PAV International

'''PAV-I was discontinued in March 2013. We sincerely appreciate your support and regret any inconvenience this may cause.'''

CDYNE PAV-I is an international postal address verification API which validates and standardizes addresses for over 240 countries. Businesses can ensure data quality for their international customer base and gain global customer contact information efficiently at point of entry. There is no prior knowledge of international address formats required. PAV-I takes the guesswork out of the many international address formats and foreign characters that exist worldwide.

PAV-I complements CDYNE PAV, a CASS Certified™ API which verifies U.S. and Canadian addresses.

PAV-I API Operation
The operation below can be found in the PAV-I Specification Sheet. Click on the link below for detailed information on this operation.

In addition to the Return Codes listed above, PAV-I also returns the Match Level of the address. The Match Level values and their descriptions can be found below.


 * 0 - No Match
 * 1 - Town, City, Locality, Municipality, Suburb
 * 2 - Street
 * 3 - Premise (Building)
 * 4 - Organisation (Varies by country, Business or Administrative Entity)

Programming Language Examples

 * CSharp - CSharp Example
 * PHP CURL - PHP CURL Example
 * PHP SOAP - PHP SOAP Example
 * 3rd party C# .Net tutorial - Video and Source
 * VB - VB Example

PAV-I Documentation

 * WSDL
 * PAV-I Spec Sheet - XML Web Service Specifications
 * PAV-I service operations at this endpoint

Minimum Input Data

 * The minimum input data is a combination of the following: Building Number, Street, Post Town, Postcode, and Country.
 * The country is required and must be input in English or ISO 2/3 country code.
 * Generally it is best to provide all the relevant input data you have for an address. Because the address format is different for different countries, PAV-I is very flexible about where you put the data.
 * Due to its enhanced parsing capability, entering non-address data will obfuscate matching.

Non-Address Data
Non-address data should not be entered into any of the address input fields. This may impede the most accurate address verification.

Fielded vs. Unfielded Address Entry
PAV-I has the ability to parse addresses entered in one or many fields. Using multiple address fields for input is useful when you are familiar with international addresses and the specific elements of the input address. If uncertain of the specific address elements, inputting information in the wrong fields may complicate or confuse matching. Address data can be entered into one address line and PAV-I will use its innovative parsing ability to properly parse the address for verification.

International Coverage
CDYNE Postal Address Verification International allows you to validate and standardize addresses for over 240 countries.

Innovative Parsing Ability
PAV-I has the ability to accept one or multiple address fields of input. See Fielded vs. Unfielded Address Entry in the Best Practices section.

Transliteration
PAV-I supports the following alphabets for transliteration. To return addresses in a supported native language, the parameter ReturnNativeOutput must be set to true.


 * Latn - Latin (English transliteration wherever possible)
 * Cyrl - Cyrillic (Russia)
 * Grek - Greek (Greece)
 * Hebr - Hebrew (Israel)
 * Hani - Kanji 漢字 (Japan)
 * Hans - Simplified Chinese 简体字(China)
 * Arab - Arabic (United Arab Emirates)
 * Thai - Thai (Thailand)
 * Hang - Hangul 한글 (South Korea)