How to Order and Pay for Services

Ordering | Payment

Placing Your Order

You can help speed your service by specifying clearly the information or service you need.  See Tips on Ordering for suggestions.

Ordering Options

• Order Online: Selected services are now available for online ordering.  Customers may order copies, subscriptions, publications, certificates of good standing and certificates of existence and UCC searches using our Online Service Order Center. 
  
• Order by Mail:  Send your request to:

(Division Name)
Secretary of State
Bldg. 1, Suite 157-K
1900 Kanawha Blvd. East
Charleston, WV  25305-0770

• Order by Telephone or Fax:  Use these numbers to place your order.  Remember, payment must be received before the service can be returned to you.

Payment Options

• Check:  Make checks payable to "Secretary of State" and mail with your  invoice. Remember, payment must be received before services can be rendered.  Please make check for exact amount of service.  A $15 service charge is applied to returned checks.
• Credit Card:  We accept Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and Diner's Club.  If you order online, the cardholder information is required to complete the transaction.  If you order by telephone, you will be transferred to a cashier to provide information.  Your street number and zip code are required for card validation.
• Cash:  Walk-in customers may pay cash, but change usually cannot be made for $100 bills. Please do not send cash by mail.
• Prepaid Accounts:  Regular customers may establish a prepaid account by depositing a minimum of $300.  The account is assigned an ID, and customers provided with sequentially numbered prepaid transaction slips which can be used to order services by mail, walk-in or fax.  Authorized signatures are required on orders, and any order that would reduce the balance below zero cannot be processed.  Customers receive a monthly accounting of transactions.  For information write the Cashier.