Connect and transform your business with the NZBN

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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)