FAQ
Questions, answeredGrouped by topic: Washington compliance filing, pricing & billing, and deadline reminders. See full pricing for every product side by side.
Most people start with à la carte filing: $79 plus the state's own fee, and we do one supported filing for you. After that first filing, Annual Auto-Compliance ($199/yr + state fees, early access) is the "let us handle every year" continuation. If you'd rather file everything yourself and just want a heads-up before deadlines, DIY Reminders is $9.99/mo on its own, or included in Operator.
No. Across every paid tier, Contractor Lane handles supported filings and tracks the rest. No tier claims to file every deadline your business might have.
Where a tier submits a filing, a Contractor Lane staff member prepares it and, where we're able to for that filing type, submits it by hand: this is not unattended software submitting to the state. "Auto-Compliance" describes the plan handling your recurring filings automatically each year so you don't have to remember or buy them one at a time; it does not mean the filing itself is automated. Every filing our staff submits gets a stored, human-reviewed confirmation.
No. On the tiers where Contractor Lane submits a filing for you, we describe what you get, preparation, submission where we're able to, a stored confirmation, not a legal title for the relationship. Whether a private company can be authorized to submit a given Washington filing on a business's behalf varies by filing type and is still being confirmed.
No. Contractor Lane is a private company, not a government agency, and not affiliated with or endorsed by Washington State. Every deadline and figure referenced links to the state's own official source.
We'll tell you plainly before you pay anything. Your deadline still shows up as a reminder under DIY Reminders either way, with the official state source linked.
The $79 is Contractor Lane's service fee. When the state's fee for your filing type is known, your checkout is one payment: the $79 plus the state's own fee, itemized before you pay, passed through at the state's own rate, and never marked up. Example: a Secretary of State annual report is $79 + the state's $70 fee = $149 total, one payment. When a filing's state fee can't be known upfront, you pay $79 at checkout and the state fee is billed at cost after review.
$199/year plus Washington's own filing fees, billed separately and never marked up. That price is locked for launch, but the plan is not open yet: joining the early-access list charges nothing.
$9.99/month on its own for every deadline matched to your business, state and federal, or included in Operator. Cancel anytime: one button on your settings page cancels in Stripe immediately, no email chains, no phone call.
See our full refund policy. Short version: full refund any time before we've actually filed with the state; no refund once the filing has been submitted, because the state fee is non-recoverable and the service fee covers work already performed.
The pricing page lists every Contractor Lane product with what's live today and what's early access.
Pick your state, answer a few questions about your business, and only the deadlines that apply show up. You get an email before each one, with the official source link.
No. It works for any small business. Contractor-specific reminders, like a license renewal, only fire if they apply to you.
No, and that's deliberate. It reminds you ahead of each deadline with the official source link. You (or your bookkeeper) file. It replaces the sticky note, not the CPA. If you'd rather have Contractor Lane prepare and submit a Washington filing for you, see à la carte filing and Annual Auto-Compliance.
Change it in settings and the calendar rebuilds instantly. Same for hiring your first employee: flip one toggle and the entire employer layer turns on.