Companies House integration · United Kingdom
Companies House data, straight onto the client record
Search a company once and FigsFlow pulls the registered details, directors and persons with significant control into the client record — then carries the same data through due diligence, the proposal, the engagement letter and the job. Nobody re-types a company number into a second system.
Company search — Cedar Grove Trading Ltd
- Company number09 471 220
- Registered officeUnit 4, Cedar Grove, Bromley BR1
- Incorporated12/03/2015
- Accounts due31/12/2026
- DirectorsAR2 appointed
- PSC1 individual · 75%+ shares
Matched to the register. Nothing typed by hand.
Illustrative example. Company and figures are fictional.
—— The Monday problem
Three people, three versions of the same registered office
The engagement letter goes out on Monday. It carries the address someone copied from an old proposal, which came from a spreadsheet, which came from the register two years ago — before the client moved.
Onboarding
“I took the address off the proposal we sent in March.”
Compliance
“The AML file has a different one. That is the one I checked against.”
The register
Registered office changed 14 months ago. Nobody was watching.
Nobody was careless. The data simply entered the firm four separate times, and only one of those entries was ever checked against the register. That is not a training problem — it is what happens when the source of truth is a copy.
—— One search, every system fed
The company number is entered once, at the start
Most firms re-key the same registered details three or four times — once into the onboarding form, once into the AML check, once into the engagement letter, once into the practice system. Each re-entry is a chance for the address to drift out of date. FigsFlow reads the register once and reuses it everywhere.
Registered details change at the register? The client record reflects it, and the compliance file records when it changed.
—— What comes back
What FigsFlow reads from the register
A live lookup against the Companies House register, returned inside the onboarding screen your team is already on. Irish companies are covered through the Companies Registration Office.
Company search
Search by name or company number and select the right entity from the register, without leaving FigsFlow.
Directors
Current appointments come back with the company, so you know who can sign before you send anything.
Registered office
The registered address as held at the register — not as remembered from the last engagement letter.
Persons with significant control
The PSC register is where beneficial ownership starts. FigsFlow brings it into the due diligence file rather than a separate tab.
Company status
Active, dormant, in liquidation or proposed for strike-off — visible before you price the work, not after.
Incorporation and filing dates
Incorporation date, accounting reference date and filing deadlines give you the shape of the year before you quote.
Client record created
Accept the match and the client record is created from register data — the entity, the officers and the address already populated.
One record downstream
Proposals, engagement letters, AML checks and jobs all read the same record, so the company details agree across every document you issue.
—— The onboarding sequence
From company search to a live job, in one sitting
Each step below hands its output to the next. Nothing is exported, re-keyed or emailed between systems.
Step 01
Find the company on the register
Type the company name or number. FigsFlow queries the Companies House register and returns matching entities with their status, so the right one is picked at the start rather than corrected later.
- Input
- Company name or number
- Returned
- Entity, status, incorporation date
- Also supported
- Irish CRO companies
- Typed by hand
- Nothing after the search
Step 02
Import the details into the client record
Confirm the match and the client record is created from register data — registered office, officers and PSC information already in place. Your team reviews rather than transcribes.
- Created
- Client record, pre-populated
- Carried across
- Address, officers, PSC, status
- Editable
- Yes — with the register value retained
- Second system
- None
Step 03
Run due diligence on the same data
Register data feeds the client due diligence file directly. Identity verification, PEP and sanctions screening and the client risk assessment all run against the entity and the people the register named — and the result is recorded on the client record, not in a separate folder.
- Feeds
- CDD, EDD and client risk assessment
- Screening
- PEP and sanctions
- Basis
- Money Laundering Regulations 2017
- Record
- Held against the client, dated
Step 04
Price and propose without re-entry
The proposal is built on the same client record. The legal entity name and registered office on the document are the ones that came off the register, so the proposal a client receives matches what is filed.
- Entity name
- From the register
- Address
- From the register
- Signatory
- Checked against appointed directors
- Re-keying
- None
Step 05
Engagement letter signed, work created
The engagement letter carries the same entity details through to signature. Once it is signed, the work sits on the client record built from the register — one client, one file, one version of the company details.
- Templates
- Over 100, drafted for the UK
- Signature
- E-signature, recorded
- After signing
- Work created on the same record
- Audit trail
- Search, checks and document in one place
—— Identity verification
Companies House identity verification, inside the same check
Companies House identity verification sits alongside client ID verification, face match and liveness, PEP and sanctions screening, Amberhill and address verification in FigsFlow's AML and ID verification plans. It runs in the same session as the rest of onboarding, against the client record the company search created.
For firms acting for company clients, that means the verification and the register data live in one compliance file — the thing an HMRC supervision visit actually asks to see.
See client due diligence and AML for the full check, or what the plans include.
Onboarding — Cedar Grove Trading Ltd
- Company matchedRegister
- Director ID verificationComplete
- Face match and livenessComplete
- PEP and sanctionsNo match
- PSC confirmedAwaiting review
- Client risk ratingStandard
Illustrative example. Availability of individual checks depends on your plan.
—— What changes
What a firm notices in the first month
Less re-typing
Company details are entered once, at the search, rather than four times across four screens.
Fewer wrong addresses
Documents carry the registered office as held at the register, not the version saved in a template two years ago.
A cleaner compliance file
The search, the checks and the signed letter sit on one client record, dated and in order.
Faster onboarding
Search, due diligence, proposal and engagement letter run in one session instead of across a week of emails.
One source of truth
Every module reads the same client record, so the entity name on a proposal matches the one on the engagement letter.
Work that scales
Taking on ten company clients in a week uses the same sequence as taking on one.
—— Straight answer
What is live today, and what is not
Registry work attracts a lot of vague claims. Here is the plain version, so nothing on a demo call comes as a surprise.
| Capability | Detail | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Companies House company lookup | Search, match and import registered details | Live |
| Directors and PSC data | Appointments and persons with significant control | Live |
| Irish CRO lookup | For Republic of Ireland company clients | Live |
| Companies House identity verification | Part of the AML and ID verification plans | Live |
| Filing to Companies House | Statutory filing stays with WebFiling or your filing software | Not available |
| Companies House in the United States | Companies House is the UK registrar; US registry lookups are a separate question | UK and Ireland only |
United Kingdom. Ask on a demo call for anything not listed here.
—— Across the platform
Where the register data goes next
Companies House is the front door. These are the parts of FigsFlow that read what comes through it.
Client due diligence and AML → — identity verification, screening and the CDD file, built on the matched entity.
Risk assessment → — client and firm-wide risk assessment, using the ownership picture the PSC register gives you.
Proposals, pricing and engagement letters → — documents issued in the legal entity name held at the register.
Plans and pricing → — where Companies House lookups and identity verification sit across the plans.
—— Straight answers
Companies House in FigsFlow — common questions
Does FigsFlow connect to Companies House directly?
What company information is returned?
Does it cover Irish companies?
Is Companies House identity verification included?
Can we still edit the imported details?
Does this replace filing at Companies House?
Does this work for firms outside the UK?
How does this help at an HMRC supervision visit?
Bring your messiest company client to the demo
Thirty minutes, a real company number, and the whole sequence — search, due diligence, proposal, engagement letter — run once in front of you.
30 minutesA walkthrough, not a scripted pitch
A practice specialistSomeone who has run the workflow