The OneStop Business Registry is a public sector partnership offering integrated Business Registration and Business Address Change services based on the Business Number.
The Business Registration service
enables a business to register with multiple public sector
agencies and local government in one step.
The Business Address
Change service
enables a business to notify multiple public sector agencies
and local government of an address change, in one step.
The Business Number service provides the ability for each BC business interacting with the public sector to be assigned a Business Number (BN) - a unique identifier that makes working with the public sector simpler, easier, and more convenient.
Among other benefits, these services make it possible to provide basic business information only once when dealing with two or more related public sector agencies. When given express permission by the entrepreneur, the information provided to the first agency is seamlessly transferred to the second agency without re-keying. Also among other benefits, online business services are grouped together logically, according to business needs, even if they are from different areas of the public sector.
As of August 1, 2006, the Ministry of Public
Safety and Solicitor General’s Liquor Control and
Licensing Branch adopted the national Business Number as
a common identifier. Current liquor licensees are now able
to renew their licences online using the OneStop Business
Registration service.
The OneStop Business Registry is committed to service improvements and welcomes feedback. Among other initiatives, OneStop is promoting the Business Number as the basis for all public sector interactions with business, is working to integrate new public sector business accounts with the services and is encouraging adoption of an authentication mechanism for the benefit of entrepreneurs.
OneStop Accomplishments
Businesses for years have called for government at all levels to work together to reduce red tape. The OneStop Business Registry is doing just that. Below are a few of OneStop's accomplishments:
Business Registration
First service in Canada to facilitate business registration with both provincial and federal governments
First service in Canada to facilitate business registration with all three levels of government - provincial, federal and municipal
First service in Canada to facilitate business registration with all three levels of government - provincial, federal and municipal on the Internet
First initiative to use the British Columbia government's Internet credit card payment service
Winner of the 1999 Strategies for Public Service Transformations
Information Technology Award for Cross Agencies Jurisdictional
Project (September 1999, Victoria)
Winner of the 2000 British Columbia Public Service
Silver Award for Process Improvement, Vancouver Island
Region (March 2000, Victoria)
Finalist for the 2001 Stockholm Challenge in Public
Services and Democracy (June 2001, Stockholm, Sweden)
Winner of the 2002 Strategies for Public Service Transformations
Information Technology Award for Excellence in Electronic
Service Delivery (October 2002, Victoria)
Runner up for the 2004 British Columbia Public Sector
Information Technology Award for Excellence in Project
Management (October 2004, Victoria)
Winner of the 2004 British Columbia Public Sector
Information Technology Award in the Special Category
of Multi-jurisdictional Projects (October 2004, Victoria)
Winner of the 2005 Gold Canadian Government CIO
Review Award for Inter-jurisdictional Leadership (February
2005, Ottawa)
Winner of first place with Corporate Online of
the 2005 International Association of Commercial Administrators
Merit Award for Government to Government technology (April
2005, Fredericton, New Brunswick)
Address Change
First e-service in Canada to facilitate business address changes with all three levels of government - provincial, federal and municipal
