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Company (MCA) Lookup API

Verify a company or LLP by its CIN or registration number and receive incorporation status, entity type, date of incorporation, registered address and annual-filing compliance straight from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs registry.

Response
Real-time
Inputs
1 required · 1 optional
Consent
Not required
Billing
Per successful call
POST /v1/mca-company-lookup
Sandbox · Production
  1. Your application sends

    • CIN / registration number*
    • Company name
  2. emver API

    Validates the request, queries the source, normalises the answer and logs the call. Billed only on success.

  3. Verified with

    MCA21 corporate registry

  4. You receive

    • Incorporation status (active, struck off, dormant)
    • Company type
    • Date of incorporation
    • Registered office address
    • Annual filing compliance
mca-company-lookup Full reference
Overview

What the Company (MCA) Lookup API does

Whether you are onboarding a vendor, a client, a channel partner or a borrower, the corporate registry is the authoritative record of whether the company exists, is active and is keeping up with statutory filings. The Company Lookup API brings that record into your workflow without anyone opening a government portal.

Provide an expected company name and the API checks it against the registered name, so a shell entity trading under a familiar-sounding name does not slip through.

Benefits

Why teams use the Company (MCA) Lookup API

Incorporation status, company type, registered office and filing compliance from the corporate registry.

Authoritative source

Data from the corporate registry, not a scraped directory.

Catch struck-off and dormant entities

Status flags stop contracts with companies that no longer legally operate.

Filing compliance

Overdue annual filings are an early signal of financial or governance stress.

Registered address

Confirms the legal seat of the company for contracts and notices.

Use cases

Where it's called

Where the Company (MCA) Lookup API is typically called, and what it settles there.

Vendor and partner due diligence

Verify incorporation before signing an MSA or issuing a PO.

Business lending and trade finance

Confirm borrower entity status and filing history.

Client onboarding for B2B SaaS and services

Know your customer's legal identity before invoicing.

Employment verification

Confirm a candidate's previous employer is a real, active company.

How it works

Four steps, one response envelope

Request and response details, environments and a ready-to-import collection are in the developer console.

  1. 01

    Authenticate

    Call with your organisation API key. Sandbox and production use the same contract.

  2. 02

    Send the inputs

    CIN / registration number as a JSON body. Optional fields sharpen the match.

  3. 03

    We verify at source

    emver queries the authoritative record, normalises the answer and logs the request.

  4. 04

    Act on the result

    A verification status plus the fields listed above, in the same response envelope as every other API.

Privacy and security built in

Consent recorded · Payloads not retained beyond your retention window · Every request traceable

FAQ

Company (MCA) Lookup API: frequently asked questions

What teams ask before adding the Company (MCA) Lookup API to their integration.

Companies and LLPs registered with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. For partnerships and proprietorships, use GSTIN and Udyam verification instead.

Yes. The Directorship Lookup API resolves DIN status and the companies a person is a director of.

The CIN or registration number is required for an exact match. The optional name is compared against the registered name for an additional check.

Related

APIs that run alongside it

Usually called with the Company (MCA) Lookup API, on the same key.

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