Alabama certificate of good standing
Find the official ordering service and document fees for Alabama. Your recipient may ask for a certificate of status or existence, a certified filing copy, or an apostille; check which document it needs before ordering.
Open official certificate service ↗Alabama certificate fees and delivery
Alabama calls the document a Certificate of Existence or Certificate of Compliance. The current SOS fee schedule lists $25.00 for a Certificate of Existence. Online services can produce a printable certificate; paper requests are submitted through the Business Entities forms and may require mailing time. A certificate is issued only if the entity satisfies the SOS requirements; tax compliance may be separately relevant.
Certified copies of filed documents
The Alabama fee schedule lists $10.00 for certification of documents and $2.00 per page for copies. A requester should submit the document-copy request identifying the entity and document, pay the applicable copy and certification charges, and request certified treatment when the copy will be used as an official or court record.
Alabama apostilles and authentication
Apostilles are handled through Alabama's document-authentication service rather than the corporate-search portal. Verified corporate research did not establish a single current 2026 fee and processing SLA for every submission type; use the SOS authentication page and follow its original/certified-document, payment, mailing, and pickup instructions: https://www.sos.alabama.gov/authenticate-documents. An apostille authenticates the public official's signature for a Hague Convention destination; it does not certify the truth of the company's underlying contents.
Which document should you order?
- Proof of current registry standing
- Ask for the state’s certificate of status, existence, or good standing. It is different from a public search result and may not establish tax clearance.
- Proof of what was filed
- Order a certified copy of the specific formation document, amendment, or other filing requested.
- A document for use abroad
- Ask the receiving authority whether it requires an apostille or another form of authentication, and whether it accepts electronic documents.
Check the record before ordering
Confirm the legal name, entity number, and recipient’s required issue date. A missed report or other delinquency may need to be resolved before a certificate can be issued.