Florida

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This guide contains public integration notes for Florida. Use it for identifier formats, search behavior, and country-specific caveats. The live source of truth for coverage, pricing, data sources, documents, legal forms, roles, and status values is the pricing page.

Florida coverage, pricing, and sources

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Data Sources
Company Identifiers
Search Capabilities
Quirks & Gotchas
Mappings
- Legal Forms
- Person Roles
Data Availability

API access: Florida is in beta. US-FL is accepted by /v2/company and /v2/search, but it is not yet listed in the public countryCode enum of the OpenAPI spec.

Data Sources

Florida uses two complementary sources, both operated by the Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations (Sunbiz).

Florida Division of Corporations, Bulk File (fast path). The Division publishes the full Corporate Data File as a quarterly snapshot (January, April, July, October) and daily delta files. The dataset covers every active Florida profit corporation, non-profit corporation, LLC, limited partnership, and declaration of trust. Each record includes up to 6 people — corporate officers and directors, LLC managers, members and authorized persons, or a limited partnership’s general partners — plus the registered agent and core company fields. This is the primary source for company data, search, and prefill checks.
Florida Division of Corporations, Live Search (enrichment path). The public search.sunbiz.org detail pages are read at request time in three cases: (a) on every search, by name and by document number, so entities filed after the latest bulk update are still found; (b) when the bulk record is flagged as having more than 6 officers, to retrieve the complete roster; and (c) to deliver PDF documents (Articles of Incorporation or Organization, Annual Reports, amendments) that are not distributed in the bulk file.

Officer data freshness. Florida entities file an Annual Report by May 1 each year. Officer data in the bulk file reflects the most recent annual report filed; entities that have not yet filed for the current year carry officers from the prior filing.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifier	Format	Example	Notes
Document Number	12 or 6 characters. 12 characters: one letter + 11 digits (e.g. `P99000001570`, `L22000252360`). 6 characters, on older filings: six digits (e.g. `112252`) or one letter + five digits (e.g. `A17753`, `G10360`). The letter reflects the filing type and period (e.g. `P` = domestic profit corporation, `L` = LLC, `F` = foreign entity); letters in use include `A`, `F`, `G`, `H`, `K`, `L`, `M`, `N`, `P`, `S`, `T` and `W`.	`P99000001570`	Primary identifier assigned by the Division of Corporations. Shown on every Sunbiz entity detail page.
FEI / EIN	9 digits. Accepted with or without hyphen (`59-1234567` or `591234567`).	`59-1234567`	Federal employer identification number. Not all entities have one on file. A lookup by FEI may return no result even for an active entity.

Always use the Document Number as the primary lookup key. FEI / EIN search is available as a convenience but may not resolve every entity.

Identifiers in API Response

Field	Format	Example	Found In
`documentNumber`	One letter + 11 digits, six digits, or one letter + five digits	`P99000001570`, `112252`	All entities
`feiNumber`	9 digits (with hyphen)	`59-1234567`	Entities that have reported an EIN to the Division

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

GLEIF is the supplementary data source for this identifier. company.identifiers.lei is returned when a company identifier has a unique match against this jurisdiction’s registration or validation references in GLEIF. An LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) has 20 uppercase letters and digits, ending in two check digits. Coverage varies by entity. The field is omitted when no unambiguous match is available. Lapsed or retired LEIs may be returned; annulled records are excluded.

Search Capabilities

Search Type	Pattern	Example	Match Type	Expected Results
By Name	2–200 chars	`"Sunshine"`	Relevance-ranked name matching (case-insensitive)	Multiple results, up to about 20 per source
By Document Number	12 or 6 characters	`P99000001570`, `112252`	Exact	Single result returned first (`matchType: id`)
By FEI / EIN	9 digits, with or without hyphen	`59-1234567`	Exact	Single result when the entity has a matching FEI on file

Name search ranks the full register by relevance to the words in your query. Newly filed entities that are not yet in the bulk file are added from the live register, matched on the beginning of the legal name. Use a longer query string to narrow a large result set.

Active companies only

Search can return companies that are no longer active. Each result carries the register’s status, so activeOnly=true removes the inactive ones.

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
Document Number prefix is load-bearing	The letter prefix encodes entity type and is required. `P99000001570` and `99000001570` are treated as different keys. Always pass the identifier exactly as returned by the search endpoint.
Person list capped at 6 in bulk	The bulk file stores at most 6 people per entity. Entities with more carry a flag, and the full roster is read from the live detail page at request time. If that live read fails the response falls back to the 6 from bulk rather than failing the request, so a very large roster can occasionally be truncated.
A board seat is not automatically a legal representative	Florida statutes vest corporate powers in the board as a body (F.S. §607.0801(2), §617.0801) and confer no individual authority on a single director. A director or chairman is therefore returned as a `legalRepresentative` only when they are the entity’s sole board member; where the board has two or more, all of them are returned as `otherKeyPersons` with the standardized role `Board Member`. A corporation or non-profit whose only filed people are board members will legitimately return an empty `legalRepresentatives` array with those people under `otherKeyPersons` — around 18% of for-profit corporations and 14% of non-profits that file any person at all.
Registered agent is not a legal representative	Under Florida statutes (F.S. §605.0113 and §607.0501), the registered agent is the service-of-process contact only. The API returns the registered agent as an `otherKeyPerson`, not a `legalRepresentative`.
No shareholders or UBO data	Florida does not collect ownership or beneficial-owner information at the state level, and files no share counts or percentages for any entity type. Beneficial ownership reporting is a federal obligation under the Corporate Transparency Act, administered separately by FinCEN. Note that LLC managing members and authorized members, and a limited partnership’s general partners, are filed and returned — but as `legalRepresentatives`, describing authority to act. They are not an ownership record and carry no stake size.
Accented characters are lost in the bulk file	The Division’s bulk export replaces every non-ASCII character with `?`, so a small number of names arrive damaged (`Villafa?e` for Villafañe, `Mar?a` for María). The live detail page holds the correct characters, but the bulk file is what feeds company data. This affects roughly 0.02% of people. The `?` is preserved as-is — it is never guessed at, because the same placeholder stands for í, á, é, ú, ü, ä, ç and ñ.
No industry classification codes	Sunbiz does not capture NAICS, SIC, NACE, or ISIC codes. The `activityCodes` datapoint is not available for Florida.
Banks and credit unions file as corporations	State-chartered banks, trust companies, savings banks, and credit unions register with the Division of Corporations as standard profit corporations. Their regulated classification is maintained by the Florida Office of Financial Regulation and is not layered into the response.
No ISO 20275 code in the response	The API does not return `iso20275Code` for Florida. The ELF codes in the legal form table below are reference values for the four Florida-domiciled types. Foreign entities have no Florida ELF code, because the ELF code belongs to the jurisdiction where the legal form originated.
Certificate of Status is a paid document	The Certificate of Status (good-standing certificate) is issued by the Division of Corporations at a per-certificate fee and is a paid upgrade. See the pricing page for the current charge.

Mappings

Legal Forms

Florida uses a closed set of 11 filing-type codes defined in the Corporate Data File record layout published by the Division of Corporations. The API returns the filing-type code (DOMP, FLAL, …) in legalForm.localName, together with the standardized category. The ISO 20275 column is reference only: it lists the ELF codes of the four Florida-domiciled types and is not returned in the response.

All 11 Florida filing types

Sunbiz Filing Type	Local Name	Standardized	ISO 20275
`DOMP`	Domestic Profit Corporation	Corporation	`TRI2`
`FORP`	Foreign Profit Corporation	Corporation
`DOMNP`	Domestic Non-Profit Corporation	Nonprofit Organization	`3N55`
`FORNP`	Foreign Non-Profit Corporation	Nonprofit Organization
`NPREG`	Non-Profit Registration	Nonprofit Organization
`FLAL`	Florida Limited Liability Company	Limited Liability Company	`8N21`
`FORL`	Foreign Limited Liability Company	Limited Liability Company
`DOMLP`	Domestic Limited Partnership	Partnership	`5DS0`
`FORLP`	Foreign Limited Partnership	Partnership
`TRUST`	Declaration of Trust	Trust
`AGENT`	Designation of Registered Agent	Other

The DOMLP code covers both plain Limited Partnerships and Limited Liability Limited Partnerships (LLLPs). The Sunbiz filing type does not distinguish between the two. Distinguishing an LLLP requires inspecting the entity name suffix.

Person Roles

The Corporate Data File stores each person’s title in a 4-character free-text field, not a closed code set: a historical 10% corpus census found more than 5,800 distinct values. Three shapes account for almost all of it, and the raw register string is always returned in role.localName — including when it cannot be resolved, so a person the register published is never dropped. 1. Single-letter office codes, which combine. Sunbiz builds a multi-office title by concatenating them, so PD is a President who is also a director and PSTD is President, Secretary, Treasurer and Director.

Sunbiz Code	Local Name	Standardized	Classification
`P`	President	President	Legal Representative
`V`, `VP`	Vice President	Vice President	Legal Representative
`T`, `TR`	Treasurer	Treasurer	Legal Representative
`S`	Secretary	Secretary	Legal Representative
`CEO`	Chief Executive Officer	Chief Executive Officer	Legal Representative
`CFO`	Chief Financial Officer	Chief Financial Officer	Legal Representative
`COO`	Chief Operating Officer	Chief Operating Officer	Legal Representative
`C`	Chairman	Chairman of the Board	Other Key Person
`D`	Director	Board Member	Other Key Person

2. LLC managers, members and authorized persons. Manager and managing-member titles describe a management capacity. Explicit authorized-member, authorized-person and representative titles describe an authorization capacity. Plain membership or ownership alone does not establish agency: member authority depends on the company’s management regime and governing documents.

Sunbiz Code	Local Name	Standardized	Classification
`MGR`	Manager	Manager	Legal Representative
`MGRM`	Managing Member	Manager	Legal Representative
`AMBR`	Authorized Member	Authorized Signatory	Legal Representative
`MBR`	Member	Other	Other Key Person
`Owne`	Owner	Other	Other Key Person
`AP`	Authorized Person	Authorized Signatory	Legal Representative
`AR`	Authorized Representative	Authorized Signatory	Legal Representative

3. Partnerships. A limited partnership’s people appear in a General Partner block that has no title column, so a general partner may arrive with a blank title or as G / GP.

Sunbiz Code	Local Name	Standardized	Classification
`G`, `GP`, (blank on an LP)	General Partner	General Partner	Legal Representative
`LP`	Limited Partner	Other	Other Key Person
`RA`	Registered Agent	Registered Agent	Other Key Person

A board seat does not establish personal signing powers. Directors and board chairs are returned under otherKeyPersons, even when only one board member is listed. Corporate board powers remain subject to the articles and applicable agreements; officers derive their authority from bylaws or the board. A combined title such as PD retains the officer meaning and the full source caption, with its actual powers still dependent on the company’s governing documents.

Titles are often truncated, and one is ambiguous. Because the field is 4 characters wide, a spelled-out title arrives cut off: Mana (Manager), Pres (President), Secr (Secretary), Trea (Treasurer), Chai (Chairman), Dire (Director). These are resolved normally. The exception is Auth, which on the live register expands to both “Authorized Member” and “Authorized Representative” — the truncation is genuinely lossy, so the raw title is preserved under otherKeyPersons with the general standardized value Other, without inferring a specific office or signing power.

Registered Agent is classified as an Other Key Person (service-of-process contact only, no authority to act on behalf of the entity under F.S. §605.0113 and §607.0501). A Limited Partner likewise has no power to bind the partnership (F.S. §620.1302).

Data Availability

Data Point	Available	Notes
Company name	Yes	Current legal name from the Corporate Data File
Company status	Yes	Active (`A`) or Inactive (`I`)
Registration date	Yes	Initial filing date with the Division of Corporations
Legal address	Yes	Principal address from the bulk record
Legal form	Yes	Sunbiz filing-type code (closed 11-value vocabulary) with a standardized category
Legal representatives	Yes	Corporate officers, LLC managers / members / authorized persons, and LP general partners. Up to 6 from bulk; the full roster is read live when the entity is flagged as having more than 6. Empty when the only filed people are a multi-member board (see Quirks)
Board members	Yes	Directors and chairmen of a multi-member board, returned as Other Key Persons with the standardized role `Board Member`
Registered agent	Yes	Name and address, returned as an Other Key Person
Activity codes	No	Not collected by Sunbiz
Shareholders	No	Not published at the state level
UBOs	No	Federal FinCEN system only; not available from Sunbiz
Trade Register Extract	Yes	Printed PDF of the Sunbiz entity detail page, included at no extra charge with the company data block
Articles of Incorporation / Organization	Yes	PDF from Sunbiz, billed separately (see the pricing page), available when the entity has filed formation documents
Florida Annual Report	Yes	PDF from Sunbiz, billed separately (see the pricing page); one or more years may be available per entity
Amendment / Merger / Name Change filing	Yes	PDF from Sunbiz, billed separately (see the pricing page), available when amendment filings are present on the entity detail page
Certificate of Status	Yes (paid)	Issued by the Division of Corporations at a per-certificate fee; see the pricing page
Financial statements	No	Not collected

Example API Responses

Search by Name

curl -X GET "https://api.topograph.co/v2/search?country=US-FL&query=Sunshine" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "P99000001570",
    "legalName": "SUNSHINE HOLDINGS INC.",
    "countryCode": "US-FL",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "default"
    },
    "address": {
      "region": "FL",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  }
]

Search by Document Number

curl -X GET "https://api.topograph.co/v2/search?country=US-FL&query=P99000001570" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "P99000001570",
    "legalName": "SUNSHINE HOLDINGS INC.",
    "countryCode": "US-FL",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "id"
    }
  }
]

Company Profile

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/company" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"countryCode": "US-FL", "id": "P99000001570", "dataPoints": ["company", "legalRepresentatives", "otherKeyPersons"], "mode": "prefill"}'

{
  "company": {
    "id": "P99000001570",
    "countryCode": "US-FL",
    "identifiers": {
      "documentNumber": "P99000001570",
      "feiNumber": "59-1234567"
    },
    "legalName": "SUNSHINE HOLDINGS INC.",
    "status": {
      "localName": "Active",
      "active": true
    },
    "registrationDate": "2012-03-14",
    "legalForm": {
      "localName": "DOMP",
      "englishTranslation": "Corporation",
      "standardized": "Corporation"
    },
    "legalAddress": {
      "addressLine1": "123 Palm Avenue",
      "city": "Miami",
      "region": "FL",
      "postalCode": "33101",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  },
  "legalRepresentatives": [
    {
      "entityId": "person_001",
      "type": "individual",
      "role": {
        "localName": "P",
        "standardized": "President"
      },
      "individual": {
        "name": { "fullName": "Jane Sample" }
      }
    }
  ],
  "otherKeyPersons": [
    {
      "entityId": "company_001",
      "type": "company",
      "role": {
        "localName": "Registered Agent",
        "standardized": "Registered Agent"
      },
      "company": {
        "legalName": "Sample Registered Agent LLC",
        "countryCode": "US",
        "legalAddress": {
          "addressLine1": "456 Bay Street",
          "city": "Tampa",
          "region": "FL",
          "postalCode": "33601",
          "countryCode": "US"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

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Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

Search Capabilities

Active companies only

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Legal Forms

Person Roles

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by Document Number

Company Profile

​Start here

Florida coverage, pricing, and sources

​Table of Contents

​Data Sources

​Company Identifiers

​Query Identifiers

​Identifiers in API Response

​Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

​Search Capabilities

​Active companies only

​Quirks & Gotchas

​Mappings

​Legal Forms

​Person Roles

​Data Availability

​Example API Responses

​Search by Name

​Search by Document Number

​Company Profile

Start here

Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

Search Capabilities

Active companies only

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Legal Forms

Person Roles

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by Document Number

Company Profile