Connect and transform your business with the NZBN

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You probably have a list of your customers and suppliers, but is it up-to-date?

Whatever your business size, keeping up can be a chore. And once the list is out-of-date, it’s hard to get back on track.  

There’s a simpler way. If you knew the NZBN of each business on your list, you could stay up-to-date more easily and receive alerts when their information changes.

Finding those NZBNs can take time, but we can help. We can match the businesses on your list to their NZBNs. It’s our free, secure NZBN-Business Match service.

Just give us any of the following for the businesses you want NZBNs for:

• trading name
• legal entity name or
• Companies Office registration number.

It’s simple and safe! We’ll run your list through our NZBN-Business Match programme and return it to you with the NZBNs we’ve found.

Just email us to learn more - support@nzbn.govt.nz

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You work on your own, so your day can be s t r e t c h e d … everyone wants information. 

They add up. And there’s only one of you, running your business and working behind the scenes! With NZBN, you keep your core business information updated digitally, in one place, where everyone can get it.

When some of that information changes, your business contacts can be notified automatically about the change. 

And that’s just the start.

There’s a globally unique NZBN for every Kiwi business – making it easier for all businesses to digitally connect and stay up-to-date. More than 700,000 businesses have an NZBN.

The NZBN Register is searched millions of times each year, saving businesses time and money. As more businesses get an NZBN, savings will increase for everyone, exponentially.

Get your NZBN now – it’s easy and free to apply. 

Go to nzbn.govt.nz/soletrader

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Kiwi businesses are connecting with the NZBN, the New Zealand Business Number that’s unique - locally, nationally and globally.

Each NZBN is one of a kind, just like your business. And there’s an NZBN for every Kiwi business, whether you work out of your garage, you’re a large retailer or a global exporter.

Having an NZBN helps businesses connect and share information a business is most often asked for by suppliers, customers and government.

Registered companies have been allocated an NZBN. Sole traders, partnerships and trusts can get yours free on our website.

Share your NZBN and ask other businesses for theirs. As more businesses get one, and everyone is using them, time and cost savings will increase for everyone, exponentially.

More than 700,000 businesses have an NZBN and the register is searched millions of times every year.

Use our free services to stay in the know and automate time-consuming work.

Find out more on our website – nzbn.govt.nz.

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Every Kiwi business can have a New Zealand Business Number – NZBN – to stay up-to-date.

By creating an NZBN Watchlist of the businesses you interact with, you’ll automatically receive an update if any of their NZBN information changes.

So your emails, invoices and deliveries will get to the right place, and you’ll know if the business makes other changes too.

Tell your business network about it, so they can add you to their NZBN Watchlist and save you from having to update everyone individually.

The NZBN register is searched millions of times each year, saving businesses time and money.

As more businesses get and use the NZBN, these savings will increase for everyone, exponentially.

Log on to nzbn.govt.nz

• Search for a business you want to follow.
• Click on the business.
• Select ‘Click to add to Watchlist’.

To add more businesses, repeat the process.

It’s that easy! And it’s all enabled by the NZBN.

You’ll find information about other free services on our website: nzbn.govt.nz

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We’re making it easier for businesses to connect, build high quality business networks and automate time-consuming work.

If you work with a lot of businesses, our NZBN API – Application Programming Interface – is the best way to find, share and update information about those businesses and your own. With some technical know-how, it connects your business systems and ours, streamlining the transfer of information. It’s working too – there are millions of searches of the NZBN register each year.

Use it to:

• Search the NZBN Register
• Pre-populate forms
• Verify core business information
• Get automatic information updates

Integrate it with your finance, procurement or customer relationship manager applications.

It’s free to connect to and use.

Just visit www.api.business.govt.nz

• Choose the ‘APIs’ tab or ‘Explore APIs’.
• Click the NZBN tile for information for you and your IT developer.

Ready to get started?

www.api.business.govt.nz(external link)

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Connect and integrate your business systems to the NZBN API - Application Programming Interface.

Let’s explore, at www.api.business.govt.nz

• Choose the ‘APIs’ tab or ‘Explore APIs’.
• Select the NZBN tile.
• Choose NZBN Version v4.
• Next step, log in and subscribe.

We’ll confirm your subscription once we have all the information we need, including an API Access Agreement. You then generate access credentials from the My Subscriptions page and start using the API.

See more in our Support tab, under API security information.

You’ll need technical knowhow from here, for testing and integration through to set-up and go.

Contact us with any questions.

Learn about our other free services at nzbn.govt.nz

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Alex is one of your business customers. He’s got a question, so he phones your contact centre.

You answer the call from Alex.

Alex has his NZBN at the ready, but your organisation hasn’t built an NZBN look-up function into its systems yet.

So, how can you identify Alex’s business, and find the information you need?

As a temporary measure, you can use the search function of the NZBN website. Navigate to www.nzbn.govt.nz and input Alex’s NZBN into the search field.

Alex’s business shows up in the search results, and you select the business name.

Great, you’ve now successfully recognised Alex’s business using only his NZBN. Easy! From here you can see the information you need, like the business’s trading name, phone number and physical address.

Now that you have all of Alex’s key business information, you can help him with his query.

Te reo Māori

Ko Alex tētahi o ō kiritaki pakihi. He pātai tāna, ā, ka waea atu ia ki tō pokapū whakapā.

Ka whakautu koe i te waea a Alex.

Kua reri mai te NZBN a Alex, engari kāore anō kia hangaia e tō whakahaere tētahi taumahi rapu NZBN ki ana pūnaha.

Nā, me pēhea tō tautohu i te pakihi a Alex, me kimi i ngā mōhiohio e hiahia ana koe?

Hei whakaritenga wā poto, ka taea e koe te taumahi rapu o te paetukutuku a NZBN te whakamahi. Whakatere ki www.nzbn.govt.nz ka tāuru i te NZBN a Alex ki te āpure rapu.

Ka puta mai te pakihi a Alex i ngā otinga rapu, ā, ka tīpako koe i te ingoa pakihi.

Ka pai, kua āhukahukatia e koe te pakihi a Alex mā te whakamahi anake i tana NZBN anake. He māmā! Mai i konei ka kitea e koe ngā mōhiohio e hiahia ana koe, pērā i te ingoa tauhokohoko o te pakihi, te tau waea me te wāhinoho.

I te mea kei a koe ngā mōhiohio pakihi katoa a Alex, ka taea e koe ia te āwhina me tana pātai.