INBiz Indiana Business Search: Find an Indiana LLC or Corporation

INBiz Login or INBiz Search? The Search Needs No Account

The INBiz login at inbiz.in.gov uses an Access Indiana account, one password for several state services, and it’s needed to file a Business Entity Report, order a certificate or buy the bulk business file ($9,500, plus $500 per monthly update). An Indiana LLC lookup needs none: the Business Search tile of the INBiz portal opens Indiana’s public search of business entities on bsd.sos.in.gov.

Step 1: One Field Out of Five

To look up an LLC in Indiana, leave Contains preselected and fill in one of five fields: Business Name, Business ID, Filing Number, Registered Agent Name, or Incorporator or Governing Person Name. Advanced Search adds entity type, status, address and a Name Type filter that finds assumed business names, reserved names and former names. The form asks for a reCAPTCHA, and because it is submitted in the background, no public URL parameters can run an INBiz search from a link.

Step 2: Click the Business ID, Then Request Free Copies

Clicking the Business ID in the results opens Business Details, where the Business Entity Report due date is displayed. Its Certified Copies Request button produces certified copies of formation documents and later filings free of charge. Links to a record don’t hold outside a search session, so share the Business ID instead. UCC liens have their own free Ucc Browse search on INBiz.

Indiana Business ID Formats: Keep the Dash

Older Indiana Business IDs carry a dash, as in 194062-043 for CUMMINS INC.; the box on this page adds it back when nine digits are typed without it. Newer IDs are 13 or 15 digits that begin with the date of creation.

A Filing Number, up to ten digits, identifies one document, not the company. The same name can come up several times, for example as an expired name reservation next to the company itself.

Indiana Business Entity Report: Every Two Years, $32, No Late Fee

Indiana has no annual report. Corporations, LLCs, nonprofits, LPs and LLPs file the biennial Business Entity Report, the first two years after formation, by the end of the anniversary month; it costs $32 on INBiz or $50 on paper, and “there are no late fees.”

Each report gives a business email, the principal office address, the agent and, depending on the entity type, at least one officer or governing person. The Secretary of State may accept it up to 90 days before the due month, and reminder emails go out 90 and 30 days ahead to the business and its agent. “This is not the same thing as filing your taxes,” the Secretary of State adds; the LLC side is detailed in Indiana’s Business Entity Report for LLCs.

Past Due, Pending, Then Dissolved or Revoked

A company marked Past Due still exists. If the report stays unfiled, a Pending Admin Dissolution notice follows (Pending Revocation for a foreign company), and the business is then administratively dissolved, or revoked if it was formed elsewhere; its name and assumed names stay protected for only 120 days. Reinstatement starts with a Certificate of Clearance from the Department of Revenue, requested on Forms AD-19 and ROC-1, which takes four to six weeks and is valid for 60 days, followed by an Application for Reinstatement on INBiz. Since January 1, 2026, a business dissolved more than five years ago can also apply, on paper, with a notarized affidavit.

$27, Emailed in Minutes: Indiana’s Only Status Certificate

The Certificate of Existence, formerly called a Certificate of Good Standing, costs $27 on INBiz and arrives by email within minutes. Anyone can check one on the Validate Certificate page with the Business ID and the Certificate Number.

Search Indiana Companies by the People Behind Them

The Incorporator or Governing Person Name field finds the companies a person helped form or runs, and Registered Agent Name lists an agent’s clients. Depending on the entity type, each report names at least one officer or governing person, such as the managers of a manager-managed LLC or the members of a member-managed one.

Since January 1, 2026 (HB 1593), a business run entirely from someone’s home can list a contact address so the residence stays off the public record. Ownership details that health care entities must now report are not public.

One Agent per Entity, at an Indiana Street Address

Every Indiana entity must have one registered agent, and only one: an Indiana resident whose office is the registered office, or a qualified corporation. The office must be a street address, not a P.O. box unless paired with a rural route, and a business can’t serve as its own agent; an owner without an Indiana address can hire a registered agent service or a law firm.

What Indiana Ignores When Comparing Business Names

The Secretary of State’s name guide lists what doesn’t make a name different: entity words such as Inc. or LLC, the articles the, an and a, punctuation, capitals, plurals or possessives, hyphens or joined words, “and” versus “&”, and Arabic, Roman or spelled-out numbers. A different word order does.

INBiz’s Business Name Availability check is “only a preliminary search”; the answer comes at filing. A new name must differ from assumed names registered with the Secretary of State, though not from those filed with county recorders. A name can be reserved online only, for 120 days and renewable, and an LLC name must contain LLC, L.L.C. or limited liability company. Trademarks are outside the check, so a federal mark check on an Indiana name comes before forming an Indiana LLC.

Indiana DBAs: State Filing or County Filing, by Owner Type

An Indiana LLC, corporation, LP or LLP using another name files an assumed business name with the Secretary of State, $30 per name on paper, and it shows in the INBiz search. A sole proprietor or general partnership files with the recorder of every county where it has a place of business, unless the name includes the owners’ surnames.

State Trademarks Have Their Own Search

Indiana marks are searched in the separate Trademark / Service Mark Search, and the office “does not cross reference federal registrations.” A registration costs $10 for five years, online only.

Indiana EIN Lookup: Not Something INBiz Shows

An Indiana EIN lookup comes up empty on INBiz: no business record shows the EIN, which the IRS assigns. The Department of Revenue issues its own 10-digit Taxpayer Identification Number, and neither number is public in the state’s search.

An owner who lost the company’s EIN gets it back from the IRS, and the ways to trace another business’s EIN run through other records. That TID is also what a seller of goods needs for a Registered Retail Merchant Certificate, $25 per location, which isn’t a vendor’s license (those come from the county clerk).

Look-Alike Offers Next to the Real INBiz Prices

The INBiz checklist sets real prices beside the offers: $125 and up for the $32 report, $72.50 and up for the $27 certificate, fees for certified copies that are free, and $150 and up for annual meeting minutes, records that are “not submitted to the Secretary of State.” A “Certificate of Status” notice is fake: “The only certificate related to the status of Indiana businesses is called a ‘Certificate of Existence,'” the Secretary of State warns.

INBiz emails a business whenever its information changes, so an unexpected email is worth a look at the record.