Filing Oregon LLC Articles of Organization (step 3 of 6)

This is step 3 of six. Step 2 settled who your registered agent will be; if that is still open, go back and decide. This lesson walks through the filing that actually creates the LLC: the Articles of Organization, filed online with the Oregon Business Registry. It covers what the form asks for, what it costs, how fast it processes, and what you have when it is done.

Where you file

The Oregon Secretary of State's Corporation Division takes LLC filings through its online Business Registry. You can also file on paper by mail or courier, but there is little reason to for a solo practice. The state's own delivery options page says filings submitted through its online systems are processed the same or the next business day. Mailed documents need 7 to 10 days for delivery before processing starts, and overnight or second-day courier gets priority handling at 2 to 3 business days.

What the form asks for

I will be direct about the limits of what I verified. I checked the statute that lists what the Articles must contain, and the state's overview pages; I did not capture every screen of the live online form. Read each screen as you go. The items below are the ones I can point to a source for.

1. The LLC's name. The name you cleared in Step 1 with the Find a Business search.
2. The registered agent and registered office. A name and an Oregon street address, as the state's overview requires. This is the Step 2 decision.
3. The professional service the LLC will render. ORS 63.047(1)(g) requires an LLC that will provide professional services to state which service. For a therapist that means naming the licensed service you provide, in the terms your license uses. If you are unsure how to phrase it, this is a good moment to ask the licensing board or an attorney rather than guess.

The form will ask for more than those three things. Whatever else it asks, answer it from documents you have in front of you rather than from memory, and do not enter a PO Box anywhere the form wants a street address.

What it costs

The Business Registry Fee Schedule posted on the Secretary of State's site lists the Articles of Organization for a domestic LLC at $100, as of September 2026. The same schedule lists $100 for articles of amendment and $100 for the annual renewal, so expect that number to come around again in Step 6.

A caveat I would rather state than bury: the fee schedule PDF carries a revision code that reads like July 2013 and shows no 2026 date. The $100 figure is consistent with what I could find elsewhere, but the form itself will show the fee at checkout, and that is the number to trust.

What you get back

Once the filing is processed, the LLC exists as an Oregon entity and appears in the public registry. The Find a Business tool lets anyone search by business name or by Business Registry Number, which tells you two useful things: your LLC will have a registry number, and your filing details, including the registered agent address from Step 2, will be visible to anyone who looks.

Save whatever confirmation the system gives you, and pull up your own entry in Find a Business once it appears. Three things downstream depend on being able to show the LLC exists: the EIN application in Step 4, the bank account in Step 5, and any payer or landlord who asks for proof.

A short checklist before you click submit

1. Name searched and clear (Step 1).
2. Registered agent named, with an Oregon street address, and the agent has agreed (Step 2).
3. Professional service stated in the Articles (ORS 63.047).
4. Fee confirmed on the form's own checkout screen.
5. A copy of every screen saved before you pay.

This is not legal advice. I have written down what the statute and the state's pages say the filing requires, with links; an attorney gets the final word on how to fill in the professional-services line and anything else that looks specific to your situation.

Real example from my own filing

The document attached below is my LLC's public registry record, rebuilt and redacted: entity type, registry date, registered agent, and the history table. Notice the two lines from 2024 where the annual report slipped, the state administratively dissolved the company, and a reinstatement filing five weeks later put it back to Active. The record keeps those lines forever, and a payer's credentialing analyst will see them; calendar the renewal the day you file.

Further reading

• Oregon SOS: Delivery Options. The processing-time page; read it if you are tempted to file by mail.
• Oregon Business Registry Fee Schedule (PDF). The $100 filing fee and every related fee, on one page.
• ORS 63.047, contents of the Articles of Organization. The statute the online form is built around; item (1)(g) is the professional-services requirement.
• Oregon SOS: Select Your Business Name and Structure. The registered agent and operating agreement requirements in the state's own words.
• Oregon SBDC Network: How to Set Up an LLC. A practical, non-statutory walkthrough that pairs well with the filing screens.