# Switzerland

Company data from the Switzerland business register, through the Topograph API.

## Overview

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.

## Coverage

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).

| Datapoint | Returned | Note |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Company profile | Yes |  |
| Legal representatives | Yes | Comes back in Verify. |
| Other key persons | Yes | Comes back in Verify. |

| Document | Returned |
| --- | --- |
| Register extract | Yes |
| Articles of association | No |
| Financials | No |
| UBO extract | No |

### Documents, as the register names them

- Handelsregisterauszug

### Speed

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.

## Sources

The registers this country’s data comes from. Secondary sources only enrich or check what the registers return.

- **[ZEFIX (Swiss Central Business Name Index)](https://www.zefix.admin.ch)**: Zentraler Firmenindex – Swiss federal index of all companies registered in the cantonal trade registers
- **[SOGC/SHAB (Swiss Official Gazette of Commerce)](https://www.shab.ch)**: Schweizerisches Handelsamtsblatt – federal gazette publishing all Swiss commercial register changes; surfaced through ZEFIX
- **[Swiss Cantonal Commercial Registers (Handelsregisterämter)](https://www.zefix.admin.ch)**: 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)](https://www.gleif.org/en/lei-data/gleif-golden-copy/download-the-golden-copy)** (secondary): Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation – Legal Entity Identifier reference data

## Identifiers

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 Switzerland 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.

| In the full reference | Entries |
| --- | --- |
| Identifiers and formats | 5 |
| Search patterns | 5 |
| Quirks | 13 |
| Legal forms | 38 |
| Officer roles | 160 |
| Company statuses | 3 |
| Documents | 2 |
| Example responses | 7 |

- Create a free account: https://www.topograph.co/sign-up?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fch
- Sign in: https://www.topograph.co/sign-in?redirect_url=%2Fcountries%2Fch

With a session, https://www.topograph.co/countries/ch.md returns the full reference as Markdown. Assistants signed in to the [Topograph Wizard MCP](https://docs.topograph.co/guides/topograph-mcp) can read it there too.

## Switzerland business register guide

[Switzerland business register guide](https://www.topograph.co/guides/business-registers-in-switzerland): how the register works, what it publishes and which documents it issues.

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Source: https://www.topograph.co/countries/ch