Worry-free pricing with no hidden costs or lock-in. A flat, pay-as-you-go rate of 2.5p per lookup
Access the UK's most accurate and up-to-date address database from Royal Mail, updated daily
Simple integration with clear documentation, open-source libraries and live support from developers
Leave licensing complexity to us. We also provide industry specific solutions for Public Sector, Charities and SaaS
Developers. Postcode lookups need not be so painful. The guys at @IdealPostcodes have a great API and are really helpful. Plus jQuery plugin
@IdealPostcodes Bravo guys - 60 mins from "Hm, I should add postcode lookups" to being live in production on @Thread
Awesome support and service from @IdealPostcodes - does one thing, well.
As an integral part of our onboarding process since we launched, Ideal Postcodes has contributed a lot to Starling Bank's success. Their extremely reliable service has helped to ensure that our wholly digital onboarding process provides a smooth welcome to new customers.
Jason Maude
Chief Technology Advocate, Starling Bank
Thread has relied on Ideal Postcodes's service since 2014. Integrating a vital service into a key part of your product such as checkout requires that it works reliably and consistently and you never have to worry about it and Ideal Postcodes does just that, allowing our users to checkout quickly and accurately.
Ben Phillips
Co-Founder & CTO, Thread
Iām happy with the service, it just ticks along nicely and is a better thought out and executed system than the previous one I used.
Mark Kowalczyk
Founder, Special Moment
We were drawn to the ease of use and simplicity together with excellent documentation. The support has been friendly, expert and timely.
Ceri Richmond
Managing Director, Core
The team was brilliant start to finish making integration and setup so easy! The ability to contact someone who is technical is just brilliant and makes such a refreshing change.
Andrew Board
Managing Director, Screwsline
We found Ideal Postcodes had comprehensive and straightforward documentation. It was also important for us to find a cost-effective service for our customers and with the simple pricing, Ideal Postcodes was just that.
Elliott Gresham
Technical Director, SubscriberCRM
1<!-- Add a div to house your 2 postcode input field --> 3<div id="lookup_field"></div> 4 5<!-- This is your existing form --> 6<label>Address Line One</label> 7<input id="first_line" type="text" /> 8 9<label>Address Line Two</label> 10<input id="second_line" type="text" /> 11 12<label>Address Line Three</label> 13<input id="third_line" type="text" /> 14 15<label>Post Town</label> 16<input id="post_town" type="text" /> 17 18<label>Postcode</label> 19<input id="postcode" type="text" />
1<script> 2// Add this after your form 3$('#lookup_field').setupPostcodeLookup({ 4 // Add your API key 5 api_key: 'ak_hk71kco54zGSgVf9ExxRVVNmolLNh', 6 // Identify your fields with CSS selectors 7 output_fields: { 8 line_1: '#first_line', 9 line_2: '#second_line', 10 line_3: '#third_line', 11 post_town: '#post_town', 12 postcode: '#postcode' 13 } 14}); 15</script>
Demonstrations limited to 15 lookups per IP, per day
1<input id="input" type="text" 2 placeholder="Search for an address with autocomplete" /> 3<!-- Create an input field to attach autocomplete --> 4 5<!-- Below are your existing input fields --> 6<label>Address Line One</label> 7<input id="first_line" type="text" /> 8 9<label>Address Line Two</label> 10<input id="second_line" type="text" /> 11 12<label>Address Line Three</label> 13<input id="third_line" type="text" /> 14 15<label>Post Town</label> 16<input id="post_town" type="text" /> 17 18<label>Postcode</label> 19<input id="postcode" type="text" />
1var controller = new IdealPostcodes.Autocomplete.Controller({ 2 api_key: "iddqd", 3 inputField: "#input", 4 outputFields: { 5 line_1: "#first_line", 6 line_2: "#second_line", 7 line_3: "#third_line", 8 post_town: "#post_town", 9 postcode: "#postcode" 10 } 11});
Demonstrations limited to 15 lookups per IP, per day
Our APIs provide addressing and location data for over 1,000 clients
We handle over half a billion postcode and addressing requests across our APIs every month
Our data is updated everyday with up to 5,000 changes per day
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