AZCC Search: Arizona Corporation Commission Business Entity Search

Searching the Arizona Business Center Now That eCorp Is Gone

The Arizona Business Center replaced eCorp on January 12, 2026, and its Business Search is free. For an Arizona business entity search, it takes a Business Name (matched Exact Match, Starts With or Contains), a Business ID, a Statutory Agent Name or a Principal Name. Domicile and Address Type filters narrow the list, and submitting brings up a six-character image check.

Step 1: Choose Name, ID, Agent or Principal

Principal Name finds the companies where a person or firm is listed as member, manager, officer or director. Address Type narrows results to a statutory agent, business, principal or organizer address. Old ecorp.azcc.gov addresses redirect to the new portal.

Step 2: Check Years Due, Not Just “Active”

The record gives Business Status, Reason for Status, Date of Formation, Management Structure for an LLC and, for a corporation, the Annual Report/COD Due Date and Years Due. Filing History lists each document with a free View Document link; scanned microfiche sits under Document History, next to Name History and Stat. Agent History. Read Years Due too: a corporation archived in December 2025 showed Active and In Good Standing with 2024 and 2025 still due.

AZ SOS Business and Trademark Search, or AZCC?

An AZ SOS business search, like an Arizona trademark search, only reaches trade names, trademarks and limited partnerships (LP, LLP, LLLP): the Secretary of State’s Business Services division runs its own Entity Search that looks them up by name, file number, or owner or agent. LLCs and corporations are registered with the Corporation Commission, which doesn’t record DBAs at all.

A trade name costs $10 at the Secretary of State and lasts five years; a trademark or service mark costs $15 and lasts ten, with three samples of the mark, and review can take up to three weeks. Both registries matter for a new name: an LLC’s must be distinguishable from ACC entities and from trade names registered with the Secretary of State (A.R.S. 29-3112). The ACC’s FAQ also mentions recording a DBA with the Maricopa County Recorder.

Arizona Business ID: The Letter and the Leading Zeros Count

Most Arizona Business IDs have eight digits, some behind a letter (F, L or R), and a few have seven. Type the ID exactly as the record shows it: 01896271 is an inactive U-Haul corporation, while 1896271 is a different, active LLC.

One company can hold several IDs when it re-registers or changes form: U-HAUL INTERNATIONAL, INC. is inactive as 01896271 and active as F00494942. The Business ID is neither the eight-digit TPT license number issued by the Department of Revenue nor the EIN.

Active, Inactive, Pending Inactive: What Reason for Status Adds

Arizona shows only two statuses, Active and Inactive, and the Reason for Status line explains the rest. A corporation that misses its annual report turns Pending Inactive, gets a final notice about 60 days later, and is administratively dissolved about 60 days after that.

An administratively dissolved LLC or corporation can be reinstated within six years for $100 plus the fees due, and reinstatement relates back to the dissolution date (A.R.S. 29-3709, 10-1422). An LLC’s name is released for others to use six months after the dissolution. An LLC’s voluntary termination can’t be undone, and the ACC’s FAQ warns that dormant companies have been reinstated by strangers. The search on this page shows Active or Inactive only; the reason is on the ACC record.

No Annual Report for Arizona LLCs, but a Publication Rule

“No, LLCs are not required to file annual reports. Only corporations are required to file annual reports,” the ACC’s FAQ answers. A corporation pays $45 (a nonprofit $10) by the date the ACC assigns in its anniversary month, adds $9 a month when late (nonprofits pay no penalty), and files a Certificate of Disclosure on its officers’, directors’ and large shareholders’ legal history with it.

Corporation due dates, the six-month extension and the Certificate of Disclosure are covered in Arizona’s annual report requirements. On May 8, 2025, the ACC voted to ask LLCs with no filing in two years to confirm, with one click, that they still exist; its site still listed that attestation as coming soon in August 2026.

Publication Depends on the Statutory Agent’s County

Within 60 days after the ACC files an LLC’s articles of organization, a notice must run three consecutive times in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of the statutory agent’s street address (A.R.S. 29-3201). When that county has more than 800,000 people, the ACC posts the filing free in its Public Notice database instead; Maricopa and Pima are the counties offered there. An LLC run from Flagstaff with an agent in Phoenix therefore publishes nothing, while one run from Phoenix with an agent in Flagstaff buys newspaper notices. The ACC sends a letter when publication is required.

What the ACC Charges for Proof of Good Standing

The certificate costs $10 with regular processing, typically 7 to 10 business days, or $45 for an instant copy. A certificate handed over by a business partner is verified by its Certificate Number on the portal’s Certificate Search, and the ACC announced QR-code verification with the new portal.

Arizona LLC Lookup by Member or Manager

To find the companies a person manages, use the Principal Name field of the ACC’s Business Search; the tool on this page reaches statutory agents only. Arizona LLC articles name each member of a member-managed LLC, or each manager plus every member owning 20% or more of a manager-managed one, with addresses, and a change must be filed within 30 days. A corporation’s annual report lists its directors, principal officers and shareholders holding more than 20% of a class of shares.

“Names and addresses provided on documents that are filed with the A.C.C. are public record,” the FAQ states. The operating agreement stays with the company and isn’t filed.

Arizona’s Statutory Agent Must Sign an Acceptance

A statutory agent, Arizona’s term for a registered agent, is an Arizona resident at least 18 years old or a company authorized in Arizona, with an Arizona street address and a mailing address, and the appointment only takes effect once the agent signs an acceptance. The ACC doesn’t accept service of process for an LLC, and a company that fails to maintain a statutory agent is administratively dissolved. Resigning costs nothing.

Arizona Business Name Search: 19th Hole = Nineteenth Hole, Bookstore III ≠ Three

A new Arizona name only has to be distinguishable from existing entities and trade names on record, different in some way, and the ACC’s distinguishability guide lists what doesn’t count: entity words such as LLC or Co., spacing, punctuation, capitals, a possessive, “the”, “&” for “and”, and a number written as a word or with #.

The guide’s own pairs show how thin the line is: Circle Two and Circle 2 are the same, but Bookstore III and Bookstore Three differ; Good Deed and Good Deeds differ, while Bob’s and Bobs don’t; AZ Boot Barn is distinct from Arizona Boot Barn, and House Party from Party House. The ACC calls its role “ONLY ministerial” and warns that a name close to a U.S. federal trademark can still force a change, so a federal trademark screen of the name is a separate step.

Reserving a name costs $10 for a single, non-renewable 120-day period, and the portal has a Name Availability Search. Reservation is optional before forming an Arizona LLC, whose articles cost $50.

Arizona Business License Search Starts With the TPT License

“The Arizona Corporation Commission does not issue business or occupational licenses.” Businesses selling taxable goods or services need a transaction privilege tax (TPT) license from the Arizona Department of Revenue, $12 per location, and cities license businesses too. The Department’s verification page on AZTaxes checks a license only by its eight-digit number, not by business name.

Arizona’s TPT is commonly called a sales tax but is legally a tax on the vendor for doing business in the state. An EIN comes from the IRS and a TIN from the Department of Revenue, and neither is on an ACC record, so the search for an Arizona company’s EIN happens outside it.

Mailers and Payment Requests the ACC Has Exposed

The ACC published an “AZ CERTIFICATE SERVICE” mailer that charged $77.25 for a certificate it wrongly said the Secretary of State issues; the real one costs $10 from the ACC. It has also posted a forged certificate and an $80 Cash App request sent under the name “Azccc Corporate”.

Scammers target newly formed and published businesses, the ACC warns. Its protections include a Signing Authority Form that limits who may file for a business, and two forms of ID for filings at the counter.

ACC Processing Times and Database Extracts

On September 29, 2026, the ACC’s posted times for a new LLC were 12 days regular, 6 days expedited ($35 more) and 1 day with same-day or next-day service ($200 or $100).