curl --request POST \
--url https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"legal_name": "<string>",
"dba": "<string>",
"ein": "<string>",
"entity_type": "<string>",
"industry": "<string>",
"address": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"state": "<string>",
"zip": "<string>",
"phone": "<string>",
"email": "<string>",
"business_start_date": "2018-03-01",
"status": "active",
"tags": [
"<string>"
],
"custom_data": {}
}
'import requests
url = "https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses"
payload = {
"legal_name": "<string>",
"dba": "<string>",
"ein": "<string>",
"entity_type": "<string>",
"industry": "<string>",
"address": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"state": "<string>",
"zip": "<string>",
"phone": "<string>",
"email": "<string>",
"business_start_date": "2018-03-01",
"status": "active",
"tags": ["<string>"],
"custom_data": {}
}
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
legal_name: '<string>',
dba: '<string>',
ein: '<string>',
entity_type: '<string>',
industry: '<string>',
address: '<string>',
city: '<string>',
state: '<string>',
zip: '<string>',
phone: '<string>',
email: '<string>',
business_start_date: '2018-03-01',
status: 'active',
tags: ['<string>'],
custom_data: {}
})
};
fetch('https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'legal_name' => '<string>',
'dba' => '<string>',
'ein' => '<string>',
'entity_type' => '<string>',
'industry' => '<string>',
'address' => '<string>',
'city' => '<string>',
'state' => '<string>',
'zip' => '<string>',
'phone' => '<string>',
'email' => '<string>',
'business_start_date' => '2018-03-01',
'status' => 'active',
'tags' => [
'<string>'
],
'custom_data' => [
]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"legal_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"dba\": \"<string>\",\n \"ein\": \"<string>\",\n \"entity_type\": \"<string>\",\n \"industry\": \"<string>\",\n \"address\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"state\": \"<string>\",\n \"zip\": \"<string>\",\n \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n \"email\": \"<string>\",\n \"business_start_date\": \"2018-03-01\",\n \"status\": \"active\",\n \"tags\": [\n \"<string>\"\n ],\n \"custom_data\": {}\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"legal_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"dba\": \"<string>\",\n \"ein\": \"<string>\",\n \"entity_type\": \"<string>\",\n \"industry\": \"<string>\",\n \"address\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"state\": \"<string>\",\n \"zip\": \"<string>\",\n \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n \"email\": \"<string>\",\n \"business_start_date\": \"2018-03-01\",\n \"status\": \"active\",\n \"tags\": [\n \"<string>\"\n ],\n \"custom_data\": {}\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"legal_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"dba\": \"<string>\",\n \"ein\": \"<string>\",\n \"entity_type\": \"<string>\",\n \"industry\": \"<string>\",\n \"address\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"state\": \"<string>\",\n \"zip\": \"<string>\",\n \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n \"email\": \"<string>\",\n \"business_start_date\": \"2018-03-01\",\n \"status\": \"active\",\n \"tags\": [\n \"<string>\"\n ],\n \"custom_data\": {}\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": {
"id": "<string>",
"legal_name": "<string>",
"dba": "<string>",
"ein": "<string>",
"entity_type": "<string>",
"industry": "<string>",
"address": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"state": "<string>",
"zip": "<string>",
"phone": "<string>",
"email": "<string>",
"business_start_date": "<string>",
"status": "active",
"tags": [
"<string>"
],
"custom_data": {},
"primary_contact": {
"id": "<string>",
"name": "<string>",
"email": "<string>",
"phone": "<string>"
},
"deal_count": 123,
"lifetime_funded": 123,
"active_advances": 123,
"outstanding_balance": 123,
"last_activity_at": "<string>",
"created_at": "<string>",
"updated_at": "<string>"
},
"meta": {}
}{
"error": {
"type": "validation_error",
"message": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"param": "<string>"
}
}{
"error": {
"type": "validation_error",
"message": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"param": "<string>"
}
}{
"error": {
"type": "validation_error",
"message": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"param": "<string>"
}
}{
"error": {
"type": "validation_error",
"message": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"param": "<string>"
}
}{
"error": {
"type": "validation_error",
"message": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"param": "<string>"
}
}Create a business
Creates a merchant business. Duplicate detection runs first: a matching EIN, or the same normalised legal name in the same state, answers 409 duplicate_business with existing_id (use that business instead). Pass ?force=true to create anyway. Send Idempotency-Key to make retries safe.
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"legal_name": "<string>",
"dba": "<string>",
"ein": "<string>",
"entity_type": "<string>",
"industry": "<string>",
"address": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"state": "<string>",
"zip": "<string>",
"phone": "<string>",
"email": "<string>",
"business_start_date": "2018-03-01",
"status": "active",
"tags": [
"<string>"
],
"custom_data": {}
}
'import requests
url = "https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses"
payload = {
"legal_name": "<string>",
"dba": "<string>",
"ein": "<string>",
"entity_type": "<string>",
"industry": "<string>",
"address": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"state": "<string>",
"zip": "<string>",
"phone": "<string>",
"email": "<string>",
"business_start_date": "2018-03-01",
"status": "active",
"tags": ["<string>"],
"custom_data": {}
}
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'POST',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
legal_name: '<string>',
dba: '<string>',
ein: '<string>',
entity_type: '<string>',
industry: '<string>',
address: '<string>',
city: '<string>',
state: '<string>',
zip: '<string>',
phone: '<string>',
email: '<string>',
business_start_date: '2018-03-01',
status: 'active',
tags: ['<string>'],
custom_data: {}
})
};
fetch('https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'legal_name' => '<string>',
'dba' => '<string>',
'ein' => '<string>',
'entity_type' => '<string>',
'industry' => '<string>',
'address' => '<string>',
'city' => '<string>',
'state' => '<string>',
'zip' => '<string>',
'phone' => '<string>',
'email' => '<string>',
'business_start_date' => '2018-03-01',
'status' => 'active',
'tags' => [
'<string>'
],
'custom_data' => [
]
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"legal_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"dba\": \"<string>\",\n \"ein\": \"<string>\",\n \"entity_type\": \"<string>\",\n \"industry\": \"<string>\",\n \"address\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"state\": \"<string>\",\n \"zip\": \"<string>\",\n \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n \"email\": \"<string>\",\n \"business_start_date\": \"2018-03-01\",\n \"status\": \"active\",\n \"tags\": [\n \"<string>\"\n ],\n \"custom_data\": {}\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"legal_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"dba\": \"<string>\",\n \"ein\": \"<string>\",\n \"entity_type\": \"<string>\",\n \"industry\": \"<string>\",\n \"address\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"state\": \"<string>\",\n \"zip\": \"<string>\",\n \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n \"email\": \"<string>\",\n \"business_start_date\": \"2018-03-01\",\n \"status\": \"active\",\n \"tags\": [\n \"<string>\"\n ],\n \"custom_data\": {}\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.nextlevelmca.com/v1/businesses")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"legal_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"dba\": \"<string>\",\n \"ein\": \"<string>\",\n \"entity_type\": \"<string>\",\n \"industry\": \"<string>\",\n \"address\": \"<string>\",\n \"city\": \"<string>\",\n \"state\": \"<string>\",\n \"zip\": \"<string>\",\n \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n \"email\": \"<string>\",\n \"business_start_date\": \"2018-03-01\",\n \"status\": \"active\",\n \"tags\": [\n \"<string>\"\n ],\n \"custom_data\": {}\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": {
"id": "<string>",
"legal_name": "<string>",
"dba": "<string>",
"ein": "<string>",
"entity_type": "<string>",
"industry": "<string>",
"address": "<string>",
"city": "<string>",
"state": "<string>",
"zip": "<string>",
"phone": "<string>",
"email": "<string>",
"business_start_date": "<string>",
"status": "active",
"tags": [
"<string>"
],
"custom_data": {},
"primary_contact": {
"id": "<string>",
"name": "<string>",
"email": "<string>",
"phone": "<string>"
},
"deal_count": 123,
"lifetime_funded": 123,
"active_advances": 123,
"outstanding_balance": 123,
"last_activity_at": "<string>",
"created_at": "<string>",
"updated_at": "<string>"
},
"meta": {}
}{
"error": {
"type": "validation_error",
"message": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"param": "<string>"
}
}{
"error": {
"type": "validation_error",
"message": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"param": "<string>"
}
}{
"error": {
"type": "validation_error",
"message": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"param": "<string>"
}
}{
"error": {
"type": "validation_error",
"message": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"param": "<string>"
}
}{
"error": {
"type": "validation_error",
"message": "<string>",
"request_id": "<string>",
"code": "<string>",
"param": "<string>"
}
}Authorizations
API key (nlmca_live_…) or OAuth access token
Query Parameters
Create even when a duplicate exists (same EIN, or same normalised legal name in the same state). Without it the API answers 409 duplicate_business with existing_id.
Body
Legal name of the business.
255Doing-business-as name.
255Employer identification number, any format (digits are compared for duplicate detection).
20Entity type, e.g. LLC, Corporation, Sole Proprietorship.
50Industry, free text. Lender criteria match on it.
100Street address.
100State, e.g. NY. Part of the duplicate rule together with the legal name.
5020Business phone, any format.
50255Date the business started, YYYY-MM-DD. Drives time-in-business for lender matching.
"2018-03-01"
active, inactive, watchlist Free-form tags.
Arbitrary JSON kept on the business (your own ids, attributes). Replaced as a whole on update.
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