Unable to create Incorporation Application

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Hi there,

Thanks to the team for the newly released API sandbox.

Our team is running into an issue when trying to POST to /businesses to create an Incorporation Application. We’re consistently getting a 503 Status code with the message below:

{
  "errorMessage": "API backend third party service error.",
  "rootCause": " error: Unable to create Incorporation Application Filing. "
}

Happy to share a redacted version of our input data if needed.

Thanks!

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Hi Marissa,

Hope all is well! Apologies for the late reply.

Regarding your question, do you still see the 503 Status code error? If yes, would you please be able to provide a redacted payload of what you’re trying to POST and what exactly is the endpoint you’re trying to hit (with query params)?

Let me know and thanks!

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Hi, thanks for the reply. I have also sent an email as well but no one has been replying unfortunately. The endpoint we’re trying to POST is https://bcregistry-sandbox.apigee.net/business/api/v2/businesses?draft=true&only_validate=false

And here is the redacted payload (I can’t upload a text file):
{
“filing”: {
“header”: {
“certifiedBy”: “Tony Nguyen”,
“email”: “redacted@redacted.co”,
“name”: “incorporationApplication”,
“date”: “2024-09-26”,
“accountId”: “REDACTED”
},
“incorporationApplication”: {
“nameRequest”: {
“legalName”: “Tonys cool test company 321”,
“legalType”: “B”
},
“offices”: {
“registeredOffice”: {
“deliveryAddress”: {
“streetAddress”: “delivery_address - address line one”,
“addressCity”: “delivery_address city”,
“addressCountry”: “CA”,
“postalCode”: “H0H0H0”,
“addressRegion”: “BC”
},
“mailingAddress”: {
“streetAddress”: “mailing_address - address line one”,
“addressCity”: “mailing_address city”,
“addressCountry”: “CA”,
“postalCode”: “H0H0H0”,
“addressRegion”: “BC”
}
},
“recordsOffice”: {
“deliveryAddress”: {
“streetAddress”: “delivery_address - address line one”,
“addressCity”: “delivery_address city”,
“addressCountry”: “CA”,
“postalCode”: “H0H0H0”,
“addressRegion”: “BC”
},
“mailingAddress”: {
“streetAddress”: “mailing_address - address line one”,
“addressCity”: “mailing_address city”,
“addressCountry”: “CA”,
“postalCode”: “H0H0H0”,
“addressRegion”: “BC”
}
}
},
“contactPoint”: {
“email”: “tony@ownr.co”,
“phone”: “647-926-5605”
},
“parties”: [
{
“mailingAddress”: {
“addressCity”: “Victoria”,
“addressCountry”: “CA”,
“addressRegion”: “BC”,
“postalCode”: “V8W 3E6”,
“streetAddress”: “200-940 Blanshard St”,
“streetAddressAdditional”: “”
},
“officer”: {
“email”: “johndoe@ownr.co”,
“firstName”: “JOHN”,
“lastName”: “DOE”,
“middleName”: “”,
“organizationName”: “”,
“partyType”: “person”
},
“roles”: [
{
“appointmentDate”: “2024-09-26”,
“roleType”: “Completing Party”
}
]
},
{
“mailingAddress”: {
“addressCity”: “Victoria”,
“addressCountry”: “CA”,
“addressRegion”: “BC”,
“postalCode”: “V8W 3E6”,
“streetAddress”: “200-940 Blanshard St”,
“streetAddressAdditional”: “”
},
“officer”: {
“email”: “severin@example.com”,
“firstName”: “TONY”,
“lastName”: “NGUYEN”,
“middleName”: “”,
“organizationName”: “”,
“partyType”: “person”
},
“roles”: [
{
“appointmentDate”: “2024-09-26”,
“roleType”: “Incorporator”
}
]
},
{
“deliveryAddress”: {
“addressCity”: “Burnaby”,
“addressCountry”: “CA”,
“addressRegion”: “BC”,
“postalCode”: “V5E 1R9”,
“streetAddress”: “6767 Burford St”,
“streetAddressAdditional”: “”
},
“mailingAddress”: {
“addressCity”: “Burnaby”,
“addressCountry”: “CA”,
“addressRegion”: “BC”,
“postalCode”: “V5E 1R9”,
“streetAddress”: “6767 Burford St”,
“streetAddressAdditional”: “”
},
“officer”: {
“firstName”: “Director”,
“lastName”: “Test”,
“middleName”: “”,
“organizationName”: “”,
“partyType”: “person”
},
“roles”: [
{
“appointmentDate”: “2024-09-26”,
“roleType”: “Director”
}
]
}
]
}
}
}

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Hi Marissa,

Our team is looking into this. I’ll get to you on this ASAP.

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Hi Marissa,

So the issue in the payload you’re sending is in the “nameRequest” field. Specifically, the “legalType”.

The ones that are supported for an incorporationApplication are: BC, BEN, CC, CP, ULC. Please keep in mind, in production, only BENs are currently supported and are able to be filed through our UIs and API.

We will get the specs updated with this.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks!

6

Thank you very much! This has resolved our issue

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