Today I finally got my head around stamps and seals. I’m really happy about it now.

Every company has to have company seal. We didn’t got ours because we registered our company ourselves. And nobody told us that we have to have one.

Now after one year of company registration, we wanted to get company stamp. One of our contractors needed it. I read article over Irish Business Women forum, which said that company seal is the same as company stamp. I called my legal adviser and he provided us with official company who creates seal. So on Monday I got seal. And of course it wasn’t stamp. So I still couldn’t put stamp on the contract.

I called my accountant and he was very surprised that we didn’t get seal at the company registration. I said that now I need stamp for sure. He led me to Vista Print company and there was about 50 different stamp kinds. I remember from Latvia that all the stamps where red and round. I couldn’t find any like that on the site.

I talked with accountant again and he said that company stamp isn’t legal thing as anyone can order it with the same details. It should be rectangular and have to have companies name and address (optional reg.no.). So I ordered the simplest one and maybe this week I will be able to put stamp on that contract. Companies stamps however are requested by banks and some other legal institutions.

I’m wondering – is it only me who got confused over things or there really isn’t enough information out there?

Update: due to my blog coming up everytime someone searches for “company seal” I added picture for better clarification on how does company seal look like.