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# Placekey

Canonical: https://www.getapp.ca/software/2047156/placekey

> Use the Placekey API for free to generate universal location IDs for any location, solving all your address matching and normalization problems.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **5.0/5** by 3 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Key benefits of Placekey

\- Generate unique, universal identifiers for any location with the Placekey API
- Placekeys allows you to easily match disparate address and/or POI-orientated datasets
- Placekey helps you normalize addresses by resolving messy input formats
- Placekey can help identify redundant addresses in datasets, even if their address and POI formats differ
- By identifying data redundancies, Placekey can also be used to evaluate address data quality

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **5.0/5** | 3 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support Software | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 100% | (10/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Placekey

## Commercial Context

- **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free version available)
- **Pricing Details**: Placekey is open-source and completely free to use.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- API
- Address Validation
- Data Cleansing
- Data Import/Export
- Data Quality Control
- Data Synchronization
- Data Verification
- Geocoding
- Geofencing
- Geographic Maps
- Geolocation
- Match & Merge
- Reporting/Analytics
- Third-Party Integrations

## Support Options

- FAQs/Forum
- Chat

## Category

- [Location Intelligence Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/1523/location-intelligence/software)

## Related Categories

- [Location Intelligence Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/1523/location-intelligence/software)
- [Address Verification Software](https://www.getapp.ca/directory/3817/address-verification/software)

## Alternatives

1. [Smarty](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2070773/smarty-1) — 4.9/5 (91 reviews)
2. [PostGrid Address Verification](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2054291/postgrid-address-verification) — 5.0/5 (28 reviews)
3. [GeoPostcodes](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2071533/geopostcodes) — 5.0/5 (4 reviews)
4. [Geocodio](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2080699/geocodio) — 5.0/5 (70 reviews)
5. [Ideal Postcodes](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2064119/ideal-postcodes) — 5.0/5 (1 reviews)

## Reviews

### "Simple, Fast, and Free Address Standardization tool" — 5.0/5

> **Kayleigh** | *May 11, 2021* | Information Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
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> **Pros**: The best thing about Placekey is that it offers some of the best quality address standardization, completely free.
> 
> **Cons**: Its hard to think of anything to dislike with Placekey.  When it was first presented to me I was a little bit suspicious of the quality we would receive from a free product, but I have been blown away by how it just works universally - other expensive address standardization tools often have issues with at least a few addresses in our datasets, but we have yet to find an address that Placekey can’t handle.
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> We acquire address datasets from different providers and try and combine them into a single dataset.  The major issue we have with this process is that addresses are often either redundant or formatted differently.  By just appending Placekeys to our datasets we solve both of these issues with ease.

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### "Makes validating customer provided addresses extremely simple\!" — 5.0/5

> **Matthew** | *May 11, 2021* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Placekey allows us to easily check customer-entered addresses against our larger databases - even if the custoemr doesn't type in the same address we have in our records.
> 
> **Cons**: No real complaints. On occasion, it takes time to process a high number of request, but it's still fast and efficient enough to us. And it's free, so definitely worth it\!
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> Customers sometimes format their addresses differently than our database does, so Placekey helps us validate the two datasets despite the existing formatting differences.

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### "Free Address Standardization" — 5.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *May 11, 2021* | Information Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Placekey does a good job supporting its users through indepth, documentation and through support from their community.  It is extremely easy to get in touch with a representative to assist with technical issues, as a result, we were able to get our API integration up and running well ahead of schedule.
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> **Cons**: Really can't think of anything I "dislike".  We have had issues with address verification providers not covering some of the addresses in our databases - but Placekey doesn't have this problem at all.
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> Placekey is great because the key system fixes the issues with our raw address data and makes finding  redundant entries, previously a challenging and time-consuming task, very easy.

## Links

- [View on GetApp](https://www.getapp.ca/software/2047156/placekey)

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