Sweden Company Register: How to Search the Bolagsverket Register and Verify Swedish Companies (2026)

1. What is the Swedish company register?

Strictly speaking, Sweden has no single company register. Bolagsverket, the Swedish Companies Registration Office, keeps a family of registers split by legal form: aktiebolagsregistret for limited companies, handelsregistret for partnerships and registered sole traders, föreningsregistret for economic associations and housing cooperatives, and filialregistret for branches of foreign companies. Next to those sit the registers of beneficial owners, business bans, and company mortgages. For the user it looks like one system: one search, one record, one organisation number per entity.

Just as important is what Bolagsverket does not hold. VAT and F-tax registration belong to the Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket), so the company record says nothing about either. Non-profit associations that run no business get their number from Skatteverket, and religious communities without business activity get theirs from Kammarkollegiet. For foundations, Bolagsverket refers you to the county administrative boards (Länsstyrelsen). The industry codes (SNI) in Bolagsverket's free data come from Statistics Sweden (SCB) and do not appear on the record you see in the browser.

The start page of Sök företagsinformation publishes statistics, updated on the first weekday of each month. For September 2026 it counts 5,842 newly registered limited companies.

2. How to search Bolagsverket step by step

Searching is free and needs no registration. Sök företagsinformation runs in Swedish and English. The English version translates the labels but not the content, so on Volvo's record the type of business still reads Aktiebolag and the registered office Göteborg kommun, Västra Götalands län.

1. Open Sök företagsinformation

   Three tabs sit above a single search field: Företag (company), Person, and Ärende (case). On the company tab the same field takes a company name or an organisation number. Switch to English at the top right if you prefer.

   

2. Search by organisation number when you have one

   A number skips the results list entirely. Searching 5560125790 opens the record for Aktiebolaget Volvo directly. You can type it with or without the hyphen.

3. Search by name and filter out closed companies

   A name search returns every match, closed companies included. When we searched "Volvo" in October 2026 it returned 154 results, from Aktiebolaget Volvo to staff associations whose liquidation had ended, each closed one labelled with what happened to it. Use the option to hide closed companies. Also watch for the same number listed twice: 556413-0184 appears both as Volvo Aero Support Aktiebolag and as Volvo Aero Support Corporation. The free search covers names in other languages as well as the main company name.

4. Open the company record

   The free record gives you the name, the organisation number, the address, the registered office (säte) as municipality and county, the legal form, and the date of registration. It also flags any case Bolagsverket is still handling for the company. That is the whole free record: no board, no signatories, no share capital.

   

5. Buy what the free record leaves out

   Under "Vilken handling vill du köpa?" Volvo's record lists six documents for sale: certificate of registration, articles of association, annual report, interim report, minutes, and current assignments, each as a PDF. You can pay by card or Swish without an account. Logging in with an e-legitimation such as Mobilt BankID or Freja+ opens up more, including the people in the company and who can sign for it, and lets you pay by invoice.

3. What data is public and what it costs

Sweden runs its register like a shop with a free shop window. The search and the basic record cost nothing, and almost everything behind them is sold per document, with the price shown on the product page before you pay. Purchased company information stays available for 24 hours after you buy it, and documents for five days.

Two things stand out. First, annual accounts are public and cheap. An annual report costs SEK 75 in the e-service, and for Volvo the year selector goes back to 1997. Limited-company reports filed digitally since 2020 come free as iXBRL through the high-value datasets, so you can get those financial statements as data without signing anything. Second, the board is not free. Without logging in, the certificate of registration is the document that shows the representatives and the signing rule: SEK 125 in Swedish. The English version costs twice as much, and its product description no longer mentions the business activities.

What the free record does not show: phone numbers, email addresses, revenue, or employee numbers. Revenue and profit sit inside the filed annual report, which you buy as a PDF or, for limited-company reports filed digitally since 2020, download free as iXBRL. Even the paid selection lists can be cut by county, municipality, postcode, a period such as the registration date, and legal form, but never by industry, number of employees, or turnover. They contain no phone numbers or email addresses either, and Bolagsverket gives the reason: companies are not required to report them.

4. Swedish legal forms, briefly

Swedish registers are split by legal form rather than by court or region, and the form is usually visible in the name itself. A limited company's name must contain the word aktiebolag or the abbreviation AB, a trading partnership's the word handelsbolag, a limited partnership's the word kommanditbolag. The record then names the form in plain Swedish, as Aktiebolag on Volvo's.

Two gaps matter when you match a supplier list against the register. Sole traders only appear if they chose to register a business name or are large enough to have to, and organisations outside Bolagsverket's remit, such as non-trading non-profit associations and most foundations, are registered elsewhere. If a Swedish counterparty is missing from Sök företagsinformation, check which kind of body it is before you assume something is wrong.

5. How to verify a Swedish company: a practical checklist

1. Confirm the organisation number and the record

   Search the number on Sök företagsinformation and check that the name, legal form, and registered office match what you were given. In the results list, closed companies carry a label such as "Company struck off register" or "Dissolved by merger procedure", while Volvo and other active companies show none. For a quick first pass, our free company lookup finds the registration and revenue data in one search.

2. Check the ongoing cases

   Click the ongoing-case link on the record, or use the Ärende tab. It shows, free, what Bolagsverket is handling for the company and whether an annual report has come in. For Volvo, the list shows the 2026 interim report as received and the 2025 annual report as registered.

3. Buy the certificate of registration

   Without logging in, the certificate is the document that shows the company's representatives, its signing rule (firmateckning), and its business description. The Swedish version costs SEK 125. It is created with the day's date, so it shows the register as it stands when you buy it.

4. Check who may sign

   Bolagsverket describes firmateckning as the right to sign in the company's name with legal effect. Compare the person signing your contract with the signing rule on the certificate, and check whether they may sign alone or only together with someone else.

5. Check that the annual reports arrive on time

   A limited company must get its annual report to Bolagsverket within seven months of the financial year end. If it does not, it pays a late fee, which for financial years starting on or after 1 January 2025 is SEK 7,500 for a private company and SEK 15,000 for a public one, with further fees if the delay continues. If no complete report has arrived within eleven months, the company risks a liquidation order. Buy the latest report at SEK 75 and look at the filing date as well as the figures.

6. Validate the VAT number separately

   Bolagsverket does not handle VAT, Skatteverket does, so the company record cannot tell you whether a company is VAT-registered. Check the number in the EU's VIES service instead: SE556012579001 returns valid, Aktiebolaget Volvo.

6. Limitations of the official register

To be clear: for a handful of lookups, Bolagsverket is quick and cheap, and its basic data is free in bulk. The limits show up when you need people, structure, or scale:

• The free record is thin. Name, number, address, registered office, legal form, registration date, and cases. No board, no signatories, no share capital, no industry code.
• The people sit behind a fee or a login. Persons in the company and who may sign are for logged-in users, and logging in takes an e-legitimation such as Mobilt BankID or Freja+. Without a login, the paid certificate of registration is the way to see them. The person search only takes a personal identity number.
• Accounts are documents. An annual report is a SEK 75 PDF. Only limited-company reports filed digitally since 2020 come free as iXBRL, so older and paper filings stay PDFs.
• The free API leaves out the people. The high-value datasets cover basic data, SNI codes, and digitally filed annual reports, at 60 requests a minute per user. For board members, signatories, and other documents by machine, you need the paid API.
• The full API is a contract. A SEK 5,000 connection fee, a signed agreement, monthly tiers from SEK 1,000 for 500 transactions to SEK 24,000 for 15,000, and document retrieval from SEK 4,000 a month for 100, all excluding VAT.
• Beneficial ownership is restricted. Since 1 July 2026, access is limited to authorities, businesses with anti-money-laundering obligations, and others who can show a legitimate interest, usually tied to fighting money laundering, terrorist financing, or other crime.
• No contact data. Not on the free record and not in the selection lists, because companies do not have to report phone numbers or email addresses.
• One company at a time. The results list has no export. Lists of companies come as paid selection lists, quoted by email, and cannot be filtered by industry, size, or turnover.

If you check one Swedish supplier a quarter, none of this matters. If you onboard hundreds, it is the whole problem.

7. Access Bolagsverket data programmatically

CompanyData maintains a normalized database of all 1,850,173 Swedish entities, sourced directly from Bolagsverket and refreshed as new registrations and filings appear. Records are enriched with revenue, employees, and contact data the free Swedish record does not show.

The Bolagsverket API lets you look up any Swedish entity by organisation number, name, or address and get structured JSON back in real time, with 150 free lookups to start and no connection fee or agreement to sign first. It is part of our global Company Data API, used by developers, banks, and insurers across 190+ countries, so Swedish checks work exactly like checks anywhere else.

GET /v1/companies?country=SE&registration_id=5560125790

{
  "name": "Aktiebolaget Volvo",
  "legal_form": "Aktiebolag",
  "registration_id": "556012-5790",
  "city": "Göteborg",
  "registration_date": "1915-05-05"
}

Every field above is what the free record for Aktiebolaget Volvo shows on Sök företagsinformation. Revenue, employees, and contact details come back on the same record where we hold them, and are absent here for the reason this guide keeps running into: the free Swedish record does not show them.

8. Sweden vs other company registers

Sweden is generous with bulk basic data and cheap per document, but it keeps the people behind a fee or a login. For context: