Scheduled maintenance
We’ll be doing planned maintenance from 5:00 pm Friday 14 November to 8:00 am on Monday 17 November (AEDT).
During this time and for a short time afterwards, updates to ABNs on our website may take longer than usual.
If you’ve registered a new ABN or updated an existing one, it might not appear straight away. If your ABN isn’t listed yet, please check back later.
Thanks for your patience!
Data dictionaryVersion: 9.9.7
The tables below summarise the field lengths and data types of the ABN attributes returned by the ABN Lookup web services. For more information refer to the
ABN Lookup web services schema (3 KB ZIP)
Important: We recommend that you avoid using Trading Names (mainTradingName and otherTrading Name) as these have not been updated since 2012.
request/identifierSearchRequest
| Element Name |
Max Length |
Type |
| authenticationGUID |
50 |
string |
| identifierType |
4 |
string |
| identifierValue |
11 |
numeric |
| history |
1 |
string |
response
| Element Name |
Max Length |
Type |
| dateRegisterLastUpdated |
10 |
date |
| dateTimeRetrieved |
33 |
datetime |
businessEntity
| Element Name |
Max Length |
Type |
| recordLastUpdatedDate |
|
date |
| ABN/identifierValue |
11 |
numeric |
| ABN/isCurrentIndicator |
1 |
string |
| ABN/replacedIdentifierValue |
11 |
numeric |
| ABN/replacedFrom |
10 |
date |
| entityStatus/entityStatusCode |
9 |
string |
| entityStatus/effectiveFrom |
10 |
date |
| entityStatus/effectiveTo |
10 |
date |
| ASICNumber |
9 |
numeric |
| entityType/entityTypeCode |
4 |
string |
| entityType/entityDescription |
100 |
string |
| goodsAndServicesTax/effectiveFrom |
10 |
date |
| goodsAndServicesTax/effectiveTo |
10 |
date |
| mainName/organisationName |
200 |
string |
| mainName/effectiveFrom |
10 |
date |
| mainName/effectiveTo |
10 |
date |
| legalName/givenName |
40 |
string |
| legalName/otherGivenName |
100 |
string |
| legalName/familyName |
40 |
string |
| legalName/effectiveFrom |
10 |
date |
| legalName/effectiveTo |
10 |
date |
| mainBusinessPhysicalAddress/stateCode |
3 |
string |
| mainBusinessPhysicalAddress/postcode |
12 |
string |
| mainBusinessPhysicalAddress/effectiveFrom |
10 |
date |
| mainBusinessPhysicalAddress/effectiveTo |
10 |
date |
| mainTradingName/organisationName |
200 |
string |
| mainTradingName/effectiveFrom |
10 |
date |
| mainTradingName/effectiveTo |
10 |
date |
| otherTradingName/organisationName |
200 |
string |
| otherTradingName/effectiveFrom |
10 |
date |
| otherTradingName/effectiveTo |
10 |
date |
businessEntity200506
| Element Name |
Max Length |
Type |
| charityType/charityTypeDescription |
100 |
string |
| charityType/effectiveFrom |
10 |
date |
| charityType/effectiveTo |
10 |
date |
| taxConcessionCharityEndorsement/endorsementType |
100 |
string |
| taxConcessionCharityEndorsement/effectiveFrom |
10 |
date |
| taxConcessionCharityEndorsement /effectiveTo |
10 |
date |
businessEntity200709
| Element Name |
Max Length |
Type |
| superannuationStatus/complyingCode |
20 |
string |
| superannuationStatus/complyingDescription |
50 |
string |
| superannuationStatus/regulator |
15 |
string |
| mainPostalPhysicalAddress/stateCode |
3 |
string |
| mainPostalPhysicalAddress/postcode |
12 |
string |
| mainPostalPhysicalAddress/addressLine1 |
60 |
string |
| mainPostalPhysicalAddress/addressLine2 |
60 |
string |
| mainPostalPhysicalAddress/suburb |
50 |
string |
| mainPostalPhysicalAddress/countryName |
100 |
String |
businessEntity201205
| Element Name |
Max Length |
Type |
| businessName/organisationName |
200 |
string |
| businessName/effectiveFrom |
10 |
date |
| businessName/effectiveTo |
10 |
date |
businessEntity201408
| Element Name |
Max Length |
Type |
| dgrEndorsement/itemNumber |
15 |
string |
| ACNCRegistration/status |
10 |
string |
| ACNCRegistration/effectiveFrom |
10 |
date |
| ACNCRegistration/effectiveTo |
10 |
date |
BusinessEntity202001
| Element Name |
Max Length |
Type |
| awefEntity/endorsedFrom |
10 |
Date |
| awefEntity/endorsedTo |
10 |
Date |
| awefEntity/isCurrentIndicator |
1 |
string |
| awefOperator/endorsedFrom |
10 |
Date |
| awefOperator/endorsedTo |
10 |
Date |
| awefOperator/isCurrentIndicator |
1 |
string |
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