Geocoding

Use Cashfree Geocoding to convert structured, human-readable street addresses into precise latitude and longitude coordinates for mapping and verification.

Cashfree’s Geocoding converts a human-readable address into precise latitude and longitude coordinates. This API takes a street address and returns geographic coordinates, helping businesses use location data for mapping, route optimisation, and address verification.

You can also provide the latitude and longitude of two locations to calculate the distance between them, which is useful for various location-based applications like route planning, shipping, and fraud detection.

Key benefits

Geocoding offers the following key advantages:

• Seamless Geo-tagging: Our API integrates easily into your existing processes, enabling automatic geo-tagging of customer-submitted documents and media for streamlined tracking and validation.
• Real-Time retrieval: The API provides precise latitude and longitude coordinates instantly, reducing manual effort and accelerating workflows for routing, shipping, and address verification.
• Distance calculation: Calculate the distance between two locations by providing their latitude and longitude coordinates. This feature is essential for applications such as shipping optimisation and fraud detection.

Use cases

Geocoding can improve operations, services, and workflows in various industries:

Business type	Use case
Fintech and banking	Verify customer addresses in real-time during onboarding or transactions.
Lending and financial services	Compare a user’s registered address with the live location of a transaction to detect suspicious activity.
E-commerce and retail	Optimise shipping routes by converting customer addresses into coordinates.
Logistics and transportation	Track deliveries and fleet progress by converting pickup and drop-off addresses into coordinates.

Verify geocoding

You can use the Geocoding API to convert addresses into precise latitude and longitude coordinates for accurate location mapping.

The Merchant Dashboard flow for Geocoding is currently being developed and will be available for implementation soon.