Vietnam Company Register: How to Search the National Business Registration Portal and Verify Vietnamese Companies (2026)

1. What is the Vietnamese company register?

Vietnam keeps one national register for every enterprise in the country. Companies register with the business registration office of their province, but every record lands in the National Business Registration Information System, which has run nationwide since 31 December 2010 on a national database built by integrating the company databases of 63 provinces and cities. The public face of that system is the National Business Registration Portal, in Vietnamese the Cổng thông tin quốc gia về đăng ký doanh nghiệp. The portal describes the data held by the registration offices as the original record, with legal value.

The register changed ministry in 2025. It was built by the Agency for Business Registration of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, set up in September 2010. It is now run by the Cục Phát triển doanh nghiệp tư nhân và kinh tế tập thể (roughly, the Agency for Private Enterprise and Collective Economy Development) of the Ministry of Finance, whose tasks under Decision 377/QĐ-BTC of 26 February 2025 include operating the national information system on enterprises, cooperatives, and household businesses and providing information from it. Older guides, and some of the portal's own English pages, still name the old ministry.

For a reader, the record, the filed documents, and the accounts all come out of the same information service, as free or paid products. The accounts are copied in from the financial statements companies file with the tax authority:

2. How to search the National Business Registration Portal step by step

Searching is free and needs no account. The search box on the portal hands you straight to the information service, where the company records live, and both sites have an English switch. What neither gives you without a little effort is the record itself: every company page opens behind a reCAPTCHA, and every document beyond the basic record is an order.

1. Open the National Business Registration Portal

   Go to dangkykinhdoanh.gov.vn. The search box sits top right, with three options above it: Tìm doanh nghiệp (search enterprises), Tìm hợp tác xã (search cooperatives), and Tìm trong website (search the site). Leave it on the first. The Tiếng Việt and English switch is just above the options.

   

2. Type a name or an enterprise code

   An enterprise search sends you on to the information service, which has the same box at the top of the page, labelled Search enterprise name in its English view. Type at least two characters and a list of suggestions drops down. A code is the safer input: a name search for Vingroup also returns other companies with Vingroup in their names, such as CÔNG TY TNHH VINGROUP VIỆT NAM, while a search for 0101245486 returns only Vingroup and its own branch.

3. Pick the company from the list

   Each suggestion shows the registered name in Vietnamese, the enterprise code (Mã số doanh nghiệp), and the internal number (Mã số nội bộ). For Vingroup, the entry reads TẬP ĐOÀN VINGROUP - CÔNG TY CP with enterprise code 0101245486. Check the code before you click, not the name.

4. Pass the reCAPTCHA to open the basic information

   The company page has four tabs, Thông tin cơ bản (basic information), Bố cáo điện tử (e-gazette), Danh mục sản phẩm (product list), and Thành viên (members), but nothing loads until you complete the reCAPTCHA in the Mã Captcha box. Behind it, the free basic information covers the name, enterprise code, status, legal form, founding date, legal representative, head office address, the company seal sample where one was filed, the business lines, and the list of e-gazette announcements.

5. Order the documents you need

   Certificates, histories, registration documents, and financial statements are products. Click Đặt hàng sản phẩm (order products), add them to the cart, and pay online by domestic card through NAPAS or by international card. The electronic receipt needs your name, address, and e-mail address. Products arrive as a download link by e-mail, and the three-year history is generated overnight for delivery by 08:00 the next day.

Our own attempt to capture Vingroup's record for this guide stopped at the information service: the record sits behind a reCAPTCHA, and the service asked for an account and a payment for anything beyond it. That is why this guide shows the portal's home page rather than a company record.

3. What data is public and what it costs

Vietnam's register has a free layer and a paid layer, and the line between them is clear. Finding a company and reading its basic record costs nothing. Everything beyond that is priced per copy or per report under Circular 47/2019/TT-BTC of the Ministry of Finance, the fee schedule the portal publishes on its fee page.

Two points stand out. The prices are low: VND 40,000 buys a copy of a company's filed financial statements, without the notes, and the portal names the financial statements of joint stock companies among its functions. And the free record stops short of what most checks need. The free fields, as the service itself lists them, include no charter capital and no financial figures. For more, you order the certificate, the latest-registration report (which adds the founding shareholders of a joint stock company and some financial and tax figures), or the filings.

4. Vietnamese legal forms, briefly

As the portal's FAQ explains, a Vietnamese company name is built from two elements, the enterprise type and the company's own name, so the legal form is usually visible before you open the record. Vingroup's registered name, TẬP ĐOÀN VINGROUP - CÔNG TY CP, ends in the short form for joint stock company. The words tập đoàn (group) and tổng công ty (corporation) can appear in a name too, under criteria the registration rules set. The portal's registration guidance covers five enterprise types, plus branches, representative offices and business locations, cooperatives, and household businesses:

The rules behind these forms changed recently. The Law on Enterprises 59/2020/QH14 was amended by Law 76/2025/QH15 from 1 July 2025, the same day Decree 168/2025/NĐ-CP on enterprise registration took effect and Decree 01/2021/NĐ-CP expired. Decree 296/2026/NĐ-CP of 23 July 2026 has since amended the new decree. Any guide written before mid-2025 may describe a procedure that no longer applies.

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

1. Confirm the enterprise code and the name

   Search the code in the information service and check that the name in the suggestion list, which ends in the legal form, matches what you were given. Because the enterprise code is also the tax code, the number on an invoice should be the same one. For a quick first pass, our free company lookup finds the registration and revenue data in one search.

2. Make sure you have the right number

   The search list shows two numbers per company. The enterprise code (Mã số doanh nghiệp) identifies the company; the internal number (Mã số nội bộ) is the system's own reference, and branches and business locations carry one too. Watch for suffixes as well: 0101245486-002 is Vingroup's Ho Chi Minh City branch, not Vingroup itself. If a counterparty hands you a number that matches the internal one, ask for the enterprise code.

3. Check the status and the legal representative

   Open the basic information behind the reCAPTCHA and read the status field, then the name of the legal representative, the person who acts for the company. If someone else is signing, ask for their authorisation. Where a seal sample was filed, you can compare it with the stamp on your documents.

4. Read the e-gazette announcements

   The basic record lists the announcements the company has published. The e-gazette sorts them into new registrations, changes, change notices, violations and revocations, and dissolutions. A recent change of legal representative or a revocation notice is exactly what you are looking for.

5. Order the certificate or the three-year history

   For anything that matters, buy the Business Registration Certificate information (VND 20,000) or the consolidated three-year history (VND 150,000), which shows the current data and every registration change over the last three years. The history arrives the next morning, so order it a day ahead.

6. For a joint stock company, buy the financial statements

   Order the filed financial statements at VND 40,000 per copy. Check the period they cover as well as the figures, because the most recent filing tells you whether the company is still reporting.

6. Limitations of the official register

To be fair to it: for a handful of checks, the portal is cheap and the basic record is free. The limits show up when you need scale, a foreign card, or English:

• A reCAPTCHA on every record. Each company page opens one at a time behind its own reCAPTCHA, which rules out checking a list of suppliers at any speed.
• The free record is thin. The free fields include no charter capital and no financial figures. Everything beyond identity, status, business lines, and the list of announcements is a paid product.
• Foreign cards may not work. The portal's 2017 payment FAQ says it accepts international cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, JCB) only when they are issued by a bank in Vietnam.
• Not everything is instant. The three-year history and the report on a person's roles are generated overnight and delivered the next morning.
• English is an afterthought. The English pages still carry the Ministry of Planning and Investment's name and a fee table from a circular that expired in 2019. The suggestion list shows company names in Vietnamese, with full diacritics.
• Addresses are not uniform. In the data behind one search, Vingroup's head office reads Phường Phúc Lợi, Thành phố Hà Nội with no district, while another Vingroup-named company's address still includes Quận Long Biên. Match on the enterprise code, never the address.
• No public API. We found no developer interface on the portal. The closest thing is account access at VND 4,500,000 a month for 125 copies or more, or a customised product by agreement.

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

7. Access Vietnamese register data programmatically

CompanyData maintains a normalized database of all 1,828,939 Vietnamese entities, sourced from the National Business Registration Portal and refreshed as new registrations appear. Enterprise codes are already parsed and validated, and records are enriched with revenue, employees, and contact data that the free basic record does not show.

Our Company Data API lets you look up any Vietnamese entity by enterprise code, name, or address and get structured JSON back in real time, with 150 free lookups to start and no reCAPTCHA or card payment in the way. It is used by developers, banks, and insurers across 190+ countries, so Vietnamese checks work exactly like checks anywhere else.

GET /v1/companies?country=VN&name=Vingroup

We have left the response out on purpose. Our capture of Vingroup's record for this guide stopped at the information service, so there is no register record to check a response against, and we do not print values we have not seen on a captured record. Run the request with your free lookups and compare the result with the basic information on the portal yourself.

8. Vietnam vs other company registers

Vietnam scores well on identifiers, with one code for registration and tax, and on price, and poorly on open access. For context: