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My parent's address structure is: House Name, Road, Village, Town, County, Country (if applicable) Post Code. My address structure is: Flat Number - Building
by andrewingram 16y ago
My parent's address structure is:
House Name,
Road,
Village,
Town,
County,
Country (if applicable)
Post Code.
My address structure is:
Flat Number - Building,
Road,
City,
Country,
Post Code
Some multi-input address forms require that I enter both a city and a county, which in the case of Londoners means you end up putting London twice. The only important parts of the address (for most uses, including credit card processing) are recipient name, house/flat name/number (actually, not sure about this - it might not be necessary) and Post Code.
So why not just have explicit inputs for those fields which are always required, and allow a more fuzzy input for everything else in the form of a textarea? It also means you're more likely to be able to deal with addresses in countries that use slightly different systems.
- swombat 16y agoFrom a credit card perspective, actually, you don't even need the house/flat name/number. As you can see easily on the basecamp paid signup page, all you need is: First/Last name Card number Expiry Date Billing Zip The rest of the fields on https://signup.37signals.com/basecamp/Plus/signup/new https://signup.37signals.com/basecamp/Plus/signup/new are unrelated to billing. Worth noting that those extra billing fields like address and all that help cut down fraud (as well as signups...) so if your business is not b2b and relatively fraud-free, you probably should keep the extra fields for anti-fraud checks.
- wvenable 16y agoNot to mention, if you have those fields you'll pay less for the credit card transactions. I just recently added a bunch more address fields to a CC form to reduce the fees on transactions.
- gametheory 16y agoDoes their town have many villages in it?