Business filing services in Garden Grove, California

Garden Grove has one of the densest concentrations of small, family-run businesses in Orange County — restaurants, markets, salons, nail supply, auto repair, import and wholesale operations. A lot of them run on cash flow and word of mouth, and the paperwork is an afterthought until a landlord, a bank or a supplier asks for it.

That is usually when people call us. We are five miles east in downtown Santa Ana, we work in English and Spanish, and we can normally tell you in one sitting whether you need an entity or just a properly filed and published fictitious business name.

What a Garden Grove business usually needs

• A City of Garden Grove business license — nearly every city in Orange County requires one, including for home-based businesses
• A California entity (LLC or corporation) or a fictitious business name, depending on how you are set up
• A federal EIN — required for a business bank account, employees and most license applications
• A fictitious business name statement filed with the Orange County Clerk-Recorder, plus the four weeks of newspaper publication California requires
• A California seller's permit through the CDTFA if you sell tangible goods
• An Orange County health permit if you prepare, serve or sell food

Filing a DBA from Garden Grove

Orange County fictitious business name statements are filed with the Orange County Clerk-Recorder in Santa Ana — a few blocks from our office. That is the first half of the job.

The second half is the part most people miss. California requires the statement to be published once a week for four consecutive weeks in an adjudicated newspaper of general circulation in Orange County, within 30 days of filing, with a proof of publication filed back with the county afterward. Skip it and the registration is never properly complete. We arrange the publication and file the proof as part of the same job.

Working with us from Garden Grove

Garden Grove is about ten minutes from our office on Civic Center Drive. Walk in during business hours — no appointment needed — or call and we will start it over the phone.