Jordan

How to use Kausate in Jordan — 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

5 callable

Documents

None yet

Your own registry account

Not needed

Company data here comes directly from دائرة مراقبة الشركات (Companies Control Department).

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 search	Live
Company report Includes: Registered details and Legal representatives.	Live
Shareholder graph	Live
Prefill	Live

Start with company search and jurisdictionCode: "jo". Pass the name as companyName, a registration number as companyNumber, or both to narrow the result. Here companyNumber is read as nationalEstablishmentNumber.

Fields

To say exactly what you mean, send an advancedQuery instead. Jordan understands these fields:

Field	What it does
`name`	Company name fragment (Arabic).
`nationalEstablishmentNumber`	Jordan 9-digit national establishment number.

Examples

{  "jurisdictionCode": "jo",  "advancedQuery": {    "name": "البوتاس العربية"  }}

Jordan also accepts nationalEstablishmentNumber.

Company identifiers

Search by passing the registration number as companyNumber — it is matched against the schemes this register can search on, so you do not name the scheme yourself. Not every scheme below is searchable; the rest label the values returned in a company’s identifiers.

Identifier	Appears as	Format
Jordan National Establishment Number Jordan Companies Control Department (CCD) national establishment number (الرقم الوطني للمنشأة) — 9-digit numeric identifier (e.g. 200000529). Unique across all entity types.	`jo_national_establishment_number`	`^\d{9}$`
Jordan Registration Number Jordan CCD per-type registration number (رقم الشركة), e.g. 27 for Arab Potash. Not unique across company types — pair with the company type to disambiguate.	`jo_registration_number`	`^\d+$`

Local notes

Gotchas

Trap	What happens
Public companies list no shareholders	A public shareholding company's shareholder list is empty — its shares trade through Jordan's Securities Depository Center rather than being recorded by name at the registry.
Percentage needs total capital	Ownership percentage is calculated by dividing the registry's nominal share amount by total capital, so it's absent whenever total capital isn't on file.
Every holder typed as a person	Every shareholder is typed as a natural person, even when the holder is a company — the registry doesn't distinguish individual from corporate holders, so a parent company appears as a person record under its company name.
Nationality maps only for common words	Nationality maps to an ISO code only for common words (Jordanian, Saudi, Egyptian, Iraqi, Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian, and about a dozen others) — otherwise you get the raw Arabic word.
Auditor sits with the directors	The related-people list can include the external auditor alongside directors and the general manager — filter on role for board members or management only.
Older companies lack some sections	A missing mortgage status, seizure status, auditor, or last-filed-financial-year doesn't mean the fetch failed — some older companies aren't covered by that part of the registry; the rest of the report is unaffected.
Many types have no ELF code	About half of Jordan's company types — including foreign branches, civil companies, exempt companies, and joint Arab or joint-investment companies — have no internationally standardized legal-form code. Expect the original Arabic legal-form text with no normalized code for these; the more common forms (public shareholding company, LLC, and the partnership types) do get one.
Capital is one of four figures	The capital figure is a single value: current registered capital when available, else capital at incorporation (LLC only), then subscribed amount, then authorized amount — the response doesn't say which one it is.
Arabic-only register	The registry is Arabic-only. Kausate translates legal form, status, officer roles, and governorate into English; legal name, address, business-activity descriptions, and free-text notes (mortgage/seizure status, auditor name) stay in Arabic.

Glossary

Term	Meaning
`قائمة`	Active and in good standing with the registry.
`منقضية`	Registration has expired; treated as dissolved.
`مشطوبة`	Struck off the register by the registrar. Also treated as dissolved, even though this is a different event from an expired registration.
`تحت التصفية`	In liquidation / winding-up.
`موقوفه عن العمل`	Operations suspended by the registrar.
`رئيس مجلس ادارة`	Chairman of the Board.
`نائب رئيس مجلس ادارة`	Vice-Chairman of the Board.
`عضو مجلس ادارة`	Board Member.
`مدير عام`	General Manager — reported in the same officer list as the board of directors.
`مدير`	Manager — reported in the same officer list as the board of directors.
`م/مسؤولية`	Limited-liability partner — the partner-type label used for LLCs.
`شريك متضامن`	General partner.
`شريك موصى`	Limited partner.
`مدقق الحسابات`	Auditor. The company's audit firm or named individual auditor can appear in the officer/representative list alongside its directors and general manager.
`غاية يجب تسكينها`	A marker attached to a stated business activity meaning the registrar has not finished classifying it yet — expect this suffix on some activity descriptions rather than a clean classification.
`حالة الرهن`	Mortgage status — free text on whether the company's shares or assets are pledged as loan collateral.
`حالة الحجز`	Seizure status — free text on whether the company is subject to a court-ordered seizure.