Validate Address

Check the delivered customer addresses as well as a phonetic and associative identification of duplicates. Additionally, checks of client-specific negative or positive lists can be processed. Usually, the AddressCheck is used for the pure verification of the address data e.g. for registration processes.

Path

POST /api/v3/validate/address

Request Body

application/json

required

object

The person initiating the checkout, typically the buyer who places the order. May also receive the order.

identificationNumber

required in

string

Max length: 20

National ID number (if the customer is a physical person). Registration number (if the customer is a company).

object

Customer address

legalForm

required in

string

Max length: 255

Type of business. This field is mandatory for processing B2B transactions in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

object

existingCustomer

boolean

Is customer an existing customer for merchant

verifiedCustomerIdentification

boolean

This field signifies whether the customer's identification has been successfully verified.

marketingOptIn

boolean

Shows if merchant is allowed to send marketing information to customer

customerSince

string

yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffffffzzz

Since when customer has been merchant's client

customerClassification

string

Max length: 255

Customer reputation (e.g. VIP client)

acquisitionChannel

string

Enum:

NotSet

Advertisment

SocialNetwork

Direct

SearchEngine

Other

Customer acquisition channel

hasCustomerCard

boolean

Shows if customer has loyalty card

customerCardSince

string

yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffffffzzz

The date when the loyalty card was issued to the customer

customerCardClassification

string

Specifies the level of the loyalty card (e.g Gold member). For DE, AT, CH, this must be an integer from 1 to 5, where 5 is the highest VIP level.

profileTrackingId

string

Max length: 50

Unique value for identifying a profile tracking session

ipAddress

string

Max length: 39

Customer’s IP address

numberOfTransactions

integer

Total number of successful purchases that have been made by the specific consumer

customerIndividualScore

string

The customer's individual risk score provided by the merchant. Accepts a number from -10000 to 10000 (can be encased in quotation marks or not), or a single case-insensitive letter from 'a' to 'z'.

userAgent

string

Max length: 4096

UserAgent of this specific consumer

amountOfTransactions

number

Amount of paid orders last 12 months

otherPaymentMethods

boolean

Other payment method than MI in wallet

verifiedCustomerIdentificationType

string

Max length: 255

Specific method or category used to authenticate or verify a customer's identity

verifiedCustomerIdentificationDate

string

yyyy-MM-dd

Date on which a customer's identification details have been successfully confirmed or authenticated dateformat: yyyy-MM-dd

customerNumber

string

Max length: 100

Customer number has to be unique, if no customer number available please leave empty

salutation

string

Enum:

Mrs

Miss

Salutation

firstName

string

Max length: 50

First name. Everything over 50 characters will be truncated

lastName

string

Max length: 50

Last name. Everything over 50 characters will be truncated

companyName

string

Max length: 255

Purchasing company name. Everything over 255 characters will be truncated. This field is mandatory for processing B2B transactions in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

required in

string

Max length: 255

phone

required in

string

Max length: 16

Customer’s fixed-line phone number. The number will be normalised by us, removing non-numeric characters and converting it to international format. The resulting number can contain up to 16 characters, including the country code.

mobilePhone

required in

string

Max length: 16

Customer’s mobile phone number. The number will be normalised by us, removing non-numeric characters and converting it to international format. The resulting number can contain up to 16 characters, including the country code.

birthDate

required

string

yyyy-MM-dd

Date of birth. Not required if customerCategory is 'Company'.

customerCategory

required

string

Enum:

Company

Person

Customer category

conversationLanguage

string

Enum:

The language code used for client communication. If not provided, the system will default to the language configured for the client.

distributionType

string

Enum:

Paper

Sms

How information (invoices, notices, etc.) will be distributed to customer.

vatId

required in

string

Max length: 50

VAT registration number, the unique number that identifies a business. This field is mandatory for processing B2B transactions in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Responses

isValid

boolean

Is response valid

object

Customer address

array

Risk check messages

Successful Request

Request Example

    
        {
 "customer": {
  "address": {
   "street": "Gütersloher Straße",
   "streetNumber": "123",
   "postalCode": "33415",
   "postalPlace": "Berlin",
   "countryCode": "DE"
  },
  "riskData": {
   "ipAddress": "123.123.123.123"
  },
  "firstName": "Astrid",
  "lastName": "Svensson",
  "email": "astrid.svensson@example.com",
  "birthDate": "1999-01-02",
  "customerCategory": "Person"
 }
}

Response Example

    
        {
 "isValid": true,
 "correctedAddress": {
  "street": "Gütersloher Str.",
  "streetNumber": "123",
  "postalCode": "33415",
  "postalPlace": "Verl",
  "countryCode": "DE"
 }
}