How to Check if a Company Is Registered in Chad

Before you pay a supplier, sign with a partner, or invest in a Chadian business, there is one check worth two minutes of your time: confirming the company is actually registered. A real company in Chad is recorded in the RCCM (Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier), Chad's commercial register, which operates under the regional OHADA framework. You can verify it for free — by name or by RCCM number. This guide shows you how, what a genuine record looks like, and how to spot a business that isn't what it claims to be.

Who keeps Chad's company register?

Chad's official company registrar is the RCCM (Registre du Commerce et du Crédit Mobilier), the commercial and personal-property credit register. Chad is a member state of OHADA (the Organisation for the Harmonisation of Business Law in Africa), so its RCCM data is filed nationally and federated into the regional Fichier Régional du RCCM maintained by the CCJA (Common Court of Justice and Arbitration). Every company registered in Chad — from N'Djamena to the provinces — is recorded there: its name, legal form, and registration are matters of public record.

How to search the Chad company register

1. Get the company's exact registered name or its RCCM number (the certificate or invoice usually shows one).
2. Search it on Fylings — type the name in the box and we check the OHADA RCCM register, so you're not limited to a stale cache.
3. Open the matching result to see the registered name, legal form, and the source and date the record was checked.
4. No match under that exact name? Try a shorter form of the name, or the French spelling. Still nothing — that's a red flag worth pausing on.

What a Chad company record shows

Chad's public RCCM search is deliberately lean — it confirms a company exists and what legal form it takes, rather than dumping its full file. On Fylings, a Chad record shows:

• The registered (legal) name — the exact name on the register
• The RCCM number — the unique registration number assigned to the company
• The legal form — e.g. SA, SARL, SAS, SNC, GIE, or Entreprise Individuelle
• The registration date — when the company was entered on the register
• The source and date — every record is attributed to the OHADA RCCM, with the date it was checked

Reading a Chad legal form

Because Chad follows OHADA's harmonised business law, its companies use the same standardised legal forms found across Francophone Africa. The legal form tells you how the business is structured at a glance:

• SA — Société Anonyme (a public limited company, with a higher capital threshold)
• SARL — Société à Responsabilité Limitée (a private limited liability company, the most common trading form)
• SAS — Société par Actions Simplifiée (a simplified joint-stock company)
• SNC — Société en Nom Collectif (a general partnership)
• GIE — Groupement d'Intérêt Économique (an economic interest group)
• Entreprise Individuelle — a sole proprietorship with no separate legal personality

How to spot a company that isn't registered

Most problems aren't elaborate forgeries — they're businesses that simply never registered, or that use a name close to a real one. Watch for:

• No match on the register under the exact name they gave you — the single biggest signal.
• An RCCM number that doesn't resolve to the name on the document.
• A name that is suspiciously similar to a well-known company (e.g. an extra word or initial).
• Pressure to pay before you've had a chance to verify anything.

Checking directors and ownership in Chad

The RCCM's public search confirms a company's existence, RCCM number, and legal form, but the federated OHADA portal does not always expose directors. For a deeper view, Fylings indexes what the register publishes and is steadily enriching Chadian profiles — and for an official certified extract you can request one or verify programmatically via the API.