Countries, Provinces, and States

Keep your location data accurate and standardised with Countries, Provinces, and States. MyPetParlor App stores countries, Canadian provinces, and U.S. states as ISO alpha-2 codes, which improves communication with payment gateways and tax services and reduces address validation errors.

Definition#

Countries, Provinces, and States is the system that converts country, province, and state values to ISO alpha-2 codes inside the account, billing, invoice, and shipping address records. These codes are the format used when MyPetParlor App communicates with payment gateways and other third parties, so location data stays in a universally recognised shape.

Key Benefits#

• Standardisation — Using ISO alpha-2 codes for countries, provinces, and states gives every record the same recognised format and reduces the chance of typos.
• Improved communication — Standard codes are sent to payment gateways and tax services, so address data transfers cleanly between systems.
• Reduced errors — Sending capitalised ISO alpha-2 codes minimises address validation and tax-calculation errors at gateway level.
• Comprehensive coverage — All recognised countries, all Canadian provinces, and all U.S. states are supported.

Key Details#

How It Works#

1. When sending location data to MyPetParlor App — for example, when creating an account, updating an address, or processing a transaction — send countries, provinces, and states as their capitalised ISO alpha-2 codes. For example, send US for the United States, CA for Canada, ZA for South Africa, ON for Ontario, or NY for New York.
2. If MyPetParlor App can't match the value to a recognised code, the raw input is stored as-is. For example, sending New York instead of NY results in New York being stored on the address record.
3. Where the value matches a known code, the standard code is what gets passed to payment gateways and tax services for transactions, validation, and reporting.

Countries#

MyPetParlor App follows the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard for country codes. Common codes used by accounts on the platform include:

The full list covers every recognised country. Use the official ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 reference for any code not shown above.

Canadian Provinces#

MyPetParlor App follows the ISO 3166-2:CA codes for Canadian provinces and territories.

U.S. States#

MyPetParlor App follows the ISO 3166-2:US codes for U.S. states, federal district, and Armed Forces designations.

Address Region Fields#

These location fields appear across the account billing domain.

Where These Fields Appear#

Why Consistency Matters#

Using ISO alpha-2 codes consistently across these records helps with:

• Correct invoice display.
• Tax and VAT calculation.
• Payment gateway verification and billing-info validation.
• Shipping and service-location communication.
• Reporting by country or region.
• Matching customers to the right business entity where location-based billing rules apply.

Recommended Formatting#

Related Articles#

• Account Settings
• Account Dashboard
• Account Wallet