Every checkout, sign-up form, and booking flow needs one thing to work well: a clean, correct address. Get it wrong and you get failed deliveries, abandoned carts, and dirty data. The usual fix is Google Places Autocomplete — fast and familiar, but it sends every keystroke your customers type to a US-operated service, and bills you per keystroke. WattleAddr is the Australian alternative that keeps addresses — and your customers' privacy — onshore.
What WattleAddr is
WattleAddr is a sovereign Australian address API, built on the open Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF) and served entirely from Australian infrastructure. It does three jobs your forms need:
- Autocomplete — type-ahead suggestions as a customer types, via a drop-in browser widget or the REST API
- Verify & standardise — match free-text input to a canonical G-NAF record with clean, structured components
- Geocode — return latitude and longitude for maps, routing, and service areas
It covers every current, geocoded Australian address — around 16.9 million of them — so the address your customer needs is always in the list.
Sovereign and privacy-first by design
WattleAddr is hosted only in Australia (Sydney, with a Melbourne backup). No customer keystrokes are ever sent offshore, and end-user address data is never sold or shared. For teams with data-residency obligations — government, healthcare, finance — that is the whole point: the address lookup that used to route through a foreign provider now stays home.
Address autocomplete that never leaves Australia — the sovereign, privacy-first alternative to Google Places.
Pricing that respects how addresses work
Billing is session-based. All the keystrokes a customer types while finding a single address collapse into one billable lookup — you pay per completed address, not per keystroke. There's a generous free tier to start, Starter and Growth plans that scale with volume, and custom Enterprise and Government terms. All prices are in AUD.
Built to drop in
Add the autocomplete to any form with a single script and a domain-locked publishable key, or call the REST API directly from your backend with a secret key. It's designed to replace a Google Places integration with minimal changes to your code.
Get started
WattleAddr is live. Explore it at wattleaddr.com.au and grab an API key at console.wattleaddr.com.au.