# Entiva

> Free lookup for any Indian company. Download its MCA documents: financial statements, directors, shareholding and charges, straight from the register.

Entiva retrieves a company's public documents from the Ministry of Corporate Affairs' View Public Documents service, checks them file by file, and delivers them as readable PDFs with a record for every file. It is not affiliated with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs and does not resell another provider's database.

## What it can answer

- Free, with no account: legal name, CIN or LLPIN, status, date of incorporation and state for 3.7 million companies and LLPs, from MCA company master data, from the ministry’s own register.
- Paid retrieval: all eight MCA document categories for a company: incorporation documents, annual returns and financial statements, director changes, charges, certificates, LLP conversion forms and other eForms.
- One order covers up to 10 companies.

## What it cannot answer

- The register holds what was filed, not what is true. A document proves a filing was made on a date, not that its contents were accurate.
- Filings lag reality by months. No current revenue figure exists for a private Indian company, here or anywhere else.
- A company in default may not have filed at all, so a category can be genuinely empty.
- Nothing published here is legal or investment advice.

## Product

- [Entiva](https://entiva.in/index.md): HTML at https://entiva.in/
- [What you can find out](https://entiva.in/what-you-can-find.md): HTML at https://entiva.in/what-you-can-find/
- [How Entiva works](https://entiva.in/how-it-works.md): HTML at https://entiva.in/how-it-works/
- [Pricing](https://entiva.in/pricing.md): HTML at https://entiva.in/pricing/
- [Frequently asked questions](https://entiva.in/faqs.md): HTML at https://entiva.in/faqs/
- [About Entiva](https://entiva.in/about.md): HTML at https://entiva.in/about/
- [Check whether a company name is taken](https://entiva.in/company-name-check.md): HTML at https://entiva.in/company-name-check/
- [Companies registered in every Indian district](https://entiva.in/companies-in.md): HTML at https://entiva.in/companies-in/

## Guides

- [Buying a machine or a vehicle from a company? Check the charges first](https://entiva.in/blog/buying-equipment-from-a-company-check-the-charges.md): A used machine or truck can already be pledged to a bank. You take it subject to that claim, and the law treats you as knowing. What to check, and what to demand.
- [How to check a client before you take the work](https://entiva.in/blog/check-a-client-before-you-take-the-work.md): You do the work now and get paid later, which makes you an unsecured lender. What the register shows about a client, and why the first register to check is your own.
- [How long does an Indian company actually last?](https://entiva.in/blog/company-survival-rate-india.md): Of the 14,75,643 companies and LLPs registered in India before 2015, 7,31,186 have since been struck off. Survival rates by year of incorporation and by state, from the register itself.
- [Which kinds of Indian company are struck off most often?](https://entiva.in/blog/which-industries-have-most-struck-off-companies-india.md): An analysis of 14,44,721 older Indian companies finds computer-related businesses were struck off more often than their age alone predicts.
- [The filing where your buyer names you, and says what it owes you](https://entiva.in/blog/msme-form-1-what-a-buyer-declares-it-owes.md): MSME Form I is the half-yearly return where a buyer names its micro and small suppliers, the amounts outstanding past 45 days, and its own reason for the delay.
- [How to check a company before you accept a job offer](https://entiva.in/blog/check-a-company-before-accepting-a-job-offer.md): Before you resign, spend ten minutes on the public record. The entity on your offer letter, its filings, and the EPFO check most candidates never do.
- [Before you pay a deposit: how to check the company taking your money](https://entiva.in/blog/check-a-company-before-paying-a-deposit.md): A deposit is an unsecured loan you make to a stranger. Match the bank account to the contracting entity, then check paid-up capital, charges and RERA before the money leaves.
- [The annual filing calendar, and what a missing year actually means](https://entiva.in/blog/company-not-filing-annual-returns-what-it-means.md): AOC-4 and MGT-7 have precise deadlines. Knowing them tells you whether a company's missing year is late, alarming, or not yet due at all.
- [A customer has stopped paying. What the filings tell you about whether they can](https://entiva.in/blog/customer-not-paying-what-filings-show.md): Before you write it off or escalate, the register answers one question: are they in trouble, or just squeezing you? Here is how to read the filings for it.
- [Giving a new customer credit for the first time](https://entiva.in/blog/giving-a-new-customer-credit-first-time.md): A new customer wants 30 days. Before you agree, size the line against paid-up capital and charges, then buy the accounts if the exposure would hurt.
- [How many companies in India actually still exist?](https://entiva.in/blog/how-many-companies-in-india-are-still-active.md): More than 3.7 million entities sit on India's companies register. Only 70.7% are Active, and more than a quarter have been struck off. Here is the full status breakdown.
- [You're dealing with an LLP, not a company. Here's what the register shows](https://entiva.in/blog/how-to-check-an-llp-india.md): LLPs file different forms, disclose less, and mostly aren't audited. What LLP master data shows, what Form 8 and Form 11 contain, and where the gaps are.
- [How to download a company's documents from the MCA portal, and what it actually costs you](https://entiva.in/blog/how-to-download-mca-documents.md): The MCA charges ₹100 to see a company's filings. Here is the full route through View Public Documents, the four limits nobody warns you about, and when it is worth it.
- [Every company status on the MCA register, and what each one actually means](https://entiva.in/blog/mca-company-status-list-explained.md): The register uses 23 status values, not five. Here is every one, the section of law behind it, and the ACTIVE-compliance tag that is not a status at all.
- [What an ROC search report is, who actually needs one, and what it should contain](https://entiva.in/blog/roc-search-report-india.md): An ROC search report is a professional's signed reading of a company's registry file. Here is the checklist it should cover, and where the ₹100 documents end and the fee begins.
- [What a charge on a company means, and why an unreleased one costs you](https://entiva.in/blog/what-a-charge-on-a-company-means.md): A charge is a lender's registered claim over a company's assets, and it decides who gets paid first. Free to check, and it stays on the register until someone files to remove it.
- [Reading a DIN: what a director identification number does and does not prove](https://entiva.in/blog/what-a-din-number-proves.md): A DIN is a lifetime identity key, not a licence. What the free MCA search actually returns, why it will not list a person's companies, and how disqualification really appears.
- [Who owns this company? What the annual return shows about shareholding, and what it hides](https://entiva.in/blog/who-owns-a-private-company-india.md): Shareholding in an Indian private company is public, once a year, in an attachment to the annual return. Here is where to find it and the three things it will not tell you.
- [What a company's status actually means: Active, Strike Off, Dormant](https://entiva.in/blog/company-status-strike-off-meaning.md): A company's status on the register is one word that changes everything about whether you should sign. Here's what each one means, and what to do next.
- [How to check if a company is real before you give them money](https://entiva.in/blog/how-to-check-if-a-company-is-real.md): A quarter of the entities on India's companies register no longer legally exist. Here is how to check the one in front of you, free, in about two minutes.
- [How to find out what a private Indian company earns](https://entiva.in/blog/how-to-find-a-private-company-revenue-india.md): Private Indian companies don't publish their accounts, but they do file them. Here's where the revenue figure actually sits, and how far to trust it.
- [How to read a CIN: what those 21 characters tell you](https://entiva.in/blog/how-to-read-a-cin-number.md): A Corporate Identity Number isn't a random string. Each block of it tells you something real about a company, before you open a single filing.

## Optional

- [Blog index](https://entiva.in/blog/): every guide, in HTML.
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- [Sitemap](https://entiva.in/sitemap-index.xml): every canonical HTML page.
- Contact: hello@entiva.in