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This guide contains public integration notes for Hawaii. 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.

Hawaii coverage, pricing, and sources

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Table of Contents

API access: Hawaii is in beta. US-HI 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

Hawaii uses a single integration against the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Business Registration Division (DCCA / BREG), surfaced through the Hawaii Business Express (HBE) portal. The register covers every entity type filed under the Hawaii Revised Statutes: domestic and foreign profit corporations, nonprofit corporations, professional corporations, sustainable business corporations, limited liability companies, general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability limited partnerships, agricultural and consumer cooperatives, and the special Corporation Sole form.
  • DCCA / BREG detail page (live, authoritative). Every profile (legal name, file number, business type, status, registration date, principal and mailing addresses, term, registered agent, and the officer / director / manager / member / general partner roster) is read directly from the register at request time. Officers are on the public record per DCCA policy and appear without any paid order. The same record carries the ownership roster for the entity types where Hawaii publishes one, so shareholders costs no extra call — see Ownership coverage.
There is no open-data bulk feed for Hawaii. The Hawaii Open Data Portal entry for “Business Name Search” links back to the live HBE web search; no downloadable dataset exists. All data is fetched live from the register.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

The portal accepts both the display form with a space between the digits and the suffix (100001 D1) and the URL form without the space (100001D1). Both are valid when querying the Topograph API.

File Number Suffix Codes

The two-character suffix encodes both entity type and domestic vs. foreign status:
Q5 / Q6 are limited liability limited partnerships — limited partnerships that elected the status — not professional partnerships. The suffix therefore tells you whether ownership is published: see Ownership coverage below.

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Name search matches the beginning of the entity’s master name. Using a more specific query string narrows the result set.

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Legal form is derived from the BUSINESS TYPE field on the BREG detail page, a closed set of 21 entity types. The two-character file-number suffix independently encodes the same legal form.
The ISO 20275 column is for reference: the API does not return iso20275Code for Hawaii. The full legal form table, including provenance, is on the pricing page.

Officer Roles

BREG uses a closed set of 22 base office codes, with additional ordinal variants for vice-president positions (1V–9V). Codes are concatenated with / when an officer holds multiple roles; the API splits compound entries into separate records.
Managers (MGR), Members (MEM), and General Partners (G) are all returned as Legal Representatives. Members and partners are additionally returned as shareholders where Hawaii law makes the published list a complete ownership list — see Ownership coverage. Managers never are: state law defines a manager as a person “whether or not a member”, so the title carries control, not equity. The registered agent is returned separately as an other key person and holds no statutory authority to bind the entity.

Entity Statuses

The full status table with provenance is on the pricing page.

Ownership coverage

Hawaii publishes owners only where a statute both makes the title an ownership interest and requires the filing to name every holder. Where it does, the owners come back on the shareholders datapoint at no extra charge — they are read from the same entity record as the company profile.
The paid Annual Filing adds no ownership detail. The filed report lists its members by name and address and carries no percentage, share count or capital contribution — there is no such field on the form — so shareholders already returns everything it discloses. Order it as evidence of what was filed, not to obtain ownership data.The filing does state the date its contents are effective from (“as of” the quarterly anchor date set by the entity’s registration quarter). That date is not currently returned on the shareholders datapoint.
A member-managed LLC that has filed no member — a missing annual report, or a record whose management designation and filed roster disagree — returns the same explanatory error rather than an empty list. The people it has filed are still returned under legalRepresentatives.
No percentages exist. No Hawaii filing carries an ownership percentage, a share count or a capital amount for an LLC or a partnership, so sharePercentage is empty — with one exception: the single member of a member-managed LLC is reported at 100%, because state law makes that filed list the complete membership. Two or more owners are returned with no split. A general partnership or LLP whose public roster names only one partner is refused rather than reported as a sole owner.

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by File Number

Company Profile