{
 "name": "EntitySearch HQ Good Standing Certificate Fees",
 "title": "Good Standing Certificate Fees",
 "url": "https://entitysearchhq.com/datasets/good-standing-certificate-fees/",
 "csv": "https://entitysearchhq.com/datasets/good-standing-certificate-fees.csv",
 "markdown": "https://entitysearchhq.com/datasets/good-standing-certificate-fees/index.md",
 "computed_at": "2026-10-05",
 "license": "https://entitysearchhq.com/terms",
 "headline": "The Good Standing Certificate Fees carries 2 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 10 to 50 USD, read 25 September 2026.",
 "quotes": [
  "The Good Standing Certificate Fees carries 2 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 10 to 50 USD, read 25 September 2026.",
  "2 of the 10 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 25 September 2026.",
  "Good Standing Certificate Fees, state WV: median 10 USD across 1 source, read 25 September 2026.",
  "Good Standing Certificate Fees, state DE: median 50 USD across 1 source, read 25 September 2026."
 ],
 "citation": "\"EntitySearch HQ Good Standing Certificate Fees\", updated 2026-10-05, https://entitysearchhq.com/datasets/good-standing-certificate-fees/.",
 "changed_since": null,
 "national": {
  "unit": "USD",
  "n": 2,
  "median": 30,
  "min": 10,
  "max": 50,
  "p25": null,
  "p75": null,
  "mean": 30,
  "units": {
   "USD": 2
  },
  "published_sources": 2,
  "named_sources": 11,
  "read_sources": 10,
  "not_published": 8,
  "published_share": 0.2
 },
 "by_axis": {
  "state": {
   "WV": {
    "USD": {
     "n": 1,
     "median": 10,
     "min": 10,
     "max": 10,
     "p25": 10,
     "p75": 10,
     "mean": 10
    }
   },
   "DE": {
    "USD": {
     "n": 1,
     "median": 50,
     "min": 50,
     "max": 50,
     "p25": 50,
     "p75": 50,
     "mean": 50
    }
   }
  }
 },
 "rows": [
  {
   "source": "West Virginia SOS business entity search",
   "url": "https://apps.wv.gov/sos/businessentitysearch/",
   "figure": "$10 ",
   "value": 10,
   "unit": "USD",
   "vat": null,
   "axis": {
    "state": "WV"
   },
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11",
   "quote": "Receive confirmation of your transaction after paying the $10 fee.",
   "source_class": "primary-government",
   "text_sha256": "2cec29e9eeddf23651e52dfdfb3de80ba337f9a397e7754b54ca2562d1241abf"
  },
  {
   "source": "Delaware Division of Corporations document filing and certificate request service",
   "url": "https://corp.delaware.gov/directweb",
   "figure": "$50.00 ",
   "value": 50,
   "unit": "USD",
   "vat": null,
   "axis": {
    "state": "DE"
   },
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-25",
   "quote": "The fee is $50.00 per certificate for a short form certificate of status (includes the name of the entity and the status at the time the certificate is issued) or $175.00 for a Long Form certificate of Good Standing (states all documents that have been filed, including the dates and times and any name changes that occurred along with the status at the time the certificate is issued).",
   "source_class": "primary-government",
   "text_sha256": "197f0338d5011927c25d85e508fb463e44b5ac6510727805942b31ef5b68c27c"
  }
 ],
 "not_published": [
  {
   "source": "Texas SOS copies and certificates",
   "url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/copies.shtml",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11",
   "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page"
  },
  {
   "source": "Texas SOS instructions for ordering copies and certificates",
   "url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/instructions-for-copies.shtml",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-25",
   "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page"
  },
  {
   "source": "California SOS information requests",
   "url": "https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/information-requests",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-25",
   "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused"
  },
  {
   "source": "California SOS business entities fee schedule",
   "url": "https://bpd.cdn.sos.ca.gov/pdf/be-fee-schedule-062018.pdf",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12",
   "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused"
  },
  {
   "source": "California SOS alert: fraudulent certificates of status",
   "url": "https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/customer-alerts/fraudulent-certificates-status-circulating",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-26",
   "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page"
  },
  {
   "source": "Wyoming SOS certificate of good standing",
   "url": "https://wyobiz.wyo.gov/Business/ViewCertificate.aspx",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11",
   "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page"
  },
  {
   "source": "New York DOS certificate of status",
   "url": "https://dos.ny.gov/certificate-status",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-18",
   "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page"
  },
  {
   "source": "sos.state.tx.us",
   "url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/copies.shtml",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-09-11",
   "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/copies.shtml",
   "label": "Texas SOS copies and certificates",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/instructions-for-copies.shtml",
   "label": "Texas SOS instructions for ordering copies and certificates",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/business-entities/information-requests",
   "label": "California SOS information requests",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://bpd.cdn.sos.ca.gov/pdf/be-fee-schedule-062018.pdf",
   "label": "California SOS business entities fee schedule",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.sos.ca.gov/business-programs/customer-alerts/fraudulent-certificates-status-circulating",
   "label": "California SOS alert: fraudulent certificates of status",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://corp.delaware.gov/directweb",
   "label": "Delaware Division of Corporations document filing and certificate request service",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://wyobiz.wyo.gov/Business/ViewCertificate.aspx",
   "label": "Wyoming SOS certificate of good standing",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://apps.wv.gov/sos/businessentitysearch/",
   "label": "West Virginia SOS business entity search",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://dos.ny.gov/certificate-status",
   "label": "New York DOS certificate of status",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://ecorp.sos.ga.gov/CertificateOfExistence",
   "label": "Georgia Corporations Division certificate of existence",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  },
  {
   "url": "https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/copies.shtml",
   "label": "sos.state.tx.us",
   "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment"
  }
 ],
 "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 10 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 8 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 18 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per state: the document's official name in that state (certificate of good standing, certificate of existence, certificate of status, certificate of fact - status, certificate of account status), the fee, the expedite options and their prices, the delivery route and turnaround, and what the state says the certificate does and does not attest. The figure is the name-and-price table across 51 jurisdictions - on this charter's own reads, West Virginia's search page states 'Each Certificate is $10.' while Ontario's register states 'certificate of status - $26' - and the fact that in most states the search is free and only the certificate is paid.",
 "embed": "<figure style=\"margin:0;padding:16px;border:1px solid #d9d9d9;border-radius:8px;background:#ffffff;color:#111111;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;max-width:480px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-size:28px;font-weight:700;color:#111111;background:#ffffff\">10 to 50 USD</p><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-size:14px;color:#111111;background:#ffffff\">2 published figures, Good Standing Certificate Fees, across 2 sources, read 25 September 2026</p><figcaption style=\"font-size:12px;color:#444444;background:#ffffff\"><a href=\"https://entitysearchhq.com/datasets/good-standing-certificate-fees/#median\" style=\"color:#1a4fd6;background:#ffffff\">Source: EntitySearch HQ Good Standing Certificate Fees</a></figcaption></figure>"
}