# France Company Check – Finances, Insolvency, Public Contracts (`bstandco/france-company-check`) Actor

Full due-diligence profile of French companies from a SIREN, SIRET, VAT number or name: revenue and profit, insolvency proceedings, BODACC legal notices, public contracts won and a simple risk flag. Official open data only.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/bstandco/france-company-check.md
- **Developed by:** [BSTAndCo](https://apify.com/bstandco) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $3.50 / 1,000 company profiles

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## France Company Check – Finances, Insolvency, Public Contracts

Check **French companies in bulk** before you sign, sell on credit or pick a supplier. Give a list of **SIREN, SIRET, French VAT numbers or company names**. Each company comes back as one profile built from **three official open-data sources**:

- **Identity**: name, VAT number, activity (NAF), size, age, head office, active or ceased.
- **Finances**: latest revenue and net income, history by year, revenue growth.
- **Insolvency**: safeguard, receivership or liquidation from the **BODACC**, with the latest judgement.
- **Legal notices**: counts by type (sales, changes, deregistration…) and the latest notices with links.
- **Public contracts won**: number, total notified amount and the latest contracts with the **buyer's name**.
- **Risk flag**: `low`, `medium` or `high`, with the reasons (`insolvency_proceedings`, `net_loss`, `revenue_drop_over_30pct`, `ceased`…).

No scraping of private websites: only official APIs published under the **Licence Ouverte (Etalab)**, which allows commercial reuse. Every result lists its sources.

### Who is it for?

- **Sales and credit teams**: check a prospect or a customer before offering payment terms.
- **Procurement**: vet suppliers and subcontractors, and see which public contracts they already won.
- **Debt collection and legal**: spot insolvency proceedings before starting a claim.
- **Data teams and CRMs**: enrich company records with finances, VAT number and a risk flag.

### What data do you get?

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `siren`, `name`, `vatNumber` | 554501171, CASINO, GUICHARD-PERRACHON, FR85554501171 |
| `active`, `closedAt`, `createdAt`, `ageYears` | company status and age |
| `nafCode`, `legalForm`, `companyCategory`, `headcountBand` | activity and size |
| `headOffice` | SIRET, address, postal code, city, department |
| `riskLevel`, `riskFlags`, `riskNote` | `high`, \[`insolvency_proceedings`, `net_loss`] |
| `financials` | `revenue`, `netIncome`, `revenueGrowthPct`, `history` by year |
| `insolvency` | `status` (none, safeguard, receivership, liquidation, closed…), latest judgement, proceedings |
| `legalAnnouncements` | total, counts by type, latest notices with BODACC links |
| `publicContracts` | count, total notified amount, last award date, latest contracts with buyer names |
| `companyPageUrl`, `sources`, `checkedAt` | official page and data sources |

### How to use

Check a list of companies:

```json
{
  "companies": ["552081317", "FR51306138900", "55208131788948", "Decathlon"]
}
```

Only finances and insolvency, fastest run:

```json
{
  "companies": ["554501171"],
  "includePublicContracts": false,
  "maxItemsPerSection": 0
}
```

**Tips**

- A SIREN, SIRET or VAT number always finds the exact company. A name returns the best match: check the `siren` in the result.
- Companies that are not found are **not charged**. They are listed in the `SKIPPED` record of the key-value store.

### Pricing

Pay per result: you are charged once per company checked. Companies not found or skipped are free.

### Privacy

- **Sole proprietorships are never profiled**: they are people, so they are skipped.
- Company officers are not returned.
- Insolvency judgements keep only their type and date: the free text, which can name people, is dropped.

### Limits

- Financial figures are those published by the company: many small companies keep their accounts confidential (flag `no_published_financials`).
- Public contracts cover notices published since 2024 in the national DECP dataset. For framework agreements the notified amount is a **ceiling**, often shared by several winners, so `totalNotifiedAmount` is an upper bound, not revenue.
- `vatNumber` is computed from the SIREN (official formula). Check it on the EU VIES service if you need proof that it is active.
- The same company given twice (for example as SIREN and VAT number) is checked and charged once.
- The risk flag is a **simple indicator built from public records, not a credit score**.

### Sources

- **API Recherche d'entreprises** (DINUM): Sirene (INSEE), RNE (INPI) and annual accounts.
- **BODACC** (DILA): legal notices and insolvency proceedings.
- **DECP** (Ministries of Economy and Finance): essential data on public contracts.

All under Licence Ouverte v2.0 (Etalab).

# Actor input Schema

## `companies` (type: `array`):

One company per line: SIREN (9 digits), SIRET (14 digits), French VAT number (FR…) or company name. Leave empty to check 3 example companies.

## `includeAnnouncements` (type: `boolean`):

Adds insolvency proceedings, counts of legal notices by type and the latest notices.

## `includePublicContracts` (type: `boolean`):

Adds the number and total amount of public contracts won since 2024, and the latest ones with the buyer's name.

## `maxItemsPerSection` (type: `integer`):

How many latest legal notices, proceedings and contracts to list for each company (0 to 50). Counts and totals are always complete.

## `maxCompanies` (type: `integer`):

Safety limit on how many companies from the list are checked in one run. Each checked company is one result.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "552081317",
    "554501171",
    "Decathlon"
  ],
  "includeAnnouncements": true,
  "includePublicContracts": true,
  "maxItemsPerSection": 5,
  "maxCompanies": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

One row per company: risk level, finances, insolvency status and public contracts.

## `results` (type: `string`):

Full company profiles with financial history, legal notices and latest public contracts (JSON).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "companies": [
        "552081317",
        "554501171",
        "Decathlon"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("bstandco/france-company-check").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "companies": [
        "552081317",
        "554501171",
        "Decathlon",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("bstandco/france-company-check").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "companies": [
    "552081317",
    "554501171",
    "Decathlon"
  ]
}' |
apify call bstandco/france-company-check --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,bstandco/france-company-check"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/SY1Wxuxwc6s8iBykT/builds/LdbLis54z6d5SQDNt/openapi.json