type in a Business name to bring up an ABN

Hey,

The quick answer is – no.

I don’t recall their API being able to do reverse searches, but if I get the opportunity I’ll look back and see.

It would be a very useful feature.

I just had a quick look, and it does look like the ABR API supports searching by name – with a whole bunch of filters included.

How were you thinking it would work?

An ABN search is easy because you just need an exact match and you know it’ll be unique.

Searching by name is a lot more fuzzy – may be multiple people with the same name, people may not type their name correctly.

https://abr.business.gov.au/Documentation/WebServiceMethods – see ‘search by name’

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by ovann86.

Hello, thanks for the reply..

So it does not support it now and would be doable following their documentation (?)

Regards

Hi @wpuser1000

Currently, I am also implementing the same feature where user should enter only the business name following which the ABN and registration date should auto-populate. Were you able to implement this feature using the same plugin or did you download some other plugin to implement this feature?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Userinprogress.

Hi @madhavinin and @wpuser1000

Have either of you got the ABN lookpup working in Gravity 2.5 as I cannot seem to get that working. IF so what is your config ??

Thanks