Track your company formation
Follow the stages our team records on your formation, see the company's details fill in, and download the paperwork we file.
Once you've submitted the wizard, our team works through the formation and records each stage as it's done. You follow it on the entity's record in Establish › Company Formation.
Open your formation
The Entities tab lists every company you've asked us to form, with its jurisdiction, form, registration number, structure, the stage it's at and its status. Select a row to open the entity's record.
The formation stages
| Stage | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Formation request | Your request reaches our operations team and the file is opened. |
| KYC & documents | Founder identity, proof of address and, for a subsidiary, the parent's apostilled corporate documents. |
| Articles of association | We draft the articles from the jurisdiction template and your amendments. |
| Deed of incorporation | The deed is signed, remotely where the jurisdiction allows it. |
| Trade register filing | Filed with the trade register. The company legally exists from this point. |
| Beneficial owner register | Beneficial owners are entered in the national register. |
| Tax & VAT registration | Corporate tax and VAT registration with the tax authority. |
| Bank account application | Initial bank account application with our partner banks. |
Under Formation history, each stage our team has recorded shows the day it was completed, the first stage not yet recorded reads In progress, and the rest read Pending. Where our team adds a note to a completed stage, the note shows in place of the description. Once every stage is recorded, the Stage column on the Entities tab reads Complete.
Status and company details
The entity reads In formation until our team records the Trade register filing, and Active from then on, with that day as its Formed date. Our team records the registration number at that stage and the VAT number at the tax stage.
The record's Identity section fills in as our team records each detail: Registration, VAT number, Registered address, Director and Share capital. Ownership shows the structure, the parent company of a subsidiary, and the Requested services you switched on in the wizard.
Download the paperwork
The documents our team files, such as the deed, the register extract or the tax letter, appear under Documents on the entity's record. Each shows the stage it belongs to, its size and its date, with a download button.
They're also listed in Documents as Formation paperwork. See Find a document. You can't upload files to a formation yourself.
Emails and notifications
When our team completes a stage or files documents, the member who started the formation is emailed, and the update is recorded in their Notifications. To stop the emails but keep the notifications, turn off Email me when EU Presence files something under Account › Profile.