Fix truncated or malformed address data in TaxCloud Lookup requests using the VerifyAddress API
domain: docs.taxcloud.com · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Before calling Lookup, send the customer's destination (and origin, if needed) address to the VerifyAddress endpoint
Check the ErrNumber in the VerifyAddress response: a value of 0 means TaxCloud verified and corrected the address for use in the following Lookup call
If ErrNumber is anything else, address verification failed; proceed with the original customer-provided address in Lookup since TaxCloud does not block checkout on a failed verification
Always pass only two-character state abbreviations in the Lookup address object, since a full state name is silently truncated to its first two characters and can resolve to the wrong state
Use VerifyAddress specifically to correct full state names to proper abbreviations before they reach Lookup, since Lookup itself does not fix this
Known gotchas
The response truncation issue lives in the Lookup call's address object, not in VerifyAddress; VerifyAddress is the recommended fix, not the cause
TaxCloud's API only supports US addresses; do not send non-US addresses to VerifyAddress or Lookup
A failed VerifyAddress call does not stop the checkout flow, so tax accuracy risk on unverifiable addresses must be handled by your own logic
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