The Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, Singapore’s registrar of companies, limited liability partnerships and other business entities. Its open entity information is the source of the Singapore company records Prometiam serves.

Why is an 8-digit UEN refused?

An 8-digit UEN with a letter belongs to a sole proprietorship or a partnership. Those registrations are not company records and are never served.

Does Singapore have a VAT number in the record?

No. Singapore’s GST number is not in the register data, so vat_number is null and a vat search is refused.

What activity code do Singapore records carry?

The SSIC 2020 code, 5 digits, with activity_code_scheme SG-SSIC-2020. A legacy 4-digit code is given without a scheme. Prometiam does not derive a NACE class from it.

Does Prometiam serve officers, company events or insolvency notices for Singapore?

No. Singapore records are company-level: no officers, no registry-compliance signal, no share capital, no dissolution date, no region and no insolvency notices. Liquidation, judicial management and receivership show in the company status. Register-change events (name, status, legal form and registered address changes, dated by the monthly read that first shows it, none before the first load in October 2026) and company monitoring are available.

What is ACRA (Singapore’s company register) and the UEN?

The Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) registers companies, limited liability partnerships and foreign company branches in Singapore. Each entity has a UEN (unique entity number), for example 196800306E for DBS Bank Ltd. and 197200078R for Singapore Airlines Limited, ending in a check letter.

The UEN

A local company has 9 digits and a check letter; the first four digits are the year of registration. A limited liability partnership or a foreign company branch has the form T, S or R, two digits, two letters, four digits and a check letter, such as T08LL1267L. The check letter is enforced. An 8-digit UEN belongs to a sole proprietorship or partnership, which is never served.

What Prometiam serves for Singapore

Company records from the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA): entity name, legal form, status (including liquidation, judicial management, receivership, strike-off and amalgamation), registered address with the postal code, the SSIC 2020 activity code, previous names, and the annual return and accounts due dates; updated monthly. Local companies, limited liability partnerships (LLP) and registered foreign company branches only. Sole proprietorships, general partnerships and limited partnerships are never served. No officers, no registry-compliance signal, no share capital, no dissolution date, no region, no insolvency notices and no VAT (GST) number: a vat search is refused. Register-change events (name, status, legal form and registered address changes, dated by the monthly read that first shows it, none before the first load in October 2026) and company monitoring are available.

Querying Singapore companies

GET /companies/search?company_number=196800306E&country=SG returns the record. The free UEN lookup runs the same call without a key.

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Official sources: ACRA · data.gov.sg. Contains information from ACRA Information on Corporate Entities and Entities Registered with ACRA from the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) via data.gov.sg, which is made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0 (https://data.gov.sg/open-data-licence). Adapted by Prometiam; not an official ACRA extract.

Who supplies what

Name	What it is
ACRA	The registrar. The source of the entity name, UEN, entity type, status, registered address, SSIC activity code, previous names and the annual return and accounts dates.
data.gov.sg	The national open data portal, where ACRA publishes its entity information under the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0.
UEN	The unique entity number, the key you store for the register record.
Credit line	Prometiam’s Singapore records carry "Contains information from ACRA Information on Corporate Entities and Entities Registered with ACRA from the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) via data.gov.sg, which is made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0 (https://data.gov.sg/open-data-licence). Adapted by Prometiam; not an official ACRA extract."

What a Singapore record holds

Field	Notes
Entity name	The name as registered. Earlier names are in `previous_names`.
Legal form	The ACRA entity type with its label: PUS (public company limited by shares), PCS (private company limited by shares), EPC (exempt private company), PCG (public company limited by guarantee), LLP (limited liability partnership) and FCB (foreign company branch, which is not a separate legal person).
Status	Live; in liquidation (compulsory or voluntary); judicial management (served as in administration); receivership; strike-off gazetted; struck off or dissolved (deregistered); amalgamated or converted into an LLP (merged). The register’s own status wording is kept in `status_code`.
Registered address	Street, building and postal code, with the city given as Singapore. There is no region.
Activity code	The SSIC 2020 code, 5 digits, in `activity_code` with `activity_code_scheme` `SG-SSIC-2020`. A legacy 4-digit code carries no scheme. No NACE class is derived.
Dates	The registration date. The annual return date and the accounts due date are in `registry_details` as ACRA publishes them. There is no dissolution date.

Frequently asked questions

What is ACRA?: The Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, Singapore’s registrar of companies, limited liability partnerships and other business entities. Its open entity information is the source of the Singapore company records Prometiam serves.
What is a UEN?: The unique entity number ACRA issues. A local company has 9 digits and a check letter, such as 196800306E; a limited liability partnership or a foreign company branch has the T, S or R form, such as T08LL1267L. The check letter is enforced, so a UEN that fails it is refused.
Why is an 8-digit UEN refused?: An 8-digit UEN with a letter belongs to a sole proprietorship or a partnership. Those registrations are not company records and are never served.
Does Singapore have a VAT number in the record?: No. Singapore’s GST number is not in the register data, so vat_number is null and a vat search is refused.
What activity code do Singapore records carry?: The SSIC 2020 code, 5 digits, with activity_code_scheme SG-SSIC-2020. A legacy 4-digit code is given without a scheme. Prometiam does not derive a NACE class from it.
Does Prometiam serve officers, company events or insolvency notices for Singapore?: No. Singapore records are company-level: no officers, no registry-compliance signal, no share capital, no dissolution date, no region and no insolvency notices. Liquidation, judicial management and receivership show in the company status. Register-change events (name, status, legal form and registered address changes, dated by the monthly read that first shows it, none before the first load in October 2026) and company monitoring are available.
Which Singapore entities are included?: Local companies, limited liability partnerships and registered foreign company branches. Sole proprietorships, general partnerships and limited partnerships are never served, so a lookup of one returns nothing even though it exists.
How often is the data updated?: Monthly.