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The system validates customer addresses with locations that you enter in the Tax Locations and Rates window or from locations loaded from a third party vendor using the Sales Tax Rate Interface program. For each address you enter, the system will validate all segments of your Sales Tax Location Flexfield structure.

There are three levels of address validation:

Error	This level ensures that all components of your customer address are valid before you can save it in the Customer windows. If the location that you enter does not already exist, you will receive an error and must manually add the location in the Tax Locations and Rates window before you can save the address.
Warning	This level lets you save an address even if all of the locations do not exist, but displays a warning message informing you of locations that are not defined. If these locations do not exist, the system creates them for you, but does not create the corresponding rates for these new locations.
No Validation	This level lets you save an address without displaying a warning message, even if all of the locations do not exist. If these locations do not exist, the system creates them for you but does not create the corresponding rates for these new locations.

Suggestion: If you are using Sales Tax, you should ensure that all your existing locations have rates. In this case, we suggest you have address validation set to Error, so that new locations will not be automatically created with no corresponding rate.

See Also

Tax Locations and Rates

Address Validation

Defining Flexible Address Validation

Sales Tax Rate Interface