UK Gazette Insolvency Check

Check UK companies by name or company number against insolvency notices in The Gazette (the UK's official public record): winding-up petitions, liquidator appointments, administrations, creditor notices and more. Get a HIGH / REVIEW / NONE_FOUND risk flag per company, or list the latest notices as a daily feed for credit control and merchant risk.

How it works

Queries The Gazette's public insolvency notice data feed (thegazette.co.uk/insolvency/notice/data.json), no key needed. Gazette content is Crown copyright, reusable under the Open Government Licence v3.0 with attribution. Name searches match the exact registered name (LTD/LIMITED and PLC variants normalised) to avoid false hits; number searches match the company number quoted in the notice. In feed mode (no companies) you get the latest notices, charged at the lower notice-listed price. Errors are returned as rows with ok: false and not charged.

Output

query, riskFlag, insolvencyNoticesFound, latestNoticeType, latestNoticeDate, notices, ok

Pricing (pay-per-event)

• company-checked: $0.003 per result ($3 / 1,000).
• notice-listed (feed mode only): $0.0005 per notice ($0.5 / 1,000).

Platform usage is included; you pay only for results.

Example input

{
  "companies": [
    "PSG UK FACILITIES MANAGEMENT LIMITED",
    "SC687786",
    "ACME TRADING LIMITED"
  ],
  "publishedFrom": "2025-01-01"
}

Example output

{
  "query": "SC687786",
  "riskFlag": "HIGH",
  "insolvencyNoticesFound": 3,
  "latestNoticeType": "Petitions to Wind Up (Companies)",
  "latestNoticeDate": "2025-08-08T01:04:04",
  "notices": [],
  "ok": true
}

Disclaimer

NONE_FOUND only means no matching Gazette insolvency notice was found; it is not a credit check or proof of solvency. Notices about individuals (personal insolvency) can appear in feed mode: handle them under UK GDPR and don't use them for marketing. Not affiliated with The Gazette or TSO.

Use in Clay, Zapier, Make, n8n, Pipedream, Power Automate or Activepieces

All of them connect to Apify through their official Apify integrations, using your own Apify account: an API token from Apify Console > Settings > API & Integrations, or Apify sign-in for Power Automate. Runs bill to your Apify account at this Actor's pay-per-event price.

• Clay: save this Actor's input as an Apify task and copy it as JSON. In your Clay table, add the Run Apify Actor enrichment, choose it and paste the JSON into Input Data, mapping Clay columns into the fields. To pull a finished run into a new table, use the Import data from Apify Actor source.
• Zapier: use the Apify Run Actor action, or the Finished Actor run trigger followed by Fetch dataset items. Synchronous runs in Zapier stop after 30 seconds, so use the trigger for big batches.
• Make: add the Apify Run an Actor module with Run synchronously set to Yes, then Get Dataset Items with the run's dataset ID. For longer runs, use the Watch Actor Runs trigger.
• n8n: install the Apify node (@apify/n8n-nodes-apify, or search "Apify" on n8n Cloud) and use Run an Actor and get dataset.
• Pipedream: add the Apify app's Run Actor action, or Run Task Synchronously on one of this Actor's public example tasks (or your own saved task) to get the dataset items back in one step. For big batches, start from the New Finished Actor Run or New Finished Task Run trigger, then Get Dataset Items.
• Power Automate: add the Apify connector (a premium connector, currently in preview) and sign in with your Apify account. Use Run Actor with Enter custom value set to sterlingverify/uk-gazette-insolvency and paste the input as JSON, then Get dataset items with the run's default dataset ID. For big batches, start the flow from the Actor run finished trigger instead.
• Activepieces: add the Apify piece and use Run Actor, or Run Task on one of this Actor's public example tasks (or your own saved task), then Get Dataset Items. For scheduled or big batches, use the Watch Actor Runs or Watch Task Runs trigger.
• Google Drive / Sheets: add Apify's Upload results to GDrive integration to a scheduled task to drop each run's CSV or XLSX into your team's Drive, or chain the Google Sheets Import & Export actor to append rows to a sheet.
• Slack alerts: add Apify's Slack integration to a scheduled task to post each run's results or new alerts to your team channel, or start a check from Slack with /apify call and your task ID.
• Snowflake: install Apify's Snowflake Native App, run this Actor from Snowsight and load results straight into a table.
• Email digests: add Apify's Send results email via Gmail integration to a scheduled task to attach each run's CSV/JSON to your inbox.
• Microsoft Teams alerts: add an Apify webhook (HTTP request on run succeeded or failed) to a scheduled task, point it at a Teams Workflows incoming-webhook URL, and set the payload template to an Adaptive Card message so each run posts an alert into your channel.
• Airbyte: add Apify Dataset as a source in Airbyte (dataset ID + Apify API token) to move a run's results into Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres or another Airbyte destination.
• Dify: install Apify's apify-integration plugin from the Dify Marketplace and use Run Actor as a tool in a Workflow or Chatflow, or point this Actor's Run succeeded HTTP webhook at a published Dify app's plugin endpoint to trigger it.
• Workato: install the Apify connector from Workato's Community library (Custom connectors), connect it with your Apify API token, and run this Actor inside a recipe or trigger a recipe when a run finishes.
• Any HTTP tool or script: send one request and get the results back as JSON. Runs must finish within 5 minutes.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/sterlingverify~uk-gazette-insolvency/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @input.json

FAQ

How do I check if a UK company is in liquidation? Enter company names or numbers; each is matched against Gazette insolvency notices (winding-up, liquidation, administration) and given a risk flag.

Can I monitor insolvencies daily? Yes. Leave companies empty for a feed of the latest notices and schedule it daily, or schedule your customer list for ongoing monitoring.

Who uses it? Credit control, merchant acquiring risk teams, KYB/onboarding, lenders, suppliers and insolvency practitioners.

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• UK Company Check (KYB)
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