RadarAddress – Checkout Address Autocomplete for WooCommerce

A parcel that comes back because of a wrong street, a missing house number or the wrong postcode costs you the shipping twice and a customer who waits. RadarAddress catches the mistake at checkout, while the customer is typing, and flags the orders whose address still does not check out, before you ship.

RadarAddress completes and corrects the customer’s address while they type it at checkout — billing and shipping, classic checkout and Checkout Block — in the countries where the national address register is in service (Italy, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Portugal and more). The postcode and the house number come from the register at the moment of selection; the customer can always change what they wrote. Nothing ever blocks the order.

Every new order is checked on the server: outcome and verified form are saved next to the order, the order list shows a colour dot (verified, warning, to review, not verified) with a filter, and the order screen shows the verified address with one button to apply it. The order address is never changed by itself.

What you get

• Address autocomplete on billing and shipping, classic checkout and Checkout Block.
• Email check at checkout: a mistyped address gets «Did you mean …?» under the field, with one click to accept; a mailbox that cannot receive mail gets a discreet notice. The customer’s email is never changed by itself.
• Phone at checkout: an international prefix menu next to the phone field, set to the country of the address, and a short reminder under an empty phone field. The customer’s number is never rewritten: the order receives it with the prefix chosen in the menu.
• Correction on the field of an address typed by hand (postcode, city, street) — optional.
• Verification of every order, with the verified address, coordinates and the reason, and the result of the email and phone checks next to it (an order without a phone number is flagged: the courier needs it if there is a problem with the delivery).
• «To review» flag, filter and bulk action in the order list.
• Verification of existing orders that you choose: which statuses, from which date, newest or oldest first, all of them, only the first ones, or a few at a time every month with a subscription.
• Verification precision from strict to maximum: how far RadarAddress goes to find an address written badly.
• Fail-open by design: if RadarAddress does not answer, the checkout goes on as usual.
• Data stays in the EU. Sources: the national address registers, published as open data.

How it works

1. Create a free account on radaraddress.com (every month 50 contact checks are free).
2. Create an API token in your personal area.
3. Paste it in WooCommerce → Settings → RadarAddress and press «Verify and save».

Typing is free. One contact check is used when the customer selects an address, or when an order is verified — one per address, never twice for the same one. For a small shop the 50 free checks a month are often all it needs; beyond that, packs and monthly subscriptions on radaraddress.com.

Third-party service

This plugin sends the address and the email typed at checkout and the order addresses, email and phone number to the RadarAddress API (https://www.radaraddress.com) to get suggestions and verification results. Terms: https://www.radaraddress.com/en/terms — Privacy: https://www.radaraddress.com/en/privacy-policy.php

External services

This plugin connects to the RadarAddress API, a service run by RadarWave (the author of this plugin), to suggest and verify postal addresses. It does nothing until you paste your own API token in WooCommerce > Settings > RadarAddress.

• What is sent and when: while a customer types an address at checkout, the text typed in the address fields (street, house number, postcode, city, country) is sent to the API to get suggestions; when the customer leaves the email field at checkout, and when an order is verified, the email address is sent to the API to check it (you can switch this off with «Verify the email» in the settings); when an order is placed, or when you verify existing orders from the admin, the order’s billing and shipping address (name, company, street, postcode, city, province, country), billing email and phone number (with the country of the address) are sent to be verified (you can switch the phone check off with «Verify the phone number of every order» in the settings). The phone prefix menu at checkout sends nothing: it is a table inside the plugin. Your API token is sent with every request to identify your account. With each request the plugin also sends the address of the checkout page (without its query string) and which form and part it comes from (for example checkout/billing), so the request can be found in your service log. The settings page also asks the API for your account’s remaining verifications.
• Where: https://www.radaraddress.com/api/v1/ (calls are made by your site’s server, or through the plugin’s own REST endpoint on your site: the token never reaches the browser).
• Terms of use: https://www.radaraddress.com/en/terms
• Privacy policy: https://www.radaraddress.com/en/privacy-policy