# Business Partners

## Qualify Business Partner

 - [POST /v3/businesspartners/qualify](https://developer.cdq.com/apis/data-validation-api/api-v3/qualification/paths/~1v3~1businesspartners~1qualify/post.md): BETAEndpoint used for Business Partner qualification. It is in  version and may change without notice.

## Qualify Business Partner

 - [POST /v3/businesspartners/qualify](https://developer.cdq.com/apis/data-validation-api/api-v3/business-partners/paths/~1v3~1businesspartners~1qualify/post.md): BETAEndpoint used for Business Partner qualification. It is in  version and may change without notice.

## Validate Business Partner

 - [POST /v2/businesspartners/validate](https://developer.cdq.com/apis/data-validation-api/api-v3/business-partners/paths/~1v2~1businesspartners~1validate/post.md): Validate business partners (i.e. identifiers, legal forms) and addresses (i.e. post codes) and receive a list of data defects in case of found data quality issues.

#### Examples
Check out our examples in the  to better understand this endpoint.

| Example   | Description     |
| ---       |  ---            |
| Identifier exists and is valid | No  related to the identifier and  equals . Note that there might be data defects if you provide more details than the identifier (i.e. address data).       |
| Identifier does not exist in external data source | Entry in  related to the identifier and  < 4 |
| Unknown status for an identifier existence (only response example)|  <   and the respective  equals to . You may try again as this is typical a temporary issue.|