Chile

How to use Kausate in Chile — what you can call, and which identifiers it uses

New to the API? Start with the jurisdictions overview, which explains how ordering, identifiers and documents work everywhere.

Operations

3 callable

Documents

None yet

Your own registry account

Not needed

Company data here comes directly from Servicio de Impuestos Internos (SII).

What you can call here

What each operation does is the same everywhere and is explained on the jurisdictions overview.

Operation	Status
Autocomplete	Live
Company report Includes: Registered details.	Live
Prefill	Live

Company identifiers

Chile has no number-based search: find a company by name, then use the kausateId search returns. These schemes label the values that come back in a company’s identifiers.

Identifier	Appears as	Format
Chilean RUT Chilean Rol Único Tributario (RUT) - up to 8 digits, hyphen, check digit (0-9 or K)	`cl_rut`	`^\d{1,8}-[0-9Kk]$`
Commerce Register Entry	`cl_commerce_register_entry`	No fixed format
Commercial Registry Entry	`cl_commercial_registry_entry`	No fixed format

Identifier notes

A Chilean RUT's final character is a check digit computed from the preceding digits via a standard modulus-11 algorithm, not an arbitrary letter — a value of 10 is written as "K". A RUT whose final character doesn't match what that algorithm produces for the digits before it is rejected as invalid even though it has the right shape (digits, a dash, and one trailing digit-or-K).
You can submit a Chilean RUT as plain digits with a dash and check digit ("91041000-8"), with thousands-separator dots ("91.041.000-8"), or with the dash left out entirely ("910410008") — all three are normalized to the same canonical form before use, so you don't need to strip formatting yourself.

Local notes

Gotchas

Trap	What happens
Legal form is the full name	A company's legal form "original" value is always its full legal name, not just the corporate suffix — the register has no separate legal-form field, so the form is inferred from a recognizable suffix in the name (S.A., SpA, Ltda., EIRL, etc.). Even when a name carries no recognizable suffix, "original" still holds the full name; only the normalized classification is left unset in that case, so a missing normalized legal form does not mean the field itself is empty.

Trap

What happens

Legal form is the full name

A company's legal form "original" value is always its full legal name, not just the corporate suffix — the register has no separate legal-form field, so the form is inferred from a recognizable suffix in the name (S.A., SpA, Ltda., EIRL, etc.). Even when a name carries no recognizable suffix, "original" still holds the full name; only the normalized classification is left unset in that case, so a missing normalized legal form does not mean the field itself is empty.

Glossary

Term	Meaning
`Con inicio de actividades`	The status text meaning the taxpayer has formally started business activities. Maps to an active company status.
`Sin inicio de actividades`	The status text meaning the taxpayer is registered but has not started business activities. Maps to an inactive company status.
`EIRL`	Short for "Empresa Individual de Responsabilidad Limitada" — a Chilean single-owner company structure giving one individual limited liability without needing a co-owner.
`SpA`	Short for "Sociedad por Acciones" — a flexible Chilean share-capital company form, distinct from a traditional Sociedad Anónima (S.A.).