The official fee has an address.
It sits on a statute, a regulator fee schedule, or the NMLS processing chart. That is the number a cost page is allowed to print.
Cost desk · four license families
ARM, lending, money transmission, and mortgage company costs across 50 states. Every dollar on these pages is cited to a statute, a regulator schedule, or the NMLS processing chart. The service quote opens at Cornerstone Licensing.
Single cited components, retrieved 29 August 2026. Open the page for the rest of that stack.
The shopping problem
People comparing license paths need the government fee and the service quote kept apart.
It sits on a statute, a regulator fee schedule, or the NMLS processing chart. That is the number a cost page is allowed to print.
DIY means you pay the official fees yourself. LegalZoom, Harbor Compliance, and Cornerstone publish what they do; the service charge for these four families is a quote. On this desk, that quote goes to Cornerstone.
Use the state page for the cited stack. Use Get a quote when you want Cornerstone to price the filing work.
License families
Each hub carries nationwide NMLS fees and a directory of 50 state pages. The sample is one sourced line, not a total.
Collection agency / debt collection company licenses
Consumer lender, finance lender, and related company licenses
Money transmission / money services business company licenses
Mortgage banker, broker, and servicer company licenses
State pages
Choose the license family and the state. The control routes to that cost page.
Routes to the page of cited fees for that state and license family.
Paths
Price-list status, public scope, and the track record each firm publishes.
No service fee. You pay government and NMLS fees directly.
Read the DIY stackPublishes formation and some general-business prices. No public price list for ARM, lending, money-transmitter, or mortgage company licenses.
See the full tableNo public per-state price list for these four financial-license families.
See the full tableNo public price list. Quote only.
Get a quoteCornerstone’s own published record: 28 years, 525,000+ filings, 99.995% on-time filing rate — published on cornerstonelicensing.com. cornerstonelicensing.com
| Published fact | DIY | LegalZoom | Harbor Compliance | Cornerstone Licensing Quote CTA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public price list for these licenses | No service fee. You pay government and NMLS fees directly. | Publishes formation and some general-business prices. No public price list for ARM, lending, money-transmitter, or mortgage company licenses. | No public per-state price list for these four financial-license families. | No public price list. Quote only. |
| Published scope | You file with the state agency or NMLS yourself. | Public site focuses on entity formation, trademarks, and general legal documents. | Public site markets multi-state licensing and registered-agent services. | Public site lists multi-state licensing, surety bonds, insurance, registered agent, and Atlas tracking for financial-services firms. |
| Published track record we will repeat | Not a vendor. | Public company. See investor materials for corporate history. | Not restated here. Use the provider’s own published figures. | 28 years, 525,000+ filings, 99.995% on-time filing rate — published on cornerstonelicensing.com. |
| No vendor site | No vendor site | No vendor site | cornerstonelicensing.com → |
Service-dollar ranges are omitted on purpose. If a firm does not publish a price, LicenseStore will not invent one. See sources.
How to use the desk
ARM, lending, money transmitters, or mortgage company. The hub lists NMLS processing fees that apply when you file that way.
Agencies are named. Fees appear with the statute or schedule we cited. A missing amount stays blank and points at the NMLS chart.
The button leaves LicenseStore and opens Cornerstone Licensing’s contact page for the service side of the filing.
FAQ
Quote path
Cornerstone Licensing quotes ARM, lending, money-transmitter, and mortgage filings. The form lives on their site. The fee tables stay here.