SoS Name Verification Task

The sos_name_verification task compares the queried business name(s) to the registered names on any matching Secretary of State registrations we found, and determines whether the names match or not. The sos_name_verification task will return one of the following responses:

Status	Result	Reason
Success	name_exact_match	An input name and a name on an SoS record match exactly
Success	name_match	An input name and a name on an SoS record match
Failure	name_not_verified	We could not match an input name to any name on an SoS record

For SoS business name verification, we recommend a default setting where status='success'. If your use case calls for more granular decision making, you can use the result field. Typically, customers consider non-exact matches to the submitted business name to be verified for compliance programs. The most common reason for an non-exact name match is when a difference is found in the legal suffix between the submitted name and the name we identified (e.g. ’Enigma Technologies’ would be considered an approximate match to ‘Enigma Technologies Inc’).