How can you differentiate among various search options for finding a company using API?

This article explains various methods for searching companies, including name, location, register ID, and tools like Power Search, Universal Search, and Suggestion Search.

  1. Searching a company using the name and location or register ID: these two options can be used to search for a single company. If you are not sure about the exact spelling of the name or location, use the parameter fuzzyMatch=true.
  2. Power search is used to find companies that fulfil certain criteria, e.g. geographical or financial criteria. The words you use as keywords in your search are searched for in name, subject, segment, and VAT-ID.
  3. Universal search is used to find a company based on the information provided by a user (who may not know the city or is unsure about the name, etc.).
  4. Suggestion search offers suggestions for auto-completion of data entered by a user into a search field. You can use the suggestion search to find the correct name if you are not sure.

Please see for more details also our technical documentation.