Australian Business Due Diligence Check

Check any Australian business in one go, from an ABN, ACN or business name. You get back one merged record per business, drawn from Australia's official public registers:

• 🏢 ASIC company register: status (registered or deregistered), type and class, registration and deregistration dates, current and former names
• 💼 ASIC AFS licensees: Australian Financial Services licence number and start date
• 💳 ASIC credit licensees: credit licence number, status, external dispute resolution scheme
• 🚫 ASIC banned and disqualified organisations
• 👤 ASIC banned and disqualified persons (optional, opt-in director and adviser screening)
• ❤️ ACNC charity register: registered charity, size, PBI and HPC status
• 🔎 ABN Lookup (optional): live ABN status, entity type, GST registration and business names, when you add your own free ABN Lookup GUID

Every record carries plain-English flags (such as ASIC_STATUS_DERE, BANNED_OR_DISQUALIFIED_ORGANISATION, HOLDS_CREDIT_LICENCE and REGISTERED_CHARITY), source attribution and a data-as-at date for each register.

Who it's for

• Onboarding suppliers, customers and contractors (KYB checks)
• Brokers, lenders and accountants checking that a counterparty is licensed
• Grant makers and donors checking charity status
• Bulk-cleaning a CRM list of ABNs or ACNs

Input

Field	What to enter
entities	ABNs (11 digits), ACNs (9 digits) or exact business names. Spaces are fine. Up to 1,000 per run.
maxNameMatches	For name inputs, how many matching entities to return (1–10, default 3)
includeBannedPersons + personNames	Optional screening of people's full names against the ASIC banned and disqualified persons register
abrGuid	Optional. Your own free ABN Lookup web services GUID, stored as a secret

{ "entities": ["004 028 077", "50 169 561 394", "IPIB Pty Ltd"] }

Output (one record per entity)

{
  "recordType": "ENTITY",
  "input": "85007186003",
  "inputType": "ABN",
  "matchType": "ID",
  "abn": "85007186003",
  "acn": "007186003",
  "name": "IPIB PTY LTD",
  "asicCompany": { "status": "REGD", "type": "APTY", "registered": "1989-04-03", "formerNames": ["INTERPACIFIC INSURANCE BROKERS PTY. LTD."] },
  "afsLicences": [{ "licenceNumber": "218600", "startDate": "2002-05-02", "state": "VIC" }],
  "creditLicences": [],
  "acncCharity": null,
  "bannedOrDisqualifiedOrganisation": [],
  "flags": ["HOLDS_AFS_LICENCE"],
  "sources": [{ "source": "ASIC - Company Dataset", "dataAsAt": "2026-10-12T13:53:24", "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU)" }],
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T10:41:00.000Z"
}

Inputs that can't be valid (bad ABN or ACN checksums) come back flagged INVALID_INPUT and are not charged.

Pricing

Pay per event: you pay per entity checked and per person screened. There are no subscriptions. See the Pricing tab for current prices.

Data freshness and accuracy

ASIC and ACNC publish weekly snapshots on data.gov.au. Each record shows the snapshot date, and a SOURCE_STALE_* flag appears if a register is more than 10 days old. ASIC Connect and the ACNC Register update in real time, so confirm anything critical there. Name matching is exact (after removing punctuation and suffixes such as "Pty Ltd"), and all name matches are flagged NAME_MATCH_VERIFY_IDENTITY.

Privacy

Person screening is off by default. It returns only the register name, banning type, dates, ASIC document number and state, never the suburb or postcode. Use it only for a lawful due-diligence purpose. No input or output is kept by this Actor beyond your own run's dataset.

Data sources and attribution

• Contains data from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC): Company Dataset, Australian Financial Services Licensee Dataset, Credit Licensee Dataset, Banned and Disqualified Organisations and Banned and Disqualified Persons, sourced from data.gov.au, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU.
• Contains data from the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC): ACNC Registered Charities, sourced from data.gov.au, licensed under CC BY 3.0 AU.
• ABN details (when a GUID is supplied) come from ABN Lookup web services, Australian Business Register, under the ABN Lookup Web Services Agreement.
• All data has been filtered, merged and reformatted. The underlying datasets remain freely available under their original licences from the links above.

This Actor is independent. It is not endorsed by, approved by or affiliated with ASIC, the ACNC, the Australian Business Register or the Commonwealth of Australia.

Disclaimer

Provided for information only. This isn't legal, financial or credit advice. Public registers can contain errors and omissions.