Food-service business verification API
Match a submitted food-service merchant name and street address to a supported local regulator record. The result links to evidence for the facility match. It does not verify the legal entity or its ownership.
Developers repeatedly need a stable regulator facility identifier before storing evidence, adding monitoring, or continuing an onboarding workflow.
Broad business and place APIs can return plausible locations without proving that the selected record is the supported regulator facility for the submitted address.
Venue Authority applies one frozen resolver policy and charges one prepaid unit for each valid authenticated resolution or canonical facility request, including a fail-closed rejection.
The response includes the disposition, reason, regulator identity, snapshot, and evidence boundary your integration needs.
curl -X POST https://venueauthority.com/api/v1/resolve \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ONE_TIME_KEY' \
-H 'X-Request-Id: onboarding-000001' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{"name":"REDACTED MERCHANT","address":"REDACTED STREET ADDRESS"}'{
"disposition": "accepted",
"reason": "The name and address clear the corpus resolution policy.",
"record": {
"jurisdiction": "nyc",
"sourceId": "REDACTED",
"name": "REGULATOR-REPORTED NAME",
"sourceUrl": "https://data.cityofnewyork.us/..."
},
"snapshot": {"manifestSha256":"...","schemaVersion":"runtime-corpus/v1"},
"requestId": "onboarding-000001"
}No. Venue Authority verifies whether the submitted food-service name and address match a supported local regulator facility record. It does not establish ownership, incorporation, beneficial ownership, or the legal operator.
The resolver requires a merchant name and street address. A supported jurisdiction can narrow the evaluation input, but the production resolver still applies the same name, address, ambiguity, and collision controls.
One unit covers one valid authenticated resolver request or canonical facility request, including a fail-closed rejection. Exact replay returns the stored response without another debit.
A verified account can claim one complimentary test allowance subject to the lifetime identity controls. Portfolio Proof also evaluates one bounded CSV sample per rolling 30-day period when the feature is enabled.
Portfolio Proof uses the same resolver policy and returns bounded aggregate evidence without storing the uploaded CSV.
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