Address Now Components

Address Now consists of the following components. These components can work with U.S., Canadian, and international addresses.

• BuildGlobalAddresses—Allows you to interactively build an address by searching for individual address elements.
• GetGlobalCandidateAddresses—Returns a list of addresses that are considered matches for a given address.
• ValidateGlobalAddress—Standardizes addresses using international postal data. ValidateGlobalAddress can also validate addresses in the U.S. and Canada but its strength is validation of addresses in other countries. If you have a significant amount of non-U.S. and non-Canadian address data, you should consider using ValidateGlobalAddress.

In cases where ValidateGlobalAddress returns multiple address matches for a given input address, you can use GetGlobalCandidateAddresses to return the address stack. GetGlobalCandidateAddresses is designed to return additional information from the postal databases to help you determine which of the returned addresses is the best match.