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No. You see the full invoice one more time on the payment screen, and nothing is charged until you confirm there. Recurring services renew on the cadence shown next to each one, and you can cancel them.

We start the incorporation right away and open the entity in your Commenda dashboard. You get a named point of contact rather than a ticket queue, the full document checklist up front, and live status on each step: name reservation with the MCA, Digital Signature Certificates for the directors, the incorporation filing, the Certificate of Incorporation, and PAN and TAN. Your compliance calendar is generated from the entity's own details as soon as it exists.

A shortlist of proposed company names for MCA reservation, the capital you will fund the company with and how the shares are held, and KYC for every director: passports and proofs of address. We also need the parent company's documents, and a decision on whether you are using your own Indian address or ours. Each director then joins a short call to activate their Digital Signature Certificate. We handle the apostille and notarization of all of it, and you get the checklist once, in one place, at the start.

Plan for roughly 45 to 60 working days end to end. Pre-incorporation is about 20 to 26 working days, of which name reservation alone is 8 to 10, and the MCA filing plus issuance of the Certificate of Incorporation adds about 14 to 18 more. The MCA controls the middle of that clock and we cannot compress it. A name rejected at reservation adds real time, so we file a ranked shortlist, and the fastest lever you control is returning your documents quickly.

Yes. Every government and filing fee for the incorporation sits inside the $900. So do apostille and notarization of your documents, the foreign-investment paperwork, tax setup, year one of the resident director, and the rubber stamp, signboard and stamp paper the company needs on day one. No MCA invoice arrives separately later.

Yes to both. Year one of the resident director is inside the $900; the registered business address is a separate $500 a year. Indian law requires at least one director who spent 182 or more days in India in the previous year. If none of yours qualify, we appoint a nominee who is strictly non-executive, with no signing or voting authority without your written consent, and who holds no equity: a Private Limited Company permits 100% foreign ownership under the automatic route. From year two the resident-director service is $4,000 a year. The registered business address is $500 a year from the start. If you have your own Indian office, or an address from a director of your own, use that instead.

Yes, with one condition. We work with Standard Chartered and HSBC, the partners most familiar with the foreign-investment onboarding process, and we can only directly support the account opening if you keep the resident-director service. Sequencing matters: the company must exist before the account can open, the account's first transaction has to be the share subscription from the parent, and RBI reporting (Entity Master Form, FCTRS) has to complete before the company can accept customer payments. We line those steps up in order so you are not sitting on an entity that cannot transact.

GST registration is part of formation, but monthly GST return filing is a separate annual service, as are payroll, labour-law compliance (EPF, NPS, Professional Tax), monthly bookkeeping, and the annual ROC and income-tax filing package. The registered business address is a separate $500 a year, and the resident director renews at $4,000 a year from year two. Transfer pricing agreements between the parent and the Indian entity are handled by a specialist team outside this package.

Because Indian obligations attach to the company, not to its revenue. A dormant subsidiary still owes annual ROC filings (AOC-4 and MGT-7), an income tax return, an auditor appointment via ADT-1, TDS filings, and, because it is foreign-owned, FLA and APR reporting to the RBI. Penalties on late statutory filings accrue daily and outrun the cost of filing on time quickly.

Yes. Nothing here locks you into a bundle. GST filing, payroll, labour law and bookkeeping only start to matter once you actually sell or hire in India, so you can switch them on in the month that happens and off again later. Payroll bills against your real headcount, so adding or removing employees adjusts the price rather than needing a new plan.

Your entity gets a compliance calendar built from its own details: jurisdiction, entity type, fiscal year end. Every ROC, income tax, TDS, GST and RBI obligation it owes appears there with a status, and reminders go out by email ahead of each due date, so nobody has to remember to open the platform. We file whatever is in your plan and the confirmation lands in the same dashboard that holds your other entities.

Because every MCA filing has to be signed with a Digital Signature Certificate, and each director needs their own. Issuing a DSC requires video attestation of that director plus a one-time password sent to their phone, which they read out to our DSC team on a short scheduled call. Issuance itself takes about a working day once the calls are done. Directors in distant time zones are the most common cause of delay at this step, so book those slots as soon as we ask.