Business Registration

Required Input

Input
Value

country

ZA

id_type

BUSINESS_REGISTRATION

id_number

Business registration number

Response fields

Response Field
Value Returned

Company Information.Company Type

Yes

Company Information.Country

Yes

Company Information.Address

Yes

Company Information.Registration Number

Yes

Company Information.Search Number

Yes

Company Information.Authorized Shared Capital

No

Company Information.Authorized Shared Capital Breakdown.Nominal Value

No

Company Information.Authorized Shared Capital Breakdown.Type

No

Company Information.Authorized Shared Capital Breakdown.Number Of Shares

No

Company Information.Industry

Yes

Company Information.Tax Id

Yes

Company Information.Registration Date

Yes

Company Information.Phone

No

Company Information.Legal Name

Yes

Company Information.State

No

Company Information.Email

No

Company Information.Status

Yes

Directors.Shareholdings

Yes

Directors.Shareholding Breakdown.Type

No

Directors.Shareholding Breakdown.Number Of Shares

No

Directors.Id Number

Yes

Directors.Address

Yes

Directors.Occupation

No

Directors.Gender

No

Directors.Nationality

Yes

Directors.Date Of Birth

Yes

Directors.Name

Yes

Directors.Id Type

No

Directors.Phone Number

Yes

Proprietors.Id Number

No

Proprietors.Address

No

Proprietors.Occupation

No

Proprietors.Gender

No

Proprietors.Nationality

No

Proprietors.Date Of Birth

No

Proprietors.Name

No

Proprietors.Id Type

No

Proprietors.Phone Number

No

Beneficial Owners.Shareholdings

No

Beneficial Owners.Shareholding Breakdown.Type

No

Beneficial Owners.Shareholding Breakdown.Number Of Shares

No

Beneficial Owners.Address

No

Beneficial Owners.Gender

No

Beneficial Owners.Nationality

No

Beneficial Owners.Registration Number

No

Beneficial Owners.Name

No

Beneficial Owners.Shareholder Type

No

Beneficial Owners.Phone Number

No

Fiduciaries.Name

Yes

Fiduciaries.Fiduciary Type

Yes

Fiduciaries.Address

Yes

Fiduciaries.Registration Number

Yes

Fiduciaries.Status

Yes

Documents.Search Certificate

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:

  • /\d{4}\/\d{6}\/\d{2}/

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 Number
Result
Result Code

0000/000000/00

Success with business information returned

1012

0000/000001/00

Failure, no record found

1013

0000/000002/00

Error: Invalid ID number format

2413

0000/000003/00

Database unavailable

1015

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