Business Licences

Businesses that rent, lease or own a commercial unit or property where customers come to purchase goods or services, e.g., restaurant, repair shop, grocery store, bank, professional offices.

Businesses that sell goods or services door-to-door or in public areas and do not have a transportable structure, e.g., door-to-door vacuum sales, or craft or jewelry sales from a table.

When the primary business operates from a home or performs a service or distributes goods outside the home, but the bulk of paperwork, bookkeeping and calls are done in the home.

There are two types:

• Minor: customers do not come to the home.
• Major: customers come to the home.

Examples include nail salon, bookkeeping services, direct selling, etc.

Businesses operating an incubator facility for small businesses.

Businesses that provide services or goods in a structure that can be transported, e.g., food trucks, ice cream bicycle cart, seasonal food vendor.

An individual or company that oversees the building or renovation of a building or land. They may or may not employ subcontractors. Examples include new homebuilders and commercial builders.

A business with no storefront that performs a trade service to a home or business in Beaumont and is not the principal or general contractor. Examples include plumbers, painters and electricians.

Businesses that will be performing work in Beaumont for no more than seven consecutive days, e.g., painter on site for less than a week.

For all other businesses that do not fall into one of the categories above.

Starting January 9, 2025, our online system will be updated to allow printing of the 2025 Business Licence. While every effort was made to enable the print function before the new calendar year, it was not feasible. Please print and post the 2025 Business Licence on site, by January 31, 2025.

Business licensing services several purposes that benefits customers and businesses:

• It provides a fair, level playing field for all businesses operating in Beaumont.
• It helps us track economic development and the types of businesses available in the city.
• Business can use the registry maintained with licences as a resource for business planning.
• It gives us a way to work with the Alberta government and other regulators to track and ensure compliance for fly-by-night operators that pose a risk to customers.
• When combined with the development approval process, it ensures that building codes, land use, and other requirements are being followed.
• It supports the re-establishment of a business directory that encourages people to shop local.

Please call 780-267-3481 to advise the City of Beaumont of any changes required to your business licence information.

Please email your reason for cancellation to BusinessLicence@beaumont.ab.ca.