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Application for Small Business Services

The Application for Small Business Services is the primary data collection instrument for SmallBusinessCentral. The application collects small business and entrepreneur contact, income, demographic, and business-related information. All small businesses and small business entrepreneurs must complete the application. Small business owners complete both pages of the paper application. Small business entrepreneurs only need to complete the first page.

After you have collected the necessary information on the Application for Small Business Services, you can then enter that information into SmallBusinessCentral by creating a Small Business or Small Business Entrepreneur application.

An application for a business location or a small business entrepreneur only needs to be created once. Different agencies can add services, grants, and loans to the same application, regardless of the agency that created the application.

If helpful, you can integrate the Application for Small Business Services into your existing intake process, but all information on the application must be collected and must align with its data collection standards. If you do not collect all this information, or in this way, you will not be able to enter the application into SmallBusinessCentral.