Registry lookups for KYB onboarding

What the registry shows, in the case file, without the retyping.

Regline turns official company registries into API endpoints. Send a company name or registration number; get back the registry record as JSON, with the source and the time it was read. France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Bahrain and more, through one call shape.

Regline returns public registry data. It does not make the onboarding decision, and it is not a sanctions, PEP or beneficial-ownership screening product.
Case file / entity verificationKYB-0000
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Read at source--
Simulated lookup for illustration. Every company, person, address and number shown here is invented. Fields vary by registry.
23registry endpoints available today
10registries and official company data sources
8countries: FR, NL, BE, PT, BH, CA, IN and the US (New York)
1call shape for all of them, so one integration covers every registry
Three moments you will recognise

The registry check is simple. Doing it forty times a day across four countries is not.

TUESDAY, 10:40 / ONE MERCHANT, FOUR TABS

An analyst retypes directors into the case file

A French parent, a Dutch trading entity, a Belgian branch, a Portuguese subsidiary. Four registry sites, four search forms, one CAPTCHA, and a director's name copied by hand with an accent missing.

pappers.frkvk.nlkbo-bcenif.pt
copy legal name ... paste
copy reg. number .. paste
retype director 1 of 3
session expired, search again
RENEWAL SEASON / THE VENDOR QUOTE

Per-check fees, an annual minimum, and still no Bahrain

The enterprise KYB vendor covers the large registries well. Then a merchant with a Bahraini entity arrives, the vendor has no connector, and the check goes back to a person with a browser while the merchant waits to go live.

annual minimum ....... committed
price per check ...... per registry
Sijilat (BH) ......... not supported
merchant waiting ..... day 4
AUDIT WEEK / THE EVIDENCE REQUEST

"Show me what the registry said on the day you checked"

The case note says "verified on registry". The auditor wants the record itself, with a date. The screenshot is on a laptop that was replaced in the spring, and the registry entry has changed since.

From: internal audit
Re: sample of 25 business files
Please provide registry evidence
as at the date of each check.
Coverage

The exact list. Nothing implied beyond it.

23 endpoints across 10 registries in 8 countries. If a registry you need is not here, it is not covered yet. Ask and we will tell you whether we can build it.

Each endpoint returns the fields that registry publishes. Registries differ: some list directors, some do not. Check a sample response for the registry you care about before you rely on a field.

How it works

One POST per lookup. The record comes back as JSON.

01

Pick the endpoint. Each lookup, such as a Pappers company profile or a KVK trade register search, is a hosted function with its own ID.

02

Call it from your onboarding flow. We open the registry in a real browser on our side, submit the search and read the result page. You do not run browsers or handle the search form.

03

Store the response with the case. You receive the registry's fields, the source and the retrieval time. Keep that JSON in your own case file as your record of what the registry showed when you checked.

04

Your process decides. Regline reports what the registry shows. Matching, risk rating and the approve or decline decision stay with your team and your policy.


  
Work it out

How many analyst hours go into registry tabs each month?

Use your own numbers. The estimator only does arithmetic on what you enter: it assumes nothing about your team, and it counts only the checks that fall in countries Regline covers.

An estimate from your inputs, not a promise of results. Review time per result is your assumption to set.

Manual today-
With lookups by API-
Hours returned-
hours = covered checks x minutes / 60 · covered checks = checks x share · lookups assume 2 calls per check (search, then details)
From onboarding teams

Written by people who close case files for a living.

"We did not replace our KYB process. We replaced the part where someone copies a SIREN and three directors from a browser into a form. The record lands in the case, the analyst reads it and makes the call."

MV
Marieke V.Head of Onboarding Operations, payments company
Placeholder testimonial

"Our vendor had no answer for Bahrain. Two endpoints later, the Sijilat lookup sits in the same workflow as France and the Netherlands."

TR
Tiago R.Compliance Lead, B2B marketplace
Placeholder testimonial

"The audit sample used to mean a week of hunting for screenshots. Now each file has the registry response with its retrieval time attached."

AD
Amelie D.KYB Team Manager, fintech
Placeholder testimonial
Pricing

A monthly plan. No annual minimum.

Trial
€0
Test the registries you need against real cases.
  • 250 lookups, one month
  • All 23 endpoints
  • Email support
Get a trial key
Team
€290 / month
For an onboarding team with a steady flow of business customers.
  • 5,000 lookups a month
  • All 23 endpoints
  • Same price per lookup for every registry
  • Cancel monthly
Start on Team
Volume
Custom
Higher volume, or a registry that is not on the list.
  • Volume pricing
  • New registry endpoints on request
  • Private endpoints for your account
  • A named contact
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A lookup is one endpoint call. A typical check uses two: a search, then the details page.

FAQ

Questions a compliance lead asks first.

Does using Regline satisfy our KYB or AML obligations?

No. Regline returns what the public registry shows at the time of the call. That is one input to your process. Whether a check is sufficient, what else you need to collect and whether to onboard the customer are decided by your own compliance process and policy, not by Regline.

Do you screen for sanctions, PEPs or beneficial owners?

No. Regline does not provide sanctions screening, PEP screening or beneficial-ownership screening. It reads the registries listed in the coverage section and returns the fields they publish. If a registry does not publish a field, the endpoint does not return it.

Where does the data come from, and is it cached?

Each call opens the registry or source site in a browser on our side and reads the result at that moment. The response is what the source showed at call time. If the registry is out of date or wrong, the response will be too, because we report the source and do not correct it.

What can we keep as evidence for an audit?

The response includes the source and the retrieval time alongside the registry's fields. Store that JSON in your case file. Regline is not your system of record: keeping the response, and deciding how long to keep it, is on your side.

What happens when a registry changes its site or is unavailable?

When a registry changes its site, we repair the endpoint on our side and keep the same function ID. If the registry is down or the lookup fails, the call returns an error. It does not return an older result in place of a fresh one.

How fast is a lookup?

A lookup takes as long as the registry site takes to answer in a browser, so it is slower than a database query. We do not publish a latency figure. Run lookups as a background step in your onboarding flow and measure with your own cases during the trial.

Can you add a registry we need?

Often, yes. Tell us the registry and the fields you need and we will say whether we can build an endpoint for it. Until an endpoint is listed in coverage, treat it as not covered.

Who runs this?

Regline runs on Notte's browser infrastructure. Each endpoint is a hosted Notte function, which is why every registry uses the same call shape.

Run your next ten business checks without opening a registry tab.

Take a trial key, pick the registries your merchants come from, and compare the responses with what your analysts record today.