# Marketplaces

> Verify sellers and their legal entities before they list and get paid.

Canonical: https://corpoapi.com/industries/marketplaces

## Seller verification in the signup flow

A seller arrives with a trading name and a bank account. Tie that to a registered company, capture its number and confirm it is active before the first payout. Where a register publishes officers, the officers call adds them to the seller record.

- Trading name to company number
- Status check before payout
- Batch for seller back-books

## One request shape across registers

Sellers sit in many countries. The request stays the same whether the seller is in the United Kingdom, France, Germany or a US state, and results come back in one schema across registers in Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

- One request shape per register
- Low-latency lookups from published datasets
- Live lookups for on-request registers

## A seller, resolved from its trading name

Tradera Marketplace AB runs a real Swedish marketplace and sits in the dataset we publish. Search for the trading name returns the entity at 5565694642, and company returns status active, legal form Aktiebolag, a registered address in Stockholm and a registration date of 6 May 1999. With the Sweden dataset indexed, the same lookup returned in 58 ms at the median.

- search: Tradera resolves to 5565694642
- company se/5565694642: active, Aktiebolag, Stockholm
- Warm lookup p50 58 ms, p95 60 ms
- The same seller is billed at most once a day

## FAQ

### Can I verify a seller that is a sole trader?

Sole traders are matched on an exact identifier or exact name, so a fuzzy search never returns a person.

### How do I keep the cost predictable at scale?

The same seller is billed at most once a day, and the first 100 starter calls are free. After that the price is $0.01 per verified company.

### Which registers do you cover?

Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. The coverage page lists every register with the fields it returns.