🇮🇹 Italy

Overview

AiPrise verifies Italian businesses against the Business Register (Registro Imprese) of the Chambers of Commerce, via InfoCamere. A business verification returns the company profile, officers, shareholders, the Visura register extract and documents filed with the register.

Coverage

Data point	Returned	Note
Company profile	Yes	Legal name, legal form, status, registration date, registered address
Directors and legal representatives	Yes	Directors, legal representatives, sole directors
Shareholders	Yes
Ultimate beneficial owners	No
VAT number check	Yes	Separate check against the EU VAT register

Document	Returned
Certified register extract (Visura)	Yes
Historical register extract	Yes
Articles of association	Yes, when filed
Financial statements	Yes, when filed

Documents, as the register names them

Visura camerale (register extract)
Visura storica (historical register extract)
Fascicolo storico (historical file)
Statuto (articles of association)
Bilancio d'esercizio / Bilancio abbreviato (financial statements)

Speed

Step	Typical	9 in 10 within
Business verification (company data, officers, shareholders)	24 seconds	66 seconds

These are typical times from production, not a service-level commitment: set timeouts well above them, or use callbacks.

Company types

Every business in the Registro Imprese is covered, including sole traders.

Company type	Legal forms	Covered	What to expect
Private limited company	S.r.l., S.r.l.s., S.r.l. con unico socio	Yes	Full data: officers, shareholders, documents
Sole trader	Impresa individuale	Yes	Profile and owner
Public limited company	S.p.A.	Yes	Full data
General partnership	S.n.c.	Yes	Full data
Limited partnership	S.a.s.	Yes	Full data
Cooperative	Società cooperativa	Yes	Full data
Consortium company	Società consortile a r.l.	Yes	Full data
Simple partnership	Società semplice	Yes	Profile and partners

Sources

Register	What it gives
Registro Imprese via InfoCamere	Company profile, officers, shareholders, Visura, articles, financial statements
VIES (EU VAT register)	VAT number check

Identifiers

Send the tax code or VAT number (partita IVA) as business_entity_id, with country_code set to IT.

Identifier	Format	Example
Codice fiscale / partita IVA (companies)	11 digits	`12345678901`
REA number	Province code and number	`MI - 123456`
Codice fiscale (sole traders)	16 characters, the owner's personal tax code	`RSSMRA80A01H501U`
VAT number	`IT` followed by the 11-digit partita IVA. Used only for the VAT check.	`IT12345678901`

You can also search by legal name.

Statuses and legal forms

Every result carries the register's own status in registration_info.status and an AiPrise status in registration_info.normalised_status. The normalised status is one of Active, Suspended, Dormant, Dissolved / Struck Off, In Liquidation / Insolvency or Unknown.

Register status	Normalised status
ATTIVA / attiva	Active
inattiva	Dormant
CESSATA	Dissolved / Struck Off
CANCELLATA	Dissolved / Struck Off
Impresa INATTIVA / INATTIVA	Unknown
UNKNOWN	Unknown

Legal forms come back in Italian, in capitals, in entity_type, for example SOCIETA' A RESPONSABILITA' LIMITATA, IMPRESA INDIVIDUALE and SOCIETA' PER AZIONI.

Quirks and gotchas

Country-specific behaviour to know before you integrate.

Quirk	Details
Many sole traders	About 1 in 3 businesses are sole traders (`IMPRESA INDIVIDUALE`). They are often sent with the owner's 16-character codice fiscale instead of an 11-digit number.
Three kinds of number	The 11-digit tax code / partita IVA, the REA number (`MI - 123456`) and a sole trader's personal codice fiscale all identify a business.
`inattiva` spelt two ways	`inattiva` maps to `Dormant`, but `Impresa INATTIVA` and `INATTIVA` map to `Unknown`.
Roles are not always normalised	Roles such as `Sole Director` and `Sole Shareholder` can come back with the normalised role `UNKNOWN`. Read the role name.

Limits

UBOs are not returned.
Articles of association and financial statements come back only when filed.