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OpenRegisters (Kausate)

OpenRegisters (Kausate) provides data and documents for organisations in Germany through the German Handelsregister (trade registers). The data source allows you to retrieve real-time current and chronological entity information, shareholder lists, articles of association and structured information on a company.

Properties​

Data attributes​

The Data Verification API provides the following attributes from OpenRegisters (Kausate):

  • Search
  • Basic
  • Roles
  • Documents

The following documents are supported for retrieval:

  • Basic current entity information (Aktuelle Daten): basic
  • Shareholder lists (Gesellschafterlisten): shareholder
  • Articles of Association (Gesellschaftsvertrag/Satzung): registration
  • Chronological Register Information (Chronologische Übersicht): historical
  • Structured Information (Strukturierte Informationen): registerextract

API requests​

The following endpoints are supported through the OpenRegisters (Kausate) integration:

The following is a sample API request to the Organisation Documents endpoint:

https://api.signicat.com/info/lookup/organizations/documents?country=DE&documentType=basic&name=volvo &source=open-registers&rawJSON=true
Note

Because documents are retrieved in real time, requests may occasionally take longer to complete. In such cases, the orderId is cached and the document will be available for download on the next attempt.

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