Postal Districts Single Dialogs Workspace

Use this workspace to identify the individual postal districts for the countries and regions with which you do business.

For consistency and brevity, the term "zip code" is used in the following descriptions; however, the same information applies to other types of postal codes that countries use.

After you establish a list of valid postal districts and their zip codes, you can use this information to automatically populate fields in workspaces and to check that the zip codes that you enter manually are valid.

For each country, you can create a list of the postal districts within that country, specifying the zip code and name that pertain to each postal district. The Postal Districts tab displays the name of the current country. In the Postal Districts sub-tab you can create a line for each postal district existing in that country.

By creating a list of postal districts for a given country you make it possible to search for a zip code in that country when you enter addresses in, for example, customer information cards, orders, and so on. For instance, if you are creating a customer and you need to enter an address, you can place the cursor in the zip code field and press Ctrl+G (or Apple+G on Macintosh) to look up the zip codes in the country of the customer in question. In addition, when you enter a zip code in another workspace, Maconomy automatically inserts the relevant postal district name, provided that you created the zip code in the zip code list for the country in question.

For each country you can also specify whether Maconomy should automatically validate the zip codes used in entries and information cards. You do this by selecting the Validate Zip Codes field. If you select this field for a given country, only zip codes that you created in the list of postal districts for the country in question are accepted when you enter zip codes in other workspaces, such as customer information cards and orders. If you do not use validation for a given country, you can still look up zip codes for that country, but you can enter any zip code, even if does not appear in the list of postal districts.