This guide contains public integration notes for Rhode Island. Use it for identifier formats, search behavior, and state-specific caveats. The live source of truth for coverage, pricing, data sources, documents, legal forms, and status values is the pricing page.
Rhode Island coverage, pricing, and sources
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State 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.
API access:US-RI is not yet part of the public countryCode enum. Contact us to enable it on your workspace. Requests sent with countryCode: "US-RI" will otherwise return 400 until the enum is expanded.
Rhode Island uses a single integration against the Rhode Island Department of State, Business Services Corporate Database. The register covers domestic and foreign for-profit corporations, non-profit corporations, benefit corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and non-resident landlord registrations.
Rhode Island Department of State, Business Services (verification, primary). The official public register served by the Business Portal. Each query reads live against the register and returns legal name, identification number, entity type with domestic / foreign and profit / non-profit qualifiers, date of incorporation or registration in Rhode Island, current status with revocation, withdrawal, or dissolution dates, the principal-office address, the registered-agent name and address with resignation and address-maintained flags, the statutory officers and directors of a corporation or the managers of an LLC, authorized share capital classes with par value and totals, the corporate purpose, the NAICS code with description, registered fictitious / DBA names, prior corporate names, and merger history.
Shareholders and beneficial owners are not collected by Rhode Island at the state level. Authorized share capital is returned, but the holders of those shares are not part of the register.
Name search returns up to 50 rows per query and is bound to currently-active entities. To resolve a known inactive entity, query by identification number instead. The identifier path covers active and inactive entities in one lookup.
The canonical form is exactly nine digits, left-padded with zeros (000015908). Older entities are often displayed with the leading zeros elided, but the canonical form in the API response is always nine digits.
No shareholder or UBO register
Rhode Island does not publish shareholders or beneficial owners for any entity type. Federal FinCEN beneficial-ownership records are restricted and are not part of this dataset.
Authorized share capital is structural
For corporations, the register exposes the authorized share classes (class, series, par value, total authorized, total issued and outstanding) but does not identify the holders. LLC managers are surfaced as otherKeyPersons, not as shareholders.
Name history is preserved
The register tracks all prior legal names for a given entity, including the date of each change. A search by an older name resolves to the same identification number as the current name.
Fictitious names / DBAs sit on the parent
Registered fictitious or trade names (DBAs) appear on the parent entity’s record rather than as standalone records.
Mergers are linked
When an entity has absorbed others through a merger, the absorbed entities are listed on the surviving record with their identification numbers. The absorbed entities’ own records remain searchable and stay flagged as inactive.
Purpose uses a NAICS-based code
Each entity carries a single NAICS code with a human-readable description, plus a free-text “purpose” paragraph quoting the corporate purpose from the formation filing. Standardized NACE or ISIC codes are not collected by the state.
Entity-type composite labels
The entity-type field is a composite of the domestic / foreign qualifier, the profit / non-profit qualifier (for corporations), and the base form. Examples: Domestic Profit Corporation, Foreign Limited Liability Company, Domestic Non-Profit Corporation.
Active is the implicit default. Inactive entities carry an explicit revocation, withdrawal, or dissolution date on the record. The API returns a normalized status.localName plus an active boolean.
Local Status
Active
Active
Yes
Revoked Entity
No
Revoked Authority
No
Withdrawn
No
Dissolved
No
The Active database covers currently-effective entities plus any that were revoked within the prior year. The Inactive database holds older revocations, withdrawals, and dissolutions.
The register records officers, directors, and managers on each entity. The API surfaces them as either legalRepresentatives (officers with binding signing authority) or otherKeyPersons (the registered agent, executive titles, and supporting officers). Most title strings carry a trailing department qualifier (PRESIDENT, TOYS LICENSING & ENTERTAINMENT, DIRECTOR, RISK MANAGEMENT); the head token is what drives the mapping.
Local Role
Mapped To
President
legalRepresentatives
Vice-President
legalRepresentatives
Secretary
legalRepresentatives
Treasurer
legalRepresentatives
Director
legalRepresentatives
Manager (LLC)
legalRepresentatives
Managing Member (LLC)
legalRepresentatives
CEO
legalRepresentatives
CFO
legalRepresentatives
COO
legalRepresentatives
Member (LLC)
otherKeyPersons
Organizer
otherKeyPersons
Incorporator
otherKeyPersons
Assistant Secretary
otherKeyPersons
Assistant Treasurer
otherKeyPersons
EVP, SVP, VP
otherKeyPersons
Chief Officer titles
otherKeyPersons
Registered Agent
otherKeyPersons
The registered agent is surfaced as an otherKeyPersons entry with the role registeredAgent. For agents that are corporate entities (such as registered-agent services), the entry carries type: "company" with a legalName; for individual agents, the entry carries type: "individual" with a fullName.
Legal name, identification number, entity type, dates of incorporation or registration, status with revocation / withdrawal / dissolution dates, principal-office address, corporate purpose, share capital, NAICS code with description.
Registered agent
Yes
Returned as otherKeyPersons with the role registeredAgent. Includes the name, full address, and the resignation / address-maintained flags from the filing.
Legal representatives
Yes
Officers and directors of a corporation (President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, Director, CEO, CFO, COO) and managers / managing members of an LLC, with their addresses.
Other key persons
Yes
Executive roles outside the statutory officers (EVP, SVP, VP, Chief X Officer titles), assistant officers, and the registered agent.
Shareholders
No
Not collected by Rhode Island at the state level. Authorized share capital is returned but the holders are not part of the register.
Ultimate beneficial owners
No
Rhode Island does not maintain a public beneficial-ownership register.
Activity codes
Partial
A single primary NAICS code with description is returned as a local code. Standardized NACE or ISIC mappings are not part of the state record.
Prior names
Yes
The full corporate name-change history is exposed on the entity record, with the effective date of each change.
Fictitious / DBA names
Yes
All registered fictitious or trade names appear on the parent entity’s record with the filing date.
Mergers
Yes
Each absorbed entity is listed by name, identification number, and merger date on the surviving entity’s record.
Trade Register Extract
Yes
Printable PDF of the Department of State entity detail page, captured at request time. Bundled with the company-data block at no extra charge.
Certificate of Good Standing
Planned
The official Department of State Certificate of Good Standing is identified and documented but not yet generally available. Pricing and availability will be on the live pricing page once enabled.
