• NUANS search and name approval
• By-laws, custom articles
• Extra-provincial registration
• CRA accounts
• Annual return
• Express registration queue
• And more

Yes. It's a one-time payment and there is no monthly or annual fees.

Not Charity Intended package is suitable if you are certain that your organization has no intention to be a charitable organization in future. Generally, these type of organizations are: community associations, sports and recreation, arts and cultural groups, health and wellness groups, housing, newcomer settlement etc.

Charity Intended package' is suitable if you think that you want to keep the option open for being a charitable organization in future. Generally these type of organizations are: faith-based institutions, for relief of poverty, to promote education and awareness, senior services, social services or to promote any specific benefit to community.

You will place order online by filling up the form and paying by credit card/interac-e-transfer. Upon order receiving, we review your order and register accordingly. You will receive your corporate documents in email. If your order includes any shipping items, you will also receive by Canada Post in your business address.

We offer the service to prepare by-law of your organization. Our in-house legal team and accounting team prepare, review and finalize the by-law as per not-for-profit corporation act. You will be given option to add by-law in the package in next steps.

Yes, we offer 3 types of post-incorporation and maintenance service:

• • Annual Return: At the end of the year, we will file annual corporate return for you.

• • Phone Support:

  corporate Update (address change, director's change, shareholder change, officer change).

• Complete Maintenance: Annual Return + Phone Support + Notice of Changes.

Yes. CRA program accounts such as GST/HST account, payroll account, export import account etc., can be added to the package in next steps.

To qualify as a charity, an organization must have purposes that are exclusively charitable and charitable activities that support those purposes. The purposes (also called objects) describe the aim or main intent of the organization. The activities describe how your organization will accomplish its purposes.

When describing a charitable activity, keep the following points in mind:

• what you want to achieve
• how you're doing it – detailed plans
• who the beneficiaries are and how they are selected any fees charged
• frequency and length of the activity
• involvement of employees and volunteers
• how you maintain direction and control over activities and resources
• other logistics (transportation, facilities, etc.)

The name must be submitted to Government for approval. This process involved:

• Submitting a name request application to Government. 3 choices of names can be included per submission, if you don't 3 choices you can write the same name.
• Government, they will check the availability of your Name and determine whether it is valid for registration
• Once Government has processed the name submission, you will receive a Name Request Number (NR number) which is valid for 56 days.

It is a computerized name search report generated based on a proposed corporate / business name or trade-mark from Government databases listing similar and conflicting names of existing business names and trademarks. To incorporate a Federal Corporation an appropriate NUANS Report is required.

Yes. There are 2 different kinds of reports:

• A NUANS report for Federal and a NUANS report for each of the following provinces: Ontario, Alberta & New Brunswick.
• The rest of the Canadian provinces have their own name approval processes and doesn't require a NUANS report. Examples of such jurisdictions are: B.C., Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland & Labrador, PEI, Yukon, they each require a name search report from their respective provincial database and registry and NOT from the NUANS database.

NUANS report is required for all named incorporations. NUANS report is a name search report which doesn't guarantee acceptance of that name by Government. We, along with the NUANS report do an analysis of the name so that it is acceptable for a corporation's name.

All Corporations in Canada need a Physical or street address in the province, it can be rental place or home address.

Yes, this address can be changed later. In many cases when commercial place is not rented yet, residential address is given.

All Federal Corporations must register with the Province where the head office or registered office is located. This process is called extra-provincial registration and it is mandatory. This can be done along with the Federal incorporation or afterwards but before the commencement of business activities.

Usually Director is the Contact Person of the Corporation, it can also be a service provider like an accountant or a lawyer.

A director must be person of :

• at least 18yrs of age.
• of sound mind or mentally stable.
• not declared in a state of bankruptcy.
• Can be a Canadian Resident or Non Resident.
• Minimum 25% of directors (1 out of 4) must be Canadian Resident.

Yes. A director can be added or removed at a later time.

If you are a lawyer, accountant or other service provider, and opening this corporation on behalf of a client, please do not write your name here. This section is for the primary owner(s) of the corporation. We don't communicate with the directors, rather we contact the person mentioned in the billing address.

An Incorporator can be an Individual or another Company, usually all Directors are Incorporators.

If you are lawyer, accountant or other service provider, and opening this corporation on behalf of a client, please do not write your name here. Incorporator(s) are generally the director(s) and owner(s) of the corporation. We don't communicate with the directors, rather we contact the person mentioned in the billing address.

Once the corporation is registered, the Articles of Incorporation is also registered with government. The articles of an incorporated business could be changed with proper filing (Articles of Amendment) and fees.

The requirement to customize articles varies so that we cannot suggest how to customize. As a simple guidance, organizations customize articles to accommodate special requirements like multi-tier member classes, specific duration of directors in the position, clauses on limited by guarantee, etc. In general, if you don't have a reason then no customization is required.

If you sell products and services in Canada and collect GST/HST from your Customers, then GST/HST Account Number is Required.

If you hire Employees including yourself, then you need a Payroll Account Number.

If you Import Goods into Canada, then you need an Import Account Number.

If you Export Goods out of Canada, then you need an Export Account Number.

The Annual Return of Corporation must be filed for every Canadian corporation every year to keep the corporation active. This is filling to keep the corporation’s records up to date.

The Processing Queue includes Incorporation and Emailing the Certificate, Articles and Electronic Minute Book. The Remaining Process in this Package like Business Number, CRA Programs Accounts Set Up, WCB Registration, etc. are initiated after incorporation processes.

Officers in a corporation manage the daily activities of the corporation. They can also be part of the board of directors. The common Officers titles are President, Secretary, Treasurer, VP, CEO.

There is no specific rule regarding the titles of officers. You can use any title among that fits the best of the duties of the officer. Almost all corporations have an officer titled ‘President’, which might be useful for the operation of a corporation or when preparing legal contracts/documents.

Unless there is a specific reason for it, same title for more than one officer is not advisable.