Delaware Certificate of Good Standing: the paper every lender eventually asks for.

A state-sealed certificate from the Division of Corporations attesting that the company exists and is current, franchise tax paid, standing intact. Lenders, banks, other states, and investors accept it as proof because it comes from the official record. We order it as part of certificate service, standing checked first.

Delaware charges $50 for the short form and $175 for the long form with full filing history, plus expedited handling where the timeline demands it. When we handle it, the total is the state fee plus a transaction fee plus our service fee, one-time, itemized on the pricing page before you pay, with your standing checked before the order goes in so the request never bounces.

Delaware sets no expiration, validity is the requester’s call, and most lenders, banks, and states want one issued recently, commonly within 30 to 90 days. That is why certificates are ordered per occasion rather than kept on file: the one in your drawer is usually too old for the deal on your desk.

The $50 short form certifies existence and current standing, the answer most requesters need. The $175 long form adds the company’s complete filing history, every amendment, merger, and restoration on state paper, which some lenders, foreign registrations, and diligence teams require. The requesting party decides; ask them before ordering.

The Division will not issue the certificate: Ceased Good Standing, almost always unpaid franchise tax, blocks the order until the account is squared, current year included. Fix the tax first, then order, and if the lapse ran years, the revival path precedes everything. We check standing before every order so the bounce never happens mid-deal.

No, and the aliases confuse closings weekly: Florida issues a Certificate of Status, Tennessee a Certificate of Existence, California a Certificate of Status, and Delaware’s own certificates come in short and long form. Requesters usually mean the same thing: recent, state-sealed proof of existence and standing from the home state’s registry.

Yes: we verify your standing on the official record first, order the correct form at the speed your deadline requires, and deliver it with the record kept in your document vault for the next time a lender asks. When we handle it, the total is the state fee plus a transaction fee plus our service fee, one-time, itemized on the pricing page before you pay, with your standing checked before the order goes in so the request never bounces.