company.uk.status

UK Company Status

Whether a UK company is active, dissolved, in liquidation or subject to a proposal to strike off, with the register's status detail and cessation date.

Example answer

Ask

Is this UK company still active?

GET /v1/companies/uk/00445790/status

Eckari

{
  "company_number": "00445790",
  "company_name": "TESCO PLC",
  "status": "active",
  "status_detail": null,
  "is_active": true,
  "is_striking_off": false,
  "date_of_cessation": null
}

Source: Companies House
Freshness: Live
Price: $0.003

Version: 3.0.0
Transport: HTTP / MCP
Coverage: GB

Use this when

Is this UK company still active?
You need a yes/no on whether a UK entity is live on the register before doing business, paying an invoice or continuing a workflow.
Has company 00445790 been dissolved or struck off?
Is this limited company in liquidation or administration?
Is there a proposal to strike this company off the register?
You are monitoring a list of UK companies for status changes.

Don't use this when

You need the full registered profile (type, SIC codes, incorporation date) — use company.uk.profile.
You need directors or officers — use company.uk.directors.
You need owners / persons with significant control — use company.uk.owners.
You only have a company name — use company.uk.search first.
The identifier is a UK establishment (BR…) or a registered overseas entity (OE…) and you need more than liveness — those entities use the register's own status vocabulary (open, closed, registered, removed) rather than active/dissolved, so read status directly rather than relying on is_active alone.

If the user has asked you to inspect a specific website, page or URL, use your browsing tool instead — this capability only returns the Companies House Public Data API record.

Input

company_numberstringrequired

Companies House company number, also called the company registration number (CRN), e.g. 00445790, SC123456, NI000001, BR008975. The identifier itself is 1-8 letters/digits; surrounding whitespace is ignored (which is why maxLength is 10), but the value must not contain internal spaces. Short numeric values are zero-padded to 8 characters. A whitespace-only or over-long value is rejected as INVALID_INPUT before any payment or upstream call.

What the result means

company_numberstring

Normalised 8-character company number.

company_namestring

statusstring

Companies House company_status value (e.g. active, dissolved, liquidation, administration, receivership, voluntary-arrangement, insolvency-proceedings, converted-closed, registered, removed, closed, open). Companies use active/dissolved; UK establishments (BR…) and registered overseas entities (OE…) use open/closed and registered/removed.

status_detailstring, null

Companies House company_status_detail where present (e.g. active-proposal-to-strike-off, transferred-from-uk, transformed-to-se, converted-to-plc).

is_activeboolean

Derived; true when status is one of active, open or registered — the three values the register uses for an entity that is still live on it (companies, UK establishments and overseas entities respectively). False for every other status, including dissolved, closed, removed, liquidation, administration and receivership. It is a liveness flag, not a good-standing flag: an active company with a proposal to strike off, an overdue filing or an insolvency process is still is_active true — read is_striking_off and status_detail alongside it.

is_striking_offboolean

Derived; true when status_detail is exactly active-proposal-to-strike-off, meaning the registrar has published a proposal to strike the company off the register. False when the register records no such detail.

Provenance

Source: Companies House
Freshness: Live · read at request time, not cached
Region: GB
Attribution: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Companies House).

Access

Over MCP: company_uk_status
Over HTTP: GET https://api.eckari.com/v1/companies/uk/{company_number}/status
Price: $0.003 per call over x402. Account access $0.002 when that rail opens.