Add Field Names to Customer Addresses

Loremonger

Is there any way we could add field names to customer addresses?

I just had an order with the city listed as "Mexico." Not knowing any better, I figured that was just the country name, and I was trying to use the suburb name as the city name to create a shipping label. Of course, USPS.com wouldn't process the label the way I was putting it in.

I've usually been able to parse out addresses by guessing, but I think having something like this would be really helpful on international orders:

Name: John Doe
Street: 1234 Unbekannt Strasse
City: Nirgends
Province: Großgrundbesitz
Country: Deutschland
Postal Code: 54321

bluedragon

I would find that useful too, particularly for addresses in Asia as I am not familiar with some of the formats.

Hoddie

It's difficult because many countries don't use what could be considered the standard.

I find these two pages very helpful when addressing parcels for abroad:

EU: http://www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/Addressing-your-items-Western-Europe/
Non-EU: http://www.royalmail.com/personal/help-and-support/Addressing-your-items-Rest-of-the-World

Don't know how up-to-date they're kept but keeping to the right format is supposed to prevent delays because machines sort them automatically.

tamadrummer88

This would definitely be helpful for me too. It wouldn't matter if it was in a particular format or not, when you enter your address you enter it in each field. The only problem I see is that there are lot of different fields for different countries i.e. building name, building number, neighborhood name ect.

SuperBrick

I would prefer to keep it as is. This makes it much easier to cut and paste the address.

Loremonger

I would prefer to keep it as is. This makes it much easier to cut and paste the address.

That also occurred to me. Some services don't require knowing field names. I wonder if that could be addressed with a simple Show Fields / Hide Fields toggle under the address.