Panama
How to use Kausate in Panama — what you can call, which identifiers it uses, and which documents you can order
New to the API? Start with the jurisdictions overview, which explains how ordering, identifiers and documents work everywhere.
Company data here comes directly from Registro Público de Panamá.
What you can call here
| Operation | Status |
|---|---|
| Autocomplete | Live |
| Company search | Live |
| Company report Includes: Registered details, Legal representatives and Shareholders. | Live |
| Shareholder graph | Live |
| List documents | Live |
| Retrieve a document | Live |
| Prefill | Coming soon |
How to search
Use company search with jurisdictionCode: "pa". Pass a name as companyName or a registration number as companyNumber. companyNumber is read as folio.
Fields
An advancedQuery for Panama accepts these fields:
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
name | Company name (Nombre de la Sociedad). |
folio | Mercantile folio (Ficha/Folio) number in the Registro Público. |
ruc | DGI tax number (RUC) as the Registro Público shows it, e.g. 1102212-1-560127. |
Examples
{ "jurisdictionCode": "pa", "advancedQuery": { "name": "Cervecería Nacional" }}Other accepted field combinations: folio and ruc.
Company identifiers
A registration number sent as companyNumber is matched against the searchable schemes below; you do not name the scheme. All of them can appear in a company’s identifiers.
| Identifier | Type | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Panama RUC Registro Único de Contribuyentes issued by the Dirección General de Ingresos (DGI). For a legal person it is built from its Public Registry registration (e.g. 1102212-1-560127, 155717484-2-2022). A tax reference, not the entity key: the Registry documents corrections of duplicate or wrong RUCs. | pa_ruc | No fixed format |
| Panama Registry Folio Registro Público de Panamá mercantile folio (Ficha/Folio electrónico): the entity locator of a company or foundation in the Mercantil y Personas register. The same number is reused by the real- and movable-property registers, so it identifies an entity only within that register. Historical Documento/Rollo/Imagen/Tomo/Asiento numbers are storage coordinates, not the identifier. | pa_registry_folio_ficha_id | ^\d{1,10}$ |
Documents you can order
| Document | Status |
|---|---|
| Panama Informational Copy Informational copy (copia informativa) from the Registro Público de Panamá: a registered act (asiento) of the folio or the scanned filing of a prelación entry, as a PDF stamped for informational purposes only. Not a certified copy. | Live |
These filings differ per company: call list documents first and order the ID it returns.
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