Search Boundaries
AddressZen offers a suite of advanced features to tailor the address lookup functionality to your specific needs. This guide outlines how to implement Bias By IP, Filter By Country, Exclude Islands, Exclude Military Addresses, and Exclude PO Boxes, enabling a more customized and relevant user experience.
Bias By IP
Biasing search results based on the user's approximate geolocation, derived from their IP address. This capability enhances the relevance of address suggestions by prioritizing options that are geographically closer to the user's current location.
To enable IP-based biasing in your AddressZen Address Lookup setup, you will need to set the bias_ip option to true within the queryOptions. Here's how you can do it:
Exclude Islands
To exclude addresses located on U.S. islands from the suggestions list in your setup, ensuring that your application only provides suggestions for addresses in the contiguous United States or specific areas according to your needs, you can utilize the set option within the queryOptions. This feature is particularly useful for services that do not operate or deliver to U.S. islands due to logistical constraints. Here's how you can do it:
Exclude Military Addresses
To exclude military addresses from the suggestions list in your results, ensuring that your application focuses on civilian addresses, you can use the set option within the queryOptions. This feature is useful for services that are unable to deliver or provide services to military addresses due to various logistical or regulatory reasons. Here's how you can do it:
Exclude PO Box
To exclude PO Box addresses from the suggestions in your results, ensuring that only physical addresses are provided to users, you can utilize the set option within the queryOptions of your AddressZen setup. This feature is particularly useful for services that require delivery to physical locations and cannot deliver to PO Boxes, such as certain shipping or delivery services. Here's how you can do it:
Restricting to Specific States
To tailor your address lookup functionality to support only certain states, you can specify these states in the AddressZen setup. This is particularly useful if your service or application operates in specific geographic areas.
Restricting to Mainland US Addresses
If your application's scope is limited to the mainland United States, excluding addresses from territories and outlying islands can streamline the user experience by providing more relevant suggestions.