Autofill city and state from postal code or zip code

6 Mar 2019, 6:48 PM

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Autofill city and state from postal code or zip code

I keep hoping /expecting a plug-in or vanilla update that allows for the city and state of a customer's address to be auto-populated once the zip code (or international postal code) is entered. Does anyone see this coming or is it too difficult for the benefit?

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Matt

6 Mar 2019, 7:13 PM

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design75

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Re: Autofill city and state from postal code or zip code

I have been working on a plugin that makes use of google to fill in the address. It is about 95% ready. I'll PM you the url for the demo site later tonight, or tomorrow morning.

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6 Mar 2019, 7:59 PM

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Re: Autofill city and state from postal code or zip code

Great to hear. I will be happy to help beta-test. Thank you for seeing that need and addressing it.

6 Mar 2019, 9:07 PM

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Re: Autofill city and state from postal code or zip code

:censored: I just found out Google has turned the lookup service in to a payed service. So I guess This has to be shelved until I have a customer willing to pay for the development, because I can not test it anymore.

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6 Mar 2019, 10:02 PM

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Re: Autofill city and state from postal code or zip code

Thus ever is the fate of such things. There are plenty of ways to do this but you have to pay.

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6 Mar 2019, 10:49 PM

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Re: Autofill city and state from postal code or zip code

It's not that I do not want to pay, but google is very good in not making it easy to find what the price is, and I do not like being surprised at the end of the month.

swguy:

Thus ever is the fate of such things. There are plenty of ways to do this but you have to pay.

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7 Mar 2019, 10:12 PM

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Re: Autofill city and state from postal code or zip code

FWIW, I've been using the ZipCodeAPI (https://www.zipcodeapi.com/API) for a couple of clients; it works quite well.

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10 Mar 2019, 2:55 PM

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Re: Autofill city and state from postal code or zip code

Thanks Lat9. That’s the code I was looking at also.

10 Mar 2019, 4:36 PM

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Re: Autofill city and state from postal code or zip code

Is that only US adressesa, or worldwide? I can not seem to find a clear answer to that.> lat9:

FWIW, I've been using the ZipCodeAPI (https://www.zipcodeapi.com/API) for a couple of clients; it works quite well.

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10 Mar 2019, 5:08 PM

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Re: Autofill city and state from postal code or zip code

Design75:

Is that only US adressesa, or worldwide? I can not seem to find a clear answer to that.
Looks like it's US-only:(

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