Business search · Florida
Florida business search
The Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations (Sunbiz) keeps the official record of every company, LLC and corporation registered in Florida. Look one up by name and see status, entity type, formation date, officers and registered agent. Clerkfield reads the state's own data files directly, and every result shows the source and the date of the data.
What Florida's records include
The fields a Clerkfield result returns for Florida, taken from the state's own record.
- Document number and exact legal name
- Status (Active or Inactive)
- Filing type, such as Florida Limited Liability Company or Foreign Profit Corporation
- Date filed
- Principal address
- Registered agent
- Up to six officers, managers or members, with titles such as President or Managing Member
- Link to the company's Sunbiz record by document number
Not in Florida's free records
At most six people listed per company, the limit of the state's data file.
Types of business Florida registers
- Domestic Profit Corporation
- Domestic Non-Profit Corporation
- Foreign Profit Corporation
- Foreign Non-Profit Corporation
- Florida Limited Liability Company
- Foreign Limited Liability Company
- Domestic Limited Partnership
- Foreign Limited Partnership
- Non-Profit Registration
- Declaration of Trust
What Florida's statuses mean
Florida uses its own words for a business's standing. Clerkfield keeps the state's wording in every result and marks each one active or inactive.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
| Active (A) | The company is active on the Division of Corporations' records: it has not been dissolved, revoked, merged away or withdrawn. |
| Inactive (I) | The company has ended: dissolved by its owners or by the state, revoked, merged away or withdrawn. The data file doesn't say which; the company's Sunbiz page does. |
How to search Florida records by hand
The state's own search is at search.sunbiz.org.
- Open the Division of Corporations' search at search.sunbiz.org.
- Search by the company's name, or by its document number if you have it.
- Pick the exact legal name from the list of results.
- On the company's page, read its status and its most recent filing event, then the officers and registered agent.
- Check the annual reports on file to see when the company last reported.
Fees and how current the data is
Fees
A certificate of status for a Florida corporation costs $8.75 (Fla. Stat. § 607.0122).
How current it is
Clerkfield reads its own copy of the Division of Corporations' corporate data file, about 13 million records, and each result shows the date of the copy. The Division also publishes daily change files.
Good to know about Florida records
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The state's data file holds six officers at most. When a company has more, the rest are only on Sunbiz, so a missing applicant name is a reason to look, not a fail.
02
The data file only says Active or Inactive. Why a company went inactive is on its Sunbiz page as the Last Event.
03
Florida annual reports are filed between January 1 and May 1. A company that skips one can be dissolved by the state.
Liens on Florida businesses
Clerkfield also searches Florida UCC filings, by business or by lender, from the Florida Secured Transaction Registry.
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From the Division of Corporations' own corporate data file, the same records Sunbiz shows: about 13 million Florida companies with status, filing type, date filed, addresses, registered agent and up to six officers.
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It means the company is no longer active on the state's books. The state's data only says Active or Inactive; the Last Event on the Sunbiz page tells you whether it was dissolved for a missed annual report, closed voluntarily, merged or revoked.
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Between January 1 and May 1 each year, starting the year after the company is formed. A company that does not file can be dissolved, or lose its authority to do business if it was formed in another state.
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It shows up to six, because that is all the state's data file carries. If the applicant is not among them, the check asks for review instead of failing.
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As current as Clerkfield's last copy of the Division of Corporations' data file, and each result shows that date. For a change made since then, confirm on Sunbiz.