🇿🇲 Zambia

Overview

AiPrise verifies Zambian businesses against the Patents and Companies Registration Agency (PACRA). A business verification returns the company profile.

Coverage

Data point	Returned	Note
Company profile	Yes	Legal name, legal form
Directors and legal representatives	No
Shareholders	No
Ultimate beneficial owners	No

Document	Returned
Register documents	No

Speed

Step	Typical	9 in 10 within
Business verification (company profile)	2 seconds	32 seconds

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

Company types

These legal forms came back in production. Each returns the company profile only.

Company type	Legal forms	Covered	What to expect
Private company limited by shares	`Private Company limited by shares`	Yes	Profile
Sole proprietorship/trader	`Sole proprietorship/trader`	Yes	Profile
Simple company	`Simple Company`	Yes	Profile

Sources

Register	What it gives
Patents and Companies Registration Agency (PACRA)	Company profile

Identifiers

Send the PACRA registration number as business_entity_id, with country_code set to ZM.

Identifier	Format	Example
PACRA registration number	12 digits	`120190012345`

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
Active	Active
No status in the register data	Unknown

Legal forms come back in entity_type as English descriptions, for example Private Company limited by shares, Sole proprietorship/trader and Simple Company.

Quirks and gotchas

Country-specific behaviour to know before you integrate.

Quirk	Details
Status is often missing	About 9 in 10 results have no register status, so `normalised_status` is `Unknown`. Read it as "not reported", not as inactive.
Sparse register data	In production, the register data held the registration date for about 1 in 10 companies and the address for about 1 in 10 companies. Plan your review around the legal name and registration number.
No officers or owners from the register	The register data has no directors, shareholders or UBOs. Collect them in your onboarding flow and verify each person with KYC.

Limits

Directors, shareholders and UBOs are not returned for this country.
Register documents are not available.