Secretary of State Retrieval

Required Data

• Business Name
  • The legal name of the Business you are verifying. This should be the name the Business has registered with the U.S. IRS or the Secretary of State in their state of incorporation.
• Business Addresses
  • A list including the physical addresses of a business. For larger companies, this commonly includes the address of their headquarters (HQ) location.

• Taxpayer Identification Number
  • A unique 9-digit number that is used by the IRS to identify a business entity

Optional Data

• Peoples
  • A list of people associated with the business
• Business Structure
  • If you want to check against a Sole Proprietorship or LLC
• Website Address

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SOS Exists

• Checks if secretary of state filings exist

SOS Match

• Checks if the business is registered in the state of the submitted address

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Secretary of State Filing Responses

• Success: Active
  • X of Y filings found are Active
• Warning: Partially Unknown
  • X of Y filings have no status provided
• Warning: Partially Inactive
  • X of Y filings found are inactive
• Failure: Inactives
  • The business has no Active Secretary of State filings
• Failure: Not Registered
  • The business has no Secretary of State filings

• Success: Submitted Active
  • The business is Active in the state of the submitted Office Address
• Warning: Submitted Unknown
  • The submitted state does not make filing status available
• Failure: Submitted Inactive
  • The business is Inactive in the state of the submitted Office Address
• Failure: Submitted Not Registered
  • The business is not registered in the state of the submitted Office Address

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Secretary of State Articles of Incorporation

• If the Articles of Incorporation are available for the business entity being checked, these documents will be in the Customer Record under the Docs tab

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