ME business opportunity bonds.
$300 flat.
Maine’s Business Opportunity Sales Act requires a seller to register and post a $30,000 bond (or escrow the same) for the benefit of buyers. Ours is $300 flat — set by our carrier’s rate book for this bond, identical for every seller. A quick soft credit check may apply — never a hard inquiry, no impact on your score — and it never changes the price. E-signed in 1–2 business days.
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Three steps to registered.
Your business-opportunity registration is waiting on this bond. Here’s the entire process — no broker phone tag:
Apply once, online
Business details, owner information, effective date. That is the application — the only extra step is a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Reviewed & approved
Most of these clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The credit check is a soft pull that never affects your score.
E-sign & file with your registration
Pay online and receive the executed $30,000 bond ready to file with your business-opportunity registration. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the state insists.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
A "business opportunity" is a packaged offering — products, equipment, or a marketing plan — sold to someone who will operate a business, usually with an earnings claim attached. Maine’s Business Opportunity Sales Act regulates these sales to protect buyers from misrepresentation, and conditions the seller’s registration on a $30,000 security.
Under 32 M.R.S. §4693, a seller files disclosure documents and either a $30,000 surety bond or a $30,000 escrow account with the registration, for the benefit of any buyer injured by the seller’s breach of contract or violation of the Act. Sellers must also give buyers a notice naming the surety so a buyer can verify the bond’s status.
It is a three-party guarantee, not insurance for you: if a buyer is harmed and the surety pays, you repay the surety. Registration is renewed annually, and the bond must stay active the whole time — we track it and notify you 60 and 30 days out.
You need this bond if you are
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual underwriting fields, including a one-time consent to a soft credit pull. Submit once and your bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
Start the application →Common questions.
Other Maine bonds.
Your registration is waiting on one document.
$300 flat, short application, e-signed bond in 1–2 business days. Free until issued.