As a small business owner you’re always watching you bottom line and it stings a little when that business license renewal comes in the door. Don’t I already pay taxes? Not so fast! Business Licensing helps your business be more … Read More … Read More
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Q4 2020 Product Update
We continued to make progress in Q4: … Read More

Converting from SIC To NAICS Codes
As part of South Carolina’s business license standardization, all organizations levying business license tax must make those calculations based on the business’ NAICS code. If you’re still evaluating based on SIC code, let’s look at what steps you can take … Read More … Read More

SC Business License Standardization is Passed! Here’s What it Means for Your Municipality
South Carolina House Bill 4431 was passed and Signed by South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster on September 30th 2020 and became act number 176 of the 2020 session. During its ratification process, we covered in a previous post what we … Read More … Read More

Q3 2020 Product Update
The quarter has flown by for us, as I’m sure it has for many of you! We’ve made good progress against most Q3 goals and had some new opportunities arise that pushed some of our initial Q2 priorities to the … Read More … Read More

SC H. 4431 Business License Bill and it’s Impact on Your City (Summer 2020 Version)
Status Update – 7/22/2020: The legislation has passed the House and is in the Finance Committee’s hands in the Senate. At this point, the legislature is in recess and is expected to return for a final session in mid-September. According … Read More

Q2 2020 Product Update
I’m frankly pretty proud regarding what we accomplished this quarter: Business License The business license module went from running in parallel in Q1 to now fully live at the end of Q2. While we were at a ‘Minimum Viable Product’ … Read More

Data Collection & Reporting for the Modern Business License Department
In Part 1 we discussed the goals of the modern department and in Part 2 we discussed the metrics that you can use to measure your progress towards those goals. Here we’ll discuss what reports we need to monitor those … Read More

The 11 Key Metrics for Your Business License Department
The Business License function performs an important service within a municipality. How do we know if it’s performing it well? In Part 1 we talked about the goals for Business Licensing with a municipality. Let’s take those goals and break … Read More … Read More

The Five Goals of a Modern Business License Department
Business Licensing as a municipal function goes back to the 18th century and before that back to England and its regulations. Initially setup as a way to manage the growth of ‘sin industries’ like pubs within a locale, business licensing … Read More … Read More