Create a business entity
Creates a new business entity owned by your API key’s user. Send an empty body to create a bare not-started entity, or seed any KYB business details up front: legal name, incorporation, the registered legal and (optional) physical address, and the business profile fields (phone, tax ID, website, description, industry, account purpose, and digital-currency questions). The creating user is granted admin on the new entity, so the same API key can immediately act on it by passing the returned entity ID in the x-entity-id header. Anything you omit can be added later with Update Business Details. The entity still completes KYB (beneficial owners and any remaining details) before it can be approved or open bank accounts.
Authorizations
Your Meow API key, sent in the x-api-key header for authentication.
Body
Business phone number.
10 - 20"+14155550123"
Business tax ID: the EIN for US businesses, or the local registration/tax number elsewhere (e.g. UEN in Singapore, UTR in the UK).
50"12-3456789"
Public website of the business.
400"https://catnipcoffee.com"
Short description of what the business does.
400"Specialty coffee roaster and cafe"
Description of the source of the business's assets. Required before submitting an application that requests stablecoins.
400"Operating revenue"
The industry the business operates in.
accounting_bookkeeping, accounting_bookkeeping_tax_preparation, advertising, art, art_theater, art_painting, art_sculpting, beauty_cosmetic_services, biotech, business_management, cafeterias_grill_buffets_buffets, caterers, cleaning_services, construction, consulting, consulting_strategy, consulting_business, consulting_financial, crypto, crypto_exchange, crypto_investments, crypto_daos, crypto_nfts, crypto_mining, saas, design, design_web, design_digital, design_interior, design_fashion, drinking_places_alcoholic_beverages, ecommerce, ecommerce_amazon, ecommerce_ebay, ecommerce_shopify, education, education_university, education_financial, energy, energy_solar, energy_wind, energy_refining, energy_fuel, entertainment, entertainment_television, entertainment_film, entertainment_music, entertainment_print, financial_services, financial_services_money_services_business, financial_services_payment_processor, financial_services_fintech, financial_services_consumer_commercial_lending, fitness, food, food_restaurant_food_truck, food_manufacturing, food_service_contractors, full_service_restaurants, hardware, health_services, health_services_clinic, health_services_telehealth, health_services_holistic_services, health_services_healthcare_tech, holding, insurance, investment, investment_venture_capital, legal, legal_attorney, legal_paralegal, limited_service_restaurants, marketing, marketplace, merchant_banking, merges_and_acquisitions, mining, mobile_food_services, nonprofit, other, private_equity, professional_services, professional_services_architect, professional_services_attorney, professional_services_doctor, professional_services_engineer, professional_services_paralegal, real_estate, real_estate_short_term_rental, real_estate_development, real_estate_investing, real_estate_property_management, recruiting, research, research_medical, research_scientific, research_market, retail_wholesale, security, security_private, security_infosec, shipping_warehousing, sports_team, support_services, snack_and_nonalcoholic_beverage_bars, software, software_b2b, software_developer_tools, software_enterprise_software, technology, technology_agriculture, technology_artificial_intelligence, technology_augmented_reality, technology_community, technology_consumer, technology_drones, technology_government, technology_it_telecom, technology_robotics, technology_virtual_reality, transportation, transportation_limo_car_service, transportation_ride_share, travel, travel_agency, travel_hotel_reservations, waste_management, cannabis Why the business needs the account.
additional_yield, business_operations, other Free-text detail for the account purpose, when relevant.
400Whether the business provides blockchain or digital currency services.
Whether the business transacts in digital currency.
Whether the business develops, governs, or supports a blockchain protocol.
Legal business name.
1 - 400"Catnip Coffee Co"
Date the business was incorporated.
US state of incorporation. Required for businesses incorporated in the US; omit for businesses incorporated elsewhere.
AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY, PR "DE"
Legal structure of the business (e.g. llc, corp). Businesses incorporated outside the US use foreign_entity.
ccorp, corp, estate, foreign_entity, llc, llp, lp, nonprofit, partnership, scheme, scorp, soleprop, trust Registered legal business address. Must be in a country where Meow supports business onboarding; unsupported countries are rejected with the full supported list.
Primary operating address, sent together with business_address. Provide it only when it differs from the legal address; omitting it keeps a physical address already on file, or uses the legal address when none is set yet.
Your own identifier for this entity. Pass the same value to retry safely: a create reusing a reference_id you already used returns the original entity instead of creating a duplicate.
1 - 255"catnip-coffee-4471"
Response
Successful Response
Public ID of the new business entity. Use it as the entity_id path parameter on the onboarding endpoints, and in the x-entity-id header for entity-scoped requests once the entity is onboarded.
Legal business name.
ISO 8601 timestamp of when the entity was created.