UCC Filing Lookup

How UCC filings show up in the public record, and a way to order the search.

UCC Filing Lookup

Ucc filing search in Ohio

Quick answer. A UCC filing search finds an accepted financing statement or amendment. “What is a UCC filing” has a short answer: public notice of a security interest, or a later change to that notice. The fee depends on the office. This page applies that reading to Ohio.

Official office

Ohio Secretary of State, Business Services entity index

Open the official search

Phone: (614) 466-3910

180 Civic Center Drive, Columbus, OH 43215

Business filings line: (614) 466-3910 or (877) 767-3453.

Steps

  1. Decide number or name

    File number is exact. Debtor name needs the legal spelling.

  2. Stay inside the UCC system

    The state page links it. The formation search is the wrong module.

  3. Read the fee before you click pay

    Some offices charge even when the result is no records.

  4. Save the receipt with the result

    The receipt proves the search ran on that date.

The official record in Ohio

Ohio keeps business filings at Ohio Secretary of State, Business Services. The published phone is (614) 466-3910. The published address is 180 Civic Center Drive, Columbus, OH 43215. Business filings line: (614) 466-3910 or (877) 767-3453. That address is the entity index. A ucc filing search is the UCC or secured-transaction search on the same agency’s site, or a separate statewide registry the agency names. A corporation-status page that never mentions financing statements is the wrong screen.

Search the debtor’s exact legal name from the entity detail, then the file number if a lender already quoted one. A secured-party name search misses filings under an earlier lender. Read the lapse date. Continuation, assignment, and termination are later filings on the initial file. UCC Filing Lookup can order that stack. The form on this page does not file a UCC-1 or a UCC-3.

UCC Filing Lookup does not submit filings and does not quote a national UCC price. County land records in Ohio answer a different question: judgment liens and mechanic’s liens on real property are usually recorded there, not in the UCC index.

A filing is an accepted form

Search by file number when a lender quoted one. Search by debtor when they did not. The company’s state entity number is a different identifier and usually will not open the UCC file.

New York’s Department of State has published separate paper and electronic filing fees and a search fee. Texas charges a dollar to run a web search before you see results. Other states post other numbers. Use the schedule linked from the state page instead of a blog’s table.

Common mistakes

  • Typing an entity number into the UCC number field.
  • Assuming a free state is the national rule.
  • Calling a rejected submission a filing.
  • Skipping the fee disclosure on a no-hit search.

Questions

What is a UCC filing?

A financing statement or an amendment the filing office accepted and indexed.

How do I search by UCC file number?

Use the filing-number field in that state’s UCC system, not the corporation search.

Is there one UCC filing fee?

No. Each filing office posts its own schedule.

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