Most small business owners don’t realize the most powerful first step in building business credit is completely free—and it starts with making sure your company is correctly listed in the Dun & Bradstreet database. In this post, you’ll learn how to access D&B’s free DUNS Profile Manager, pull and review the raw data tied to your business, fix common errors (like outdated addresses or name misspellings) that can quietly block approvals, and take control of how lenders and vendors see your company—so your corporate credit profile begins working for you, not against you.

Most small business owners don’t realize the most important tool for building business credit is already in their hands. Even more startling is the fact that our free self-help creditbuilding is available to anyone who needs it. We specialize in teaching and assisting small business owners to build and manage their corporate credit relationships. The first step to enhancing a solid business credit profile is to make sure you are registered and familiar with the update process.

Do you know how to get a free copy of your D&B business credit profile?

Many people operate under the misconception of having to pay for an outside service to start building their business credit, but D&B does offer free options to give small business owners the ability to actively participate in how their company is portrayed in the credit community, and that can impact the data that flows through normal channels into the D&B database. Oftentimes, some of the simplest transactions that could be working for a company’s benefit fail to flow into the file due to incomplete or inaccurate data, such as old address or misspelling of the company name.

READ MORE: How To Change Your Company's Address in The Business Credit Report

The instructions below are intended to help you to see, print, and download a copy of raw data in your business credit profile. We are hopeful this will allow the average small business owner to have a better understanding of what data is being represented about their company and how to successfully manage that data going forward.

To access DUNS Profile Manager...

• Go to www.dnb.com

• Search for your company

• In the menu bar at the top, hover over D-U-N-S NUMBER

• In the drop down menu, click on Update My Company Data

• In the drop-down, choose "I have a U.S.-based business"

• Fill in your business name, address, and phone and click "Search"

• Find your company in the list and click on "View / Update Company Information"

• Click "Continue"

• Create a new login (or) Scroll down and click on Login if you already have one

• Fill in your personal information and click "Continue"

• Answer the security questions and go through the identity verification process

• Once you have access, go through each of the pages to update data or dispute slow payments

• Review and submit your changes

• In the upper-right-hand corner, click the "person" icon and click on "Return to Dashboard"

• Scroll down and ACCEPT the Terms and Conditions

The free DUNS Profile Manager does not provide access to your scores or ratings. DUNS Profile Manager also does not allow business owners to upload vendors or suppliers like a paid service, but it does allow updates to some of the base data, disputes of slow payments, and it provides case/document numbers for any public filings to make it easier for you to get those resolved outside of D&B's system. Once they are resolved on the public platform, their new status will flow into D&B automatically.

Please understand, we cannot access the DUNS Profile Manager for you or provide any “secret recipe” to help you gain access if the D&B system is not letting you in. We can, however, walk you through the process via Zoom, Teams, or Meet and provide clarifying information about what types of information should be entered into your file to make sure your company is accurately represented.

If you are having difficulty with any of the instructions above, please contact us for further clarification. We will gladly provide any information we can. Sometimes, updating the information in your D&B profile isn’t just the first step to credit-building, it’s the biggest one!

ONE MORE TIP: Request a free consultation and business credit assessment to see if we can help you get to the finish line faster.