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But he doesn't know even what conversion rates he could achieve because he chose to totally ignore non-US billing addresses. He's just assumed that it's not wor

by joshd 17y ago

But he doesn't know even what conversion rates he could achieve because he chose to totally ignore non-US billing addresses. He's just assumed that it's not worth his effort. He's talking about a web-based product. There is no reason to require a properly formatted address. When people are trying to give you money you should make things as simple as you can.

tghw 17y ago
Not to be rude, but I think you're having a bit of a reading comprehension problem. Nowhere did I say to block non-US users, as you've repeatedly asserted I did. What I am saying is don't worry too much about getting it right, especially if you plan on targeting US-based users first. If people have to pick a random state because the validation library you used always validates states, but only 5% of your users hit that problem, big deal. You should have a decent analytics package installed, and if you do you'll know what the bounce rates are for your international users, so you can decide if and when there is a business case for doing full i18n and l10n.