# Update Certified Entity Details ## This endpoint allows you to update Certified Entity details specified with its GUID. `PUT` `https://api.iafcertsearch.org/api/client/v2/mncb/ce-by-guid` The `company_guid` field is always required. Other fields that are marked with an asterisk (\*) are mandatory if present in the request body. #### Headers | Name | Type | Description | | ------------------------------------------------------ | ------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Content-Type\* | String | application/json | | x-http-authorization\* | String |

API Key received from

Example:

x-http-authorization: <\>

| #### Request Body | Name | Type | Description | | -------------------------------------------------- | ------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | company\_guid\* | String | A unique identifier for a specific Certified Entity. Used as a reference or a tracking number to look up Certified Entity records in the IAF CertSearch database. | | company\_website | String | Company Website | | company\_postcode | String | Company Post Code | | company\_state | String | Company State | | company\_city | String | Company City | | company\_street | String | Company Street | | company\_en\_name | String |

Company English Name

Example:

Test Food and Logistics Inc. English Name
Reliable Logistics Services Inc. English Name

| | company\_trading\_name | String |

Company Trading Name

Example:

Test Food and Logistics Inc. Trading Name
Reliable Logistics Services Inc. Trading Name

| | system\_information | Array |

System Information

Information of a specific Certified Entity used by the IAF CertSearch database.

Example:

"system\_information": \[

{

"company\_name": "string",

"company\_guid": "string"

}

]

| | company\_country\* | String | Country/Economy of the main entity address for the certified entity. | | company\_id\_number | String |

Company Identification Number

Example:

U12345ABCDE12345F123456

| | business\_registration\_number | String |

Business Registration Number

Example:

1234567890A

| | tax\_id | String |

Tax Identification

Example:

000123456001

| | vat | String |

Vat

Example:

GB123456789

| | duns\_number | String |

Duns Number

Example:

987654321

| {% tabs %} {% tab title="200: OK Request successful." %} ```javascript { "data": { "company_id": "string", "company_name": "string", "company_trading_name": "string", "company_street": "string", "company_city": "string", "company_postcode": "string", "company_state": "string", "company_country": "string", "company_type": "string", "countries_id": number, "company_guid": "string", "company_en_name": "string", "tax_id": "string", "vat": "string", "duns_number": "string", "business_reg_number": "string", "company_id_number": "string", "is_confidential": number, "created_at": date, "updated_at": date } } ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="400: Bad Request Other errors that is described in the API response." %} ```javascript { "error": true, "timestamp": number (Epoch time), "elapse": number, "errors": { "message": "error_message", "code": "error_code" } } ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="401: Unauthorized Happens when you use invalid API key." %} ```javascript { "error": true, "timestamp": number (Epoch time), "elapse": number, "errors": { "message": "Invalid Session token has been used.", "code": "invalid_session_token" } } ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="422: Unprocessable Entity Did not pass parameter validation" %} ```javascript { "error": true, "timestamp": number (Epoch time), "elapse": number, "errors": { "code": "validation_error", "message": { "field_name": "error_message" } } } ``` {% endtab %} {% endtabs %} {% hint style="info" %} To view the response data example, click the right arrow at the right side of the response description. {% endhint %} {% hint style="info" %} You can also use to test it on the Sandbox server. {% endhint %} Take a look at how you might call this method: {% tabs %} {% tab title="cURL" %} ```shell curl --location --request PUT 'https://api.iafcertsearch.org/api/client/v1/mncb/ce-by-guid' \ --header 'x-http-authorization: <>' \ --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \ --header 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36' \ --data-raw '{ "company_guid" : "string", "company_trading_name": "string", "company_en_name": "string", "company_country": "string", "company_street": "string", "company_city": "string", "company_state": "string", "company_postcode": "string", "company_website": "string", "tax_id": "string", "business_registration_number":: "string", "company_id_number": "string", "vat": "string", "duns_number": "string", "system_information": [ { "company_name": "string", "company_guid": "string" } ] }' ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="Ruby" %} ```ruby require "uri" require "json" require "net/http" url = URI("https://api.iafcertsearch.org/api/client/v1/mncb/ce-by-guid") https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port) https.use_ssl = true request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(url) request["x-http-authorization"] = "<>" request["Content-Type"] = "application/json" request["User-Agent"] = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36" request.body = JSON.dump({ "company_guid" : "string", "company_trading_name": "string", "company_en_name": "string", "company_country": "string", "company_street": "string", "company_city": "string", "company_state": "string", "company_postcode": "string", "company_website": "string", "tax_id": "string", "business_registration_number":: "string", "company_id_number": "string", "vat": "string", "duns_number": "string", "system_information": [ { "company_name": "string", "company_guid": "string" } ] }) response = https.request(request) puts response.read_body ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="Python" %} ```python import http.client import json conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("api.iafcertsearch.org") payload = json.dumps({ "company_guid" : "string", "company_trading_name": "string", "company_en_name": "string", "company_country": "string", "company_street": "string", "company_city": "string", "company_state": "string", "company_postcode": "string", "company_website": "string", "tax_id": "string", "business_registration_number":: "string", "company_id_number": "string", "vat": "string", "duns_number": "string", "system_information": [ { "company_name": "string", "company_guid": "string" } ] }) headers = { 'x-http-authorization': '<>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36' } conn.request("PUT", "/api/client/v1/mncb/ce-by-guid", payload, headers) res = conn.getresponse() data = res.read() print(data.decode("utf-8")) ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="PHP" %} ```php 'https://api.iafcertsearch.org/api/client/v2/mncb/ce-by-guid', CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_ENCODING => '', CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'PUT', CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>'{ "company_guid" : "string", "company_trading_name": "string", "company_en_name": "string", "company_country": "string", "company_street": "string", "company_city": "string", "company_state": "string", "company_postcode": "string", "company_website": "string", "tax_id": "string", "business_registration_number":: "string", "company_id_number": "string", "vat": "string", "duns_number": "string", "system_information": [ { "company_name": "string", "company_guid": "string" } ] }', CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array( 'x-http-authorization: <>', 'Content-Type: application/json', 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36' ), )); $response = curl_exec($curl); curl_close($curl); echo $response; ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="Java" %} ```java OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient().newBuilder() .build(); MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json"); RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "{\n \"company_guid\": \"string\",\n \"company_trading_name\": \"string\",\n \"company_en_name\": \"string\",\n \"company_country\": \"string\",\n \"company_street\": \"string\",\n \"company_city\": \"string\",\n \"company_state\": \"string\",\n \"company_postcode\": \"string\",\n \"company_website\": \"string\",\n \"tax_id\" : \"string\",\n \"business_registration_number\": \"string\",\n \"company_id_number\": \"string\",\n \"vat\": \"string\",\n \"duns_number\": \"string\",\n \"system_information\": [\n {\n \"company_name\": \"string\",\n \"company_guid\": \"string\"\n }\n ]\n} "); Request request = new Request.Builder() .url("http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/client/v2/mncb/ce-by-guid") .method("PUT", body) .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json") .addHeader("x-http-authorization", "656e6eee223d1") .build(); Response response = client.newCall(request).execute(); ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="Node" %} ```javascript var axios = require('axios'); var data = JSON.stringify({ "company_guid": "string", "company_trading_name": "string", "company_en_name": "string", "company_country": "string", "company_street": "string", "company_city": "string", "company_state": "string", "company_postcode": "string", "company_website": "string", "tax_id" : "string", "business_registration_number": "string", "company_id_number": "string", "vat": "string", "duns_number": "string", "system_information": [ { "company_name": "string", "company_guid": "string" } ] }); var config = { method: 'put', url: 'https://api.iafcertsearch.org/api/client/v2/mncb/ce-by-guid', headers: { 'x-http-authorization': '<>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36' }, data : data }; axios(config) .then(function (response) { console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data)); }) .catch(function (error) { console.log(error); }); ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="Go" %} ```go package main import ( "fmt" "strings" "net/http" "io/ioutil" ) func main() { url := "https://api.iafcertsearch.org/api/client/v2/mncb/ce-by-guid" method := "PUT" payload := strings.NewReader(`{`+" "+` "company_guid" : "string",`+" "+` "company_trading_name": "string",`+" "+` "company_en_name": "string",`+" "+` "company_country": "string",`+" "+` "company_street": "string",`+" "+` "company_city": "string",`+" "+` "company_state": "string",`+" "+` "company_postcode": "string",`+" "+` "company_website": "string",`+" "+` "tax_id": "string",`+" "+` "business_registration_number": "string",`+" "+` "company_id_number": "string",`+" "+` "system_information": [ "+` {`+" "+` "company_name": "string",`+" "+` "company_guid": "string",`+" "+` }`+" "+` }`) client := &http.Client { } req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload) if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) return } req.Header.Add("x-http-authorization", "<>") req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json") req.Header.Add("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36") res, err := client.Do(req) if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) return } defer res.Body.Close() body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body) if err != nil { fmt.Println(err) return } fmt.Println(string(body)) } ``` {% endtab %} {% tab title="C#" %} ```csharp var client = new RestClient("https://api.iafcertsearch.org/api/client/v2/mncb/ce-by-guid"); client.Timeout = -1; var request = new RestRequest(Method.PUT); request.AddHeader("x-http-authorization", "<>"); request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json"); client.UserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36"; var body = @"{" + "\n" + @" ""company_guid"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""company_trading_name"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""company_en_name"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""company_country"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""company_street"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""company_city"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""company_state"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""company_postcode"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""company_website"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""tax_id"" : ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""business_registration_number"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""company_id_number"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""vat"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""duns_number"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""system_information"": [" + "\n" + @" {" + "\n" + @" ""company_name"": ""string""," + "\n" + @" ""company_guid"": ""string""" + "\n" + @" }" + "\n" + @" ]" + "\n" + @"} "; request.AddParameter("application/json", body, ParameterType.RequestBody); IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request); Console.WriteLine(response.Content); ``` {% endtab %} {% endtabs %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. 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