About the Shopify Plus Integration

See how the Loqate Shopify Plus Integration looks in practice

In this guide we will explain what the Loqate Shopify Plus Integration does and how it works in practice. If you want to skip straight to the installation steps, you can find those here:

Integration guide

Check out the Loqate Shopify Plus Integration Guide

The Loqate Shopify Plus Integration, downloadable via the Shopify App Store, allows you to quickly and easily add Loqate’s address validation services to the checkout page of your Shopify Plus site. With some or all of these services enabled you can provide your customers with type-ahead lookup functionality for address fields (reducing both input times and the likelihood of errors), verification for manually-entered addresses, and email address validation.

We’ve created this integration to take advantage of Shopify’s new Checkout Extensibility functionality, which means you can leverage Shopify’s latest technology as part of the Loqate app.

Installing and setting up this Shopify Plus app is a straightforward process, and in this guide we will take you through the handful of quick steps required to get up and running. You don’t need any in-depth technical knowledge in order to install this app, just familiarity with Shopify Plus.

Available services

The Loqate Shopify Plus Integration includes three Loqate services:

• Address Capture, which provides a type-ahead solution for address input
• Address Verify, which ensures the accuracy of manually-entered addresses
• Email Validation, which ensures the accuracy of customer email addresses

Read on to find out more about what each service does, and how they complement each other.

NOTE: these services are designed to work together, but each one can be enabled/disabled individually. Address Capture is enabled by default, but while it’s not recommended it is possible to disable Address Capture and use just Address Verify and/or Email Validation. See the ‘Use without Address Capture’ section below for more details.

Address Capture

This is active by default once you’ve installed and configured the app, adding type-ahead address lookup functionality to the Address field on your checkout form and allowing customers to start typing in their address and then select the relevant one from a list of suggested addresses.

Address Capture is available in both the Delivery address and Billing address sections.

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Integration guide

If you’re looking for installation instructions, check out the Loqate Shopify Plus Integration Guide

In use

With the Loqate Shopify app installed and configured, your customers can use Loqate services when inputting their details.

Video overview

Here’s an overview of what this looks like in practice, using an example checkout page:

Example screenshots

We’ve also put together some screenshots of how that might look on an example checkout page, to give you a sense of what to expect.

Address Capture in use

Here’s what it looks like during an address lookup and after an address has been selected in the Delivery address section:

And here’s what it looks like during an address lookup and after an address has been selected in the Billing address section:

Note: the countries listed in the Country/Region dropdown list are tied directly to what you’ve set in the ‘Shipping and delivery’ section of your Shopify store settings. Therefore, if you only ship to certain countries, only those countries will appear in the dropdown. If a customer enters an address outside of those countries, Address Capture will not be able to return suggestions in the country they’re looking for and Address Verify will not recognise the inputted address (see the Address Verify section below).

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For the full details of how to install and set up the Loqate Shopify Plus Integration, see our setup guide:

Integration guide

Check out the Loqate Shopify Plus Integration Guide