Austria business register API - WKO & Ediktsdatei
Query the WKO Firmen A-Z directory for Austrian company identity, contact details and industry classification, and the Ediktsdatei for insolvency proceedings - both as JSON. Note the boundary before you build against it: this does not cover the Firmenbuch, which is fee-based and access-controlled.
2 registers covered: Ediktsdatei, WKO
Insolvency and court publications from the Austrian Ediktsdatei.
Business directory entries from the Austrian Economic Chamber (WKO).
WKO Firmen A-Z, Ediktsdatei
Austria is worth being precise about, because two very different sources get called "the Austrian company register". The Firmenbuch is the legal commercial register and is fee-based and access-controlled. The WKO Firmen A-Z is the Austrian Economic Chamber directory - open, very broad, and the practical source for company identity, contact details and industry classification.
We cover the WKO directory and the Ediktsdatei, the official court publication database where insolvency proceedings and other court edicts are published within a business day of the ruling. We do not cover the Firmenbuch.
For counterparty monitoring that combination works well: the directory tells you who a company is, the Ediktsdatei tells you when it enters proceedings.
Is the WKO directory the same as the Firmenbuch?
No. The Firmenbuch is the legal commercial register, is fee-based and access-controlled, and we do not cover it. The WKO Firmen A-Z is the Economic Chamber business directory - open, far broader in contact detail, and the source we read.
Do I need an IWG licence to monitor Austrian insolvencies?
The Ediktsdatei is a public publication database. A government licence applies to bulk redistribution arrangements, not to reading published edicts. Our lookup reads the published entries.
How quickly do Austrian insolvencies appear?
Insolvency proceedings are published in the Ediktsdatei shortly after the court order, typically within one business day. That publication lag is short enough that continuous monitoring materially beats periodic manual checks.