Monitor for changes to a business’s name to ensure your records stay accurate as a business rebrands, files a new DBA, or changes legal entity name. Middesk discovers name changes from Secretary of State filings and other authoritative sources, so the events you receive reflect changes in the business’s underlying registration data — not just informal usage.
To handle changes to a business’s name, subscribe to the name.created and name.deleted events in your webhook endpoint:
name.created — a new name variant was discovered (for example, a newly filed DBA or a renamed entity).name.deleted — a previously known name is no longer associated with the business.Depending on your use case, you can use the name event directly (like storing the new name for review in your application) or use the event as a trigger to reevaluate the approval status of the business using the full business payload.
Reevaluate the business’s review tasks by requesting the full business payload using the GET /businesses endpoint.
For example, use the Name Review Task to evaluate whether the name still matches to the submitted business name.