Registration Statement Copy – Replace Your Trade Name or Partnership Certificate

ACS is a private company. Our CORES-trained agents prepare your filing and submit it through a licensed Alberta registry agent. We are not a government office or a registry agent. CORES is Alberta's Corporate Registry System, and business owners cannot file in it themselves.

When you register a trade name or partnership in Alberta, the declaration you file becomes the record Corporate Registry holds, and the certificate you receive is the proof most owners keep. If that certificate is gone, or a bank wants a current copy rather than a ten-year-old one, we order a copy of what is on file.

Proof of business registration in Alberta: who asks for it

• Banks, before opening or updating an account in the business name.
• Landlords, before signing a commercial lease in the business name.
• Suppliers and vendors, on credit applications.
• Payment processors and marketplaces, during onboarding checks.
• Buyers and their lawyers, when the business is sold.

Who this is for

• An owner who lost the original certificate and has a bank appointment next week.
• A partnership whose only copy left with a departing partner.
• A business whose bank asked for a current copy of the registration.
• A corporation that needs proof of a trade name it registered years ago.

How it works

1. Order online (about 5 minutes). Give us the registered name, and the registration number or the owner's name.
2. We locate the registration on the Alberta registry and confirm it is the right one before ordering.
3. We order the copy through our licensed registry agent partner, [Partner registry agent name], usually the same business day.
4. You receive the copy as a PDF by email.

Common mistakes we catch before filing

• A name spelled slightly differently from the registered one, which finds nothing. We search variations before telling you a record does not exist.
• A copy ordered for a registration that was cancelled, or never filed.
• A plain copy ordered when the bank or lawyer asked for a certified one.
• The wrong owner searched: the director's personal name instead of the corporation that registered the trade name.

What you need before you start

1. The registered name, as exactly as you can give it.
2. The registration number if you have it, or the owner's or partners' legal names and the approximate registration date.
3. Plain or certified, if whoever asked for the copy specified one.
4. The email address for delivery.

Requirements in Alberta

• Trade names and partnerships are registered under the Partnership Act; the registration records who is behind the name.
• There is no periodic renewal, so a registration stays in force until it is cancelled. A copy shows the record as filed.
• Copies are ordered through a registry agent, and the government fee is included in our price.
• The copy is proof of registration, not ownership of the name; registration does not protect the name.

Orders received after 3:00 pm MT go out the next business day.