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Start an investigation, understand a possible match, or get a report ready to share. These guides explain the tools currently available in Parcam.

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Getting started

Your first investigation

Find a subject, review the connections and produce a report.

Professional tools require an approved account. Public searches are available separately without creating a case.

  1. Create a case

    Open Investigations, select New investigation, and enter a useful title, description and priority. Open the investigation to work inside its case workspace.

  2. Choose your search

    In Investigate, choose the search country and the type of information you have: a person, business name or register number. Enter the most accurate details available and run the search.

  3. Review each possible match

    Open the source and compare the name, business, location and identifiers. People can share a name. A matching name or profile is a lead until you have supporting evidence.

  4. Add a useful finding

    Use Add to case on a result you want to retain. A web page is saved as a website lead; it does not establish who owns the page. Review saved records in Entities.

  5. Investigate a company connection

    For a saved NZ person with company connections, open their details and use Investigate company where available. Review the company record and its director and shareholder roles before adding it to the case.

  6. Record and report

    Use Notes for your reasoning and Evidence for supporting files. Review Connections, then open Reports and download the PDF or Word report. Check the finished report before sharing it.

Open investigations

Searching

Choose Australia, New Zealand or both

Search country controls the next lookup, independently of where you live.

Your account country supplies the initial search default. In a case, the Search country selector is shared between Investigate and Entities. You can choose Australia, New Zealand, or Australia and New Zealand.

Use a register appropriate to the country: ABN and ACN are Australian identifiers; NZBN and the NZ director/shareholder searches use New Zealand sources. Selecting both does not make every register available in both countries.

Changing the selector affects subsequent searches. It does not change the original country scope of an existing result or a saved record. If you change country after searching, run the search again for the new scope.

Public web matches may still relate to another country. Check the source before deciding that a result belongs to your subject. Search country does not select your billing currency.

Searching

Understand results and possible matches

A lead, a source record and a confirmed identity are different things.

An authoritative source record comes from the named register. It describes that register entry; you still need to establish whether the entry relates to the person or business you are investigating.

An investigative lead is a page or possible match to review. Confidence helps prioritise review and is not proof of identity, profile ownership or a relationship. Name variants, such as Matthew, Matt and Mathew, can also find unrelated people.

No results means the searches performed did not return a matching result. It does not prove that a person, company, social account or other record does not exist. Private pages, indexing gaps and limited source coverage can affect results.

Unavailable or not configured means a source could not be searched. Try again later or report the issue. Do not describe an unavailable source as a clear check. Complete means the indicated search completed, not that every possible source was searched.

Use the source links and record why you accepted or rejected a lead in Notes. Do not combine same-name people without supporting evidence.

Case work

Read the relationship graph

Keep register relationships separate from suggested connections.

Connections displays relationships available for the case. Director relationships are cyan and shareholder relationships are green. Use the role labels and filters as well as colour: one person can hold both roles with the same company.

Correlation leads are off by default. If enabled, treat them as suggestions for investigation and inspect the source or explanation. They are not confirmed director, shareholder or ownership relationships.

Use Explore connections where available to expand a record. A saved website may have no graph edges until a supported connection exists. An isolated node does not mean it is missing from the case.

Shareholding records may describe joint holders or a share parcel. Do not assume each named holder owns the whole parcel separately. Check dates and current or historical status in the source.

Case work

Work with saved entities and refreshed information

Retain useful findings and understand when information was checked.

Entities contains records added to the current case. Open a record to review its details, source and available actions. Search results do not become saved entities until they have been added to the case.

For a saved NZ person, review the director and shareholder company connections where available. Investigate company opens the company lookup in the case workflow. A person without returned register connections will not have the same company actions.

In the saved NZ person panel, Refresh register view reads the latest imported register data. It does not automatically fetch every change from the live register or overwrite saved case snapshots and reports. Check the source dates and rerun the relevant lookup when you need to review newer information.

If a result cannot be rechecked before adding it, repeat the search and review the current result. Record material changes and your conclusions in Notes.

Case work

Upload and check evidence

Keep supporting files with the correct investigation.

Open the case Evidence tab and upload the supporting file. Give it a useful description and check that it appears in the evidence register. Upload success means the file was stored; it does not establish that its contents are accurate.

Download and open an uploaded file when checking an important item. Compare it with your original. Keep the original where your own evidence-handling process requires it.

If a file is too large, use the upload limit shown by the application or ask support about an alternative. Do not repeatedly submit the same failing upload. Do not alter an original solely to get around a limit without retaining the original.

Use Notes for observations and reasoning, Tasks for follow-up work, and Timeline for case events. Keep information within the appropriate case and review what is included before sharing a report.

Case work

Download and review PDF and Word reports

Prepare a report that distinguishes evidence from leads.

Open Reports inside the investigation, review the report preview, then choose PDF or Word download. Wait for the export to finish before starting another download.

Read the exported file before sending it. Check the case, subject, sources, director/shareholder roles, relationship diagrams and any warnings about unconfirmed leads. An export is a snapshot, not a live view of later changes.

Report and workspace timestamps use your browser's local time settings. The displayed time zone helps distinguish locations such as Brisbane and cities observing daylight saving. Report generated is the export time, not the case's last-edit time.

Public purchased-search reports are downloaded from their results page. They are separate from professional investigation reports. If emailing a report yourself, check the recipient and attachments before sending.

Account and payments

Payment, loading and reopening purchased results

Wait for confirmation and keep your private result link safe.

During checkout, payment or result loading, wait for the status message and follow any card-verification prompt. Do not repeatedly click Pay or start a second checkout because the first is slow.

A declined card and an uncertain payment are different. If the page says the outcome needs checking, a charge may have occurred. Check your result email or contact support with the order reference before buying again.

Use the private result-access link in the email to reopen the purchased result before its stated expiry. Opening an already generated result should reuse that report while its temporary data remains available. Report generation can take longer on the first opening.

If an email has not arrived, check junk mail and confirm the email entered at checkout. If access has expired or the link fails, contact support. Do not post or forward the private result link: anyone holding it may be able to access the results.

Check the currency displayed at checkout. Choosing New Zealand as the search country does not by itself mean the charge is in NZ dollars. Professional subscription pricing is separate from public one-off purchases.

Account and payments

Set up your account and verify your email

Complete first-login setup and keep contact details current.

If you were given a tester account, complete the first-login setup with your own username, email and a new password. Use an email address you can access, rather than a shared placeholder.

In Settings, review your profile, company name, website, phone and country. Confirm that your email is correct and use the resend-verification action if needed. Only the latest verification link works and it expires after 30 minutes.

Open the verification email and select Verify email. A used or expired link cannot verify again; request a new one if your account still needs verification. Check junk mail if delivery is delayed.

Email verification confirms control of the email address. It does not approve professional access. If registration is awaiting approval or login is unavailable, contact support; do not create repeated accounts to bypass approval.

Never send support a password, authentication cookie, card security code or API key. If you cannot access your account, use the recovery option offered on the login screen or contact support.

Open account settings

Report a problem

Describe what happened without identifying the person you are investigating. Review the message, then select Send to support. Parcam sends it directly; you do not need an email app.

Leave out case evidence, subject names, passwords, API keys, card details and private result links. No case data or page address is attached automatically.

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