Frequently asked questions

China is home to 1.4 billion people, 140 million of which shop outside of the country for goods and services. But for companies operating outside the country, it can often be difficult to effectively sell and ship goods cross-border due to poor address-level data on consumers. Poor data makes it difficult to verify a customer, to identify and deliver to their address and causes compliance issues with Chinese regulations. 

Yes, within our Address Verify solution, our global batch and real-time address verification product but only to a V3 Street/Thoroughfare level. The China Premium Data Set significantly enhances our address verification capability in this market and enable verification to a V4 Premise level. Additionally, the China Premium Data Set is available for both our global Address Capture and Address Verify solutions.

Mapping data in China must respect local laws and regulations. Only a few certified companies are legally permitted to create map data (including premise level address data files) and serve that data to third parties. The China Premium Data Set reference data cannot leave mainland China in either its raw or compiled format.

This means:

• We can provide a locally installed Verify product to businesses physically located in mainland China.
• We can also provide data through partners who are delivering products containing Loqate solutions to businesses in China.
• Loqate customers based outside of China will be able to query the China Premium Data Set using Capture, or pass complete or incomplete address strings using Verify. The query will be routed by Loqate to the China-based servers, and the result can be sent back to the point of query, even if that is outside of China. For clarity, we cannot take reference data out of China, but we can export a result as described above.

The reference data is held in Pinyin (Latin version) and Simplified Chinese. Therefore, the search can begin with either variant and be exported in either variant. The transliteration capabilities in Verify remain.

Any GBG product or service that utilizes Loqate products, services, or data will be able to make use of the higher grade China Premium Data Set. 

Loqate Address Verification (Verify) and Loqate Address Capture (Capture).

• Verify: on-premise (China only), SaaS
• Capture: SaaS