UK Companies House - Get company information

Use the UK Companies House - Get company information action A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows. Actions are the steps the workflow performs to complete a process. to retrieve company details from UK Companies House. This action can be used in conjunction with the UK Companies House - Search for companies action.

For more information about UK Companies House, go to UK Companies House.

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Configure the UK Companies House - Get company information action

  1. Add the action to the workflow and open the action configuration panel. For more information, see Add an action to the workflow.

  1. Select a Connection. If you do not have a connection, see Add a connection.
  1. Specify the Company number.
  2. Create or select a variable for the output.

UK Companies House - Get company information action fields and settings

Section

Field

Description

Variable types

(Unlabeled)

Connection Credentials and other settings that enables workflows to communicate with external systems, services, or applications. It's required to pass data between the workflow and the indicated service, which could be a cloud service, business application, or content store.

The UK Companies House connection to use to retrieve the company information.

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(n/a)
(Unlabeled) Company number

The unique identifying string for the company.

You can use the output object of a UK Companies House - Search for companies action to retrieve the company number.
 Boolean
Output Company information Stores the result of the action as an object. The following values are returned:
  • Can file: (Boolean) Flag indicating whether this company can file.
  • Company name: (Text) The name of the company.
  • Company number: (Text) The identity number of the company.
  • Company status: (Text) The status of the company. Possible values are:

    • active

    • dissolved

    • liquidation

    • receivership

    • administration

    • voluntary-arrangement

    • converted-closed

    • insolvency-proceedings

  • Date of creation: (Date) The date when the company was created.
  • Jurisdiction: (Text) The jurisdiction specifies the political body responsible for the company. Possible values are:

    • england-wales

    • wales

    • scotland

    • northern-ireland

    • european-union

    • united-kingdom

    • england

    • noneu

  • Type: (Text) The type of the company. For more information see the company_type section of API Enumerations.
 Object