CompanyData – Company Lookup & Address Autofill

Description

Every B2B checkout asks for a company name, then makes the customer type an address the company register already knows. CompanyData Company Lookup turns the WooCommerce Company field into a live search: start typing a name, or paste a registration number, pick the company, and the street, postcode, city, state and country fill in on their own.

Suggestions come from the CompanyData database: 345M+ companies in 200+ countries, sourced from 1,200+ official registers such as Companies House, KvK, Handelsregister and INSEE/SIREN.

Faster checkouts, fewer typos

• Search as you type. Suggestions appear after three characters, each with its address and registration number, so the right branch is easy to spot.
• One click fills the address. Billing by default, shipping too if you want. Every field stays editable.
• Registration number lookup. An optional “Company registration number” field, optional or required, fills the company in from a KvK or Companies House number.
• Right register from the first letter. The country is asked before the company name (on by default), so results come from the country the customer selected.
• Accessible. Arrow keys, Enter and Escape work as expected, and screen readers get a proper listbox.
• Never in the way. If the lookup is off, rate-limited or unreachable, the checkout works exactly as before.

Cleaner orders for you

• The company’s registration number and CompanyData ID are saved on the order, shown on the order screen, and remembered on the customer account.
• Choose which countries to search (your selling countries by default), which address fields to fill, how many suggestions to show and how long to cache them.
• Limits that protect your plan: lookups per visitor per day and a site-wide daily cap. Repeat lookups are served from cache and cost nothing.
• A Usage tab shows the searches sent per day.
• Registration data is included in the WordPress privacy export and erase tools.

Works with both checkouts

The block-based checkout (the default for new shops) and the classic [woocommerce_checkout] shortcode checkout. No theme changes needed.

What it costs

The lookup runs on the CompanyData API. You need an API key; the trial needs no credit card. Each completed lookup at checkout uses one search from your plan and nothing else: the address comes with the search result, so no credits are spent.

External services

This plugin connects to the CompanyData API at https://app.companydata.com once a site owner has entered an API key. Without a key it makes no external requests.

What is sent, and when:

• Company lookup – the text a customer typed into the Company field (or the registration-number field) after it reaches the configured minimum length, and the country selected on the checkout. The request is made from your server, so the customer’s IP address, name, email and other checkout details are not sent. Results are cached in your database for the number of days you choose.
• Test connection – a fixed test search when you press the button on the settings screen.

Every request carries your API key and a User-Agent with the plugin, WordPress and WooCommerce versions.

CompanyData terms: https://companydata.com/bold-platform-terms/
CompanyData privacy statement: https://companydata.com/privacy-statement/

The optional “Company lookup by CompanyData” line under the field is off by default and can be switched on under WooCommerce > CompanyData. No other external requests are made. No tracking scripts are loaded.