How to Simplify the Tricky Parts of Buying Online – Optimising the eCommerce Checkout
Even though retail eCommerce sales continue to rise and are expected to show solid gains in 2017, the rate of eCommerce growth is declining. As eCommerce and mCommerce (mobile commerce) are experiencing high rates of cart abandonment, companies are having to think about simplifying online purchase processes.
Two years already? Eircode was launched on 13th July 2015, and as its second birthday approaches this blog provides an update on Eircode usage by our customers. Which industries use Eircode the most? This table gives the top industry users of our API ranked by number of API calls.
The Eircode Routing Key is the first three characters of an Eircode. There are 139 of these in Ireland, which is five times more detailed than Counties. How easy is it to determine the Eircode Routing Key for an address? How much of the address needs to be matched in order to be confident? Surprisingly, you can easily and accurately determine the Eircode Routing Key for any address just by verifying one line of the address.
Last week Ireland’s largest technology event, TechConnect Live 2017, was hosted at Dublin’s RDS. Over 5000 technology and business executives attended, including Ireland’s tech leaders, start-up founders and innovators. Obviously, we were keen to attend!
At our stand we showed delegates how they can achieve not only an increase in sales and customer satisfaction but also improved data quality and fraud prevention.
We have re-designed our API status page https://status.autoaddress.ie You can visit this page to determine if the Autoaddress API is experiencing any issues, or has experienced an issue in the past 24 hours. Our status page takes a live feed from our log files and displays this information on a Google Map in real-time, as well as updating the API calls counter for the day. Our service is in use 24/7 so you should see activity no matter what time you visit the page.
There is no official address for any location in Ireland. People living in the same street or townland or even the same house may write their addresses very differently. In the absence of an official address database for Ireland we can't say who is right or wrong, so essentially everyone is right (barring obvious errors such as wrong County or Dublin Postal District, etc.). This blog describes how addresses are constructed, the differences between Postal, Geographic and Preferred address and why differences in address formats can elicit an apoplectic "THEY'VE MOVED ME TO NAVAN!!!" response.
In recent weeks our real-time address entry solution Autoaddress 2.0 has surpassed 100,000 address transactions per day. While our API may be called multiple times per address, an address transaction equates to each individual address that has been entered via our customers' websites, apps, CRM, etc. Total API calls (excluding autocomplete keystrokes) average over 2.5 million per week.
The inclusion of eircodes in Google Maps API allows free use of Eircode information on free, publicly accessible websites up to a certain level of usage with low incremental costs. No ECAF/ECAD license is required for these implementations. For a better user experience or more sophisticated requirements then an ECAF based solution that integrates with Google Maps API provides a cost effective solution for business
This blog describes how to use Google Maps as your primary Sat-Nav device for use with Eircodes. We'll cover the following: 1. How to set-up offline mode for all of Ireland 2. How to get directions to an Eircode 3. How to easily use your phone as an in-car Sat-Nav
During the recent Eircode Success Stories Conference, Jon Hawkins, IS Project Leader at Waterford City & County Council, reported on the implementation of Eircode and on how Autoaddress is driving efficiencies.