Kansas - Topograph

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This guide contains public integration notes for Kansas. 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.

Kansas coverage, pricing, and sources

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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.

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

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

Data Sources

Kansas uses a single integration against the Kansas Secretary of State Business Entity Search Station (sos.ks.gov), maintained by the Business Services Division. The register covers every domestic and foreign entity filed under the Kansas General Corporation Code (K.S.A. Chapter 17) and the Limited Liability Company Act (K.S.A. Chapter 17, Article 76): for-profit and not-for-profit corporations, LLCs (including series and professional variants), limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and business trusts.

Kansas Secretary of State Business Entity Search Station (live, authoritative). The public portal is queried in real time for every request. It exposes legal name, Business ID, entity type, formation date, jurisdiction, current status, principal office address, resident agent name and address, last reporting year, next report due date, forfeiture date when applicable, and the full filing history.

Single live source. Kansas does not publish a bulk download or open-data feed of the business register, so every request is served from the live portal. Because that read is fast, both onboarding and verification modes return the same authoritative data — there is no separate non-authoritative cache tier.

Portal reliability. The Kansas Secretary of State portal may be temporarily unavailable during maintenance windows or periods of high load. The flakySource caveat on the data block reflects this. Failed requests are not billed.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifier Type	Format	Example	Notes
Kansas SoS Business ID	Numeric, no dashes or spaces	`6749200`	Assigned by the Kansas Secretary of State. Distinct from the Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN).

The Kansas Business ID is purely numeric. The portal rejects dashes, spaces, and any non-digit characters. Strip any formatting before passing the identifier to the API.

Identifiers in API Response

Identifier	Format	Example	Found In
`businessId`	Numeric string	`6749200`	All entities

Search Capabilities

Search Type	Pattern	Example	Match Type	Expected Results
By Name	2-100 chars	`"Garmin"`	Contains (case-insensitive)	Up to 100 results
By Kansas SoS Business ID	Numeric string	`1749480`	Exact	Single result (matchType: id)
By Resident Agent Name	2-100 chars	`"CT Corporation"`	Contains (case-insensitive)	Multiple results

Name search is contains-match. Queries match anywhere in the legal name, case-insensitively. Results are capped at 100. Use a more specific query string to narrow the result set.

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
Numeric Business ID only	The Kansas SoS Business ID is always a numeric string with no dashes or spaces. Non-digit characters are rejected. It is distinct from the Federal Employer Identification Number.
No bulk / open-data feed	Kansas does not publish a Socrata, CSV, or API bulk download of the business register. Every request hits the live portal.
Officers not on the public detail page	Officers and directors are filed on the Kansas annual information report (Form IFP) but are not surfaced as a structured datapoint on the public Business Entity Search Station. They are not available via the API.
Resident agent is an other key person	The resident agent name and address are returned under `otherKeyPersons`, not `legalRepresentatives`. The resident agent receives service of process but does not have authority to bind the entity.
No activity codes	Industry classification codes (NAICS / NACE / ISIC) are not collected by the Kansas Secretary of State.
No shareholders or UBOs	Shareholder lists and LLC member names are not collected by the register. Kansas does not maintain a public beneficial-ownership register. Federal FinCEN BOI records are restricted.
Sole proprietorships and DBAs excluded	Sole proprietorships, doing-business-as filings, assumed names, fictitious names, and trade names do not file with the Kansas Secretary of State and are not indexed for search.
Certificate of Good Standing is a paid upgrade	The official Kansas Certificate of Good Standing is available as a paid document (see pricing). The Trade Register Extract is included with the company data at no extra charge.

Mappings

Legal Forms

Legal form is sourced from the entity-type label published by the Kansas Secretary of State Business Entity Search Station. The taxonomy is a closed enum based on entity types registered under K.S.A. Chapter 17 (Kansas General Corporation Code) and K.S.A. Chapter 17, Article 76 (Limited Liability Company Act). The full list of legal forms with ISO 20275 mappings is available on the pricing page. The table below shows the most common forms.

All Kansas entity types

Kansas Entity Type	Standardized	ISO 20275
For-Profit Corporation	Corporation	`C3JQ`
Professional Association	Corporation
Public Benefit Corporation	Corporation
Not-For-Profit Corporation	NonprofitOrganization	`4RCO`
Foreign For-Profit Corporation	Corporation
Foreign Not-For-Profit Corporation	NonprofitOrganization
Limited Liability Company	LimitedLiabilityCompany	`JY0X`
Series Limited Liability Company	LimitedLiabilityCompany
Professional Limited Liability Company	LimitedLiabilityCompany
Public Benefit Limited Liability Company	LimitedLiabilityCompany
Foreign Limited Liability Company	LimitedLiabilityCompany
Limited Partnership	Partnership	`T91T`
Foreign Limited Partnership	Partnership
Limited Liability Partnership	Partnership
Foreign Limited Liability Partnership	Partnership
General Partnership	Partnership
Business Trust	Other
Foreign Business Trust	Other

Company Statuses

Status is read directly from the Kansas Secretary of State Business Entity Search Station and reflects the entity’s current lifecycle state under K.S.A. Chapter 17.

Status	Notes
Active And In Good Standing	Current on annual reports; no outstanding obligations
In Good Standing	Variant of the active / good-standing state
Active	Active without explicit good-standing qualification
Forfeited - Failed To Timely File AR	Annual report delinquency; entity has forfeited its rights to do business
Forfeited	General forfeiture state
Dissolved	Voluntarily or administratively dissolved
Cancelled	Applicable to partnerships and similar forms
Merged	Entity merged into another
Withdrawn	Foreign entity withdrew its registration
Inactive	No longer active; catch-all for legacy records

Data Availability

Data Point	Available	Notes
Company name	Yes	Current legal name as registered with the Kansas SoS
Company status	Yes	Live status from the Business Entity Search Station
Registration date	Yes	Formation date as filed with the Kansas SoS
Jurisdiction	Yes	State or country of domicile for foreign entities
Legal address	Yes	Principal office address
Legal form	Yes	Closed 18-value Kansas SoS taxonomy with ISO 20275 mapping where available
Resident agent	Yes	Returned as an other key person (name and address)
Legal representatives (officers)	No	Filed on the annual information report but not on the public detail page
Activity codes	No	Not collected by the Kansas SoS
Shareholders	No	Not published
UBOs	No	Not published
Trade Register Extract	Yes	Free printable record of the entity, included with the company data
Certificate of Good Standing	Yes	Paid document; official Kansas Certificate of Good Standing (register fee applies)
Financial data	No	Not collected
Fictitious names (DBAs)	No	Not filed with the Kansas SoS

For the full datapoint catalog, document list, and live pricing, see the Kansas pricing page.

Example API Responses

Search by Name

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

[
  {
    "id": "1234567",
    "legalName": "ACME HOLDINGS LLC",
    "countryCode": "US-KS",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "default"
    },
    "address": {
      "countryCode": "US-KS"
    }
  }
]

Search by Business ID

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/search?country=US-KS&query=1234567" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "1234567",
    "legalName": "ACME HOLDINGS LLC",
    "countryCode": "US-KS",
    "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-KS", "id": "1234567", "mode": "onboarding", "dataPoints": ["company", "otherKeyPersons"]}'

{
  "company": {
    "id": "1234567",
    "countryCode": "US-KS",
    "identifiers": { "businessId": "1234567" },
    "legalName": "ACME HOLDINGS LLC",
    "registrationDate": "2015-03-14",
    "status": { "localName": "Active and in Good Standing", "active": true },
    "legalForm": {
      "localName": "Limited Liability Company",
      "englishTranslation": "Limited Liability Company",
      "standardized": "LimitedLiabilityCompany",
      "iso20275Code": "JY0X"
    },
    "legalAddress": {
      "addressLine1": "123 Placeholder St",
      "city": "TOPEKA",
      "region": "KS",
      "postalCode": "66612",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  },
  "otherKeyPersons": [
    {
      "type": "COMPANY",
      "role": { "localName": "Resident Agent", "standardized": "RegisteredAgent" },
      "company": {
        "legalName": "SAMPLE REGISTERED AGENTS INC.",
        "countryCode": "US-KS",
        "legalAddress": {
          "addressLine1": "456 Example Ave",
          "city": "WICHITA",
          "region": "KS",
          "postalCode": "67202",
          "countryCode": "US"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

The resident agent is returned as an individual (type: "INDIVIDUAL", under individual.name.fullName / individual.residenceAddress) when the agent is a natural person, or as a company (type: "COMPANY", as shown above) when it is a registered-agent service. legalRepresentatives is not a supported datapoint for Kansas and will be rejected if requested.

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Kansas coverage, pricing, and sources

​Table of Contents

​Data Sources

​Company Identifiers

​Query Identifiers

​Identifiers in API Response

​Search Capabilities

​Quirks & Gotchas

​Mappings

​Legal Forms

​Company Statuses

​Data Availability

​Example API Responses

​Search by Name

​Search by Business ID

​Company Profile

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Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Legal Forms

Company Statuses

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by Business ID

Company Profile