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Data Sources

All entity data comes from the Idaho Secretary of State via the SOSBiz portal (sosbiz.idaho.gov). This is the official state register for all business entities formed or qualified to do business in Idaho, including domestic and foreign corporations, LLCs, limited partnerships, nonprofits, cooperatives, and Assumed Business Names. Every request hits the live register. There is no bulk data export or open-data feed. The response is always authoritative and up to date.
Idaho is a single-source jurisdiction. Company profile and search both come from the live SOSBiz portal. A Trade Register Extract is included in the document catalogue.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

The Entity Number is the only identifier supported for company retrieval. To find an ID from a name, use the search endpoint first. Both the bare form and the zero-padded 10-digit form are accepted.

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Name search supports contains-matching across all registered entity names. Entity Number search locates a single entity by its exact identifier and is the recommended path when the ID is known.

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Company Status

Status is prefixed by the Idaho SoS: Active-* values are active; Inactive-* values are not. Any value beginning with Active- maps to active: true; any value beginning with Inactive- maps to active: false. Idaho entity types come from the filing type field. Domestic entities may carry an ISO 20275 ELF code; foreign entities do not (they are formed in another jurisdiction).

Data Availability

Documents

Trade Register Extract

A PDF of the entity’s detail record from the SOSBiz register, including legal name, entity number, type, status, formation date, and all field-value pairs published by the register. Includes a capture timestamp.

Certificate of Existence / Filing

The Idaho Secretary of State offers paid certificates for registered entities (Certificate of Existence/Filing for corporations, LLCs, and other entity types; Certificate of Filing ABN for Assumed Business Names). These are not yet available through Topograph.

Example API Responses

Company Profile: Foreign Business Corporation

Company Profile: Domestic LLC

Company Profile: Inactive Entity