# Create a customer, vendor or contact from a company number

If you know a company's registration number, you can create a customer, vendor
or contact from it in one action, with the registered name, registered office
address and number already filled in.

## From the Customers or Vendors list

1. Open the **Customers** or **Vendors** list.
2. Choose **New from Companies House**.
3. Enter the company registration number and choose **OK**.

The finished card opens. The registered details come from Companies House and
the trading defaults come from the template set on [Companies House Setup](https://docs.d2k.uk/companies-house-lookup/companies-house-setup) - posting groups, payment terms, and whatever
else that template carries.

If you type something that is not a registration number, the Companies House
search opens on what you typed so you can find the company by name instead.

## From a company you are already looking at

The **Create** actions on a company snapshot, and on a search result, do the
same thing for the company in front of you:

- **Create customer**
- **Create vendor**
- **Create contact** - a company contact

![The Companies House Search page with the Create tab open, showing the actions Create customer, Create vendor and Create contact, and a company selected in the results.](https://docs.d2k.uk/assets/img/companies-house-lookup/search-create-actions.jpg)

*The Create actions on the search page.*

## Which template is used

| Record | Template |
|---|---|
| Customer | **Customer Template Code** on Companies House Setup |
| Vendor | **Vendor Template Code** on Companies House Setup |
| Contact | No template - contacts have none in Business Central |

The template is applied first, then the register's details on top, so the
registered name, address and number always win over anything the template sets
for those fields. Leave the template blank to create records without one.

## If a record already exists for that company

You are warned, and told which record already carries that number, before a
second one is created. Sometimes a second one is right - the same company can
legitimately be two accounts - so it asks rather than refuses.

To link a record you *already* have rather than create a new one, use **Fill
from Companies House** on that record instead. See [Customers, vendors and contacts](https://docs.d2k.uk/companies-house-lookup/customers-vendors-and-contacts).

## What gets filled in

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| **Name** | The registered name |
| **Name 2** | The trading name, if you have recorded one on the snapshot |
| Address, City, Post Code, County | The registered office address |
| **Country/Region Code** | From the register, where it maps to a Country/Region |
| **Registration Number** | The company registration number |

Everything else comes from the template or is left for you.

![A new Customer Card created from the register. Name and the address fields are filled with the company's registered name and registered office, the country is GB, and the card has a Companies House tab.](https://docs.d2k.uk/assets/img/companies-house-lookup/customer-created.jpg)

*A customer created from a company number: the name and registered office come from the register.*

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Source: https://docs.d2k.uk/companies-house-lookup/create-from-companies-house
Last updated: 2026-09-29