Augusta-Richmond County requires transient and itinerant vendors to file a $5,000 bond as a condition of a vendor license. Ours is $275 flat — 3% of the bond amount, with a $275 minimum, the same for every vendor. The application is five minutes, and license bonds like this are the fastest thing we issue.
















License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with the Augusta-Richmond County License & Inspection office. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$5,000 bond × 3% = $150, which is below our $275 minimum — so the premium is $275, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
Augusta-Richmond County (the consolidated City of Augusta and Richmond County government) licenses transient and itinerant vendors — sellers who set up temporarily rather than operating from a fixed local storefront — and conditions that license on a $5,000 surety bond. The bond is a consumer-protection guarantee.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier standing behind you, and Augusta-Richmond County together with harmed customers (the protected parties). If a vendor takes a customer's money and fails to deliver, or violates the county's vendor rules, the harmed party can recover against the bond.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. Vendors who deliver what they sell treat the bond as a license formality, not a risk. We track it and notify you 60 and 30 days out so your vendor license never lapses over a missed renewal.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$275 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.