Orange County, California · New Business Owners
Officially Open
Just filed a fictitious business name in Orange County? This guide walks you through the first 45 days: what has a deadline, what's free, what your city may require, and what renews later. $16 for the guide, $26 with the fillable workbook.
General information, not legal advice.
Guide Edition: $16
The complete guide as a PDF.
Workbook Edition: $26
The complete guide plus the workbook: fillable checklists and blanks for your own dates and numbers, the deadlines calendar, editable bookkeeping templates, and three sample letters (to a bank, an insurer and a landlord).
Purchase opens soon. Nothing can be bought on this page yet.
What's Inside
- The 45-Day Publication Rule
- What California's newspaper publication requirement (Business and Professions Code §17917) is, how to count the 45 days from your filing date, and what the affidavit of publication is. Already arranged publication? The guide tells you that step is handled. Not yet? It tells you what to do.
- Your FBN, Explained
- What your fictitious business name filing does and doesn't do, with Orange County's filing fee as the worked example.
- EIN
- Who needs one, how to get one from the IRS for free, and when.
- Statement of Information
- Who files one and when, and why most sole-proprietor FBN filers don't.
- Seller's Permit
- Who needs one from the CDTFA. Applying is free.
- City Business License
- How to find out what your city requires (Orange County's 34 cities each set their own), with worked examples for Irvine, Anaheim, Santa Ana and Fullerton.
- Bank Account, Bookkeeping and Insurance
- The basics to set up early.
- What Renews, and When
- The FBN's 5-year term and when a renewal needs to be published again, plus a one-page deadlines calendar keyed to a worked example filing date.
- Your Timeline
- What to do in the first week, the first month, and by day 45.
Guide or Workbook?
Both have the same guide. The $26 workbook edition adds:
- fillable checklists and blanks for your own dates and numbers
- the deadlines calendar
- editable bookkeeping templates
- three sample letters: to a bank, to an insurer, and to a landlord
The $16 guide edition includes none of those. That's the only difference.
Other Ways to Get It
Once the guide is on sale, you can also get it:
- Free with a PublishProof newspaper publication order, as a thank-you.
- $9 when added to a PublishProof publication order at checkout.
Which Edition Is This?
This is the Orange County edition.
Officially Open is general information for new business owners, not legal advice. PublishProof is not a law firm. Rules, fees and city requirements change; check with the agency named in each section before you act.