Fifteen concrete situations, from verifying a supplier before payment to anticipating public-contract expiries. Each page states what the routes do, what they do not do, and what the figures are worth.
Verify a supplier before you pay them One call, one verdict: active company number, VAT validated live at VIES, IBAN form-checked, bank identified. No account, no API key, paid per call.
Validate an intra-community VAT number Live validation against VIES for every EU member state, with the consultation identifier kept as proof. An outage is never served as an invalid number.
Assessing a customer's default risk A 0-100 score at ~12 months, computed at call time from filed accounts, with every component, its threshold and a confidence level.
Detecting insolvency proceedings Administration, liquidation, deregistration: by company number or by criteria. Czech, British and Latvian registers also covered.
Comparing companies on official data 2 to 5 companies side by side: identity, default-risk score, latest statutory accounts, alerts. A comparability block flags when the comparison is meaningless.
Automating business verification (KYB) One call returns a full file on a French company: identity, officers, legal alerts, accounts, sanctions screening — each block with its provenance.
Identifying a company's beneficial owners The UK PSC register and the Latvian register, live and as open data. For France, only ownership from filed articles of association is available.
Checking a provider's authorisation Payment, e-money, insurance, telecoms, asset management, crypto: three official registers by company number, plus the ESMA registers by name.
Anticipating public-contract expiries Buyers typically re-tender 4 to 9 months before expiry. Filter contracts ending inside your window by CPV segment and department, with the incumbent holder.
Building a B2B prospecting list Multi-criteria filters over the complete registry: activity, area, legal form, workforce, age, certifications. 100 active companies per page.
Querying European company registers One response shape for thirteen countries, plus what each register does not publish. Belgian, Danish, British and Swedish annual accounts.