# Credit and Risk Endpoints

Creditsafe provides key insights on over 430 million private and public companies across 200+ countries and territories.

We deliver 99.9% of company reports instantly online and offer freshly investigated reports for any others, giving you clear commercial insights to support your business decisions.

## Endpoints Overview

This product in the Connect API suite includes the following sections:

- **Search and Report Schemas/Criteria**
Provides detailed structures for responses and available languages. These endpoints are informational and add value by offering clarity on data structures.
- **Company Search and Report**
Enables you to search for companies and retrieve comprehensive credit reports.
- **Director Search and Report**
Allows you to search for directors and generate detailed director reports.
- **Company Images**
Lets you retrieve official company filing documents in various formats.
- **Fresh Investigations**
Supports ordering, tracking, and retrieving freshly investigated reports for companies not available in the instant online database.


## Resources

The **Product Documentation** tab includes the following key resources:

1. **Companies**:
This section provides detailed guidance for working with company data, including process flows and response structures:
  - **Search and Report Process**:
A process flow outlining how to successfully call the company search and report endpoints.
  - **Company Report**:
A folder containing additional resources for working with company reports:
    - **Company Report Response Formats**:
Explains how to modify the `Accept` header to retrieve reports in different formats, such as PDF, JSON, or HTML, and their various combinations.
    - **Company Report UBOS Per Country**:
Details where to find Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO) information for each country where it is available, along with the structure of the data.
2. **People and Directors**:
This section includes a process flow for searching for a director and generating a director report.
3. **Images**:
This section outlines how to use the company images product effectively. It also includes a table showing the supported countries, the available document types, and their formats.
4. **Fresh Investigations**:
This section provides a process flow for using the Fresh Investigation product. It covers:
  - Essential endpoints for submitting orders, tracking progress, and retrieving investigations.
  - Additional endpoints for performing secondary actions on investigations already in progress.


## API Documentation

The **API Documentation** tab provides the OpenAPI specification for this product. It includes:

- Detailed endpoint definitions.
- Code snippets in various programming languages.
- Example requests and responses to help you integrate the API efficiently.