UK Companies House - Search for companies

Use the UK Companies House - Search for companies 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 a list of companies from UK Companies House.

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

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Configure the UK Companies House - Search for companies 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 Search query.
  2. If needed, specify how many records to return and which records to start at.
  3. Create or select a variable for the output.

UK Companies House - Search for companies 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 matching companies.

To refresh the available connections, click .

(n/a)
(Unlabeled) Search query The search query to search for in company names, such as fish for all companies with fish in their names. Text, Decimal, Integer, Boolean, DateTime, Collection
(Unlabeled) Records to return The number of companies to retrieve. Used with Start at record number for paging. Integer
(Unlabeled) Start at record number The starting place within the list of companies to retrieve. Used with Records to return for paging. Integer
Output Companies Stores the result of the action as an object. The following values are returned:
  • Items: (Collection) The list of companies.
    • Address snippet: (Text) The address of the company's registered office.
    • 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

    • Company Type: (Text) The type of the company. For more information see the company_type section of API Enumerations.
    • Date of creation: (Date) The date when the company was created.
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