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# Business Validation Demo

### Prerequisites

Before you begin you will need a Loqate Harmony Account. 

If you do not have Harmony API account you register a free trial.

{% embed url="<https://www.loqate.com/anz/register/>" %}

### Business Validation Demo

We recommend opening in Codepen (click top right 'Edit on Codepen') for the best experience.

<https://codepen.io/loqateanz/full/bGaJGPx>

See our guide on [how to use our demo's](/loqate-harmony-api/demos.md#how-to-use-our-demos). Further guides are below the Codepen.

### Demo Guide

Once you enter your credentials and click start. The demo will appear below.

Enter full address string and click 'Validate'. The full response package of the match is within the response.

#### **Common Options to change**

In Setting the Options button gives you all the API options that you set for different uses for this API.&#x20;

***Country:*** Set to the target country.

***Business Status:*** ACT means ACTIVE, CAN means CANCELLED. In most cases you will want 'ACT" unless looking for Cancelled entities.

***Tax Status:*** ACT means ACTIVE, CAN means CANCELLED.&#x20;

***Hits:** Alters the amount of results our API returns on a Find request*

***State:** Filters results to a specific state or region in AU & NZ*

### Related API Specification

{% content-ref url="/pages/VXBpoC6mGSdnonIKt82D" %}
[Business Validation and Lookup](/loqate-harmony-api/api-specification/business-validation.md)
{% endcontent-ref %}


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