Florida (US)

How to use Kausate in Florida (US) — 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 Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations.

One of the jurisdictions under United States, whose page lists the others and covers the national register separately.

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 and Legal representatives.	Live
Prefill	Live

Company identifiers

Florida (US) 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
FL Document Number Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations document number — the canonical 12-character entity identifier (e.g. L26000330900 for an LLC, P21000012345 for a profit corporation, F25000006320 for a foreign entity). Issued at the time of the formation filing.	`us_fl_document_number`	`^[A-Z0-9]{6,12}$`

Identifier notes

The leading letter of the Florida document number identifies the entity's legal form: L for a domestic LLC, P for a domestic profit corporation, N for a domestic non-profit corporation, F or M for an entity formed outside Florida, and A for a domestic limited partnership.
When Florida's filing includes a valid 9-digit federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) for the company, the company report returns it as a second identifier alongside the Florida document number. When no EIN is on file (or the value on file isn't a clean 9-digit number), the Florida document number is the only identifier returned — that absence by itself isn't a sign of a parsing problem.

Local notes

Gotchas

Trap	What happens
At most six officers	Florida's filing lists at most six officers/managers per company. If the actual record has more, only six come back — the response doesn't flag it.
Address is the agent's	The registered address returned is the registered agent's — Florida has no separate registered-office field, so it may be a law firm or agent service, not the business.
Officers can be companies	Not every officer/manager is a natural person — Florida allows a company to hold that role, listed with a company name and no first/last name.
Trusts and designations look like companies	The register also carries standalone trust declarations and registered-agent designation filings — each gets a document number and legal-form value like any company, though neither is one.
Role codes are free text	Role codes aren't a fixed list — beyond standard single-letter codes, Florida accepts free-text abbreviations (e.g. MGR, AMBR, CEO), and one code can combine several offices at once (e.g. President + Secretary + Director).

Glossary

Term	Meaning
`DOMP`	A domestic (Florida-formed) profit corporation.
`DOMNP`	A domestic (Florida-formed) non-profit corporation.
`FORP`	A profit corporation formed outside Florida and registered there to do business.
`FORNP`	A non-profit corporation formed outside Florida and registered there to do business.
`DOMLP`	A domestic (Florida-formed) limited partnership.
`FORLP`	A limited partnership formed outside Florida and registered there to do business.
`FLAL`	A domestic (Florida-formed) limited liability company.
`FORL`	A limited liability company formed outside Florida and registered there to do business.
`TRUST`	A declaration of trust on file with Florida's Division of Corporations — a trust record, not a company.
`AGENT`	A standalone designation-of-registered-agent filing — an administrative record, not a company.
`P`	President, as an officer/manager role code.
`V`	Vice President, as an officer/manager role code.
`S`	Secretary, as an officer/manager role code.
`T`	Treasurer, as an officer/manager role code.
`D`	Director, as an officer/manager role code.
`MGR`	Manager — the person managing the company.
`AMBR`	Authorized Member — a member of the company authorized to act on its behalf.
`PSD`	A combined role code meaning one person holds three offices at once: President, Secretary, and Director.