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The City of Solana Beach welcomes you and your business. Our small town atmosphere encourages close and lasting relationships between companies and the community they serve, while the nearby large city life brings a constant flow of new customers to your door.

Business Certificates

All businesses with a home address, business address or conducting business in Solana Beach are required to obtain a business certificate issued by the City of Solana Beach. You can complete a business certificate application form online; however, all applications must be delivered to the City, as applications are not accepted via the Internet.

Please complete and return with application fee to: City of Solana Beach, 635 S. HWY 101, Solana Beach, CA 92075. For more information, please contact our Finance Dept. at (858) 720-2460 or finance@cosb.org.

Some types of business require additional regulatory permits and licenses to operate in Solana Beach. Visit our Code Compliance page for details.

Online Business Certificate Applications

Exciting news! The City has officially rolled out online Business Certificate Applications through eTrakit! 

New Business Certificate Applications (Online)

You will need to create a public account in order to access your records and make payments. (https://solab-trk.aspgov.com/eTRAKiT/publicUserAccount.aspx?action=npa) 

After creating an account and logging in – select “Apply for New Licenses” under Business Certificates on the left side of the page.

Step 1:

  1. Select “A New Business Application” in the Type drop down
  2. Select the Subtype for your Business
    • Outside City (Business is located outside City limits)
    • Inside City
    • Home Occupation (Inside City only)
  3. Answer additional required questions about your business & your relationship to business
  4. Review the forms under the attachments and please upload all necessary completed forms before continuing to next step

Step 2:

  1. Search for business address
    • If it doesn’t come up when searching – select not listed and type in address
  2. Enter Business Name, email, phone number
  3. Enter Mailing Address
  4. Enter Business Owner Information
  5. Enter any additional contact information, if applicable

Step 3:

  1. Review all information listed for accuracy and edit if necessary
  2. Ensure all required attachments are uploaded
  3. Review calculated fees – if amount shown is different than expected, please contact us

Application Step 4

  1. Checkout summary – last chance to review amount due before paying
  2. Click Pay Now
  3. This will take you to Paymentus to complete the payment information

City Staff will review the payment information and attachments when received. Based on the subtype, it will go through the necessary review and approval processes. If a fire inspection is a required, someone will reach out to schedule. Once complete and fully processed, your business certificate will be emailed to you.

Please note: there is a 2.95% fee for credit/debit card payments.

Business Certificate Renewals (Online)
  1. You will need to create a public account in order to access your records and make payments. (https://solab-trk.aspgov.com/eTRAKiT/publicUserAccount.aspx?action=npa)
  2. After creating an account and logging in – select “Search Licenses” under Business Certificates on the left side of the page.
  3. Search for your Business Certificate using one of the search criteria listed in drop down, i.e. Search by LICENSE_NO, equals, search value would be BC-012345
  4. Click on the correct business certificate
  5. Review your Business Certificate information to ensure information is up to date
  6. Select Attachment – please upload signed renewal form
  7. Add to cart – this allows you to add multiple business certificates to your cart to check out at once, alternative option is to select Fees tab and select “Pay all fees” which takes you to the shopping cart
  8. Proceed to checkout
  9. Select Pay now
  10. This will take you to Paymentus to complete the payment information

City Staff will review the payment information and attachment when received. Once complete and fully processed, your business certificate will be emailed to you.

Please note: there is a 2.95% fee for credit/debit card payments

Questions & Contacts

For billing and application submission questions, contact the Finance Dept. at (858) 720-2460 or finance@cosb.org.

For zoning questions, contact the Planning Dept. at (858) 720-2440

For code compliance questions, contact Code Enforcement at (858) 720-2403

For fire inspection questions, contact the Fire Inspector (858) 720-2415

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