Change Address Style and Address Validation Settings

Use the Features by Country or Territory task to control address style and level of address validation for the countries or territories you configure. The values you can set depend on the combination of the country or territory and the selected country extension.

For example, for Canada, you can change the address style from its default value only when you set the country extension to Human Resources or None. You can't change the address style from its default value when you set the country extension to Payroll or Payroll Interface.

Address Styles

The address style you select determines which address attributes are available and maintained in the application. The combination of address style and address validation determines the level of validation.

Depending on the country or territory and the country extension you select, you have one or both of the following address style options. Each address style provides its own validation.

Address Style	What the Address Style Does
Postal Address	This address style provides the fundamental set of address attributes for a country or territory. In some cases, this style adds supplemental attributes. For instance this address style might include general address attributes that aren't relevant, such as State or Postal Code.
Supplemental Taxation and Reporting Address	Enforces validation to attribute changes. For example, this style may add specific validation of postal codes, such as requiring a specific number of characters in a specific sequence.

Use the Features by Country or Territory task to see what's delivered for your country. Each country has a default address style and the choice of the country extension determines whether you can change the default address style.

Address Validation Based on Country Extension

Address validation is the validation of county, city, province, and postal code combinations.

Employees must have a valid address in order for them to receive their tax card and to ensure the accuracy of their tax calculations.

Address validation is automatically enabled for some license and product extension combinations. For example, for Canada, the default is Supplemental Taxation and Reporting Address. However, the address style and address validation depends on the country extension, as shown in this table.

Extension	Style Enforced	Validation Enforced
Human Resources	No	No
Payroll Interface	Yes	No
Payroll	Yes	Yes

For Canada, if you have chosen to install Human Resources, the value for the Address Style can be modified to either format. If you have chosen to install either Payroll Interface or Payroll, the value for the Address Style can't be modified. It must be set to Supplemental Taxation and Reporting Address. Validations are implemented to enforce that requirement.

Change Address Styles

For most of the predefined countries and territories, the application enforces the address style, preventing you from making changes. However, when the address style isn't enforced, such as a customer-configured legislation, changing address styles can affect validation rules. This might lead to address data integrity and validation issues.

For example, for Canada, if you initially implement Human Resources using the Postal Address style and then later change the country extension to Payroll, you must also change the address style to Supplemental Taxation and Reporting Address. As a result, you must update your existing address data to resolve validation errors.

Note: The Supplemental Taxation and Reporting Address style, once selected, impacts both the Person and HCM Locations address styles. Ensure to test any changes you make to address style or validation for a country or territory before you implement them in a production environment. If you provide data to a third party, such as a payroll or benefit provider, statutory recipients, or financial institutions, you must test the changes. Changes to validation or address styles may result in missing data or unrecognized data.

Tip: Use the Manage Legal Addresses task to review and configure how addresses appear in the application.

Disable Address Validation

Disabling address validation disables any country-specific programmatic validation rules created for a specific country or territory. You can disable address validation on the Features by Country or Territory page.

A country or territory might have rules defined using the Manage Geographies task for validating address structure, format, or values. Disabling address validation doesn't have any impact on the validations you have set up on the Manage Geographies page.

For some countries, the application prevents you from disabling the programmatic validation. For other countries and territories, when you disable address validation, any existing validation rules for the selected address style, remains in place.

Note: For Canada, when Payroll is the selected country extension, you can't disable the address validation.

For example, suppose you have chosen Human Resources with address validation enabled. During data conversion, you want to temporarily bypass address validation rules to load a batch of worker data. You can achieve this by deselecting the Address Validation check box before loading your data. After loading the batch, if the address validation remains disabled, any new address data you enter later, could be potentially invalid. Errors may occur in subsequent processes and reports. As a result, you must re-enable address validation and update your existing address data to resolve validation errors.

Enable Address Validation

To manually enable or disable address validation:

1. Search for and start the Features by Country or Territory task.

2. Select the Address Validation box.

3. Click Save and then Done.

Caution: If you don't have address validation enabled, then you must take care when switching product extensions, as any address you previously defined may be missing required values, such as county and tax district. There's also the possibility of invalid address combinations, such as mismatched city and postal code combinations.