Get Florida entity records from Sunbiz by API

What you can build on Sunbiz

• Get entity details

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  Reads the Detail by Document Number page: Filing Information, addresses, Registered Agent, Officer/Director Detail, Annual Reports and the document images listed.

  Takes

  Document number

  Returns

  Entity type, name, document number, FEI/EIN, date filed, state, status, principal and mailing address, registered agent, officers, annual reports, documents

• Search entities by name

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  Searches by Entity Name on search.sunbiz.org and reads the Entity Name List, following Next List until it has the number of rows you ask for.

  Takes

  Entity name, how many results

  Returns

  Corporate name, document number, status

• Check this year's annual report

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  Reads the Annual Reports table on an entity's detail page and says whether a report for the year you name has been filed, and on which date.

  Takes

  Document number, report year

  Returns

  Entity name, status, report year, filed or not, filed date, last report year filed

• File an annual report

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  Starts Annual Report Filing on services.sunbiz.org with the document number, applies the changes you list to the information on file and submits the report.

  Takes

  Document number, changes to addresses, registered agent or officers

  Returns

  Entity name, document number, report year, submitted at, confirmation

Automate Sunbiz with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• Annual reports still due before May 1

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  Starts

  Every Monday at 8:00

  Step 1

  For each document number on your list, check this year's annual report on Sunbiz.

  Step 2

  Keep the entities with no report filed for this year.

  Step 3

  Email you the list with entity name, document number, status and last report year filed.

• Registered agent, officer and status changes

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  Starts

  Every weekday at 7:00

  Step 1

  For each document number you manage, get the entity details on Sunbiz.

  Step 2

  Keep the entities whose status, registered agent, officers or filed documents changed since the last run.

  Step 3

  Post each change, with entity name and document number, to your webhook.

• Counterparty status check before onboarding

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  Starts

  When your system calls the workflow's webhook with a list of document numbers

  Step 1

  For each document number, get the entity details on Sunbiz.

  Step 2

  Keep the entities whose status is not ACTIVE.

  Step 3

  Post entity name, document number, type, status, date filed and registered agent back to your system's webhook.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get entity details” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "search.sunbiz.org/get_entity_details",
    "input": {
      "document_number": "L24009876543"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "entity_type": "Florida Limited Liability Company",
    "entity_name": "ACME LOGISTICS GROUP, LLC",
    "document_number": "L24009876543",
    "fei_ein": "88-1234567",
    "date_filed": "2024-03-18",
    "state": "FL",
    "status": "ACTIVE",
    "principal_address": "100 Harbor Way, Suite 200, Tampa, FL 33602",
    "mailing_address": "100 Harbor Way, Suite 200, Tampa, FL 33602",
    "registered_agent": "NORTHWIND REGISTERED AGENTS, INC., 500 Example St, Tallahassee, FL 32301",
    "officers": [
      {
        "title": "MGR",
        "name": "NORTHWIND HOLDINGS, LLC",
        "address": "100 Harbor Way, Tampa, FL 33602"
      }
    ],
    "annual_reports": [
      {
        "report_year": 2026,
        "filed_date": "2026-03-30"
      }
    ],
    "documents": [
      {
        "date": "2026-03-30",
        "type": "ANNUAL REPORT"
      }
    ]
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

Sunbiz’s own options

Sunbiz describes no API. Its own route for filing electronically is a prepaid Sunbiz E-File account, which files documents by a generated cover sheet sent by fax. Otherwise records are searched on search.sunbiz.org, and annual reports and certificates of status are entered on services.sunbiz.org by document number.

Read on November 12, 2026: The Electronic Filing Process, Annual Report Filing, Search records by name.

Signing in to Sunbiz

Record searches need no sign-in, and annual report filings and Certificate of Status orders start from the entity's document number. A prepaid Sunbiz E-File account opens its filing menu with the account number and a password. For that account, you sign in once through its own sign-in: the login is sealed with AES-256, and an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

Annual reports are due January 1 to May 1

Every corporation, LLC, limited partnership and LLLP files one each year between January 1 and May 1. Filing on time avoids a late fee.

A submitted report cannot be changed

Once submitted, an annual report cannot be changed, removed, canceled or refunded, and a certificate of status order cannot be canceled. A confirmation goes to the entity's email address on file.

Certificates of status have limits

A Certificate of Status is available for profit and non-profit corporations, LLCs and limited partnerships, not for limited liability partnerships or general partnerships.

E-File returns within 24 hours by fax

An E-File account filing is expedited delivery and return, not expedited service: the receipt date is the file date, and evidence of filing or rejection comes back by fax within 24 hours.

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