- Europe
- Switzerland
Europe
Switzerland
Company data from the Switzerland business register, through the Topograph API.
Topograph reads ZEFIX (Swiss Central Business Name Index), SOGC/SHAB (Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce) and Swiss Cantonal Commercial Registers (Handelsregisterämter) and returns the company profile, legal representatives and other key persons of Switzerland companies through one API.
What comes back for each datapoint and document, as on the coverage matrix.
Requests run in prefill mode (fast) or verification mode (the authoritative register answer).
Datapoints
- Company profileYes
- Legal representativesYes
Comes back in Verify.
- Other key personsYes
Comes back in Verify.
Documents
- Register extractYes
- Articles of associationNo
- FinancialsNo
- UBO extractNo
- Handelsregisterauszug
A company profile typically comes back from the register in 1 s in prefill mode and 4 s in verification mode.
These are typical observations, not a service-level commitment: set your timeouts well above them.
The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.
Zentraler Firmenindex – Swiss federal index of all companies registered in the cantonal trade registers
Schweizerisches Handelsamtsblatt – federal gazette publishing all Swiss commercial register changes; surfaced through ZEFIX
The cantonal commercial register offices that maintain the Swiss trade register and issue the official internet extract for companies registered in their canton; linked from the federal ZEFIX index
- GLEIF (Legal Entity Identifiers)Secondary
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data
Request a company by its UID (Unternehmens-Identifikationsnummer) as the id, with countryCode set to CH. Its format, validation rules and an example value are in the full reference.
The full reference covers how each datapoint is sourced and mapped, the vocabularies the API returns, the documents you can order and exact example responses. It is free with a Topograph account.
- Identifiers and formats5
- Search patterns5
- Quirks13
- Legal forms38
- Officer roles160
- Company statuses3
- Documents2
- Example responses7