ZIP Code Depot

Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

What can I do with ZIP code database?
There're many occasions you can utilize the ZIP code database products. For example:
- You want to find out city name, area code, time zone information from a given ZIP code;
- You want to find out the geographical location(latitude, longitude) from a given ZIP code;
- You have multiple offices/stores in different locations, then you can implement a website which can let your customers find the closest one to the given ZIP code;
- You want to find out the geographical distance between two given ZIP code;
- Much more applications can have much more wonderful features with ZIP code database support

Why should I choose your ZIP code database?
- You get most accurate, complete and update to date ZIP code database;
- Our ZIP code data are supplied by official government organization and provide monthly update;
- We grantee lowest price;
- 30 days money back guarantee;
- excellent technical support;
- Value added professional services by our dedicated consultants can help you do web design, web development, as well as web hosting;
- Free technical consulting services for our clients;
- ZIP code related products, SDKs help you to ease your development;

How many records in your ZIP code database?
The ZIP code database updates monthly, so the record number can be varying for each month. Our latest database products show that there're about 70,600 records in each of the USA ZIP code database, with about 42,500 unique ZIP codes; and there're about 786,000 records in each of the Canadian postal code database, with about 785,000 unique postal codes.

How often do you update your ZIP code database?
The ZIP code database updates monthly, and it will be available for downloading no later than the 2nd week of each month.

I'm a technical idiot; I don't know how to implement the ZIP code supported web site, where do I find help?
Don't worry, ZIPCodeDepot consulting team strives to develop solutions that meet the unique needs and goals of each client. As a ZIPCodeDepot client you'll benefit from our knowledge, years of experience, service orientation, ZIP Code enabled solutions, and passion for web development.
- We are professional
- We are client focused
- We value honesty and integrity
- We combine cutting edge technology and design
- We are highly recommended by previous clients
- We are a Canadian company based in Vancouver BC
- We are a flexible team, ready to serve your every need

What payment methods do you accept?
Currently, we use PayPal as our online payment service provider; they accept credit cards, debit cards, and bank account payments.

Who are ZIPCodeDepot Inc. employee and employers?
ZIPCodeDepot Inc. is a professional ZIP code database products and service provider, and was founded by a number of talented both business and technical sharp senior consultants. Our mission is to provide the most professional and affordable US ZIP code and Canadian postal code database and related services. ZIPCodeDepot consulting team strives to develop solutions that meet the unique needs and goals of each client. As a ZIPCodeDepot client you'll benefit from our knowledge, years of experience, service orientation, ZIP Code enabled solutions, and passion for web development.

Why can you offer better price than other companies?
Simply to say, we don't have much overhead for our management. Different from traditional company, we exclusively focus on the online market to reduce our cost for running the business, also we work remotely from your office; this ensures us able to offer very efficient while affordable services.

What are the latitude and longitude mean to the ZIP code?
Latitude and longitude are used to identify the geographic center of the ZIP Code. However, ZIP codes don't have a center, because they were never meant to identify a geographic region, they're used for ease of delivering mail.

Why the record number of your database is greater than the ZIP code number?
Each ZIP code corresponds to a primary city name, but a few ZIP codes also have alias city names, this brings more record number than the ZIP code number. However, each ZIP code only has one latitude and longitude.

I failed to complete the download when I did purchase first time, can I download again?
Not a problem at all, you can login to our website, click the download link and download the products as many times as you want.

What if I forget my login password?
Simply input your e-mail address in the password recovery page, the new password will be sent to your mailbox right away.

How can I download the updates?
Once you successfully pass the payment verification and confirmed the payment, you can login to our website, the download link will appear below our account information, and then you can download the products right away.

What changes will be in each update?
Occasionally, there're some ZIP codes, or area codes can be altered, merged or deleted, therefore, some records can be changed or deleted in each update. We put latest complete data for each update.