Guide · Share register · Feature-granted

Share register workflows

A practical guide to the concepts behind BoardKite's share register: legal parties, share classes, register events, imports, snapshots, and how locked register evidence supports general meetings.

Core concepts

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The ledger separates legal ownership from app membership. A BoardKite user may attend a meeting, but the rights are held by legal parties in the aktiebok.

  • Legal parties represent rights holders: natural persons and legal entities.
  • Person records are used only when a legal party is linked to someone in the workspace for identity, history, or attendance.
  • Current holdings are a projection of recorded ledger events, so the audit trail remains readable when ownership changes.

Share classes and votes

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Share classes define the rights and vote weight that holdings use.

  • Record each aktieslag with its votes per share before recording holdings.
  • Changing votes per share after holdings exist is legally sensitive and should remain audited.
  • Reconciliation compares issued shares against open holdings so snapshots are not created from inconsistent data.

Ledger events

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Events are the durable record of ownership movement. The current register should be reproducible from the event sequence.

  • Issue, transfer, cancel, correction, split, and merge events each need typed payload validation.
  • Preview an event before recording it so ranges, quantities, pledges, restrictions, and reconciliation can be checked.
  • Corrections must add a new auditable event; locked snapshots should not be rewritten.

Imports from CSV and PDF

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Imports are an assisted setup path, not a silent write into the legal register.

  • CSV imports map known columns into legal parties, holdings, and opening-balance events.
  • Euroclear PDF imports detect the source, extract rows, and surface external snapshot data for review.
  • Euroclear exports are information only and never create voting rights. Listed-company mechanics such as record dates and Euroclear voting registers are not currently supported.

Locked snapshots

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A snapshot preserves the register as evidence for an effective date, including the shareholder, share, vote, and validation state at that point.

  • Create a snapshot only after missing data, overlapping ranges, and issued-share reconciliation have been reviewed.
  • General-meeting snapshots should be locked so later transfers do not alter the evidence used for notice, attendance, or voting.
  • Snapshot checksums depend on deterministic serialization and should be reproducible.

Use in general meetings

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The same ledger supports physical, hybrid, and digital general meetings through a linked BoardKite meeting and a locked snapshot.

  • A meeting uses a locked share-register snapshot to calculate expected voting capacities and prepare the voting register.
  • Attendance is modeled through people and proxies, while voting capacity remains tied to the legal party and locked snapshot.
  • RSVP is not attendance: the locked röstlängd includes only approved capacities of present or represented attendees.

Implementation status

  • The share register is feature-granted per organization (it is not self-serve).
  • Validate every import and snapshot against source records before relying on it.

About this guidance

Rule guidance reflects BoardKite's interpretation of the cited legislation and has not been reviewed by legal counsel. It is not legal advice or a guarantee of compliance. Your governing documents and circumstances may affect which rules apply.

Rules covered: Sweden: private AB, public AB; Iceland: ehf., hf., ohf.

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