Texas Certificate of Fact — Status: fifteen dollars, plus the Comptroller’s half.

A state-issued certificate from the Secretary of State attesting that the company exists and is current with state requirements. 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.

The state charges $15 from the Secretary, with the Comptroller’s version separate, with the tax-side Certificate of Account Status issued separately by the Comptroller. 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.

There is no statutory expiration, the receiving party decides, and most want a certificate issued within the last 30 to 90 days. Order per occasion: fresh for the closing, fresh for the qualification, fresh for the diligence request.

Yes, Texas’s official name is the certificate of fact — status, and requesters may call it a certificate of good standing, certificate of existence, or certificate of status interchangeably. Florida issues a Certificate of Status, Tennessee a Certificate of Existence, Pennsylvania a Subsistence Certificate: different names, same recent state-sealed proof of existence and standing.

Franchise tax forfeiture is the Texas blocker: an entity forfeited by the Comptroller fails the Account Status check, and the Secretary’s certificate alone will not satisfy a requester who wanted the tax side. The May 15 franchise report current keeps both documents available. The fix comes before the certificate: the reinstatement path, then the order. We check standing before every order so the bounce never happens mid-deal.

Usually, yes: each requester applies its own freshness window, often 30 to 90 days, and a certificate ordered for last spring’s loan rarely satisfies this fall’s qualification. The good news is ordering is fast when standing is clean, which is the part worth maintaining year-round.

Yes: we verify your standing on the official record first, order the certificate 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.