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Search business in Australia using ABN,ACN or Name This service provides business lookup based on either ABN, ACN, or business name. It will return a list with the information provided by Australian Business Register. To use this service, the user needs to be authenticated, please follow step 1 in this documentation to get the token.

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Request

cURL
    
    1| curl --location --request GET '${frankieURL}/data/v2/businesses?search=frankie' \  
    2| --header 'authorization: {token}' \

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Endpoint

…/data/v2/businesses

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Params

search:
  • Type: string
  • Value: can be ABN, ACN or name of the business.
Based on the value of the params, we detect it’s an ABN, ACN, or a name of a business. For more information:
  • An ABN is a unique 11 digit number that identifies your business to the government and community.
  • An ACN is a unique, 9-digit number that’s issued to a company as soon as it’s registered which is issued by ASIC.

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Response

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Code 200: array of ABRSearchResult

class ABRSearchResult {  
  name: Nullable<string>;  
  legalNames: string[] = [];  
  businessNames: string[] = [];  
  mainNames: string[] = [];  
  tradingNames: string[] = [];  
  score: Nullable<string> = null;  
  state: Nullable<string> = null;  
  postalCode: Nullable<string> = null;  
  type: Nullable<string> = null;  
  abn: Nullable<string> = null;  
  acn: Nullable<string> = null;  
  isActive: Nullable<boolean> = null;  
}

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Demo:

JSON
[
  {
    "legalNames": [],
    "businessNames": [],
    "mainNames": ["FRANKIE & CO PTY LTD"],
    "tradingNames": [],
    "score": "100",
    "state": "VIC",
    "postalCode": "3350",
    "type": null,
    "abn": "53637395138",
    "acn": null,
    "isActive": true,
    "name": "FRANKIE & CO PTY LTD"
  },
  {
    "legalNames": [],
    "businessNames": [],
    "mainNames": ["FRANKIE PTY LTD"],
    "tradingNames": [],
    "score": "100",
    "state": "NSW",
    "postalCode": "2018",
    "type": null,
    "abn": "58646451765",
    "acn": null,
    "isActive": true,
    "name": "FRANKIE PTY LTD"
  }
]

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Helpful Postman File

Postman Collection - Business Search