Businesses often use forms to collect information about their customers. The most important information is often the address. Companies that ship goods or brochures to users obviously need an accurate shipping address. There are many other businesses (like banks) that also require users to provide their addresses for regulatory purposes and other various reasons.
The Difficulty of Collecting Verified User Addresses
We’ve established that addresses are necessary and sometimes an essential part of a business model. Despite their importance, many businesses have difficulty collecting and verifying addresses.
Collecting a verified address can be difficult for multiple reasons. For example, there may be new addresses that aren’t yet added to geolocation databases. Also, there may be multiple streets or cities with the same.
Webmasters often use a custom field that matches the user’s input with verified addresses. This is one way to verify a user's address. The problem is that these input fields are not flexible. New addresses are sometimes not added to the database, so users can’t select them.