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Why is the town/village appearing in the Apartment field?
Updated over a week ago

For most countries an address is made up of the following lines - not all of which are necessarily required to deliver mail.

Fetchify Data Structure

Common Address Structure

Shopify Field Names

Company Name

Company Name

Company Name*

Address Line 1

Flat 3, 35 My Street

Address

Address Line 2

Local Area Name

Apartment/Suite*

City

Birmingham

City

County / Province

West Midlands

Province/State

Postcode / Zipcode

AA1 1AA

Postcode / Zipcode

You will see in Shopify checkouts that the layout and available fields changes based on the country the user has selected to ship to, and the applicable address format for that country.

For checkouts to UK shipping addresses for example, the County field is no longer present as it is not required by Royal Mail for addressing.


If an address contains a smaller town, village or suburb as part of a larger city, this information is populated into the field labeled ‘Apartment/Suite’ as this actually represents Address Line 2 in the Shopify back-end. For other countries, this field may also be populated with other regionally relevant address information.

We are working with Shopify to try to improve the field naming conventions for the UK and other territories so that they more accurately match the expected formats for those areas.

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