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SOSDirect - Online Searching and Filing

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SOSDirect is available 24/7. There is a $1.00 statutorily authorized fee associated with each search,
which supports the ongoing operations and enhancements of SOSDirect.


Latest Updates

August 21, 2024: LegalEase® payment option being discontinued

The Office of the Texas Secretary of State has recently been informed by Frost Bank that they will discontinue their LegalEase® payment product - a deposit account system administered by Frost Bank. As a result, beginning October 1, 2024, LegalEase® will no longer be accepted as a payment option for our agency’s services in SOSDirect. We will continue to process any paper submissions we receive with LegalEase® payment up until Frost’s processing deadline of October 31, 2024. For LegalEase® customer or service-related questions, please contact Frost Treasury Management Customer Service at (888) 481-0336.

July 19, 2024: SOS Client accounts are changing

Registered trademarks and service marks are no longer searchable in SOSDirect as all related services have moved completely to the new SOSPortal.

SOSDirect and SOSUpload have not changed, with the one exception noted above. You may continue to submit business entity filings through SOSDirect and SOSUpload for the foreseeable future. For UCC-related services, such as submitting filings, searches, and orders, you may continue to use SOSDirect until they transition to SOSPortal in late 2024. Customers currently utilizing an SOS Client Account for those UCC services may wish to use any remaining balance prior to that transition to SOSPortal because existing funds will not transfer to the new system.


Services Available in SOSDirect


Formations and Registrations

  • Form a Texas Entity
  • Register a Non-Texas Entity

Changes to Your Business

  • Assumed Name Certificates
  • Changes to Registered Agent or Registered Office
  • Changes to Business Entity Name
  • Termination and Withdrawal
  • Reinstatements
  • Periodic Reports

Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)

  • Financing Statements
  • Amendment Filings

Search and Order Records

  • UCC and Business Searches and Copies
  • Order Certificates of Fact

Filing Your Business


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Note: Social security numbers, credit card and bank account numbers, access device numbers, and certain other types of information are confidential under the Public Information Act, Chapter 552 of the Texas Government Code. The secretary of state is prohibited by law from releasing this information.  Our office will redact this information from documents filed in our office and made available to the public. An un-redacted copy of the document will be retained for access by secretary of state staff in response to requests from law enforcement or other authorized requestors.  If you have concerns about redaction, do not include confidential information in the collateral description of your UCC filing or include this information in an attachment to an electronic document submitted through SOSDirect.

Please visit our Fees page for more information about our Business Filings, Trademark, and Search fees.

For more information about SOSDirect please call or contact the following:

  SOSDirect@sos.texas.gov
Corporations: (512) 463-5555 or E-mail SOSDirect@sos.texas.gov
Reports Unit (annual statements and periodic reports): E-mail ReportsUnit@sos.texas.gov
UCC: E-mail UCC_Assist@sos.texas.gov
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