Create a company online

Use the Online Company service to easily and quickly start a company. This service enables the incorporation of Private Limited Companies, Sole quota holder Private Limited Companies or Public Limited Companies.

You no longer need to go to a service desk to set up commercial companies and civil law companies having a commercial form. You can incorporate your company online, at any time.

Service channels

  • Create now

    Available to all citizens with Citizen Card with their digital signature or Digital mobile key (CMD) activated

    See the associated costs in the 'What is the price' field.

    You can also create a company online, in a simple and convenient way, on the new Empresa Online 2.0 platform.

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Who can create a company online?

The service is available to all citizens with Citizen Card with their digital signature or Digital mobile key activated. Lawyers, notaries and solicitors, with their professional digital certificate, may also use the service to incorporate companies online

Warning: when lawyers, notaries and solicitors intervene, the partners’ handwritten signatures are required to have been certified in person.

What are the documents and requirements to create a company online?

As a rule, no preparatory documents are required to incorporate a company, as long as the articles of association contain all information required by law.

Depending on the situation in question and on the analysis carried out by these services, among others, you may need the following documents:

  • Declaration of acceptance from the Certified Accountants (ROC) when appointed in the memorandum and articles of association itself
  • Declaration from the actual shareholder controlling the company
  • Declaration of acceptance from the manager or administrator and declaration stating having no knowledge of any circumstances preventing them from occupying the position, when appointed in the memorandum and articles of association.

Where create a company online?

Setting up a company online can be done in thegov.pt or through Empresa Online 2.0.

What is the price to create a company online?

The cost of setting up a company varies according to the service used:

  • 220 euros - in case of incorporating a company with a pre-approved memorandum and articles of association
  • 360 euros - in case of incorporating a company with a memorandum and articles of association drawn up by the company.

If the company has a trademark associated with one class of goods or services, it costs more 100 euros. Each additional class costs 44 euros.

Payment methods

You may pay:

  • with credit card (Visa or Mastercard)
  • on ATM machines or on your bank’s website.

What is the deadline to create a company online?

  • The name of the company, if chosen on the Company Names Exchange or by automatic name approval, is reserved for 24 hours, until the payment stage is reached
  • when you choose a payment method, the period is extended to 48 hours
  • after analysing the Registries, and if there are no inconformities in the creation process, the Registry registers the company in 5 days for pre-approved agreements or in 10 days for agreements made by interested parties
  • If the IRN detects any problems, it has 5 days to make the corrections. If you don't correct it within these 5 days, the registration may be provisionally approved or refused
  • If you haven't filled in the beneficial owner's details during the online company creation process, you have 30 days to do so once the online company has been created
  • You have 5 working days to deposit the amount of the share capital in the company's bank account. This obligation does not apply if the deposit has already been made when the company is created or if the shareholders confirm, by the end of the first financial year, that the amount has been handed over to the company.