Business Registration

Required Input

InputValue

country

KE

id_type

BUSINESS_REGISTRATION

id_number

Business registration number

postal_code

The postal code of the business (must be a 5 digit string)

postal_address

The postal address of the business (must be a 4 or 5 digit string)

Response fields

Response FieldValue Returned

Company Information.Company Type

No

Company Information.Country

Yes

Company Information.Address

Yes

Company Information.Registration Number

Yes

Company Information.Search Number

Yes

Company Information.Authorized Shared Capital

Yes

Company Information.Authorized Shared Capital Breakdown.Nominal Value

Yes

Company Information.Authorized Shared Capital Breakdown.Type

Yes

Company Information.Authorized Shared Capital Breakdown.Number Of Shares

Yes

Company Information.Industry

No

Company Information.Tax Id

Yes

Company Information.Registration Date

Yes

Company Information.Phone

Yes

Company Information.Legal Name

Yes

Company Information.State

No

Company Information.Email

Yes

Company Information.Status

Yes

Directors.Shareholdings

Yes

Directors.Shareholding Breakdown.Type

Yes

Directors.Shareholding Breakdown.Number Of Shares

Yes

Directors.Id Number

Yes

Directors.Address

No

Directors.Occupation

No

Directors.Gender

No

Directors.Nationality

Yes

Directors.Date Of Birth

Yes

Directors.Name

Yes

Directors.Id Type

No

Directors.Phone Number

No

Proprietors.Id Number

Yes

Proprietors.Address

No

Proprietors.Occupation

No

Proprietors.Gender

No

Proprietors.Nationality

Yes

Proprietors.Date Of Birth

No

Proprietors.Name

Yes

Proprietors.Id Type

No

Proprietors.Phone Number

No

Beneficial Owners.Shareholdings

Yes

Beneficial Owners.Shareholding Breakdown.Type

Yes

Beneficial Owners.Shareholding Breakdown.Number Of Shares

Yes

Beneficial Owners.Address

No

Beneficial Owners.Gender

No

Beneficial Owners.Nationality

Yes

Beneficial Owners.Registration Number

Yes

Beneficial Owners.Name

Yes

Beneficial Owners.Shareholder Type

Yes

Beneficial Owners.Phone Number

No

Fiduciaries.Name

Yes

Fiduciaries.Fiduciary Type

Yes

Fiduciaries.Address

No

Fiduciaries.Registration Number

Yes

Fiduciaries.Status

No

Documents.Search Certificate

No

All fields are returned as string

Supported Products

Sample ID Numbers

To test Kenyan business registration in our Sandbox, we provide you with 4 different id numbers to mirror various scenarios you can experience with real IDs in production.

ID NumberResultResult Code

CPR/0000/000000

Success with business information returned

1012

CPR/0000/000001

Failure, no record found

1013

CPR/0000/000002

Error: Invalid ID number format

2413

CPR/0000/000003

Database unavailable

1015

For all test scenarios, please use the following values for postal_code and postal_address

postal_code: 00000 postal_address: 0000

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