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Make the most of our data with our APIs and NZAUConnect
Through our Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), you can access data on the Companies Register in ways that speed up your business activities. If you regularly search for companies registered in Australia or New Zealand, then our mobile application, NZAUConnect can make this easier.
Using our APIs
Anyone who searches for large volumes of data on the Companies Register (or other Companies Office registers) could benefit from connecting directly to our data using an API.
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Searching for companies registered in Australia or New Zealand
Together with the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC), we've developed a mobile application that lets you do a combined search of our Companies Register and the ASIC Register of Australian companies.
The application is free to download and free to search.
What you can search for
You can search for:
- details of more than 2.5 million New Zealand and Australian companies
- more than 1.7 million organisations on the Australian Business Names Register.
How to use it
Download NZAUConnect from the iTunes App Store or Google Play Store and follow these steps.
- Open NZAUConnect on your mobile device to see the home page.
- Choose to search for a company By name or By number. You can also choose to search in both New Zealand and Australia, or just one country.
- To see more information about a company, select the company name.
- Use the back arrow to return to the search results.
Filtering your results
You can filter your results by:
- country — select the Australia tab or the New Zealand tab
- registration status — to filter out unregistered companies and business names, select Display registered only.
Saving your results
You can keep a note of companies you want to find again, or send or copy a company's details.
On the screen showing the details of a company, select from the icons at the top right of the screen to add a favourite or share your results. To:
- add the company to your list of favourites, select the Favourites icon then Continue
- share the company details, select the Share icon — then choose to Email the details using your mobile phone's mail service or Copy the details so you can save them elsewhere.
Troubleshooting
If you get the message, 'Unable to connect', check that:
- you're connected to Wi-Fi or your data connection is turned on
- the Companies Register is online — a message about outages is normally displayed on our home page.
If the wrong data seems to be displayed in search results, try refreshing your search. We might have been updating the information for a company.
Other guides in
Getting support to use the Companies Register
- Uploading documents to the Companies Register
- Filing documents with electronic signatures
- Forgotten your RealMe® username or password
- Searching the Companies Register
- Searching the PPSR from the Companies Register
- NZBN and the Companies Register
- Suppressing a residential address on the register