Registry Match
99%
Business Verification API
Know Your Business in One Call
ID Analyzer's KYB API confirms a business legally exists, checks its registration status, identifies its directors, and screens the entity against sanctions — and returns an accept, review, or reject decision in a single call.
- Confirm a business legally exists in seconds.
- Registration status, directors, and AML in one call.
- Accept, review, or reject — a clear decision back.
Screen Every Entity for Risk
A business can look legitimate on paper and still be a shell, an impersonation, or an entity hiding on a watchlist. Registry checks, director identification, and sanctions screening separate the real, clean business from the risk before you onboard it.
Confirms registration and incorporation status from official registries
Identifies and surfaces directors and officers for verification
Screens the entity against sanctions and watchlists
Four Business Checks, One Endpoint
Upload a registration document — or supply a company name and number — and receive entity confirmation, registry status, identified directors, and a sanctions verdict in a single call.
Company Existence & Details
Extracts company details from your uploaded registration document and confirms the legal name and registration number against official business registries.
Registration Status
Returns the company's current registry status — active, dissolved, or otherwise.
Directors & Officers
Surfaces the directors and officers behind the business for verification.
Sanctions & Watchlist Screening
Screens the entity and the people behind it against sanctions lists and watchlists — flagging any match in the same call as the registry check.
Four Surfaces, One Verification Engine
The same KYB API, four very different onboarding jobs. Verify the entity, identify who controls it, and decide.
B2B Customer Onboarding
Verify a corporate customer before granting access — confirm the entity exists, check its status, and identify its directors in one flow.
Supplier & Vendor Vetting
Confirm a new supplier is a real, registered business before contracts or payments go out.
Merchant & Payments Onboarding
Run KYB on every merchant before activation — registration, directors, and sanctions screening, returned as a single decision.
Periodic KYB Refresh
Re-verify existing business customers on a schedule to catch status changes, new directors, or fresh sanctions hits.
From Document to Decision in Four Steps
Every verification follows the same path. Structured JSON back, with an accept, review, or reject decision — no manual registry digging.
1. Upload the Registration Document
Submit the company's registration or incorporation document — or supply the company name and number directly when you already hold them.
2. Extract Company Details
Legal name, registration number, jurisdiction, and status are read and structured automatically. No manual data entry.
3. Check Registries & Directors
The entity is checked against official business registries to confirm it exists and is active, and its directors are identified.
4. Get the Decision
Structured JSON back — registry status, identified directors, sanctions result — with a clear accept, review, or reject decision.
What Ships With Every Verification
Six capabilities baked into a single business verification. One call, one decision, no separate billing for screening.
Entity Existence
Confirms the company legally exists and matches the legal name and registration number against official business registries.
Registration Status
Returns the company's current standing — active, dissolved, struck off — so you know whether the entity is in good order.
Director Identification
Surfaces the directors and officers associated with the company so you can verify the people who control or represent it.
Sanctions Screening
Screens the entity and its directors against sanctions lists and watchlists, flagging matches that need attention.
Global Coverage
Draws on official government and corporate registries across a broad range of jurisdictions, with graceful fallback so coverage stays reliable.
Accept / Review / Reject
Every verification returns a structured result with a clear decision your systems can act on automatically.
The Numbers That Matter to Procurement
Cost, coverage, and certification — the metrics compliance and procurement teams ask about before they sign.
10
API credits per business verification, all checks bundled.
190+
countries and territories covered by the paired ID engine.
ISO
27001:2022 certified infrastructure, awarded by BSI.
Questions From the Sales Call
Six questions that come up most often when teams evaluate the KYB API. If yours isn't here, Talk to Sales in the menu reaches a human in under an hour.
KYB, or Know Your Business, is the process of confirming that a company legally exists, is properly registered, and is run by the people it claims. A KYB check confirms the company's registration and incorporation status, identifies and surfaces its directors and officers for verification, and screens the entity against sanctions and watchlists — returning a structured result with an accept, review, or reject decision.
KYC (Know Your Customer) verifies an individual person and their identity document. KYB (Know Your Business) verifies a legal entity — its registration, its status, the directors and officers behind it, and its standing against sanctions and watchlists. Most regulated B2B relationships need both: verify the business with KYB, then verify the individuals who control it with KYC.
In most cases you upload the company's registration or incorporation document and the API extracts the key details — legal name, registration number, jurisdiction, and status. The entity is then checked against official business registries, its directors are identified, and it is screened against sanctions. You can also supply a company name and number directly when you already hold them.
Business verification draws on official government and corporate registries across a broad range of jurisdictions, with graceful fallback so coverage stays reliable as registries vary in format and availability. Coverage spans major markets in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and beyond. If a specific jurisdiction is critical to your onboarding, contact our team to confirm current coverage.
Each business verification costs 10 API credits and bundles entity-existence confirmation, registration and status checks, director identification, and sanctions screening into a single call — there is no separate charge for each component. Credits draw from the same balance you use for ID verification, so you can mix KYB and KYC in one account.
Yes. Use the KYB API to verify the entity, then run the directors and officers it surfaces through individual identity verification — document plus biometric checks — in the same workflow. That way you confirm both that the company is legitimate and that the people acting for it are who they claim to be.
Verify Any Business Before You Onboard It
Free trial credits on signup, no card required. Your first business verification lands in under an hour.