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Known companies: from a tax number, name or email address

If you already know which company you are looking for, one detail about it is enough. From a tax number, company registration number, EU VAT number, company email address or company name, finds the company's website and opens its record, among the companies already processed, where available. In the example, business cards collected at a trade fair become a campaign.

This is for you if…
  • you want to bring business cards, an event's attendees or the companies that asked for an offer into the system;
  • you only know the tax number, from an invoice or a contract;
  • you want to know which company the address on an incoming letter belongs to.
What will be ready at the end

Records opened for the companies you met at the trade fair, each with an , all together in one campaign.

Six steps

Each step comes with the sentence you can copy into Apex, and what Apex does with it.

  1. One tax number

    From the tax number, its first 8 digits, the company registration number or the EU VAT number, finds which website belongs to the company. It shows the websites where the company publishes this detail as its own, so a match like this is certain.

    Where: the conversation with Apex
    Ask ApexApex tells you

    Whose tax number is this: 12345678-2-41?

    In the reply: the company's name and website, and that the match is certain.

  2. Several companies at once

    If one tax number worked, the rest can follow: you can put several tax numbers, company names and email addresses into one message, mixed together. Apex finds the company's website for each one. Opening each new company counts once towards the , the same as a company handed over by a search; for 5 or more new companies, Apex asks for approval first.

    Where: the conversation with Apex; the approval button in the conversation
    Ask ApexApex does it

    Here are four companies from the trade fair: 12345678-2-41, 23456789, Sample Ltd and Example & Co. Find their websites.

    In the reply: the website for each company and, if a name fits more than one company, a question about it.

  3. If a name fits more than one company

    A company name can belong to more than one company. In that case, in its reply to the previous message Apex asks which city the company is in or what it does; you answer that, and Apex picks the right one from your answer.

    Where: the conversation with Apex
    Ask ApexApex does it

    I meant Example & Co in Szeged, they're a printing firm.

    In the reply: the website of the printing firm in Szeged.

  4. The address on an incoming letter

    If a letter came from a company address and you do not know whose it is, ask Apex. From the address, it finds the company both among your own companies and on the websites.

    Where: the conversation with Apex; the company's record under Dizzlets (your companies)
    Ask ApexApex tells you

    Which company does this address belong to: [email protected]?

    In the reply: the company's name, and whether it is already among your own companies.

  5. Record and owner

    Apex opens the records of the companies found so far, and you can refer to these companies in your next requests too. If a colleague talked to them at the trade fair, make that colleague the company's : they also get the tasks from the company's replies.

    Where: on the company's record, on the Summary tab
    Ask ApexApex does it, with your approval

    Make Judith Moore the owner of all four companies.

    Above the approval button: the four companies and the new owner.

  6. A campaign after the trade fair

    The same four companies can go into one campaign, with a shared letter sequence that refers to the trade fair. When they are added to the campaign, the companies still without an address get their best available address, putting first the one a reply has already come from; above the you see how many companies get an address this way. If you want to write to the contact you met at the trade fair, give their address, and Apex uses that.

    Where: Customer acquisition › Campaigns
    Ask ApexApex does it, with your approval

    Put these four companies into a new campaign called “After the trade fair”.

What it costs

An example of the monthly fee. Plans are personal, per month, plus VAT.

Searching among your own companies does not use the . Opening each new company counts once towards the allowance, the same as a company handed over by a search; after that, the company stays yours. The allowance has a 5-hour part and a weekly part, and both refill on their own.

On Apex Free you get 10 companies in total. For regular work you need the Start (€99) or Pro (€249) plan, per month, plus VAT.

Frequently asked questions

What most people ask in this situation.

What details can it find a company from?

From a tax number or its first 8 digits, a company registration number, an EU VAT number, a company email address and a company name. For a phone number or a person's name, it searches among your own companies, letters and calls.

What if there is no match for a company?

knows the websites where the company itself publishes the detail, among the companies already processed; no match does not mean the company does not exist. In that case, try the company's name or its website address: Apex can also open the company's record from its .

Can I search for similar companies too?

Yes. Say what they have in common, for example their line of business and their city, and Apex looks for companies like them; see Nationwide search.

What else can I ask for?

You will find ready-made sentences in the Knowledge base: Target groups and search, and if you only have one clue, for example a name or a phone number: Trace search.

Pitfalls

What most people run into, and how to avoid it.

Just a name, without a city

For a company with a common name, asks back. If you know the city or the line of business, add it, and it is done one round sooner.

Basics for this situation

If you want to look behind a step.

What to use the results for

Email, post, phone and social profiles.

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How Apex searches

Sample, check, batches: this is how Apex works.

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Set it up with Apex.

Tell Apex how many of you there are and how you work. Apex tells you which guide fits and, wherever it can, sets things up with your approval.

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