All requests must first be Authorized and must use the HTTP POST method over HTTPS. You must also have CCI or PEP account permission to use this report.

Provides our full background check report for a name and address. JSON or XML request returns the summary counts only, while PDF request returns a full report PDF data stream. If you require further data in JSON/XML, please contact our sales team to register your interest in future enhancements.

Latest XSD schema is available here (right click and save as).

Registries searched:

Registry	Meaning	Report Inclusion	Output variable names
Consumer Court Judgments	Negative	Always	num_judgment
Bankruptcy	Negative	Always	num_bankruptcy
Insolvency Service of Ireland Records (ISI)	Negative	Always	num_dsa, num_pc, num_pia & num_drn
Revenue Defaulters	Negative	Always	num_defaulter
Disqualified/Restricted Directors	Negative	Always	num_disqualification
Current and Previous Directorships	Neutral	Excluded with negativeOnly	num_directorship, num_directorship_prev
Shareholding	Neutral	Excluded with negativeOnly	num_shareholding
Business Ownerships	Neutral	Excluded with negativeOnly	num_business_name
Politically Exposed Person (PEP) and Sanctions	Neutral	Included with includePEP	num_pep

Inclusion of negativeOnly=true parameter will improve response time greatly.

NOTE: Due to third party API integration, in case of an error fetching PEP details, a response of negative counts in num_pep/num_sanction fields will be returned with following meaning:

-1 INTERNAL ERROR while fetching the PEP data. Please repeat the request
-2 NAME ERROR. Provided name is too short and was not processed
-3 NO_PERMISSION - Your account is not configured to allow PEP Searches. Please contact your sales person

POST request format:

Endpoint:

https://api.vision-net.ie/cws/2.3/Check-Individual/

{ "last_name" : "{last_name}", "first_name" : "{first_name}", "maiden_name" : "{maiden_name}", "userRef" : "{user_ref}", "dob" : "{dob}", "includePEP" : {includePEP}, "pep_country" : "{pep_country}", "pep_nationality" : "{pep_nationality}", "county" : [countyId], "negativeOnly" : {negativeOnly}, "format" : "{format}", "searchMode" : {searchMode} }

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
last_name	String	Mandatory	The person's surname. The first_name and last_name combined must be 6 characters or more. Please contact us if you need to search by four letter name combinations.
first_name	String	Mandatory	First Name. The first_name and last_name combined must be 6 characters or more. We recommend you only supply one first name. Please contact us if you need to search by four letter name combinations.
dob	String	Optional	Date of Birth in a DD-MM-YYYY format. Supplying the date of birth will give you more accurate results, particularly when it comes to company directorships and Business Ownerships.
county	Integer[]	Optional	Up to 5 counties to search as per Lookup Tables. If you do not provide the county, then your search results might contain people other than your intended subject. If you want an accurate report, you should consider this as mandatory.
includePEP	Boolean	Optional	Default is false. Set to true to include a Politically Exposed Person search in your results (additional cost).
pep_country	String	Optional	Used to limit included PEP search only. ISO 2 country code as in Lookup Tables. This only applies if includePEP=true. A special value of WW can be passed for WorldWide PEP search
pep_nationality	String	Optional	Used to limit included PEP search only. ISO 2 country code as in Lookup Tables. This only applies if includePEP=true.
negativeOnly	Boolean	Optional	Default is false. Set to true to exclude Directors, Business Owners and Shareholding datasets. Greatly improves response time
maiden_name	String	Optional	Maiden Name. Effectively performs two searches, for the married name and maiden name. Therefore, more results will be returned.
userRef	String	Optional	User reference. Your "Usage Statement" will include this user reference, making it easy to link this record back to your own systems. Some customers like to pass an internal account ID or similar. This parameter does not affect the search performed.
format	XML, JSON or PDF	Optional	Defaults to XML. Return the result count in XML, the result count in JSON or the full report in PDF format. A future enhancement is planned to offer the full report contents in either XML or JSON. Contact our sales team to register your interest.
searchMode	Integer	Optional	Defaults to option 3. 1 - Provided name and surname must match exactly 2 - name%surname wildcard 3 - Default. name%surname% wildcard.

Where a county specified is a Dublin post code (id 50-71), such area will be used in Judgments, Disqualified/Restricted Directors, Bankruptcy, ISI and Revenue Defaulters searches.
Directorships, Shareholdings and Business Ownerships will search whole Dublin county based on remaining search criteria. PEP check, if requested, will cover either whole Ireland, if irish county is supplied, or country if supplied, worldwide otherwise.

Sample reply for /cws/1.8/Check-Individual
{ "last_name" : "Townsend", "first_name" : "Yasmin", "dob" : "25-02-1957", "includePEP" : true, "county" : [11] }

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{ "input_name": "YASMIN", "input_surname": "TOWNSEND", "input_dob": "25-02-1957", "input_county": "Co. Galway", "input_user_ref": "YOUR_ID", "num_business_name": 0, "num_sanction": 0, "num_shareholding": 0, "num_pia": 0, "num_pep": 1, "num_disqualification": 1, "num_dsa": 1, "num_bankruptcy": 1, "num_directorship_prev": 1, "num_drn": 0, "num_defaulter": 1, "num_pc": 0, "num_directorship": 0, "num_judgment": 2, "risk_factor": "high", "vn_api_version": "1.8" }

Data Output Descriptions

Field Name	Description	Inputs considered	Data Type
input_name	Provided input name		String
input_surname	Provided input surname		String
input_dob	Provided input date of birth		Date as DD-MM-YYYY
input_county	Provided input Irish county		County Lookup Table
input_user_ref	Provided user reference		String
num_judgment	Irish judgments	Name & County	Integer
num_bankruptcy	Bankruptcies	Name & County	Integer
num_defaulter	Revenue Defaulters	Name & County	Integer
num_pep	Optional[includePEP]. Total PEP matches	Name, County and Year Of Birth	Integer
num_sanction	Optional[includePEP]. Sanctions matches	Name, County and Year Of Birth	Integer
num_disqualification	Director disqualification	Name, County and Date Of Birth	Integer
num_dsa	ISI Debt Settlement Arrangement	Name, County and Year Of Birth	Integer
num_pc	ISI Protective Certificate	Name, County and Year Of Birth	Integer
num_pia	ISI Personal Insolvency Arrangement	Name, County and Year Of Birth	Integer
num_drn	ISI Debt Relief Notice	Name, County and Year Of Birth	Integer
num_directorship	Current directorships	Name, County and Date Of Birth	Integer
num_directorship_prev	Previous directorships	Name, County and Date Of Birth	Integer
num_shareholding	Company shareholdings	Name, County and Date Of Birth	Integer
num_business_name	Business ownerships	Name, County and Date Of Birth	Integer
risk_factor	Risk indicator flag. If the only negative events are satisfied judgments, then medium. If there are any other negative events, then high. Otherwise low.		low|medium|high