Customer Account holders who are also registered for using Open Services can integrate the streaming of documents from the CRO into their applications. Two types of documents can be streamed, submission documents and company printouts. These are useful in situations where you might wish to display the document for a submission or a company printout directly to a user. The alternative is to purchase the image through the CRO Company Search Site. This offering through the API enables developers and application users to dramatically cut the lead time in purchasing an image or a printout.

Also available in this offering is a facilty for checking whether a company has had its details updated since the last bulk upload for bulk customers was generated. A value of true or false is given depending on whether the company's details has changed.

Finally, there is a facilty for checking the Account Balance through these services. This will be a necessary step in your application, as documents cannot be streamed into your application unless there is a positive account balance.

Cost of Service

A charge is made for each document that is succesfully streamed to a client. The price is €2.50 for submission documents and €3.50 for company printouts. These are same as purchasing the equivalents through the Company Search site.

Signing up for the Service

To use this service:

Complete the sign up procedure for Open Services.
Open a Customer Account. If you already have a Customer Account, you can skip this step.
Contact the CRO using the contact form. Include your Customer Number in the message, and specify in the message that want to start using the API for Document Streaming.

Once we link your Customer Number to your API Key, you are technically ready to start making calls to the Customer and Document API.

However to start purchasing images and printouts through the API, you will need to Deposit Funds on your Account through the Company Search Site.