Creating a New Entity

The first steps in creating a corporation are to designate a business entity type, domesticity and name. Businesses can be banks, for profit/not for profit and close corporations, and limited liability corporations (LLCs), among others. Businesses can be domestic or foreign. The application checks to see if the name you entered for your corporation already exists and will alert you is the name already exists so that another name can be chosen. For information on how you can perform your own name availability searches, refer to Perform a Name Availability Search.

 

Notes:

  1. If another filing for the same business entity is in process or is of the same filing type as the current filing, you will be alerted to try again later. The current filing cannot be continued but can be restarted when the other filing has been completed (accepted/rejected).  
  2. Screens, fields and labels that display in images below are configurable based on your jurisdiction's implementation and may not reflect your filing type.  
  3. If you need to re-enter information, select the button labeled Previous to return to the screen you were on prior to the current screen.
  4. If your filing requires a two-step review process, an internal Secretary of State processor must review your filing for compliance before it can be accepted or rejected. After making payment, you will be notified via the email address set up during account creation. To view correspondence for your filing, refer to Order Summary/Correspondence-BE for information about accessing your filing records.
  5. Contact your Secretary of State office if you have questions about this or any of procedure in SystemWORKS Help.

 

How to create a new entity:

  1. Navigate to the Corporations Division dashboard.

 

Dashboard - Corporations Division

 

  1. There are several options from which to choose: Create LLC, Create Non-Profit Corp., and Create a Business Entity. Each option displays a series of screens pertinent to the filing type.
  2. Refer to the topics in Related Information for details on how to create a new entity.

 

 

Related Information

Creating a Domestic Corporation

Creating a Foreign Corporation

Creating an LLC