Basic Business Registration

Required Input

Required Input

Input	Value
country	NG
id_type	BASIC_BUSINESS_REGISTRATION
id_number	Business registration number (numbers only without the 2 letter suffix) e.g. RC 0000000 should be submitted as 0000000
business_type	The incorporation type of the business. Can be any of the following items: bn - for business name registration co - for private or public limited companies it - for incorporated trustees

Response fields

Company Information.Address	No
Company Information.Authorized Shared Capital	No
Company Information.Company Type	Yes
Company Information.Country	Yes
Company Information.Email	No
Company Information.Industry	Yes
Company Information.Legal Name	Yes
Company Information.Phone	No
Company Information.Registration Date	Yes
Company Information.Registration Number	Yes
Company Information.Search Number	Yes
Company Information.State	No
Company Information.Status	Yes
Company Information.Tax Id	No

All fields are returned as string

ID Number Regular Expression (Regex)

To limit the probability of your user mistyping the id number, we advise that you enforce the format of the id number field in your app. You can use the regex below:

• /^0{7}$|^(?![0]+$)[A-Z0-9]{1,8}$/i

Supported Products

• Business Verification

Sample ID Numbers

To test Nigerian basic 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.

Always send co as the business_type in sandbox.

ID Number	Result	Result Code
0000000	Success with business information returned	1012
0000001	Failure, no record found	1013
0000002	Error: Invalid ID number format	2413
0000003	Database unavailable	1015