COMPANY INCORPORATION SERVICES

 

 

Using The Company Corporation, you can quickly and easily incorporate your business. Additionally, The Company Corporation provides information that enables you to make educated business decisions about the organization of your company.

Through The Company Corporation, you can quickly and easily form an S-Corp, C-Corp, Limited Liability Company (LLC), Professional Corporation, or a Non-Profit Corporation. The Company Corporation offers both domestic and international services. Domestic packages are priced as follows:

•  Economy - $79-$99

•  Basic - $179-$279

•  Complete - $199-$399

We found these prices to be very competitive across the marketplace. Additionally, the quality for the service is first-rate. Soon after you register and complete their company incorporation questionnaire, you receive a professional folder in the mail with all the documentation that has been filed and accepted on your behalf. International services cost between $465 and $515.

Company incorporation packages include the following:

 

Economy

•  Professional, expedited completion

•  Articles of formation filing

•  Six months of registered agent service

•  $50,000 corporate veil guarantee

•  Unlimited phone support

•  Company name search and reservation

•  Formation document review

•  Business Builder quarterly e-newsletter subscription

Basic - Includes everything in Economy, plus:

•  One free year of Registered Agent service

•  Corporate or LLC Compliance Kit

•  The Corporate Minutes Book or the LLC Handbook (depending on your filing)

Complete - Includes everything in Economy and Basic, plus:

•  Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN) filing

•  Priority handling

•  Subchapter S Election Form 2553 (form only)

•  Four publications to assist you with starting a new business

The Company Corporation offers assistance by posting a toll-free number throughout the website. If you have questions, help is only a free phone call away with extended hours 8am-8pm Monday through Friday. We found their staff to be knowledgeable and helpful on a variety of business formation topics.

This company incorporation website also has many research links, asset protection links, business filing services, and press release information.

If you are considering incorporating your business, then The Company Corporation should be your first choice. They earn high marks for their quality service, variety of packages offered, competitive pricing, amount of helpful information available, knowledgeable staff, and the website's ease of use. The Company Corporation earns our highest rating.

 

 

Legal Zoom is a full-service website offering everything from wills and living trusts to trademarks, patents, and copyrights. They will also help you incorporate your business, form a limited liability company (LLC), and file your doing business as (DBA) name. Our review focuses on these company incorporation services.

Legal Zoom offers some great information to help you make an educated decision about the type of corporation you should become, or whether you should incorporate at all. One of the features that we appreciated was the comparison chart that described the differences between corporations and LLC's. In this chart, a C corporation, S corporation, and an LLC are placed side-by-side so you can easily compare their benefits.

Legal Zoom offers the following company incorporation packages:

Economy - $139 plus State fees. This price includes the following features:

•  Preliminary business name availability check

•  Articles of Incorporation preparation and filing

•  Action by written consent preparation

•  LegalZoom peace of mind review

•  Customized bylaws and resolutions preparation

•  Stock certificates (20)

•  Unlimited, free customer support* Periodic newsletter

Standard - $239 plus State fees. This price includes the following features:

•  Everything in the Economy package

•  Microsoft Office Accounting Express download 2007

•  Deluxe corporate kit

•  Corporate minutes form• Stock transfer ledger

•  Employee medical expense plan forms

•  Business forms on CD-ROM (40 forms)

Express Gold - $359 plus State fees. This price includes the following features:

•  Everything in the Economy and Standard packages

•  Priority rush service

•  Federal employer identification number (EIN) application preparation

•  Subchapter S election (S-corp status) preparation

•  Two-day FedEx shipping of the final package

For additional fees, Legal Zoom also offers many other additional services, such as registered agent services ($149 per year), Tax ID application, S corporation election, and more.

Legal Zoom offers many beneficial services for the price of their company incorporation packages. The website is professional and very easy to navigate. The services provided are of the highest quality and the customer team is available 6 days a week for your assistance.  If you are looking to incorporate or form an LLC, Legal Zoom is an excellent choice.

 

 

If you are looking to incorporate your small business, Click & Inc offers everything you will need. With a professional, easy-to-navigate website, Click & Inc provides you with the useful information you need to make educated business formation decisions. Customer services representatives are available from 9-5 Monday through Friday, for your assistance. An informative FAQ's link is also available if you have additional questions outside of business hours.

Click & Inc offers company incorporation packages for business that are for-profit, non-profit, and limited liability companies (LLC's). For each class of business, the following three packages are offered:

•  Entrepreneur - Starts at $197 (plus filing fees)

•  Ultimate Entrepreneur - Starts at $297 (plus filing fees)

•  Business Professional - Starts at $397 (plus filing fees)

If you are thinking of incorporating your business, but are not ready to complete the filing at this time, you can pay $10 and do a simple corporate name search.

Company incorporation packages include the following features:

•  Preliminary corporate name check through the Secretary of State's office

•  Articles of Incorporation drafting and filing

•  Customized corporate bylaws and initial minutes

•  Personalized full-color stock certificates

•  AD payroll processing services

•  Published.com website hosting

•  Federal employer identification number (EIN) form preparation

•  S-corp election form preparation

•  24-hour submission service

•  Post-incorporation Secretary of State follow-up services

•  Digital articles management

•  Registered agent services (1 year for $125)

•  Three months of advertising for your new company on Respond

Additionally, if you are thinking of incorporating your business, but are not ready to complete the filing at this time, you can pay $10 and do a simple corporate name search.

Click & Inc is a strong website for anyone interested in incorporating their business. The quality of the website is good and their services are offered at a fair price. You'll find it easy to locate the information you want, and you'll be able to make an informed decision about what type of corporation best suits you.

 

 

My Corporation offers company incorporation services for general For-Profit corporations, S-corps, Non-Profit corporations, Professional corporations, and Limited Liability Companies (LLC's).

Additionally, they offer a corporate comparison chart listing the type of entity (sole proprietorship, general partnership, limited partnership, C corporation, S corporation, professional corporation, non-profit corporation, LLC, professional LLC, and limited liability partnership) and the main advantages and disadvantages of each. This chart was especially helpful as it gave a side-by-side comparison of the various company incorporation options. This was the most thorough comparison we saw on the websites we reviewed.

My Corporation also offers other ways to figure out which type of corporation would best meet your business needs. There is information on the benefits of incorporating, liability protection, tax savings, reducing risk, and establishing credibility. Prices vary by state and the type of plan you purchase, but most start around $149.00. The following features are included in the standard package:

•  Name availability search

•  Articles of Incorporation preparation and filing

•  Customized corporate stock certificates (10)

•  Personalized corporate bylaws

•  Waivers of notice

•  Notices for various corporate meetings

•  Personalized corporate minutes

•  Stock transfer ledger

•  Free subscription to The Corporate Bee

Additional services are available for a fee, and those fees tend to add up quickly at My Corporation.

Overall the website for My Corporation is easy to use and helpful for someone who is trying to weigh all of their company incorporation options. However, the cost is a bit higher than other websites we reviewed.

 

 

My New Company offers company incorporation services in all 50 states. The website is simply laid out and easy to navigate with helpful resources and customer testimonies. They offer company incorporation information about both Corporations and Limited Liability Companies (LLC's) through various links such as "Which entity: Corp, S-Corp or LLC," "Which State to Choose," and "Compare us to the Competition."

My New Company offers two types of company incorporation packages - EasyCorp Service and EasyLLC Service.

Their EasyCorp Service includes the following features:

•  Order is audited for compliance, spelling, and accuracy

•  Next business day processing

•  Name search

•  Articles of Incorporation preparation and filing

•  Personalized organizational minutes

•  Personalized corporate bylaws

•  Online order tracking and status updates

•  Free first class shipping

•  New corporation handbook

•  Online access

Their EasyLLC Service includes all of the features listed above, except you will get the new LLC handbook.

The following additional services can be added to your orders:

•  Rush filing

•  Corporate kit

•  Seal and stock certificates

•  Federal employer identification number (EIN) application preparation

•  S-corp election preparation

My New Company offers a 30-day, 100% satisfaction guarantee on their services. Additionally, My New Company is makes it easy to find the information you need about incorporating your business. Their resource page is informative and has a number of articles on small business management, links to the Small Business Made Simple newsletter, and links to the Small Business blog. However, if you really want a breakdown of the different types of corporations and LLC's on a professional website, we recommend using one of the higher-rated selections with a longer history of providing legal services..

 

 

My Law Daddy offers company incorporation services to small, start-up businesses that would like to form a limited liability company (LLC), corporation, partnership, or file a doing business as (DBA) name. All of their fees are listed, so you will not be surprised with hidden charges after the filing is complete.

My Law Daddy offers three different company incorporation packages for each of the available corporation/LLC options.

Economy - Starts at $99 plus State fees. This package includes the following company incorporation items:

•  Name availability check

•  Articles of Incorporation/Organization preparation and filing

•  Customizable bylaws and resolutions

•  Assistance with bylaws and resolutions

•  Reviews done by business professionals

•  Unlimited customer support

Standard - Starts at $199 plus State fees. This package includes the following company incorporation items:

•  All of the benefits of the Economy package

•  Deluxe corporate kit

•  Personalized stock certificates (20)

•  Business forms CD (40 forms)

Premium (Rush) - Starts at $299 plus State fees. This package includes the following company incorporation items:

•  All of the benefits of the Economy and Standard packages

•  IRS form SS-4 - Federal employer identification number (EIN) application

•  IRS form 2553 - Subchapter S-corp election

•  Expedited processing service

•  FedEx second day delivery

The details of each package vary a little depending on whether you choose an LLC, corporation, partnership, or DBA as the best fit for your small business needs.

My Law Daddy is a simple website that is easy to navigate, but not overly impressive. Although they offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee, the wording seems a bit odd, so we caution you about putting too much stock in this. Based on the website's usefulness and My Law Daddy's fees, we recommend using a higher-rated company incorporation service.

 

 

If you would like to form a corporation, limited liability company (LLC), non-profit corporation, or offshore company, you can use the Corporate Creations website. Or, we should say you can try to use the website; unfortunately during our review, many of the links were not active, and our phone calls to support services went unanswered.

Corporate Creations charges a basic fee of $281, which includes the following company incorporation services:

•  Corporate name availability search

•  Company formation document filing and preparation

•  All applicable state filing fees

The following additional company incorporation services can be obtained for additional fees:

•  Expedited service

•  Corporate service kit

•  Federal employer identification number (EIN)

•  IRS form to elect S-corp status

However, when we actually tried to utilize their services and create an Corporation or LLC, we discovered their links weren't active. This happened repeatedly throughout our testing period.  Unfortunately, our attempts to contact Corporate Creations went unanswered. It's unclear whether this was a temporary situation or a permanent issue with Corporate Creations.

The website offers a FAQ's page that also includes company incorporation articles, business news, and business resources. This page contains a lot of helpful information, and we would recommend reading through some of these documents prior to making a decision about the best type of corporation for your business.

Overall, the Corporate Creations website is bland, uncreative, and unprofessional. Limited company incorporation services are offered at a higher cost than many of the higher-rated companies. They do offer a "price match guarantee" which will pay you back the difference if you discover a lower price within 30 days of your Corporate Creations purchase, however it's unclear how this will be provided if they do not acknowledge your communication.

Based on our inability to create a corporation using their services, the limited information they provide, and an unprofessional website, we recommend using a higher-rated company incorporation service.