Address

ContactsLaw captures the addresses of your contacts for the purpose of sending written correspondence, location-based profiling and managing business registration details.

Purposes

Addresses can be used for the following purposes:

• Physical - The actual location of a business or individual.
• Mailing - Used specifically for sending correspondence.
• Registered Office - Official address for business registration purposes.

An address can be used for more than one purpose.

Auto-Completion

ContactsLaw comes pre-loaded with data from Australia Post to streamline the process of entering addresses. This feature includes:

• Forward Lookup - Enter a suburb name to retrieve the corresponding postcode.
• Reverse Lookup - Enter a postcode to retrieve the corresponding suburb names.
• Country and State Lists - Choose from a list of predefined countries and states to ensure accuracy and consistency.

Formatting

ContactsLaw uses structured addresses where the individual components of the address are stored separately. This allows, for example:

• Domestic Addresses - Can be simplified by omitting the name of the state or country.
• International Addresses - Adjusted for clarity and layout preferences.

Management

Multiple addresses can be added to a contact with custom descriptions for each.

Addresses can be marked as being effective during a certain period only. Addresses that are no longer effective will be retained (and can be searched) but will not display on the contact summary. Addresses can be future dated - helpful for example, if the contact is known to be changing address.

Inheritance

A contact can inherit an address from a related contact. Any updates made to the entity's address automatically update contact's inherited address.