# Create Fresh Investigation

Places an order for a Fresh Investigation (Offline Report). Providing as much detail as possible about the Company, our team will use official sources and registries to quickly answer questions about a company's stability and financial health. Fresh Investigations take 5.5 days on average to complete. By adding  to the request, you are allowing Creditsafe to disclose your company details to the company you have requested the Investigation against, to be used only in the aim of improving our Investigation report.

Endpoint: POST /freshinvestigations
Version: 1.10.9
Security: bearerToken

## Request fields (application/json):

  - `consent` (boolean)
    Including this allows Creditsafe to disclose your company details to the target company in the aim of improving the quality of our Investigation Report

  - `contactInfo` (object)
    Your contact information

  - `contactInfo.name` (string)
    Your name

  - `contactInfo.emailAddress` (string)
    The address where Investigation creation confirmations are sent

  - `contactInfo.telephoneNumber` (string,null)
    Your contact number

  - `contactInfo.company` (object)
    your company information

  - `contactInfo.company.name` (string)
    Your company name

  - `contactInfo.company.number` (string)
    Your company VAT number/Reg Number/Tax Number

  - `chargeReference` (string)
    Free text field to add your own personal reference to the order

  - `searchCriteria` (object)
    Details on the company you are investigating - the target company

  - `searchCriteria.name` (string)
    Target company name

  - `searchCriteria.additionalInfo` (string,null)
    Any further details on your target company that will assist our Investigation

  - `searchCriteria.telephoneNumber` (string,null)
    Target company telephone number

  - `searchCriteria.address` (object,null)
    Target company address

  - `searchCriteria.address.simple` (string)

  - `searchCriteria.address.postcode` (string)

  - `searchCriteria.address.city` (string)

  - `searchCriteria.regNo` (string,null)
    Target company registration number

  - `searchCriteria.vatNo` (string,null)
    Target company VAT number

  - `searchCriteria.countryCode` (string)
    Target company ISO2 country code

## Response 200 fields (application/json):

  - `correlationId` (string)
    A unique ID assigned to this request.

  - `message` (string)

  - `orderID` (string)
    Fresh Investigation Unique Identifier

  - `transactionID` (string)
    Fresh Investigation Internal Identifier

## Response 400 fields (application/json):

  - `correlationId` (string)
    A unique ID assigned to this request.

  - `message` (string)

  - `details` (string)
    Provides further information on why the request was rejected

## Response 401 fields (application/json):

  - `error` (string)

## Response 403 fields (application/json):

  - `message` (string)
    Example: "Access forbidden"

## Response 404 fields (application/json):

  - `correlationId` (string)
    A unique ID assigned to this request.

  - `message` (string)

  - `details` (string)
    Provides further information on why the request was rejected