Postcode widget

[prothosservices]

Hello

As the title suggests, i would like a potcode checker on a few of my websites. Could anyone recommend a good software company that could do this? My web designer does not offer this service.

I have tried adding a pic of the design i would like but i don't have over 30 posts, so cannot include in the post.

Thank you, Tom
Prothos Services Ltd

 

[Kixo]

if your site is in a CMS system like wordpress or joomla there are many plugins for that. Do you know what your site is written in?

 

[prothosservices]

Hi Kixo

The site was designed with his own designed CMS called Editir (the smarter web company) but I'm more interested in implementing it on a couple of my Wix sites.

 

[Kixo]

i really need to change my name.... sorry its dan

there are lots of options, i used a API back in 2005ish but looks like they no longer run, i believe royal mail is pretty good but cant vouch on price and personal experience on it.... http://www.poweredbypaf.com/ maybe others have better suggestions sorry

 

[Scoped Solutions]

Postcode Anywhere have a postcode lookup service, we use it in a lot of our apps - however, there is a cost per lookup - it's only pence, but if it's on a public facing site (rather than an internal system, as ours are) you'll have little or no control over how many credits (and £'s) you'll rack up!

I can't imagine there will be a "free" version of this, since the Royal Mail own the PAF data and charge for it at source.

 

[BenKirkwood]

I was playing around with this recently it uses Google maps API (free but with some limits) and does provide postcode lookups of a sort - could be hacked a bit by your developer to work for you? Demos

 

[Cameron Ziafat]

Postcode anywhere is our go to solution, though they do keep charging us £30 by accident!

 

[Abe Choi]

Yep, we also use Postcode anywhere. Not enough resources to build it, so we buy it.

 

[Chris Elwood]

Hi. We have built a simple "Store Finder" using the Google Maps as suggested above. If you send me a message I can send you the demo link personally as I don't think it is 100% complete yet. It is pretty easy to use as well. Also if you are running an off the shelf website package such as Joomla or Wordpress or Magento there are loads of available plugins to do this also.

 

[Norman Bailey]

When you say 'postcode checker' do you mean to check that the postcode is valid or to do a full lookup? You can validate a postcode fairly easily using a simple call to Google Maps or Bing. As far as postcode lookups go the easiest to work with is PostcodeAnywhere but there are alternatives from AFD or QAS. These are all paid services. You are looking around 5p per search with these.

You can do a free limited postcode lookup with Google Maps or Bing that gets you as far as the local area. You could also look at OpenStreetMaps which is free.