# Check a New Zealand supplier or charity

Check a New Zealand supplier, charity or partner before onboarding or first payment, using public business records, insolvency notices and regulator warnings.

Canonical: https://aroai.com/skills/nz-counterparty-check/

## When to use it

Use this before you onboard a New Zealand supplier, grant partner or vendor, or before a first payment. A registry result helps match a legal identity. It does not rate the supplier or approve payment.

## How it works

1. **Find the right business** Search by name or identifier, review exact, near and shared-name matches, and confirm the intended business with you.
2. **Review the record** Open the selected business or charity record for registration, status and filing details.
3. **Look for warning signs** Check insolvency notices, regulator warnings and public tender records where they are relevant.
4. **Prepare the brief** Separate what the records show from interpretation and list anything missing for follow-up.

## Tools it uses

- [Search New Zealand businesses](https://aroai.com/tools/nzbn_search): Find the business and resolve similar names.
- [New Zealand business record details](https://aroai.com/tools/nzbn_get_entity): Read the selected business record.
- [Search New Zealand charities](https://aroai.com/tools/nz_charity_search): Review a charity's registration, officers and latest annual return.
- [Search New Zealand insolvency notices](https://aroai.com/tools/nz_gazette_insolvency_search): Check public liquidation and insolvency notices.
- [Check NZ regulator warnings and cases](https://aroai.com/tools/nz_regulatory_search): Check financial-regulator warnings and regulator cases.
- [Search New Zealand tenders](https://aroai.com/tools/nz_tender_search): Review public tender notices for a supplier claiming government work.

## Review points

- Ask you to confirm the intended business when results are ambiguous.
- No match is not proof that no record exists. Check the official public register before you rely on it.
- A warning or open case is a screening flag, not proof of a breach. Treat missing fields as unknown.
- This is not legal, credit or identity-verification advice.