Macon transient vendor bonds.
$100 flat.
A transient merchant or peddler — anyone soliciting sales in Macon-Bibb County without a permanent place of business there — must file a $5,000 surety bond before selling. Ours is $100 flat, and the price you see is the checkout price. The application collects no credit information.
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Three steps. One sitting.
A county transient vendor bond is about the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no lengthy underwriting file.
Pay & e-sign
Bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with Macon-Bibb County
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your transient merchant license application. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
Macon-Bibb County's business licensing rules single out the transient merchant — someone displaying samples or goods to solicit retail sales without a permanent place of business in the county — for extra scrutiny, because a seller who can leave town has less at stake than a storefront merchant does. The county conditions the transient merchant license on a $5,000 surety bond.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and Macon-Bibb County (the obligee), with customers who prepay, deposit, or otherwise get shorted by the vendor as the protected parties. If a transient vendor violates the licensing ordinance or leaves customers with unfulfilled orders, a claim can be brought against the bond up to the $5,000 penal sum.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The bond and license are typically tied to the specific selling period you register for, so a vendor returning to sell again later re-files.
You need this bond if you're
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields for this bond — a short business application, no lengthy credit file.
Start the application →Common questions.
Other Georgia bonds.
License your Macon-Bibb transient sales with the bond in hand.
$100 flat, soft pull only, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.