Credit Information Companies

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Overview

Provides you with access to Bisnode Company Risk and Credit data for Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark.

Authentication

To use the Credit Information B2B REST API - v2, you need a client ID and a secret. Bisnode uses OAuth2 for authentication. More information here.

Get started

You’ll need to create a Bisnode ID or you can use your GitHub account to login here.

Sandbox API Key (you need to be logged in with your Bisnode ID or GitHub account)

For easy access we have provided you with a postman collection here.

Key Features

Company data available through an API

Provides you with high quality analyzed risk and credit data.

High quality credit rating for profitable decisions
Avoid credit losses by doing business with the right customers
Get stable customers that you know can pay on time
Get new insights by combining your own customer data with Bisnode analyzed company data

Technical documentation

Please check our technical documentation for our API here.

Documentation

How to use the API

This guide is intended to help you get going with your integration against the Bisnode Credit Information B2B API. It serves as a complement to the  Endpoint Reference  and aims to bring a high level understanding of the key concepts of the platform.

For questions and support, please contact Bisnode at api-support@bisnode.com

Instructions on how to generate keys to access sandbox and production environments can also be found on the link above.

Name and address control. Do a search on name, duns-number or registration-number.

Credit information

Fetch credit data on a specific company by supplying registration-number.

Annual reports

List available annual reports and fetch using registration-number.

If data for an entire model in the schema is missing, an empty list will be sent, ex: "financialStatements": []
If data within a model in the schema is NULL values will be omitted ex: (day is NULL)
        "date": {
          "year": 2021,
          "month": 11
        }

CertificateOfRegistration

This is available for swedish companies. Input is "registrationNumber" and "sequenceNumber"

For Sole Proprietorships Sequencenumbercan can be 1-n. To find out the value on n use search on companyId and coount the reslult. For limited companies no sequence number is needed.

Case: A person with a swedish govermentID registers 4 Sole Proprietorships.
Result: Same ID (govermentID=registrationNumber) will have 4 certificateOfRegistration
Method: Use search (/credit-data-companies/v2/companies) on the registrationNumber to get "resultCount" for number of certificateOfRegistration

Changes and versioning

API version is provided in the base of the requested URL in the form of "v1", "v2" etc. Only major version numbers are used.

API versions are raised only on breaking (i.e. backwards incompatible) changes in the API. Fields may be added but will never be removed during an API version lifecycle. When developing your application, take care to ensure that your application is able to handle additional fields.

How to test

Test data available in sandbox:

	Reg Nr	Name	Features
SE	5561234567	Skuldman & Son, TEST AB	"Good customer" Rating AAA + Tax clearance certificate registered
SE	5562000116	Test No 3 mining enterprise	Has Branches
SE	5563035798	Test Tourism bank	Average company
SE	5562187129	ÁàèôÑ ÅäöáàéèÔÑ AB	Average company
SE	5561060111	Konkursen TEST AB	Inactive company with Current financial statements
SE	5561080101	Hema Test i Konkurs AB	No registered turnover + Rating EFR
SE	5561070102	Test Tangun trading AB	Debt balance public - & private claims
SE	5560391954	Testföretag 1954 AB	Low rating + Limited partnership with board with other business commitments 3 remarks on payment < 12 months old
SE	5563525236	Testbolaget 1 AB	5-digit SNI codes
SE	5592479090	Testnamnet 4	5-digit SNI codes
SE	5562615137	Demonamn 2 AB	5-digit SNI codes
SE	7502199255	Testbolag 9255	Sole proprietorship
SE	9696096990	Testbolag 6990 KB	Trading partnership
SE	7601022382	Testföretag 238	New formed company
DK	13287554	D&B Demo Datter ApS	AAA rating, has historical name, limited company
DK	173989737	Eisner Food Stores Under Konkurs	Rating not determined, limited company, has score
DK	534259076	id Boutiques ApS	Rating not determined, limited company, has score
DK	596490479	Zany Brainy	Legal form "other", C rating
DK	738297771	Brendles ApS	LImited company, rating "AN", new company
DK	795312324	Multicerv ApS	Limited company, AA rating
DK	863638466	Powerbod ApS	Limited company, C rating
DK	991387035	Patterson-Fletcher A/S	Limited company, AAA rating
DK	13287515	D&B Demo NyNy A/S	IR rating (Rating not determined), has boardmember and historical board member
DK	13287554	D&B Demo Datter Nyny ApS Under rekonstruktion	AAA rating has key figures
DK	13287562	Bisnode Demo Holding Nyny A/S	Has historical rating, has 2 sunsidiaries
DK	13287512	D&B Sample Demo A/S	A rating, is parent company
FI	200967437	Intelacard Oy	Limited company, AAA rating
FI	228810019	DECO FRESH OY	Limited company, C rating, has payment remarks
FI	246926306	Second Time Around	Limited company, C rating
FI	251631316	Rolling Thunder Oy	Limited company, B rating
FI	260428882	Deco Refreshments Oy	Limited company, - rating "Rating not determined"
FI	280429609	Grass Roots Yard Services Oy	Limited company, - rating "Rating not determined"
FI	11111111	Tytärtesti100 Oy	"Rating not determined"
FI	22222222	Tytärtesti200 Oy	"Rating not determined"
FI	0830215-0	Bisnode D&B Finland Oy	Limited company, AA rating
FI	1966768-1	Bisnode Marketing Oy	Limited company, AA rating, registered in VAT
NO	937340303	SVAR DIREKTE AS	Limited company, high credit limit
NO	911642190	TESTFORETAKET FOR ÆØÅ AS	Limited company, A rating
NO	918189254	CREDIT CONTROL AS	Limited company, normal company
NO	935276608	DIN SOLIDE ENTREPRENØR AS	Limited company good rating
NO	937400322	SVAR DIREKTE PERSON	Sole proprietor, B-rating
NO	812345672	COBRA DEMO PERSON	Sole proprietor, auditors
NO	927822334	Soliditet Test 2 Ltd	Norw. division foreign enterpr.
NO	842852102	BARE SKRAP DA	Trading/Limited partnership, rating exclusion, historical auditors
NO	923313850	General Bureau of Atomic Energy	Limited
NO	931024280	HELT NYTT FORETAK AS	Limited, C-rating