UK Companies House

UK Companies House is the United Kingdom's registrar of companies and is an executive agency and trading fund of Her Majesty's Government, falling under the remit of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The UK Companies House API lets you retrieve information about limited companies (and other companies that fall within the Companies Act 2006). The data returned is live and real-time, and is simple to use and understand.

For more information on UK Companies House, see the company website.

In the context of Nintex Automation Cloud, UK Companies House is a connector Service used to define a connection required for associated actions and start events. Examples include Salesforce and Box. Method of integration to cloud services, business applications and content stores..

The UK Companies House connector Service used to define a connection required for associated actions and start events. Examples include Salesforce and Box. Method of integration to cloud services, business applications and content stores. is used to create connections for UK Companies House actions A tool for building the processes, logic, and direction within workflows.. Use UK Companies House actions to search for companies and retrieve company information.

Create a UK Companies House connection

Note: Your browser-stored credentials are accessed to create connections. Either clear credentials from browser memory or make sure the stored credentials are for the intended environment.

Create a connection from the connections page or from the action configuration panel when configuring the action. For information about creating connections and assigning permissions, see Manage connections.

UK Companies House account requirements

  • The account you use to create a connection for UK Companies House is the account that has access to the UK Companies House actions.

  • This connector uses OAuth 2.0 authentication. You must have an account with UK Companies House before creating the connection. See Sign in to Companies House to register a new account.