South Carolina (US)

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This guide contains public integration notes for South Carolina. Use it for identifier formats, search behavior, and country-specific caveats. The live source of truth for coverage, pricing, data sources, documents, legal forms, and status values is the pricing page.

South Carolina coverage, pricing, and sources

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

API access: US-SC is in preview. Contact us to enable it on your workspace. Requests sent with countryCode: "US-SC" will otherwise return 400 until the enum is expanded for your account.

Data Sources

South Carolina is sourced live from the South Carolina Secretary of State — Business Entities Online portal at businessfilings.sc.gov. The register covers every entity formed under Title 33 of the South Carolina Code of Laws — business corporations, statutory close corporations, professional corporations, nonprofit corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and limited liability partnerships. Sole proprietorships and general partnerships are not filed with the Secretary of State and are out of scope.

SC SoS Business Entities Online (live, primary). Public profile carries legal name, the public Entity Id, entity type, current status, domestic/foreign flag, incorporated state, key dates (effective, expiration, term-end, dissolved), the registered agent and agent address, the full filing history, and any former names.

No officer data at the state level. South Carolina’s Secretary of State does not collect or publish officer or director information. The SoS website directs requests for officer data to the South Carolina Department of Revenue at (844) 898-8542. The only person on file in our response is the Registered Agent, surfaced under otherKeyPersons.

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifier Type	Format	Example	Notes
SC SoS Entity GUID	8-4-4-4-12 lowercase hex GUID	`e6980025-c7ec-4715-8bf0-52b5ef0c585f`	The canonical, navigable identifier used by the portal at `/Entity/Profile/<GUID>`. Returned in every search result as `id`.

The 8-digit zero-padded Entity Id displayed on the SoS profile page (for example 00121743) is a human-facing identifier shown alongside the GUID. South Carolina’s public search form does not accept it as input — pass the GUID to the Topograph API. The Entity Id can still be useful when reconciling against paper filings printed by the state.

Identifiers in API Response

Identifier	Format	Example	Found In
`scSosGuid`	8-4-4-4-12 lowercase hex GUID	`e6980025-c7ec-4715-8bf0-52b5ef0c585f`	All entities
`scSosEntityId`	8-digit zero-padded integer	`00121743`	All entities

Search Capabilities

Search Type	Pattern	Example	Match Type	Expected Results
By Name	2-175 chars	`"BMW MANUFACTURING"`	Begins-with (case-insensitive)	Multiple results
By GUID	8-4-4-4-12 hex	`e6980025-c7ec-4715-8bf0-52b5ef0c585f`	Exact	Exact match returned first (matchType: id); other results may follow

Begins-with search. Name search anchors on the beginning of the legal name. The result table is capped at 50 matches; use a fuller query string to narrow the set.

Quirks & Gotchas

Quirk	Details
Two identifiers per entity	The portal surfaces a navigable GUID and a display-only 8-digit Entity Id. Topograph API calls use the GUID. The Entity Id is exposed under `scSosEntityId` for reconciliation with paper documents.
Officers and directors are not on file	The Secretary of State does not collect officer or director information. Only the Registered Agent is published — returned under `otherKeyPersons` with `role.standardized = "RegisteredAgent"`.
No shareholder or UBO register	South Carolina does not file shareholders or beneficial owners with the SoS for any entity type. Federal FinCEN BOI records are restricted and not exposed.
No activity codes	NAICS / NACE / ISIC codes are not collected by the SC business register.
No federal EIN	The federal employer identification number (EIN) and SC tax registrations are held by the SC Department of Revenue, not the SoS, and are not exposed through the public SoS portal.
No bulk extract	The SoS does not publish a bulk dataset, FTP feed, or open-data corporations download. The portal is the only public source — every Topograph lookup is a live query.
Paid certificates not yet offered	The Certificate of Existence (Good Standing), Certificate of Authority for foreign entities, Certificate of No Record, and certified document copies are paid orders through the SoS portal and are not yet offered through Topograph.
Live profile lookups	Every Topograph request hits the register live. Use `mode: "verification"` for production lookups and expect a multi-second round-trip per company.

Mappings

Legal Forms

Legal form is sourced from the entity-type label rendered on the SoS profile page. South Carolina does not publish a numeric codelist — the label is the canonical value.

All observed South Carolina entity types

Local Name	Standardized	Statutory Basis (S.C. Code of Laws Title 33)
Corporation	Corporation	Chapters 1-20 (Business), 18 (Statutory Close), 19 (Professional)
Limited Liability Company	LimitedLiabilityCompany	Chapter 44
Limited Partnership	LimitedPartnership	Chapter 42
Nonprofit	NonProfit	Chapter 31
Reservation	Other	Name reservation, not a registered entity

Limited Liability Partnership (Title 33 Chapter 41) is administered by the SoS but does not appear in our preview sampling. If you encounter an LLP filing through the API, the local name and standardized form will pass through enrichLegalForm for AI standardization.

Status Values

Local Status	Active	Meaning
`Good Standing`	`true`	Registered and current with all required filings.
`Dissolved`	`false`	Voluntary dissolution recorded with the SoS.
`Forfeited`	`false`	Charter forfeited — typically for non-payment of the annual report.
`Merged Out of Existence`	`false`	Entity rolled into a surviving entity through a merger filing.
`Reserved`	`false`	Name reservation; not a registered entity.

Data Availability

Datapoint	Availability
`company`	✅ Legal name, entity type, status, domestic/foreign flag, incorporated state, effective date.
`otherKeyPersons` (Registered Agent)	✅ Agent name and agent address. Always exactly one row when present.
`legalRepresentatives` (officers, directors)	❌ Not collected by the SoS. The SoS defers to the SC Department of Revenue.
`shareholders`	❌ Not filed with the SoS.
`ultimateBeneficialOwners`	❌ No public state register; federal FinCEN BOI is restricted.
`activityCodes`	❌ Not collected by the SoS.
`taxId`	❌ Federal EIN and SC tax IDs are held by the Department of Revenue.
Trade Register Extract (document)	✅ Printable PDF of the SoS Entity Profile page — bundled with `company` at no additional charge.
Certificate of Existence / Good Standing	❌ Available from the SoS but not yet offered through Topograph.
Certified copies of filings	❌ Available from the SoS but not yet offered through Topograph.

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Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Legal Forms

Status Values

Data Availability

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South Carolina coverage, pricing, and sources

​Table of Contents

​Data Sources

​Company Identifiers

​Query Identifiers

​Identifiers in API Response

​Search Capabilities

​Quirks & Gotchas

​Mappings

​Legal Forms

​Status Values

​Data Availability

Start here

Table of Contents

Data Sources

Company Identifiers

Query Identifiers

Identifiers in API Response

Search Capabilities

Quirks & Gotchas

Mappings

Legal Forms

Status Values

Data Availability