---
title: businessEntities - GraphQL Admin
description: |-
  Returns the list of [business entities](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/BusinessEntity) associated with the shop. Use this query to retrieve business entities for assigning to markets, managing payment providers per entity, or viewing entity attribution on orders.

  Each shop can have multiple business entities with one designated as primary. To identify the primary entity in the query results, set the [`primary`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/queries/businessEntities#returns-BusinessEntity.fields.primary) field to `true`.

  Learn more about [managing multiple legal entities](https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/markets/multiple-entities).
api_version: 2026-01
api_name: admin
type: query
api_type: graphql
source_url:
  html: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/queries/businessentities
  md: https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/queries/businessentities.md
---

# business​Entities

query

Returns the list of [business entities](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/objects/BusinessEntity) associated with the shop. Use this query to retrieve business entities for assigning to markets, managing payment providers per entity, or viewing entity attribution on orders.

Each shop can have multiple business entities with one designated as primary. To identify the primary entity in the query results, set the [`primary`](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/latest/queries/businessEntities#returns-BusinessEntity.fields.primary) field to `true`.

Learn more about [managing multiple legal entities](https://shopify.dev/docs/apps/build/markets/multiple-entities).

## Possible returns

* BusinessEntity

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## Examples

* ### businessEntities reference