Get a business licence – Overview

Overview

Clicking on a business licence below will provide instructions, and other information about licensing procedures. Individual licensing forms are also available.

• Auctions
• Cemetery registration (cemeteries, columbaria and mausolia)
• Cemetery Licences
  • Cemetery pre-need contract business
  • Cemetery pre-need contract salesperson
  • Monument business
  • Monument salesperson
• Charitable organizations
• Collection agency
• Collector
• Cooperative
• Debt repayment agency
• Debt repayment agent
• Direct sellers (door-to-door sellers)
• Employment agency
• Fundraising business licence
• High-cost credit business licence
• Home inspection business
• Home inspector
• Marketing of gas and/or electricity business licence
• Payday loan business
• Prepaid contractors
• Retail home sales (mobile homes, modular homes and packaged homes)
• Time share and points-based contracts

Other licenses and registrations in Alberta

• Automotive (sales, leasing, repair and consignment sales)
  • Alberta Motor Vehicle Industry Council
• Funerals (businesses, crematories, directors, embalmers, pre-arranged funeral plans)
  • Alberta Funeral Services Regulatory Board
• Gambling (casinos, raffles, bingos, pull tickets)
  • Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission
• Real Estate (agents, brokers, mortgage brokers, property managers)
  • Real Estate Council of Alberta
• Insurance (agents, brokers and adjusters)
  • Alberta Insurance Council

BizPaL

This online tool helps you find the permits and licenses you may need from all levels of government (municipal, provincial/territorial and federal) through a simple, 4-step process:

1. Enter your location.
2. Enter your business type.
3. Provide some generic information about your business.
4. Receive a customized list of necessary permits, licences and other requirements, specific to your business activities, which includes basic information and links to more details and downloadable forms where available.

Launch the BizPaL service

Other business connection resources

Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction recommends applicants seek legal advice on setting up their business or contracts, prior to submitting their application.

Incorporate a business or organization

Register, change or cancel a business name

Find out if a business is licensed

Business Link – information about starting or expanding a business

Canada Business and Industry – information on services, programs and regulations

Surety Association of Canada – find a broker

Contact

Connect with the Consumer Contact Centre:

Hours: 8:15 am to 4:30 pm (open Monday to Friday, closed statutory holidays)
Phone: 780-427-4088
Toll free: 1-877-427-4088 (in Alberta)
Email: [email protected]