Pricing
Two amounts appear on this page: $39 a year and $19 once. Both buy a PDF checklist. The yearly plan adds three reminder emails behind the file. Neither amount is a government fee, and neither reduces or replaces the renewal fee a license owes to CSLB.
The yearly plan is selected when the page opens, because most readers arrive within a few weeks of a month-end deadline and the reminder is the part that keeps the month from passing unnoticed. The one-time plan sits beside it for the reader who wants the file and nothing after it.
What $39 a year includes
The yearly plan buys the PDF checklist and three reminder emails, scheduled 30 days, 7 days and 1 day before the last day of the month stored with the order. The file arrives by email within 5 minutes of the payment company marking the order paid.
The three emails follow on their own dates. One yearly amount covers the file and those mailings. Nothing on this page is a subscription to a service that renews the license, because no such service exists here.
What $19 once includes
Nineteen dollars buys this year's checklist and nothing after it. No reminders are scheduled, no month is stored for a later mailing, and the transaction closes when the file lands.
The file itself is identical. A reader who pays $19 and a reader who pays $39 open the same six lines; what separates them is only what arrives afterward.
Why the yearly plan comes preselected
The page opens with the yearly plan chosen, and the one-time plan sits directly beside it. That is a default, not a requirement. One selection changes the order before the card is charged.
The reason for the default is the failure this site exists to prevent: a license that expires because the month went by while the form sat in a pile. A reader who already has that covered should take the cheaper plan without hesitation, and the section near the bottom of this page says who that reader is.
The charge is not a government fee
Nothing collected here goes to CSLB. The payment buys a document and, on one plan, three emails. CSLB collects its own renewal amount, on its own schedule, through the online portal or by mail with the renewal form.
A payment confirmation from this site is not a government receipt. It will not appear on a license record, and it is not evidence that a renewal happened. The only record of a renewal is the one CSLB keeps.
What a license pays CSLB on top
The public table at https://www.cslb.ca.gov/about_us/library/fees.aspx, read 2026-11-14, lists the renewal amounts. Active timely, sole owner, $450; active timely, sole owner with a C-10, $470; active timely, non-sole owner, $700; active timely, non-sole owner with a C-10, $720. Inactive timely runs $300 for a sole owner and $500 for a non-sole owner.
The delinquent rows sit higher, from $675 for an active delinquent sole owner to $1,070 for an active delinquent non-sole owner with a C-10. The delinquent page copies those rows in full, including the inactive ones and the two reactivation amounts, because that is the part of the table where a guessed number does the most damage.
When the license is a C-10, or a company holds it
The CSLB figure moves with the license; this price does not. A C-10 electrical license has its own rows on the table, $470 against $450 on the active timely sole-owner line and $720 against $700 for a non-sole owner, and the checklist prints the pair side by side.
A license held by a partnership, corporation, LLC or joint venture reads the non-sole-owner rows, since that is what the phrase means on the table. The C-10 page and the company page copy those rows as published. Whichever applies, the plan on this page stays at $39 or $19.
Cancelling, and the seven-day refund window
Write to support@contractorlicensedue.com to cancel. Cancellation stops the next charge and the reminder emails that would have followed it. It does not refund a year in which the checklist or a reminder was already sent.
The refund window runs the other way, from the payment forward. Within 7 days of payment, if the file was not downloaded and no checklist or reminder email was sent, a message to the same address returns the full amount to the original payment method, with banks often taking 5 to 10 business days to show it. After the file is downloaded or the first email is sent, the sale is final.
That pair of rules is deliberate. Before the file is opened, nothing has been delivered and the money can go back. After it is delivered, what was sold cannot be returned.
Who should take the one-time plan
Choose $19 once if the license is renewing a single time and then lapsing, if a bookkeeper or a trade association already runs a renewal calendar, if the renewal is handled at a desk where the date is in plain sight, or if the reader simply does not want another sender in an inbox.
Choose the yearly plan if the license will renew again and the risk being paid down is the month passing unnoticed. That is the whole difference between the two amounts.
Questions
Is the $39 a yearly charge or a one-time charge?
It is the yearly plan. The amount covers that year's checklist and its three reminders, and it is the price shown when the page opens. The $19 plan is paid once and covers the file only.
Does the price change for a C-10 or a company license?
No. The plan price is the same whichever row of the CSLB table applies. What changes is the amount paid to CSLB, because a C-10 and a non-sole-owner license each have their own rows on the table.
Can I get a refund?
Within 7 days of payment, if the file was not downloaded and no email was sent, yes. Write to support@contractorlicensedue.com and the full amount returns to the original payment method. Once the file is downloaded or the first email is sent, the sale is final.
Do I pay CSLB through this site?
No. CSLB collects its own fee on its own table. This site collects only the plan price, never forwards money to the board, and does not issue a receipt that stands in for a government one.
Is my card number stored here?
Card numbers stay with the payment company. What this site stores is the email address entered, the answers typed at checkout, and a one-year visitor cookie. Nothing is sold to contractors, lead brokers or advertisers.