Laravel CRO Open Services

A small Laravel SDK for Ireland's CRO Open Services API.

CRO Open Services is the Companies Registration Office REST API for integrating company and submission data into applications. This package exposes a Laravel HTTP client, service container binding, and facade for the public Open Services endpoints under /cws.

Official service: https://services.cro.ie/

Install

composer require codeitamarjr/laravel-cro-open-services

Publish the config if you need to override defaults:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=cro-open-services-config

Configuration

Set your CRO Open Services credentials in .env:

CRO_EMAIL=you@example.com
CRO_API_KEY=your-key

More explicit CRO_OPEN_SERVICES_EMAIL and CRO_OPEN_SERVICES_KEY variables are also supported if you want to separate this SDK from older app configuration later.

Usage

use Codeitamarjr\LaravelCroOpenServices\CroOpenServicesClient;
use Codeitamarjr\LaravelCroOpenServices\Facades\CroOpenServices;

public function show(CroOpenServicesClient $cro)
{
    $companies = $cro->searchCompaniesByNumber('123456');
    $matches = $cro->searchCompaniesByName('ryanair');
    $count = $cro->getCompanyCount(['company_name' => 'smith']);
}

$company = CroOpenServices::getCompany('123456');
$submission = CroOpenServices::getSubmission('6191121', '2');
$submissions = CroOpenServices::getCompanySubmissions('123456');
$submissionCount = CroOpenServices::getSubmissionCount(['company_num' => '54512', 'company_bus_ind' => 'c']);
$latestByType = CroOpenServices::searchSubmissionsByCompanyNumber('123456');
$dictionary = CroOpenServices::getDataDictionary();

Available methods

• searchCompaniesByNumber(string $companyNumber, string $companyBusIndicator = 'C'): array
• searchCompaniesByName(string $companyName, string $companyBusIndicator = 'C', int $searchType = 2, int $skip = 0, int $max = 25): array
• searchCompanies(array $parameters): array
• getCompanyCount(array $parameters): int
• getCompany(string $companyNumber, string $companyBusIndicator = 'c'): array
• getCompanySubmissions(string $companyNumber, string $companyBusIndicator = 'c'): array
• searchSubmissions(array $parameters): array
• getSubmissionCount(array $parameters): int
• getSubmission(string $submissionNumber, string $documentNumber): array
• searchSubmissionsByCompanyNumber(string $companyNumber, string $companyBusIndicator = 'C'): array
• getDataDictionary(): array

Endpoint coverage:

• GET /companies
• GET /companycount
• GET /company/{companyNumber}/{companyBusIndicator}
• GET /company/{companyNumber}/{companyBusIndicator}/submissions
• GET /submissions
• GET /submissioncount
• GET /submission/{submissionNumber}/{documentNumber}

The data dictionary is exposed as a local Company and SubmissionDoc field map based on CRO's published data dictionary.

Scope

This package targets CRO Open Services. It does not attempt to wrap unrelated Irish company APIs, screen-scrape CORE pages, or provide paid document-streaming helpers until those endpoints are explicitly modelled and tested.

Local development

composer install
composer test

Run the live CRO Open Services smoke test only when credentials are available:

export CRO_EMAIL=you@example.com
export CRO_API_KEY=your-key
composer test:live

If no credentials are exported, the live test uses CRO's official public test credential pair. It checks company number 83740 with company/business indicator C, verifies that /company/83740/c returns the documented FOSTER WHEELER IRELAND LIMITED payload shape, verifies numeric /companies search for 83740, verifies name /companies search for ryanair, and exercises CRO's documented examples for company count, submission search, submission count, and one submission document.