Bayline Dental9 clinics · Tampa, FL0 lapsed in 14 months
Permits and licenses, renewed before they lapse
Tessera tracks every license your restaurants, clinics and service crews hold, files each renewal with the agency, and shows you what is due this month.
Nobody gets an email when a food handler permit expires. You find out from an inspector, a bank, or a landlord. Tessera watches the expiry date and files the renewal for you.
Tessera is renewing on your behalf
Preparing · filing · paying · this week
$14,208.00 filed
Agency
Fee
TN Alcoholic Beverage
Davidson County
Renewed
$1,240.00
FL Health Dept
Hillsborough
Renewed
$385.00
OH Food Service
Franklin County
Filed
$620.00
TX Sign Permit
City of Austin
Lapsed
$1,910.00
CO Sales Tax License
City of Denver
Lapsed
$2,240.00
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Check your coverage if:
You opened, moved or remodeled
A new address is a new license file. Austin alone wants eight separate permits before a restaurant can pour a drink.
You hired into a new county
One technician working out of Clark County can pull a contractor registration, a business license and a payroll registration in the same week.
You bought a location from someone else
Licenses almost never transfer. The previous owner’s permit dies at closing and the clock starts on yours.
Connect and watch every site
Sync payroll, POS and your lease list once. Tessera maps each address to the state, county and city agencies that regulate it, then keeps watching as you grow.
File the right applications
We prepare and submit the actual forms, pay the fees, and chase the agency when they sit on it. You approve once and get the certificate back.
Renew, log, stay inspection-ready
Renewals filed on every cadence, certificates stored where your GM can print them, and a dated record of who filed what when the inspector walks in.
Coverage Map
3Lapsed
4Due soon
2Filing
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17No sites
Every location color-coded against the licenses it actually needs: lapsed, due soon, filing, current.
Get clean and stay clean with back-dated registrations, late fee abatement requests, and refunds on permits you paid for twice.
Five jobs the software handles, and the one it always hands to a licensing analyst.
Requirement matching
Every address is matched against state, county and city rules for your specific activity, so a bakery with a patio gets a different list than the same bakery without one.
Form filling
Applications are drafted from records you already gave us: EIN, officers, square footage, seating, equipment. You review a finished packet instead of a blank PDF.
Expiry monitoring
Every license, permit and registration is tracked to its own renewal window, with the filing started before late fees or a suspension can start.
Answers without a ticket
Ask Tess what a county requires, what a fee will be, or where a certificate is filed. It reads your own records and our agency library, and it cites the rule it used.
Agency rules kept fresh
3,100 agency sites are re-read every week. When Clark County changes a fee schedule or a form number, your renewal packet changes with it.
Priced per location, not per permit
$74 per location per month, month to month. Filing fees are passed through at cost with the receipt attached. No implementation invoice, no year-end true-up.
We find what already lapsed
The audit runs before you sign. Back-dated registrations, late fee abatement requests and refund claims on permits you paid for twice are part of onboarding.
Renewals filed, not reminded
Most tools email you a reminder and call it compliance. We prepare the form, pay the agency, and send you the stamped certificate.
Analysts included at every tier
The person who files your Cook County renewal is the person who picks up the phone. Support is not a package you upgrade into.
Inspection-ready in two clicks
Every certificate, application and payment stored against its location, with a dated audit trail. Export a binder for a lender, a landlord or a health inspector.
Beyond the fifty states
Business licenses, professional registrations and municipal permits across the US, Canada and 21 countries in Europe. 3,100 agencies, re-checked weekly.
“They answer before the deadline does”
Onboarding in 3 weeks, not 3 quarters
We migrate your existing certificates
Same-day answers, 6am to 9pm ET
A named analyst who knows your counties
We call the agency so you never have to
Dana Whitlock
COO, Copper & Rye · Nashville, TN
“We had a liquor license lapse in Knoxville and lost eleven days of bar revenue before anyone caught it. Tessera found four more permits in the same state that were about to go the same way. Nine months in we have not missed one.”
Peter Ashworth
Director of Ops, Bayline Dental · Tampa, FL
“Nine clinics, four counties, and every hygienist license renewing on a different date. Our office manager spent most of a day a week on it. That is down to about an hour, and the Sarasota radiology permit we did not know we needed is now filed.”
Marguerite Solano
Owner, Halcyon Salons
Portland, OR · 31 chairs, 4 cities
“Cosmetology licenses renew per person, per state, and half my stylists moved cities during the year. Tessera tracks all 31 against the right board. We have not had a chair sit empty over paperwork since March.”
Wes Tanaka
VP Operations, Northline Fitness
Denver, CO · 22 studios
“Two of our studios had been operating on a permit the previous tenant filed. Nobody in our company knew. Tessera flagged both in the audit before we paid them a dollar.”
Priya Raghunathan
Controller, Verity Home Services
Phoenix, AZ · 6 states
“Every technician we hire in a new county pulls a contractor registration we did not know existed. Onboarding used to stall for weeks. It is now part of the hire, and it takes about ten minutes of my time.”
Bo Feltner
General Manager, Ridgeway Brewing
Asheville, NC · taproom + 2 satellites
“Our ABC renewal is the single most expensive thing we can forget. It gets filed six weeks early now and I get the certificate as a PDF. That is the whole product for me.”
Alicia Deane
Director of Finance, Mesa Provisions
Albuquerque, NM · 3 plants
“We opened a second production facility eight weeks faster than the first one, because somebody already knew which eleven things Bernalillo County was going to ask for.”
Tom Bergstrom
Owner, Sundown Storage
Boise, ID · 40 sites
“Forty small sites in three states, each with a business license and a fire inspection. It was a wall of sticky notes. Now it is one screen and I check it on Sundays.”
Renée Okonjo
Practice Manager, Juniper Pediatrics
Madison, WI · 5 clinics
“They found a radiology permit we had let lapse in 2023 and handled the back filing and the abatement letter. The fine came back at $340 instead of the $4,100 we were quoted.”
Hal Weatherby
COO, Marlow Coffee
Providence, RI · 27 cafés
“I have used two other compliance tools. Both of them emailed me a reminder and then waited for me to do the work. Tessera actually files it. That difference is the entire reason we switched.”
Cindy Vaz
HR Director, Coastline Staffing
Charleston, SC · 12 states
“Placing one worker in a new state used to mean a week of registration research. Our recruiters do not think about it anymore, and I stopped being the bottleneck.”
Grant Mullaney
Founder, Fieldstone Landscaping
Austin, TX · 4 crews
“They caught an illuminated sign permit at our yard that had been dead for two years. City of Austin was about to notice. It cost us a late fee instead of a stop-work order.”
Six operators, a year after the spreadsheet
What changed for operators after they stopped tracking permits in a spreadsheet.
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