong address the following validation pop up will be displayed highlighting that the given address does not exist. Here, you can either go ahead and fix the address by clicking on the I’ll fix the address tab or if you still want to use the same address, you can click on the Use this address anyway tab. In this way you will be able to keep the address of your choice.
