How do I turn on address validation in Magento?
Overview
You see that the addresses on your Magento sales are not updated in a standardized way or corrected and you want to use our address validation functionality within Magento to accomplish this.
Environment
Magento
Resolution
- Login to Magento with Administrator permission
- Go to System
- Click on Configuration
- On the right side, click on Tax (depending on your Magento version, this may appear under Sales on the left)
- Scroll down to Shipping Address Options
- Under Address Validation, select Enabled + Prevent Order or Enabled + Allow Order ("Allow" not recommended)
- Enabled + Prevent Order requires a customer to provide a valid address before they can check out
- Enabled + Allow Order allows a customer to check out without a valid address - this can result in $0 tax
- Click Save
- Your Magento store will validate shipping addresses