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UK Companies House

Company House Report API

Company House Report orders a comprehensive report on a UK company from its Companies House number. The report is generated in the background and collected with Retrieve Company House Report, as JSON for your systems or as a PDF for a file.

  • Registration details, current and previous names, officers, persons with significant control, filing history, accounts and charges, from Companies House
  • The request returns at once with a reference; generation normally completes within a few seconds
For developers

After the technical detail?

For the technical detail, go to the API documentation. It holds the request and response schema, the integration guides and the error codes for this endpoint.

  • Request and response schema
  • UK Companies House guide and sandbox companies
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Calls to this endpoint outside the sandbox are billed. Production keys are issued once the account is approved.

Encrypted in transit and at rest Handled under the Australian Privacy Principles
What the check gives you

Obtaining the full Companies House record for due diligence on a UK company

A search confirms that a UK company exists. Know-your-business and due-diligence work needs the record itself: who the officers are, who controls the company, what it has filed and whether it carries charges. Company House Report orders that record on demand. The request returns immediately with a reference, generation runs in the background, and the report is collected with Retrieve Company House Report.

Who runs and controls the company

The report lists the officers, directors and secretaries, with active officers first, and the persons with significant control recorded against the company.

What the company is and was

Registration details, status, type, jurisdiction, dates of incorporation and cessation, the registered office, and the previous names the company has used.

What it has filed

A filing history of up to the 200 most recent filings, accounts information including reference dates and filing periods, and confirmation statement due dates.

What it owes against

Charges registered against the company, where any exist.

How a check runs

Request now, collect when the report is ready

Company House Report returns at once with an API reference and the report is generated in the background. Retrieve Company House Report holds the connection for up to 30 seconds and returns the report when it is ready, or a 202 response if it is not.

Generation normally completes within a few seconds and can take longer during busy periods. Calls to this endpoint outside the sandbox are billed.

What it costs

A monthly subscription, drawn down as you run checks

Your subscription is credited to your account each month and each check consumes credits from it. If you go past the included amount, further checks are charged at a per-check rate. The rate depends on the volume you commit to, so the sales team is the fastest way to find where your business lands.

  • Volume-based pricing
  • No lock-in contract
How billing works
Subscribe monthly, spend it as credits
  • The monthly subscription arrives as credits on your account.
  • Each check draws down credits as it runs.
  • Checks beyond the included credits are billed per check.
  • Higher monthly volume moves you to a lower rate.
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Questions

Questions we get asked about Company House Report

Do we need a developer to implement this?
Yes. Company House Report is a REST endpoint that queues the report and returns a reference, and the report is collected with a second call, so a developer connects the two-step flow to your system. A sandbox with a deterministic test dataset is provided at no usage cost, so the integration can be built and tested before production keys are issued.
What does our system need to send?
The 8-character UK Companies House company number. Nothing else.
What comes back?
This call returns a message of Ok and an API reference. The report itself is collected from Retrieve Company House Report using that reference, as JSON or, with pdf=true, as a PDF document.
How long does the report take?
Generation starts as soon as the request is made and normally completes within a few seconds. The retrieve call waits up to 30 seconds and returns a 202 response if the report is not ready, so your system repeats the call with the same reference, backing off between attempts.
How is this billed?
Calls to Company House Report outside the sandbox are billed. The retrieval call is not billed and can be repeated until the report is ready. Rates are set out in your commercial agreement.
Where does the data come from?
The register maintained by Companies House, the registrar of companies for the United Kingdom. The report carries a generation timestamp so its currency is on record.
Are the company numbers we send stored by Global Data?
Personally identifiable information sent in a request is not stored or retained unless it is needed to process that request. Query data is stripped of PII before it is kept for audit. Data in transit and at rest is encrypted, and retention follows the Australian Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles. Global Data is not a credit bureau and does not create an access footprint on any record.
Getting started

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New accounts begin with sandbox access, and production API keys are issued once the account has been commercially approved.

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