Business Licensing
Complete business licensing lifecycle under Ontario Municipal Act s.8-11 — application, multi-department approval, annual renewal, public business registry, and specialized licensing for short-term rentals, taxi/VFH, restaurants, personal services, and contractors.
Online Renewal
Registry Search
Renewal Reminders
STR Monitoring
Purpose-Built for Canadian Municipalities
Purpose & Scope
What this module owns
Clear ownership boundaries prevent duplication and ensure every capability has exactly one authoritative home.
Owns
8Delegated to
7Application intake workflow
Business premises inspections
Enforcement actions
Renewal reminders, late notices
Online renewal, public registry
Licence fees, late penalties
Location-based business mapping
These capabilities are handled by dedicated modules and consumed via stable API contracts — keeping boundaries clean and ownership unambiguous.
Core Capabilities
What it does
3 capability groups comprising 7 discrete capabilities — each with API surface, business rules, and data ownership.
Business licence application intake with type-specific requirements for all municipal licence categories.
Business Types
Retail, restaurant, personal services, contractor, taxi/VFH, short-term rental, and other — each with category-specific requirements.
Type-Specific Requirements
Food handler certificate, fire safety plan, vehicle inspection, zoning compliance letter, and other documents per licence type.
Business Details
Business name, owner, type, address, and proposed activities captured with validation against zoning and bylaw compliance.
Route to health, fire, building, and bylaw for type-specific approval with conditional approval pending inspection.
Department Routing
Route to: health (food establishments), fire (assembly occupancies), building (zoning compliance), bylaw (general compliance).
Conditional Approval
Licence approved conditionally pending premises inspection; final issuance on successful inspection.
Cross-Department Coordination
All department comments and conditions consolidated for single decision notification to applicant.
Every module owns a single bounded context, exposes stable APIs, and can be composed into any Civic product — that's the architecture that scales.
Krutik Parikh
Creator of Civic
Data Model
Entity Architecture
4 entities with 4 relationships — the authoritative schema for this bounded context.
Entities
Select an entity to explore its fields and relationships
API Surface
Integration Endpoints
10 RESTful endpoints across 6 resource groups — plus 5 domain events for async integration.
/api/v1/business-licences
Apply for licence
/api/v1/business-licences/{id}
Get licence details
Ecosystem
Products that depend on this module
1 Civic products consume Business Licensing — making it one of the most critical platform services in the ecosystem.
Technical Specifications
Performance, Compliance & Configuration
Online Renewal
Registry Search
Renewal Reminders
Public Registry Uptime
STR Compliance Monitoring
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
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