Company Registration

No, commercial office space is not required. You can show your own residential or rented home address as the registered office address of the Company. This office address can be changed at any time after incorporation of the company. Once your startup is set up, stable and ready to move on to a nice corporate space you can change the registered office address by informing to the ROC office.

ROC is a Government office with whom companies get registered. Every State has one ROC office except Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu where there are two ROC offices. In Maharashtra companies are registered with Mumbai & Pune ROC. In Tamil Nadu companies are incorporated at Chennai and Coimbatore ROCs. In all other States like Delhi there is only one ROC office, like at Bangalore, Hyderabad and so on.

No. Startupwala provides complete online Company Incorporation process. All legal documentation with ROC and visits are done by Startupwala.

No. Once the company is formed, it will be valid till it is officially closed down by the owners. No renewal or fees is required. However, every year companies have to file very basic returns with ROC office.

Director Identification Number (DIN) is a unique identification number required for a person to become a director of a company. DIN is issued by ROC office (Ministry of Corporate Affairs)
It is similar to a PAN Card number.DIN is to be mentioned in documents while appointing a person as a director of a company.

A digital signature is electronic signature, which is in the form of codes. It is used for signing the electronic forms, filed with ROC for incorporation of Company. Digital Signature cannot be used in physical documents.

Company name is very important part in registration of company. The company name is divided into 3 Parts:

1. Keyword (brand name like TATA or Flipkart)
2. Activity word(i.e. showing nature of business like Software)
3. Business Type word (i.e. Pvt. Ltd. or LLP). For Incorporation of company, the suggested name should not match with existing companies or trademark.

MOA means Memorandum of Association and AOA means Articles of Association. These are the byelaws or rules based on which important matters like main business of the company or meetings is decided. These are standard legal documents prepared by Company Secretaries during registration of the Company.

Yes, company office address can be changed anytime after incorporation.

Capital means investment made by shareholders into the company. Authorised capital is an amount up to which company can issue shares. This capital is mentioned during incorporation of the company based on which ROC registration fees and stamp duty is paid. Paid up capital is an actual investment which goes from shareholders into company bank account, against which share certificate is issue by the company.

No. After company is registered, it need to open a company bank account and then anytime within two months of incorporation, capital can be deposited into Company bank account.

This is not true, a Private limited company is one of the mode of doing business, which means it can be started from scratch. For that matter even after incorporating a private limited there is no obligation that the company must have sales or turnover.

There is no automatic applicability. Provident Fund (PF), GST applicability is same for all types of businesses like sole proprietorship, partnership firms and companies. These laws are applicable only after crossing certain threshold limits.