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INTERNATIONAL ADDRESS FORM:
This form shows how a very generic kind of address/customer data web form can be adapted and enhanced by using Typepal. This kind of form is very common, and is widely in use.
The specialty of this specific demonstration is that it supports the acquisition of international addresses (more than 120 countries supported directly), so it is the perfect choice for multinational web initiatives.
This demo shows how using Typepal in your web registration/contact form can save your user 50% time/effort on average (with peaks of 80% in countries which have gold coverage), and have the following characteristics:

  1. It can get a valid and complete address for all countries in the world
  2. It suggests city names, province/state and zip codes for more than 100 countries.
  3. It determines the exact zip code in more than 20 countries at the street level
  4. It guides the user without blocking him

You can download the sample code, contanining the documentation to activate and integrate this form into your web site. You are asked to leave your name, company name and a valid e-mail address to begin downloading.
Download source code for this example:

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GENERIC JAVASCRIPT GALLERY:
The "Generic Javascript Gallery" shows a number of different implementation for web registration or contact form using Typepal. The generic Javascript integration is the most common, it can be used in almost any context (both functionally and technically) and is quite straightforward.
This gallery demonstrates three things:

  1. Typepal can be integrated in almost every web site
  2. Typepal makes registering/leaving their address easy, quick and error free for your web customers
  3. Typing in a complete and verified address takes 50% less time/effort on average

Please note that the demos are attached to our Demo Server, which serves slightly outdated geographical data, and is slower than the production server. You can actually use the demo server as long as you want, for testing and development purposes, we'll provide you with a free trial key. We do not recommend going into production with a trial key, though.

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ABOUT STYLE AND TYPE OPTIONS:
The Gallery offers several examples of different behaving forms integrated with Typepal. The different Styles and Types are inspired to those of the Top 100 ecommerce sites 2009, which are listed below at the bottom of this page.
The different styles and types are important for you! Check them and choose the one that best fits to your needs. If you are planning to develop a new one, or simply to find one that is similar to yours and simplify the integration task. Here is a list of the currently available options:

  1. International
  2. Quick mono country
    1. US
    2. UK/GB: United Kingdom
    3. IT: Italy
    4. Any country of your choice
  3. Rapid addressing
    1. UK: from Royal Mail ®PAF database
    2. NL: from TNT data (Coming soon)
    3. US: from USPS data (Coming soon)
Please note that Typepal WEB SERVICE is always the same, the different Styles and Types just use different logic at the client side to obtain different layout results.

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ABOUT TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS:
Typepal have been used in a wide array of different technology contexts and architectures. In fact it can be easily integrated in any web application. We have collected some examples and guidelines, as well as online demonstrations.
Find below a brief explanation of different Technologies:

  1. Generic Javascript: this is the generic approach, and it actually allows you to integrate Typepal into any web site or application. Just choose the Style and do the little integration job.
  2. Static HTML: this is a specific solution for having a registration/contact form even for static web sites or newsletters. 5 minutes integration, no coding effort, no software. 5 minutes quick start
  3. Ajax / Javascript frameworks (only for registered customers)
    1. jQuery
    2. Prototype
    3. YOU
    4. MooTools
    5. Ample
  4. Server Side Technology (Coming soon)
    1. PHP / MySql
    2. Dot.net Asp/ VB/ C Sharp
    3. Java

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DATA COVERAGE:
Typepal have collected for you the largest verified postal and administrative data available, this includes the official postal data release for specific countries and proprietary databases elsewhere, check in the following list the coverage for the country of your interest:

  1. FULL COVERAGE US: for United States of America we publish the complete USPS ZIP+4 code. This allows for obtaining a complete valid postal address, and also contains several "business names".
  2. FULL COVERAGE UK: for United Kingdom we publish the complete Royal Mail Postcode address file (@PAF ®) containing all known UK addresses and Postcodes.
  3. FULL COVERAGE street level with zip code everywhere Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada (lmu), Denmark, Spain (lmu), Finland, France (lmu), Germany (lmu), Gibraltar, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Jersey, Japan, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway (lmu), New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland : for all of these countries we provide full support at the street level aligned with the country specific postal databases and available informations.
  4. MEDIUM COVERAGE street level with zip code where necessary for zip code and postal rules: Albania, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Bulgaria, Belorus, Brunei, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt (Lmu), Georgia, Guatemala, Guam, Hungary, India, Kyrgystan, Cambodia, South Korea (lmu), Kuwait, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Morocco, Martinique, Malta, Mexico, Malaysia, Mozambique, Poland, Portugal (lmu), Paraguay, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Slovakia, Uruguay, Venezuela: for all of these countries we provide full support at the street level aligned with the country specific postal databases and available informations. The level of coverage and updates however are not at the full level.
  5. BASIC COVERAGE American Samoa, Andorra La Vella, Armenia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Estonia, Micronesia, French Guiana, Isle of Man, Jordan, Laos, Sri Lanka, Moldova, Macedonia, Mayotte, New Caledonia, Nigeria, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Puerto Rico, Palau, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan : for these countries we provide a city level suggestion, zip codes for the city and some street where available.
  6. SOON TO BE COVERED Afghanistan, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Ecuador, El Salvador, East Timor, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Gabon, Grenada, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Honduras, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Indonesia, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Jamaica, Kenya, North Korea, Kazahkstan, Lebanon, Libya, Montenegro, Madagascar, Mali, Myanmar, Mongolia, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Namibia, Niger, Nicaragua, Peru, Qatar, Congo, Serbia, Rwanda, Somalia, Syria, Tanzania, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe : Only the country name.

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RELEVANT EXAMPLES
Typepal uses a standardized approach to the complexity of the address acquisition for the entire world. As such we invite you to evaluate its behaviour across a number of cases valid in specific countries and check the validity of that approach. Please run through the following list of examples to see how Typepal works for you in helping handling them easily and cleanly:

  1. (US) Large Mail Users: the full support for US USPS postal data includes mail Users. For example try typing "New York" (as the Locality), and "HORO" in the street field: you'll get as a suggestion all "HOROWITZ" registered as mail users in New York. Note how the output fields are filled with the correct address and Large Mail User name.
  2. (UK) Full zip code and delivery points typepal publishes the full Royal Mail database that lists all known delivery points including Mail users. Try for example choosing "Oxford" as the town. Start typing "British" as the street field. You'll see a list of suggestions, choose for example the "British Potato Council". See how the Large Mail user output field is set with correct value. (No address is provided, as this is enough for Royal Mail to deliver). .
  3. (IT) "Frazioni" management typepal publishes more than 60.000 unofficial names for localities in Italy. Official Postal data and rules require always the correct Town name to be specified as the "Comune" or "Town" value, however it is a common practice for users to provide their Locality (Frazione). Typepal automatically recognizes the incorrect input and suggests and set both values. Try for example typing: "OSTIA" as the locality name. You'll get several localities ad suggestions with ultimately lead to having "ROMA" as the correct town name and for example "Lido di Ostia" as the Locality name. .
  4. (FR) support for CEDEX (Large Mail User) typepal supports the CEDEX as well as the Large Mail USers in France. Try for example typing "PARIS" and choose PARIX CEDEX 08. Start typing "ambassade" in the street field. You'll get a number of "ambassade" for example US, Spain or UK. Choose one of them to see how the output fields are correctly set.
  5. (FR) support for CEDEX (P.O. boxes) typepal supports the CEDEX as well as the P.O. boxes in France. Try for example typing "PARIS" and choose PARIX CEDEX 08. Start typing "ambassade" in the street field. You'll get a number of "ambassade" for example US, Spain or UK. Choose one of them to see how the output fields.
  6. (US,UK,CA,ES,FR,DE,PL,NO,EG,KR,PT) support for Large Mail User (lmu) typepal supports Large Mail Users in a number of countries such as Germany, Portugal, Egypt for example choose "Ingelheim am Rhein" as the town/city. And then start typing "Boehringer" see the suggestion for "Boehringer Ingelheim KG".

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HOW CAN I USE THIS IMMEDIATELY ?
Typepal have been engineered to be quickly implemented and integrated in your environment, and have been priced at the lowest level compared to similar technologies. Most of the people will find and immediate implementation path and a quick win reading through the following list:

  1. I own a web site and collect my customer's data for shipping or marketing purposes.
    "ANSWER:Contact your web site developer and let him assess this technology (we will help him speed this process), and how easy it is to integrate. You'll always have the correct and accurate customer data from now on ..."
  2. I run an e-commerce site and I notice the user registration form will become easier to use for my customers.
  3. I am the CIO data quality is always an issue for all of our projects and activities but I have not found a cost effective approach yet.
  4. I am the database administrator data quality generates a lot of problems at my level but I cannot have the rest of the company take a commitment on it.
  5. I run/manage a call center and dealing with customer data on the phone is always time consuming and subject to errors.
  6. We do a lot of data entry for customers data from several sources. Typing in the complete address is time consuming, takes a lot of effort and subject to a lot of mistyping mistakes.
  7. We are a multinational and we collect customer data from all over the world it is really an hassle and a cost to keep the registration form updated with all the countries specific updates from a central location.
    "ANSWER:Subscribe for a base service, and you'll get immediate access to unlimited online checks of international addresses ... "
  8. I manage a commercial office we collect orders from customer and there are always shipping issues.
  9. We do a lot of international shipping carries always ask for the postocde to determine price and to ensure delivery. We need a place where to verify international post codes .
  10. We are a web agency we are always looking for new technologies to ensure our customers always have the best tools and advice and perceive us as their partners for success.
    "ANSWER:Register for a full free trial, test this technology building small prototypes (20 min average! We will help you in doing it), and show it to your customers. They will like it and we do have a strong partnership policy to make business with you ..."
  11. We are a software house we would like our software to be always at the top for perfomance and ease of use.
  12. We are a system integrator/consultant we are commited to providing to our customers the availability of the best technology to improve their perfomance.

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