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Four months ago, I joined the International Growth team at Shopify. The mission of the INTL team (as we call it) is to help Shopify conquer international markets. Our team builds tools, services and enhances Shopify’s platform to make it scale to different markets where we need to tailor the experience locally to a country: add new shipping patterns, new payment paradigms, and be compliant with local laws. As a senior web developer, the first problem I tackled was to make sure addresses were formatted correctly for everyone, everywhere. Addresses are core parts of our merchant’s business; crucial when delivering products and dealing with customers. At the same time, they are also a crucial part of a customer's journey. Entering an address in a form seems obvious, but there are essential details that you need to get right when going international. Details that might not seem obvious if you haven't thought about it or never lived abroad. I’m going to take you through some of the problems the team encountered when dealing with addresses and how we solved some of those problems. The Problem with Addresses Definition Let’s start with a simple definition. At Shopify, we describe an address with the following fields: First name Last name Address line 1 Address line 2 Zone code Postal code City Country code Phone Zones are administrative divisions by country (see Wikipedia’s article), they are States in the US, provinces in Canada, etc. Some of these fields may be optional or required depending on the country. Ordering When looking at the fields listed above, I’m assuming that for some readers, the order of the fields listed make sense. Well, it’s not the case for most people of the world. For example: In Japan, people start their address by entering their postal code. Postal codes are very precise, so with just seven digits, a whole address can be auto-completed. The last name is first, otherwise, it’s considered rude In France, the postal code comes before the city while in Canada it’s the opposite As you can imagine, the list goes on and on. All of these details can’t be overlooked for a proper localized experience for customers connecting from everywhere in the world. At the same time, creating one version of the form for every country leads to unnecessary code duplication— something to avoid for the code to scale and remain maintainable. Wording Let's talk about wording. What is address1? What is zone? Parts of an address aren’t the same around the world, so how to name the labels of forms when building them? The tough part of these differences, from a developer’s perspective, is that we had variations per country, as well as, variations per locale. For example: Zone can refer to

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You’re creating a patient registration flow and your user is partway through the form wizard and needs more information on how to find and fill out their “insurance certificate number” in order to continue. Some users need to know what this means. Others need to know where to find it (hint: it’s on another piece of paper).

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