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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

Open the current catalog for supported datapoints, documents, sources, identifiers, and availability.
This jurisdiction may be in preview or limited availability. Check the live pricing page or contact support before relying on it in production.
Country details below are preserved as integration notes. If a table or example conflicts with the live pricing page, use the pricing page as the source of truth and contact support.

Table of Contents

API access: US-HI is not yet part of the public countryCode enum. Contact us to enable it on your workspace. Requests sent with countryCode: "US-HI" will otherwise return 400 until the enum is expanded.

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, limited liability companies, general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, professional limited liability partnerships, agricultural and fish 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 / 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.
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:

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Name search supports both begins-with and contains matching against the entity’s master name. Results are capped at 50 matches per query. 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, which is a closed set of 17 values. The two-character file-number suffix independently encodes the same legal form.
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 classified as Legal Representatives. 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.

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by File Number

Company Profile