Business search · Idaho
Idaho business search
The Idaho Secretary of State, Business Services Division (SOSBiz) keeps the official record of every company, LLC and corporation registered in Idaho. Look one up by name and see status, entity type, formation date, officers and registered agent. Clerkfield reads the state's own search directly, each time you search, and every result shows the source and the date of the data.
What Idaho's records include
The fields a Clerkfield result returns for Idaho, taken from the state's own record.
- Entity number and legal name
- Entity type
- Status and standing, as two separate words
- Initial filing date
- Principal or mailing address
- Registered agent, with address for the closest matches
- Members, managers or officers where the company filed them
- Every other field on the state's detail panel, such as annual report due date
Not in Idaho's free records
Nothing we know of: the free records carry every field listed here.
Types of business Idaho registers
- Limited Liability Company (D)
- General Business Corporation (D)
- Foreign Limited Liability Company
- Foreign Business Corporation
- Limited Liability Partnership (D)
- Unincorporated Nonprofit Association (D)
- Assumed Business Name
What Idaho's statuses mean
Idaho 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-Existing | The entity is registered and has not ended. |
| Active-Good Standing | The entity is registered and current with its filings. |
| Active-Current | The registration is in force. Idaho uses it for assumed business names (DBAs) among others. |
| Inactive-Dissolved (Administrative) | The state ended the company, for example for a missed annual report or no registered agent. |
| Inactive-Dissolved | The owners closed the company. |
| Inactive-Forfeited | The company lost its charter or registration; seen on older corporations. |
| Inactive-Revoked (Administrative) | A company from another state lost its permission to do business in Idaho. |
| Not Good Standing | A standing, not a status: the company is behind on something the state requires. |
How to search Idaho records by hand
The state's own search is at sosbiz.idaho.gov.
- Open the SOSBiz business search at sosbiz.idaho.gov.
- Type the business name. Leave the active-only box unticked so closed companies show too.
- Match the exact name and entity number in the list, and read both the status and the standing columns.
- Click the row to open the detail panel with the registered agent, addresses and annual report dates.
- To get proof for a file, use Request Certificate on the record and pay the $10 fee.
Fees and how current the data is
Fees
Searching is free with no account. A certificate of existence costs $10.
How current it is
Live: Clerkfield asks the Secretary of State's search at the moment of each check.
Good to know about Idaho records
01
Assumed business names (DBAs) are in the same search as companies. A DBA is not a legal entity, so check the company behind it.
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Status and standing are separate. Some closed companies still read Good Standing, so always read the status word first.
03
The Secretary of State warns that other websites sell Idaho certificates at a markup. Order them only from SOSBiz.
Liens on Idaho businesses
Clerkfield also searches Idaho UCC filings, from the Idaho Secretary of State, UCC and Liens.
Idaho UCC search-
Yes. SOSBiz searches need no account. A certificate of existence, which proves the business is registered, costs $10 from the Secretary of State.
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Idaho tracks them separately. The status says whether the company exists, such as Active-Existing or Inactive-Dissolved (Administrative); the standing says Good Standing or Not Good Standing. Some closed companies still show Good Standing, so read the status first.
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Yes. Assumed business names appear next to LLCs and corporations, with their own status such as Active-Current or Inactive-Expired. A DBA does not create a company, so look up the owner too.
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Only partly. The detail panel shows members, managers or officers when the company filed them, and many LLC records list none. When the applicant is not listed, Clerkfield asks for review instead of failing.