ContactsLaw captures the
addresses of your
contacts for the purpose of sending written correspondence, location-based profiling and managing business registration details. To that end, addresses can be marked as
physical,
mailing or
registered office. You can also store other addresses (such as property locations) and assign your own labels to addresses.
ContactsLaw comes pre-loaded with comprehensive data from Australia Post to assist in entering addresses. You can perform a forward or reverse lookup for postcodes and suburbs, or choose from a list of countries and states.
By storing addresses in component form, ContactsLaw is able to offer maximum flexibility; local addresses can be simplified, domestic or international addresses can be expanded, and addresses can be formatted to span over either multiple lines or a single row.
| Note: For local and domestic addresses, ContactsLaw will omit the name of the country. For local addresses, ContactsLaw will omit the name of the state. This behaviour can be configured in the System settings section of the Management tab on The Practice. |
You can also inherit addresses from any related contact. If an inherited address is changed on the owning contact, those changes will be reflected on the inheriting contact.
Document production
When creating document templates, you can include fields for a specific address type (physical, mailing, etc) or take the first available address on the contact (by mapping to the non-specific 'Address' fields).
By default, ContactsLaw uses fallback rules to select alternative addresses when the requested address type is not present on the contact:
| Mailing |
Mailing (no fallback) |
| Physical |
Physical, Mailing |
| Registered office |
Registered office, Mailing, Physical |
This behaviour can be switched off for individual fields by using the 'Change fallback behaviour' formatting rule.