French Insolvency & Solvency Checker (BODACC) — free

Is this French company bankrupt? Paste a list of SIREN or SIRET numbers and get one clear solvency verdict per company: is it under an insolvency proceeding (procédure collective — liquidation judiciaire, redressement judiciaire, sauvegarde), has that proceeding been closed, or has the company been struck off the register (radiation)? Data comes straight from the official BODACC open dataset published by DILA, so it never breaks and needs no API key.

This is a verdict tool, not a raw announcement feed: instead of dumping every legal notice, it reads a company's whole BODACC history and collapses it into a single, decision-ready row — perfect for cleaning a CRM, screening leads, or running a credit-risk pass before you sign a client.

This Actor is free — you only pay your own Apify platform usage.

What it does

For each French company identifier you provide, the Actor:

1. Normalizes the input (SIREN 9 digits, or SIRET 14 → SIREN).
2. Pulls that company's announcements from the BODACC annonces-commerciales open data API.
3. Detects collective proceedings and strike-offs, orders them by date, and computes the current solvency state.
4. Returns one row with a plain-English verdict and a risk level.

Keywords: BODACC, procédure collective, liquidation judiciaire, redressement judiciaire, sauvegarde, radiation RCS, entreprise en faillite, solvabilité entreprise française, French company insolvency, bankruptcy check, credit risk, KYC, due diligence, SIREN, SIRET.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
companyIds	array of strings	yes	One SIREN (9 digits) or SIRET (14 digits) per line.
maxAnnouncementsPerCompany	integer	no	Announcements pulled per company before deciding (default 200).

{
  "companyIds": ["356000000", "443061841", "55203253400041"]
}

Output

One dataset item per identifier. Example:

{
  "status": "found",
  "input": "552032534",
  "siren": "552032534",
  "companyName": "ACME DISTRIBUTION",
  "solvencyVerdict": "procedure_ongoing",
  "hasActiveProcedure": true,
  "riskLevel": "high",
  "latestProcedureType": "liquidation_judiciaire",
  "latestProcedureLabel": "Jugement d'ouverture de liquidation judiciaire",
  "latestProcedureDate": "2024-03-10",
  "latestProcedureTribunal": "Tribunal de commerce de Lille",
  "procedureCount": 2,
  "struckOff": false,
  "struckOffDate": null,
  "announcementsAnalyzed": 7,
  "sourceUrl": "https://bodacc-datadila.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/annonces-commerciales/table/?q=552032534",
  "checkedAt": "2026-07-05T10:00:00.000Z"
}

solvencyVerdict is one of:

Verdict	Meaning
no_procedure	No collective proceeding found in BODACC.
procedure_ongoing	An insolvency proceeding is open (see latestProcedureType).
procedure_closed	A past proceeding that has since been closed (clôture).
struck_off	Company struck off the RCS (radiation).
no_bodacc_record	No BODACC announcement at all for this SIREN (see limitations).

riskLevel: none · low · medium · high · unknown. Every item also carries a status of found, not_found, or error, so a bad identifier never breaks the run.

Use cases

• Lead & CRM cleaning — drop dead or bankrupt companies from a prospecting list in one pass.
• Credit risk & AR — screen new clients before granting payment terms.
• KYC / due diligence — a fast, official first check on a French counterparty.
• Portfolio monitoring — re-run on a schedule to catch a supplier or client entering a procedure.

Limitations & fair use

• BODACC records RCS-registered entities. A no_bodacc_record verdict means "no announcement found" — it is not proof of good health (some healthy companies only ever have a creation notice, and micro-entrepreneurs may be absent).
• Announcements are the legal record; there is a normal publication delay of days to weeks after a court decision.
• Data source: official BODACC open data by DILA, under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0. This tool is not affiliated with DILA. Use the data responsibly and in line with the loi Informatique et Libertés.

More free French-data Actors by this developer

Part of a free toolkit for French company data — find → enrich → verify:

• French Company Data Enricher (SIREN, dirigeants) — identity, legal form, directors, address from a SIREN.
• EU VAT Number Validator (VIES) — check a VAT number is live and valid.
• French Legal Notice Generator (Mentions Légales, LCEN) — LCEN-compliant legal notice from a SIREN.
• New French Companies Finder (SIRENE) — fresh company registrations by department / activity.

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