State Fees

Every filing includes the government's own fee, charged on top of the FileForms service fee:

• Organization-billed orders (every API order, plus dashboard orders covered by your billing mode) — the state fee is included in the amount debited from your prepaid balance.
• In-app checkout orders — the state fee appears as its own line item in your user's checkout.

State fees are set by the states and change when states change them. This table is generated from the same fee data the API bills with, so it always matches what you'll actually be charged.

Notes:

• Varies means the state calculates the fee from entity-specific inputs (for example, share counts or revenue), so it can't be quoted flat. Support for these filings is in development — coming soon.
• No filing means the state does not require that filing for that entity type. Where a state requires the filing but charges nothing, the fee is listed as $0.
• Expedited fee replaces the standard state filing fee (it is not added on top); the expedited service charge is separate. Expedited filing is available only where a fee is listed — see Formations.
• Annual report rows marked (foreign) apply to companies foreign-qualified in that state.
• Certificate of good standing: Required on a foreign qualification row means that state won't admit the entity without one, so the certificate is added to the order automatically and billed as its own line. That line is priced from the formation state's certificate fee — the certificate is issued by the company's home state, not the state being qualified into — so read its cost from the Certificate of Good Standing tab under the formation state, not from the row you're looking at.