🇵🇹 Portugal

Overview

AiPrise verifies Portuguese businesses against the Commercial Register (Registo Comercial, IRN). A business verification returns the company profile, managers, shareholders, the commercial register certificate, articles of association and the UBO register (RCBE) certificate.

Coverage

Data point	Returned	Note
Company profile	Yes	Legal name, legal form, status, registration date, registered address
Directors and legal representatives	Yes	Managers (gerentes) and board members
Shareholders	Yes
Ultimate beneficial owners	Yes	As the RCBE certificate (document), not as people
VAT number check	Yes	Separate check against the EU VAT register

Document	Returned
Certified register extract	Yes
Articles of association	Yes
UBO extract	Yes
Financial statements	Yes, when filed

Documents, as the register names them

Certidão de Registo Comercial (commercial register certificate)
Certidão do Último Pacto Social / Estatutos (latest articles of association)
Certidão do RCBE (UBO register certificate)
Prestação de contas (annual accounts)

Speed

Step	Typical	9 in 10 within
Business verification (company data, officers, shareholders)	45 seconds	2 minutes

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

Company types

Entities in the Commercial Register are covered.

Company type	Legal forms	Covered	What to expect
Private limited company	Lda. (Sociedade por Quotas)	Yes	Full data: managers, shareholders, documents
Single-member private limited company	Unipessoal Lda. (Sociedade Unipessoal por Quotas)	Yes	Full data
Public limited company	S.A. (Sociedade Anónima)	Yes	Full data
Association	Associação	Yes	Profile
Permanent representation of a foreign company	Representação Permanente	Yes	Profile

Sources

Register	What it gives
Registo Comercial (IRN)	Company profile, officers, shareholders, register certificate, articles
RCBE (Central Register of Beneficial Owners)	UBO certificate
VIES (EU VAT register)	VAT number check

Identifiers

Send the 9-digit NIPC as business_entity_id, with country_code set to PT.

Identifier	Format	Example
NIPC (company tax number)	9 digits	`512345678`
VAT number	`PT` followed by the NIPC. Used only for the VAT check.	`PT512345678`

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
Em Atividade	Active
Ativa	Active
Em Liquidação	In Liquidation / Insolvency
Encerrada	Dissolved / Struck Off
Dissolvida	Dissolved / Struck Off
Em liquidação	Unknown
Dissolvida e encerrada	Unknown
Encerramento da liquidação	Unknown
Constituição de sociedade	Unknown

Legal forms come back in Portuguese in entity_type, for example Sociedade por Quotas, Sociedade Unipessoal por Quotas and Sociedade Anónima.

Quirks and gotchas

Country-specific behaviour to know before you integrate.

Quirk	Details
Closure statuses vary	The register words closure and liquidation in many ways. `Em Liquidação` maps to `In Liquidation / Insolvency`, but `Em liquidação` (lower case), `Dissolvida e encerrada` and `Encerramento da liquidação` map to `Unknown`. Check the register status before approving.
Managers are not normalised	Managers come back with the role name `Managing Partner` and the normalised role `UNKNOWN`. Read the role name.
UBOs as a document	UBOs come back as the RCBE certificate, not as people in the response.
Same number for VAT	The NIPC is also the VAT number, with a `PT` prefix.

Limits

Annual accounts come back only when filed.