API Legal Type and Filing Type Codes

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The specification file for the Business API requires business type codes. The specification has enumerated list of business type codes (e.g. AB, BC, CP) but no descriptions.

The Payment API specification has a handful of filing type codes (e.g. OTANN, BCINC, BCADD) in some embedded examples, but there doesn’t appear to be a description of these codes, nor an enumerated list. It would be useful if these were mapped to the filing types that are enumerated in the business specification (e.g. annualReport, changeOfDirectors, changeOfAddress). The latter are self-explanatory as they are clearly named.

Are these codes and descriptions available somewhere?

Thanks in advance.

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We have also ran into this with the Registry-Search API

When making a search the initial call returns:

  1. idenitifer
  2. legalType
  3. bn
  4. status
  5. name
  6. score

legalType is an abbreviation – like “BC”

We are most interested in initially obtaining the full entityDescription “BC Limited Company” instead of the abbreviation.

It appears to us that the full entityDescirption is not available until documents are ordered

is there an existing way we can obtain this the full entityDescription on the initial lookup call? Or can it be added to the initial lookup call?

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Tagging @jlane to see if John knows the answer to this question.

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I’ve attached a list of business types and their short description to aide your development and planning. Note that the short description likely won’t be included in the spec.

CORP_TYP_CD SHORT_DESC FULL_DESC
A EXTRA PRO Extraprovincial Company
B EXTRA PRO Extraprovincial
BC BC COMPANY BC Company
C CONTINUE IN Continuation In
CEM CEMETARY Cemetary
CP COOP Cooperative
EPR EXTRA PRO REG Extraprovincial Registration
FOR FOREIGN Foreign Registration
LIC LICENSED Licensed (Extra-Pro)
LIB LIBRARY Public Library Association
LLC LIMITED CO Limited Liability Company
PA PRIVATE ACT Private Act
PAR PARISHES Parishes
PFS PENS FUND SOC Pension Funded Society
QA CO 1860 CO 1860
QB CO 1862 CO 1862
QC CO 1878 CO 1878
QD CO 1890 CO 1890
QE CO 1897 CO 1897
REG REGISTRATION Registraton (Extra-pro)
RLY RAILWAYS Railways
SB SOCIETY BRANCH Society Branch
T TRUST Trust
TMY TRAMWAYS Tramways
XCP XPRO COOP Extraprovincial Cooperative
ULC BC ULC COMPANY BC Unlimited Liability Company
CUL ULC CONTINUE IN Continuation In as a BC ULC
UQA ULC CO 1860 ULC CO 1860
UQB ULC CO 1862 ULC CO 1862
UQC ULC CO 1878 ULC CO 1878
UQD ULC CO 1890 ULC CO 1890
UQE ULC CO 1897 ULC CO 1897
CC BC CCC BC Community Contribution Company
CCC CCC Continue In Continuation In as a BC CC Company
S SOCIETY Society
XS XPRO SOCIETY Extraprovincial Society
SP SOLE PROP Sole Proprietorship
GP PARTNERSHIP General Partnership
LP LIM PARTNERSHIP Limited Partnership
XP XPRO LIM PARTNR Extraprovincial Limited Partnership
LL LL PARTNERSHIP Limited Liability Partnership
XL XPRO LL PARTNR Extrapro Limited Liability Partnership
MF MISC FIRM Miscellaneous Firm
FI FINANCIAL Financial Institutions
CS CONT IN SOCIETY Continued In Society
BEN BENEFIT COMPANY Benefit Company
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Thanks @jlane. That’s helpful. There are probably more questions to come regarding the differences e.g. between A and B but for now this is great.

Do you also have a list of filing type codes?

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Hello,
We are only publishing the Registry Filings API (Businesses) in order to support business search. The API won’t support the submission of filings in the sandbox until a later date.

Can you confirm your intended use of the list of filing type codes? That could help me understand what other info you may need.

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We’re ultimately doing most/all of the business filings when they become available. Right now we’re trying to code for the Pay API so we can retrieve applicable fees for the various filings so our users can see fee breakdowns prior to filing. I see BCINC (relatively obvious), as well as OTANN (?) and BCADD (?). Are you able to provide a list of whatever current valid codes are available at this time along with a description, and perhaps additional ones that will be available later? Thanks.