New Jersey - Topograph

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This guide contains public integration notes for New Jersey. 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.

New Jersey coverage, pricing, and sources

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

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

Data Sources

New Jersey uses a single integration against the New Jersey Division of Revenue and Enterprise Services (DORES), within the New Jersey Department of the Treasury. The register covers every domestic and foreign corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, and non-profit registered in New Jersey. Two tiers of data are available:

Free public Business Name Search (onboarding mode). DORES publishes a free, publicly accessible Business Name Search portal that returns five fields per entity: business name, 10-digit entity ID, home city, entity type, and incorporation date. This is used for fast onboarding checks and company search. No officers, members, addresses, or status are included at this tier.
Paid Business Entity Status Report (verification mode). A per-entity report purchased from the DORES Business Records Service. This is the authoritative source for current entity status, registered agent, principal business address, officers and directors with roles and residence addresses, stock amount and class, all filings with dates, and any Department of Revenue or Tax suspensions. The report is retrieved live from the register for each request.

New Jersey publishes no open bulk data. There is no state business-entity dataset on the New Jersey Open Data portal. The free DORES public search is the only no-cost path to company data.

Filing lag. Filings, amendments, and annual reports submitted to DORES may take up to two business days to appear in the public portal and status report. Very recently filed or amended entities may not yet be discoverable.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifier Type	Format	Example	Notes
NJ Entity ID	10 digits, numeric, leading zeros preserved	`0100307257`	Primary identifier assigned by DORES. Used to look up filings on the portal and to purchase paid business records.

The NJ Entity ID is always exactly 10 digits with leading zeros. Submitting an unpadded form (e.g. 100307257 instead of 0100307257) will be rejected. The leading digits loosely reflect registration vintage (e.g. 01 for pre-2000 corporations, 04 for LLCs from the 2000s) but do not encode entity type.

Identifiers in API Response

Identifier	Format	Example	Found In
`entityId`	10 digits, numeric, leading zeros preserved	`0100307257`	All entities

Search Capabilities

Search Type	Pattern	Example	Match Type	Expected Results
By Name	2-100 chars	`"Prudential"`	Starts-with (case-insensitive)	Multiple results
By NJ Entity ID	10 digits	`0100307257`	Exact	Exact match returned first (`matchType: id`); other results may follow

Starts-with search. Name search anchors on the beginning of the legal name (case-insensitive). Use fuller query strings to narrow the result set, which is capped at 50 matches.

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
Leading zeros are load-bearing	Entity IDs are always exactly 10 digits with leading zeros. Never strip them: the register and our API treat `0100307257` and `100307257` as different keys.
Free tier returns no status	The DORES public search returns name, ID, city, entity type, and incorporation date only. Current status (active, suspended, dissolved, revoked) is only available through the paid Business Entity Status Report.
Free tier returns no officers	Officers, LLC members, and managers are not disclosed in the free public search. They are only included when the customer opts into verification mode, which purchases a per-entity Business Entity Status Report.
No shareholder or UBO register	New Jersey does not publish shareholders or beneficial owners for any entity type.
No open bulk data	There is no business-entity open-data export from DORES. Bulk access requires a paid commercial feed agreement with the register directly.
No activity codes	NAICS, NACE, or ISIC codes are not collected by the state business register.
DBA names are not in the state register	Doing-business-as names (fictitious names) are filed at the county clerk level in New Jersey and are not part of the state register dataset.
2-business-day filing lag	Newly filed or amended records may take up to two business days to appear in the portal and status report.
Status Report is the only document available	Standing certificates and certified copies of charter documents are not yet available through Topograph. These are delivered per request by the register.

Mappings

Legal Forms

Legal form is derived from the entity-type abbreviations surfaced by the DORES public Business Name Search. The abbreviation is the canonical value published by the register; NJ does not publish a numeric legal-form code. Eleven distinct abbreviations were observed across broad samples.

All 11 New Jersey entity types

DORES Abbreviation	Local Name	Standardized
`DP`	Domestic Profit Corporation	Corporation
`FR`	Foreign For-Profit Corporation	Corporation
`DB`	Foreign Corporation (legacy)	Corporation
`PA`	Professional Corporation	Corporation
`LLC`	Domestic Limited Liability Company	LimitedLiabilityCompany
`FLC`	Foreign Limited Liability Company	LimitedLiabilityCompany
`NP`	Domestic Non-Profit Corporation	NonprofitOrganization
`NF`	Foreign Non-Profit Corporation	NonprofitOrganization
`LP`	Limited Partnership	Partnership
`LF`	Foreign Limited Partnership	Partnership
`LLP`	Domestic Limited Liability Partnership	Partnership

ISO 20275 ELF codes are not mapped for New Jersey. GLEIF ELF coverage for US sub-national entity types is incomplete, so no ELF codes are assigned. See the pricing page for the full legal forms table.

Data Availability

Data Point	Available	Notes
Company name	Yes	Current legal name
Company status	Verification only	Included in the paid Business Entity Status Report. Not available in onboarding mode.
Registration date	Yes	DORES initial incorporation date
Legal address	Verification only	Principal business address from the paid Business Entity Status Report. Home city only in onboarding mode.
Legal form	Yes	11-value DORES abbreviation vocabulary with standardized mapping
Legal representatives	Verification only	Officers, directors, members, and managers from the paid Business Entity Status Report. Not disclosed in onboarding mode.
Registered agent	Verification only	From the paid Business Entity Status Report. Not in the free search.
Activity codes	No	Not collected by the state business register
Shareholders	No	Not published
UBOs	No	Not published (no state-level beneficial ownership register)
Documents	Partial	Business Entity Status Report available in verification mode. Standing certificates and certified copies are not yet available through Topograph.
Financial data	No	Not collected
DBA / fictitious names	No	Filed at county clerk level, not in the state register

Example API Responses

Search by Name

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

[
  {
    "id": "0400123456",
    "legalName": "ACME HOLDINGS LLC",
    "countryCode": "US-NJ",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "default"
    },
    "address": {
      "city": "Newark",
      "region": "NJ",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  }
]

Search by Entity ID

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/search?country=US-NJ&query=0400123456" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

[
  {
    "id": "0400123456",
    "legalName": "ACME HOLDINGS LLC",
    "countryCode": "US-NJ",
    "matchReason": {
      "matchType": "id"
    }
  }
]

Company Profile (Onboarding Mode)

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/company" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"countryCode": "US-NJ", "id": "0400123456", "dataPoints": ["company"], "mode": "onboarding"}'

{
  "company": {
    "id": "0400123456",
    "countryCode": "US-NJ",
    "identifiers": { "entityId": "0400123456" },
    "legalName": "ACME HOLDINGS LLC",
    "registrationDate": "2005-03-14",
    "legalForm": {
      "localName": "Domestic Limited Liability Company",
      "standardized": "LimitedLiabilityCompany"
    },
    "legalAddress": {
      "city": "Newark",
      "region": "NJ",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  },
  "legalRepresentatives": []
}

Company Profile (Verification Mode)

curl -X POST "https://api.topograph.co/v2/company" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"countryCode": "US-NJ", "id": "0400123456", "dataPoints": ["company", "legalRepresentatives"], "mode": "verification"}'

{
  "company": {
    "id": "0400123456",
    "countryCode": "US-NJ",
    "identifiers": { "entityId": "0400123456" },
    "legalName": "ACME HOLDINGS LLC",
    "status": "active",
    "registrationDate": "2005-03-14",
    "legalForm": {
      "localName": "Domestic Limited Liability Company",
      "standardized": "LimitedLiabilityCompany"
    },
    "legalAddress": {
      "streetAddress": "100 Main Street",
      "city": "Newark",
      "region": "NJ",
      "postalCode": "07102",
      "countryCode": "US"
    }
  },
  "legalRepresentatives": [
    {
      "role": "Member",
      "firstName": "Jane",
      "lastName": "Sample",
      "address": {
        "city": "Princeton",
        "region": "NJ",
        "countryCode": "US"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Verification mode purchases a Business Entity Status Report from the DORES Business Records Service on a per-entity basis. This is a paid upgrade. See the pricing page for current pricing.

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New Jersey coverage, pricing, and sources

​Table of Contents

​Data Sources

​Company Identifiers

​Query Identifiers

​Identifiers in API Response

​Search Capabilities

​Quirks & Gotchas

​Mappings

​Legal Forms

​Data Availability

​Example API Responses

​Search by Name

​Search by Entity ID

​Company Profile (Onboarding Mode)

​Company Profile (Verification Mode)

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Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Legal Forms

Data Availability

Example API Responses

Search by Name

Search by Entity ID

Company Profile (Onboarding Mode)

Company Profile (Verification Mode)