Which online services can you use to set up a company in Morocco in 2026?

Yes: Law No. 88-17 (2019) makes it possible to complete all the formation formalities remotely, with an advanced electronic signature (signature électronique avancée) issued by a provider approved by the DGSSI. Among the three levels provided for by Law No. 43-20 (simple, advanced, qualified), it is the recommended level for company deeds. Each step, from the negative certificate to the RC extract, is detailed in our guide to setting up a company 100% online in Morocco.

Official deeds are still issued by the authorities: the negative certificate by OMPIC, registration in the Commercial Register by the commercial court registry (Law 15-95, Law 53-95), the IF, the ICE and the business tax by the DGI, affiliation by the CNSS. The Regional Investment Center (Centre Régional d'Investissement, CRI), the regional one-stop shop for investors, is not a mandatory step for setting up a company. With Charikaty, you complete the entire process online, from the negative certificate to the delivery of your Commercial Register extract and your identifiers.

The online services of the Moroccan Office of Industrial and Commercial Property (Office Marocain de la Propriété Industrielle et Commerciale) (Law 13-99) allow:

• Applying for the OMPIC negative certificate, which certifies that the company name (dénomination sociale) is available (Article 74 of the Commercial Code [Code de commerce]): 232.76 MAD online, issued in practice within 24 to 48 hours, valid for 90 days, the period within which the company must be registered.
• Filing and tracking trademarks, patents, industrial designs (Law 17-97). A trademark is protected for 10 years, renewable indefinitely.
• Consulting the central commercial register (registre central du commerce), kept by OMPIC on the basis of the local registers.

The General Tax Directorate (Direction Générale des Impôts) assigns the company, as part of its registration, its tax identification number (identifiant fiscal, IF), its ICE (15 digits, Decree 2-11-63) and its enrolment for the business tax (taxe professionnelle, TP) (Law 47-06), which is exempt for the first 5 years of operation. The SIMPL e-services then handle the mandatory online filing and online payment: IS (Article 19 of the CGI), VAT (TVA) (Articles 87 to 125), IR on salaries and minimum contribution (cotisation minimale) (Article 144, exempt for the first 36 months of operation).

The company's affiliation with the CNSS (Dahir 1-72-184 of 27 July 1972) is requested at the time of formation. Declaring employees becomes mandatory from the first hire. The DAMANCOM portal is used for the monthly payroll declaration and the payment of contributions (in 2026, employer share 21.09%, employee share 6.74%; AMO governed by Law 65-00).

An individual who carries out a small activity alone can opt for the auto-entrepreneur (self-employed status) (Law 114-13). Enrolment is done online in the national auto-entrepreneur register (registre national de l'auto-entrepreneur, RNAE), without registration in the Commercial Register and without articles of association. Turnover ceilings: 500,000 MAD (trade, industry, crafts) and 200,000 MAD (services), with a flat-rate final tax (impôt libératoire) of 0.5% or 1% of the turnover collected. Beyond that, or to go into partnership with others, a company must be set up (SARL, SAS).

Private platforms such as Charikaty are not administrations. They prepare the file, have it signed, file it and follow it up with the authorities, then deliver the documents to the client:

• Drafting of the articles of association (Law 5-96 for the SARL; Law 17-95 amended by Law 19-20 for the SA; Law 5-96 as amended and supplemented by Law 19-20 for the SAS) and advanced electronic signature (Law 43-20)
• Negative certificate from OMPIC
• Filing of the registration file with the registry, then delivery of the RC extract, the IF, the ICE and the TP
• CNSS affiliation and legal publications (legal announcements newspaper [journal d'annonces légales] and Official Bulletin [Bulletin officiel])

Documents: identity document of each partner (associé) and director (CIN or passport), proof of the registered office (siège social) (commercial lease [bail commercial], Law 49-16, or business domiciliation contract [contrat de domiciliation], Law 89-17), negative certificate, signed articles of association, certificate of blocked capital (attestation de blocage du capital) where required, report of the contributions auditor (commissaire aux apports) in the event of a contribution in kind above the thresholds (Article 53 of Law 5-96). The list by legal form and by profile is set out in the documents required to register a company in Morocco. With Charikaty, you send them online and we take care of the rest.

Official fees (order of magnitude): negative certificate 232.76 MAD; filing and registration with the registry about 1,200 MAD; publication in the legal announcements newspaper and in the Official Bulletin from a few hundred to 1,500 MAD; business domiciliation from 100 to 500 MAD excl. VAT per month where applicable. The full budget is detailed in the cost of setting up a company in Morocco.

Timelines: negative certificate within 24 to 48 hours; registration in the RC in practice within 3 to 10 working days after filing a complete file, depending on the registry.

Charikaty is a private Moroccan legal-tech platform specializing in company formation and compliance. Setting up your company requires an OMPIC negative certificate, signed articles of association, proof of registered office, registration with the registry, DGI identifiers and CNSS affiliation. With our online SARL formation service, we bring together in a single process the formalities with OMPIC, the commercial court registry, the DGI and the CNSS: we prepare your file, have it signed electronically, file it, follow its processing and deliver your Commercial Register extract and your identifiers to you, whether you are in Morocco or abroad.

With Charikaty, setting up a SARL in Morocco costs from 4,550 MAD including VAT, official fees included, and is done entirely online. More than 250 companies have already been set up with Charikaty.