Pennsylvania (US)
How to use Kausate in Pennsylvania (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.
Company data here comes directly from Pennsylvania Department of State (Business Filing Services).
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 search | Live |
| Company report Includes: Registered details and Legal representatives. | Live |
How to search
Start with company search and jurisdictionCode: "us-pa". Pass the name as companyName, a registration number as companyNumber, or both to narrow the result. Here companyNumber is read as filingNumber.
Fields
To say exactly what you mean, send an advancedQuery instead. Pennsylvania (US) understands these fields:
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
name | Entity name to search for. |
filingNumber | PA DOS filing number (digits; zero-padded to 10). |
Examples
{ "jurisdictionCode": "us-pa", "advancedQuery": { "filingNumber": "0000326968" }}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 |
|---|---|---|
| PA Filing Number Pennsylvania Department of State filing (entity) number — canonically a 10-digit zero-padded string (e.g. '0000326968'). Values are normalized to digits only, zero-padded to 10. | us_pa_filing_number | ^[0-9]{1,10}$ |
Local notes
Gotchas
| Trap | What happens |
|---|---|
| Everything reads ACTIVE | Every entity shows ACTIVE status — the register lists only currently-registered businesses, so a dissolved or withdrawn entity disappears from results rather than changing status. Disappearance is the closure signal. |
| No sole proprietorships | Pennsylvania does not register sole proprietorships with the Department of State, so you will not find an individual trading under a business name in this data source. A Pennsylvania sole trader instead files a fictitious name at the county level, which sits outside this register — don't treat a missing result for a known sole proprietorship as a data gap. |
Glossary
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
Governor | In Pennsylvania officer/principal listings, "Governor" is a role label for the generic person who directs an entity under state law — for example an LLC's manager or member-manager, or a corporation's director — not the state's chief executive. |
Authority | An entity type of "Authority" in this register is a Pennsylvania public body created and governed under state law, not a private business — distinguish it from an ordinary corporation or LLC when working with entity-type data. |
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