Tarneaadress

Tarneaadress is a term used in logistics and e-commerce to denote the address where goods are delivered. The concept is central to order fulfillment, shipping labels, and customer communication, and it distinguishes the destination for delivery from other addresses associated with a customer, such as a billing address.

Etymology and usage context: In Estonian, tarne means delivery and aadress means address, so tarneaadress translates to the delivery address. The term is commonly encountered in Estonian-language platforms and documentation, and it appears in similar contexts in other languages that use cognate terms for delivery addresses. In practice, many systems treat tarneaadress as a address field that can be different from the invoicing or contact address, allowing customers to specify where packages should be sent.

Typical data and validation: A tarneaadress typically includes recipient name, street address, city, postal code, country, and a contact phone number. Additional delivery instructions or unit numbers may be included. Validation often checks required fields (name, address, postal code, country), format compliance for postal codes, and consistency with shipping destinations. Some orders support multiple tarneaadress records, enabling easy reuse for future purchases or repeat shipments to different locations.

Relation to other concepts: Tarneaadress is related to but distinct from a billing address, shipping address, and contact details. In data exchanges and electronic forms, it may be represented as a dedicated field or object, sometimes alongside or in place of a general shipping address. For multilingual or multinational platforms, local terminology may substitute tarneaadress with the equivalent term in the user’s language.

See also: Delivery address, Shipping address, Billing address, Address data standards.