API Standard Constants and Codes

Postal Address Data

The following guidelines apply to handling data from our web service APIs that contain postal address information.

Country Codes

We use the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 set of country codes in our addresses

State/Region Codes

For US states and Canadian Provinces, we expect data in the form of the two-character state abbreviation.

Postal Code

When providing ZIP code information for US addresses, try to provide a full 10-digit zip code (5 digit, dash, 4 digit) format. Some examples of US ZIP codes:

CODE

60062-1234
60601-1000
54445

Address Contact Types

Value	Description
100	Business Address
110	Home Address

Phone Data

The following guidelines describe conventions for handling phone number contact data. Generally, we do not validate phone information for number of digits, however if alphabetic and certain punctuation characters are present in a phone number the data may be rejected.

Some examples of clean phone data

CODE

123 555 1212
123-555-1212
1235551212
1123-555-1212
0252929392001

Some examples of bad phone data:

CODE

123.555.1212
1235551212 m
123-555-1212 mobile
800-call-joe

Phone Contact Types

Value	Description
200	Business Phone
210	Home Phone
230	Mobile Phone
240	Fax
250	Foreign Phone
260	Foreign Fax
270	Pager

Email Data

The following guidelines describe conventions for handling phone number contact data. We employ fairly strict validation on email address data. If the form of an email address is not valid (wrong number of characters, contains illegal characters), the data will be marked as invalid, which could result in the service returning an error, or at least marking the email data as invalid. There are a lot of publicly available email address validation routines, including regular expressions that can be used to implement basic email form validation.

Samples of bad email data:

CODE

jsmith@domain.142
1234@doma^in.com
jsmith@domain.foo.bar.biz.com

Email Contact Types

Value	Description
300	Primary (Business) Email Address
310	Secondary (Home) Email Address

Product Data

Use the below table to decode the “ProductType” element that is returned from the Brand Comprehensive Lookup Service.

Product Types

Value	Description
1	Magazine
2	Newsletter
3	Event
4	Catalog
5	Email Deployment
6	Association Membership
7	Website
8	Newsstand
9	Accounting
10	Sales

Paid Subscription Data

Payment Status Codes

Use the below table to decode the “PaymentStatus” element that is returned from the Customer Subscriptions Lookup By Customer Id.

value	description	what it means
1	Paid on invoice.	Customer paid after being invoiced.
2	Paid with order.	Customer paid at the time of his order.
3	Credit.	Customer owes an outstanding balance on the subscription.
5	Grace.	Customer subscription is in grace.
6	Free.	Customer is being granted a free subscription, but isn’t necessarily qualified by the publisher.
7	Controlled.	Customer was selected by publisher to receive subscription for free.
8	Free Term.	Customer was granted a paid subscription at no cost. (free with expire date, formerly known as comp)

Subscription Class Codes

Use the below table to decode the “SubscriptionClass” element that is returned from the Customer Subscription Lookup By Customer Id.

value	Description	Considered Active?	applies to
1	Active. For controlled magazine products, 1 denotes Active Controlled.	yes	All product types.
2	Active Non-Qualified	yes	Only products with paid circulation.
3	Qualified Reserve	no	Only products with controlled circulation.
8	Soft controlled kills	no	Only products with controlled circulation.
9	Controlled kills	no	Only products with controlled circulation.
10	ACS kills (Address Correction Service)	no	Only products having subscription address delivery.
20	Expire suspends	no	Subscription based products having an expiration date.
21	Future starts	no	Subscription based products having an expiration date.
21	Postal suspends	no	Only products having subscription address delivery.
23	Credit Suspends	no	Subscription based paid products.
24	Requested Suspends	no	Any product type.
25	Kill/Refunds	no	Subscription based paid products.
50	Passalong	no	Any product type.

Credit Card Type Codes

Use the below table to provide the “CreditCardType” element to Save Customer and Order Paid API.

value	Description
1	Visa
2	Mastercard
3	American Express
4	Discover
5	Diners Club
104	Euro Card

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