# Companies

Endpoints to search for Companies in the Creditsafe Global Company Database. Companies are uniquely identified by the `connectId` - the identifier used to order a Company Credit Report. The Company Credit Report is a JSON object comprising of key business and financial data points such as Credit Score & Limit, Industry Code, Directors, Balance Sheet and Negative Information. A full list of Company data points can be found in the Data Matrix, in the help resources.

## Company Search

 - [GET /companies](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/creditrisk/creditandrisk/companies/companysearch.md): Endpoint to search for Companies according to the provided Search Criteria. To get the most relevant results, it is recommended to use a unique identifier such as  where available. If a unique identifier is not available, use a combination of the companies registered  and  for the next best hit rate.

## Company Credit Report

 - [GET /companies/{connectId}](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/creditrisk/creditandrisk/companies/companycreditreport.md): Orders a Company Credit Report by connectId. To acquire a PDF version of the report use the optional request in 'Header'. This request will provide a 'Base64-encoded' script to convert to a PDF, this will appear at the end of the JSON response.

## Confidence Match Search

 - [GET /companies/match](https://doc.creditsafe.com/connect-apis-catalog/product-catalog/creditrisk/creditandrisk/companies/confidencematchsearch.md): Supply all company search criteria to find potential company matches ranked by a .   - See here for more information.