Renew your business information

Download, fill out, and submit your renewal form.

Update business information

You must tell the City if you change your mailing address or begin operating at a new location.

Get your small business permits with a 30-day review

Open a new business or change your business operations under Prop H.

Register a new business

If you engage in business in San Francisco, you must register, renew your registration annually, and show your Registration Certificate in your place of business.

Small Business Commission

The Commission analyzes how laws impact small businesses and how to help small businesses thrive. We review and comment on laws that impact small businesses. We suggest ways the City can better support the small business community, including:

- approving businesses to go in the Legacy Business Program
- taking positions on laws that will impact small businesses
- sharing our ideas with the Mayor and Board of Supervisors

Free Business Counseling
Fill out this form and a business case manager will contact you.

Business Portal:
Comprehensive resource for starting, running, and growing a business in San Francisco.

We provide a suite of educational programs and resources to small business owners, their employees and self-employed entrepreneurs to empower them to start and grow their enterprises and maximize their economic prosperity.

Pacific Community Ventures is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community development financial institution that envisions a world of thriving communities where everyone has a fair shake. Our mission is to invest in small businesses, create good jobs for working people, and make markets work for social good.

Business Advising and Mentoring
Pacific Community Ventures invests in people. We leverage technology and volunteerism to provide small business owners with high-quality mentoring, at no cost.

The Nonprofit & Small Business Clinic provides free corporate legal services to nonprofit organizations and small businesses throughout New York City.