Address Guard provides a global address verification solution that validates, standardizes, and formats shipping addresses for over 240 countries, reducing failed deliveries and associated carrier fees. By integrating email and phone number validation, the platform ensures accurate customer data, enhancing communication and improving overall delivery success rates.
Funding
$10K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
E-commerce businesses face challenges with inaccurate shipping addresses, leading to failed deliveries, increased carrier fees, and customer dissatisfaction. Manual address verification processes are time-consuming and prone to error, while reliance on incomplete or outdated address databases results in preventable shipping issues.
Solution
Address Guard provides a comprehensive address verification platform that validates and standardizes customer-entered addresses against a global database of carrier-validated addresses. The platform parses, verifies, cleanses, and formats addresses for over 240 countries, reducing failed deliveries and associated carrier surcharges. In addition to address validation, Address Guard offers email and phone number verification to ensure accurate customer contact information, improving communication and reducing wasted SMS spend. Its intelligent rules engine allows businesses to automate shipping policies and prevent shipments to restricted address types, such as PO Boxes or military addresses, based on carrier-specific requirements.
Target Audience
Address Guard primarily targets e-commerce businesses, particularly those using Shopify, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, and Maropost, that want to reduce shipping errors and improve customer satisfaction.
Features
- Global address verification covering 240+ countries and territories, using data from postal authorities and shipping carriers (USPS, Canada Post, UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc.)
- AI-powered parsing engine that automatically corrects common address issues without customer intervention
- Intelligent rules engine to prevent shipments to 15+ different address types (PO Boxes, military addresses, etc.)
- Real-time email verification with typo detection and live mailbox checks
- Phone number validation to verify number type (landline, mobile, VoIP) and active status
- Order tagging for Shopify and Shopify Plus to visually identify orders with deliverability issues
- Customizable address popup and email design to maintain brand consistency
- Integrations with Shopify, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce, Maropost, and Zapier
- API for custom integrations