About LicenseBeacon
LicenseBeacon builds simple, honest cost estimation tools for people starting and running businesses. City fee pages can be hard to navigate, so our goal is to give you a trustworthy ballpark number in one click, before you ever pick up the phone.
Our estimates come straight from each city's published fee schedules, not from guesses or national averages. When a city updates its fees, we update our math.
We are an independent resource. We are not a government agency, and we are not affiliated with any city or state.
LicenseBeacon exists for one moment: the moment before you open, when you need to know every license and every fee a city is going to ask of you, in plain English, before you sign a lease or spend your first dollar. Our calculators cover Fort Worth, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, Nashville, Las Vegas and Miami, and each one is built from that city's own published fee schedules and tax rules. We show our sources on every page, we date our work, and we would rather tell you a fee is $0 than dress up a guess.
LicenseBeacon is operated by Perfect Option MBC, LLC. We are an independent resource: not a government agency, and not affiliated with any city or state. Estimates are a starting point for your budget; the official office always has the final word.
Contact Us
Found a number that looks off? Know about a fee change we missed? We want to hear about it. Accurate estimates are the whole point of this site, and readers like you are how we stay sharp.
Email: bryn@yourperfectoption.com
We read everything and update the calculators whenever a city's numbers change.