Can I look up by company name?

This source takes an ABN or a link to the record. To find an ABN from a name, use Australia company search, then pass the ABN here.

Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

What does a lookup cost?

10 points per resolved lookup, which is $10 per 1,000, and only successful lookups are charged. Points come out of your monthly plan allowance, so there is no separate per-country contract.

Corporate registry

Australia Company Registry API and MCP — ABN Record, GST Status & Name History

Send an Australian Business Number and get the matching entity back as structured data: legal name, ABN status, entity type, registration date, the ACN, and GST registration. The record also carries the name history around the entity, with the business names registered under it and the trading names it has used.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: An Australian Business Number (ABN) or the link to the ABN Lookup record
You get back: Name, status, entity type, registration date, address, ACN, GST status, plus business names, trading names and change history
Coverage: Australia — entities on ABN Lookup.
Price: 10 pts — $10 per 1,000; Charged only when the record resolves. A lookup that finds nothing is not billed.

Comparison

Ways to get this data

Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.

Approach	What it takes	Cost	Trade-off
ABN Lookup directly	Open ABN Lookup and read the record	Usually free, sometimes per-document	A different interface, language and data shape for every country you add
Collecting it yourself	Build and host a crawler per register, then keep each one alive	Infrastructure and maintenance	Registers change their pages without warning, and nobody is on the hook when yours breaks
NeuralVerge	One request, the same shape as every other source in the catalog	$10 per 1,000, misses not billed	Covers Australia — other countries are separate sources with the same request format

Response

What you get back

Every field in the example response below.

Field	Type	Description
`session_id`	string	Identifier of this run. Keep it to trace the call.
`kind`	string	Source that produced the response.
`company`	string	The identifier you sent.
`company_id`	string	The identifier the source resolved it to.
`human`	string	Readable summary of the record in Markdown.
`machine`	object	The structured result.
`machine.company`	object	The company record.
`machine.company.registration_number`	string	The ABN, as eleven digits.
`machine.company.name`	string	Legal name of the entity.
`machine.company.status`	string	ABN status, for example Active.
`machine.company.address`	string	State and postcode of the main business location, as the register shows it.
`machine.company.url`	string	Link to the ABN Lookup record.
`machine.company.company_type`	string	Entity type, for example Australian Public Company.
`machine.company.incorporation_date`	string	Date the entity registered, as YYYY-MM-DD.
`machine.company.abn_status_from`	string	Date the current ABN status took effect.
`machine.company.acn`	string	Australian Company Number, nine digits.
`machine.company.gst_status`	string	GST registration status as written on the record.
`machine.company.gst_registered_from`	string	Date GST registration took effect.
`machine.company.business_names`	array	Business names registered to the entity, each with from and to dates and an ASIC identifier.
`machine.company.business_names[].asic_url`	string	Link to the business name in the ASIC registry search.
`machine.company.trading_names`	array	Trading names the entity has used, with from and to dates.
`machine.company.asic_registration_url`	string	Link to the entity in the ASIC registry search.
`machine.company.entity_name_history`	array	Previous and current names of the entity with from and to dates.
`machine.company.abn_status_history`	array	History of the ABN status with from and to dates.
`machine.company.entity_type_history`	array	History of the entity type. Dates are empty in the sample.
`machine.company.gst_history`	array	History of GST registration with from and to dates.
`machine.company.location_history`	array	Previous and current locations (state and postcode) with from and to dates.
`machine.company.history_url`	string	Link to the full ABN history page.
`machine.company.record_extracted`	string	Date the record was read.
`machine.company.dgr_status`	string	Deductible gift recipient status as written on the record.
`machine.company.abn_last_updated`	string	Date the ABN record was last updated.
`machine.company.requested_id`	string	The identifier you requested.
`machine.blocked`	boolean	Whether the register refused the read. False in the sample.
`machine.pages_opened`	number	Number of register pages read for the run.
`machine.proxy_traffic_bytes`	number	Traffic used by the run, in bytes. Informational.
`total_points`	number	Points charged for the run.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "au_company",
  "company": "88000014675",
  "company_id": "88000014675",
  "human": "# Australia — ABN Lookup — company\n\n- **Number:** 88000014675\n- **Pages opened:** 2\n- **Proxy traffic:** 429.3 KB\n- **Name:** WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED\n- **Status:** Active\n- **Type:** Australian Public Company\n- **Registered:** 1999-11-01\n- **Address:** NSW 2153",
  "machine": {
    "company": {
      "registration_number": "88000014675",
      "name": "WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED",
      "status": "Active",
      "address": "NSW 2153",
      "url": "https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=88000014675",
      "company_type": "Australian Public Company",
      "incorporation_date": "1999-11-01",
      "abn_status_from": "1999-11-01",
      "acn": "000014675",
      "gst_status": "Registered from 01 Jul 2000",
      "gst_registered_from": "2000-07-01",
      "business_names": [
        {
          "name": "Woolworths Business",
          "from": "2026-09-15",
          "to": null,
          "asic_business_name_id": "702360165",
          "asic_url": "https://connectonline.asic.gov.au/RegistrySearch/bySearchId.jsp?searchIdType=BUSN&searchId=702360165"
        },
        {
          "name": "The Business Grocer",
          "from": "2026-01-23",
          "to": null,
          "asic_business_name_id": "694631957",
          "asic_url": "https://connectonline.asic.gov.au/RegistrySearch/bySearchId.jsp?searchIdType=BUSN&searchId=694631957"
        }
      ],
      "trading_names": [
        {
          "name": "WOOLWORTHS",
          "from": "2000-07-03",
          "to": null
        },
        {
          "name": "BIG W DISCOUNT STORES",
          "from": "1999-11-01",
          "to": "2000-07-03"
        }
      ],
      "asic_registration_url": "https://connectonline.asic.gov.au/RegistrySearch/faces/landing/panelSearch.jspx?searchType=OrgAndBusNm&searchText=000014675",
      "entity_name_history": [
        {
          "name": "WOOLWORTHS GROUP LIMITED",
          "from": "2017-12-08",
          "to": null
        },
        {
          "name": "WOOLWORTHS LTD",
          "from": "1999-11-01",
          "to": "2017-12-08"
        }
      ],
      "abn_status_history": [
        {
          "status": "Active",
          "from": "1999-11-01",
          "to": null
        }
      ],
      "entity_type_history": [
        {
          "entity_type": "Australian Public Company",
          "from": null,
          "to": null
        }
      ],
      "gst_history": [
        {
          "status": "Registered",
          "from": "2000-07-01",
          "to": null
        }
      ],
      "location_history": [
        {
          "location": "NSW 2153",
          "from": "2014-09-24",
          "to": null
        },
        {
          "location": "NSW 2153",
          "from": "2014-03-24",
          "to": "2014-09-24"
        }
      ],
      "history_url": "https://abr.business.gov.au/AbnHistory/View?id=88000014675",
      "record_extracted": "2026-10-07",
      "dgr_status": "Not entitled to receive tax deductible gifts",
      "abn_last_updated": "2026-09-15",
      "requested_id": "88000014675"
    },
    "blocked": false,
    "pages_opened": 2,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 439630
  },
  "total_points": 10
}

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

One company per request. Pass the registration number or the link to the record on the register.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-au-companies \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"company":"88000014675"}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Supplier and customer checks

Confirm that an ABN is active, GST-registered and held by the name on the invoice.

Matching records

Use the ABN and ACN together to link a company across your CRM, billing and credit files.

Tracking renames

Read the name and status histories to see when a counterparty changed its name or status.

Finding trading names

Connect a brand customers know to the legal entity behind it.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

Australia — entities on ABN Lookup.

Freshness

Read at request time, so the answer reflects the register as it stands when you ask.

Handling

ABN Lookup is a public register. Every response carries the source URL it was read from and a session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—The address is the state and postcode the register publishes, not a street address.
—The record describes the entity and its names. It does not list directors or shareholders.
—Some history lists have empty dates, as entity_type_history does in the sample.

FAQ

Questions, answered

The ABN identifies the entity for business and tax purposes. The ACN is the company number. Both come back on this record, so you can match on whichever your own data holds.

Related sources

Australia company search

Find an ABN by company or business name.

All corporate registries

Company registers across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, plus global LEI lookup.

Try australia company on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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