A shelf company is a Singapore private limited company that was incorporated earlier, kept dormant and never traded, and held ready for sale. Buying one gives you an existing UEN and an older incorporation date from day one, with no name approval or registration wait between you and a signed contract.
Excellence Singapore sells shelf companies from our own stock: entities we hold, keep dormant and maintain ourselves, transferred to you with every ACRA filing handled. Prices start from S$1,800, and the final price depends on the age of the entity and the inclusions you choose. This page covers what you get, what it costs and how the transfer works. If you are still deciding whether a ready-made company fits better than a fresh incorporation, our complete shelf company guide covers the full pricing anatomy, the red flags and the due-diligence checklist.
Need a registered Singapore company this week? Talk to Excellence Singapore. Tell us what the company is for and when you need it, and we will send you the currently available companies, with incorporation dates and pricing.
What You Get When You Buy From Us
Every company we offer passes the same standing checks before it goes on our shelf, and stays compliant while it waits:
Good standing with ACRA. The company is live on the register, with every annual return and dormant-year filing made on time.
Never traded. No revenue, no contracts, no employees and no debts at any point since the day it was incorporated.
No liabilities or charges. Zero debts, zero claims, and no charges or encumbrances on the ACRA profile.
No bank account, ever. A never-traded company has never needed one, so there is no transaction history you cannot see.
The purchase itself includes:
- Transfer of 100 percent of the shares to you, documented and filed, with the stamp duty paperwork on the share transfer prepared as part of completion.
- Your directors appointed and the outgoing officers resigned, with each change filed with ACRA.
- Your company secretary appointed. Keep our company secretary team on, or appoint your own; every Singapore company must have one.
- Registered address updated to your own office, or to our registered address service as an add-on.
- The handover pack: the updated ACRA business profile showing you as shareholder and director, the certificate of incorporation, the constitution, first board resolutions appointing your officers, and share certificates in your name.
If you would rather have one team run everything after the handover, you are welcome to appoint us for the full service: company secretary, registered address and nominee director support alongside the purchase.
One thing no shelf company comes with: a working bank account. A genuine shelf company has never traded, so it has never had a bank account, and an open account on a supposedly dormant company would be a red flag, not a convenience. After the transfer, you open a fresh corporate account in the company’s name. That is a separate step with the bank’s own onboarding checks, and we can assist with the application as an optional add-on service.
Shelf Companies From S$1,800
From S$1,800
one-time purchase price
Shelf companies from our stock start from S$1,800. There is no single fixed price, because two things drive the final figure:
- Entity age: the older the incorporation date, the more years of holding cost sit behind it, and the higher the price.
- Inclusions: what you add to the base transfer, such as a year of company secretary support, a registered address, a name change filing, or a nominee director for a foreign-owned setup.
Tell us what the company is for and we will quote the exact price of each available company, in writing, before you commit to anything.
How the Transfer Works
Buying a shelf company is a change of ownership and officers over an existing entity, and every step of it is filed with ACRA:
Enquire and choose.
Contact us with what you need: how old the company should be, when you need it, and what it will do. We reply with the currently available companies that fit, with incorporation dates and prices.
KYC and due diligence.
We verify the identities of the buyers and beneficial owners before any sale, as our obligations as a registered corporate service provider require. We support all lawful business activities, subject to our KYC and due-diligence review.
Sale agreement and evidence pack.
We prepare the sale agreement, share transfer instruments, resolutions and consent forms, and you review the evidence for the company you chose before you sign anything.
Filings with ACRA.
The share transfer completes with the stamp duty lodged, and the changes of directors, company secretary and registered address are filed with ACRA.
Handover and next steps.
You receive the handover pack and the company is yours to run. The remaining step is the corporate bank account, which the bank onboards separately; we can assist with the application as an optional add-on service.
From first contact to handover, the pace is mostly set by how quickly documents come back to us. Once KYC is cleared and the signed documents are in, the transfer typically completes within 3 working days.
How to See the Available Companies
The companies we sell come from our own stock: entities we hold, keep dormant and maintain ourselves, looked after by the same team that maintains our clients’ statutory registers. We do not publish the list on this page, because it changes as companies are bought and new ones are added, and a published list would go stale quickly.
Contact us for the currently available companies and we will send you what is on the shelf right now: the company names, incorporation dates and the price of each. If nothing available fits what you need, we will say so, and quote you a fresh incorporation instead.
Why Buy a Shelf Company Instead of Incorporating Fresh?
Three reasons hold up in practice:
- An incorporation date that answers tender questions. Some tenders and vendor registrations ask how many years a company has been incorporated. An aged entity answers that from day one.
- No registration wait. The UEN already exists, so there is no name approval or registration step between you and a signed contract.
- The setup is already done. The constitution, the registration and the early filings all exist; the transfer paperwork is the only step left.
We will be straight with you: for most founders a fresh incorporation is cheaper and nearly as fast, and since we sell both, we have no reason to push you to the dearer route. Our Singapore company incorporation service registers a new company from S$1,000, and the full comparison, including the price anatomy and when the premium is genuinely worth paying, is in our shelf company guide.
Due Diligence You Can Verify
Since 2013
4,000+ businesses
CSP-registered
A shelf company is only worth what its history proves, so we structure every sale to be verified rather than taken on trust. Before you sign, you receive:
- The current ACRA business profile, showing the incorporation date, the share structure and paid-up capital, the current officers, and the absence of registered charges.
- The filing history for every year since incorporation, showing dormant-year filings made on time, with nothing missing.
- Written confirmation of zero liabilities in the sale agreement.
Excellence Singapore is a registered corporate service provider that has supported more than 4,000 businesses since 2013, and our shelf stock is maintained in-house by the same secretarial team that keeps our clients compliant. Even so, our advice to every buyer is the same: verify, do not trust. The due-diligence checklist in our shelf company guide shows you exactly what to check when buying from any seller, including us.
Who Buys a Shelf Company?
Three situations account for most of the shelf companies we transfer:
Tender and vendor deadlines
Businesses facing a tender or vendor registration that asks for a minimum incorporation age, with a submission date that will not wait.
Founders who need an entity now
A lease, a contract or a deal that needs a signing entity this week, not after a registration process.
Foreign buyers
Foreigners can own 100 percent of a Singapore company, including a shelf company. You still need one ordinarily resident director; our nominee director service fills that seat compliantly, and EP holders can take over the directorship once the pass is approved.
Setting up from overseas for the first time? Start with our guide to opening a business in Singapore as a foreigner, then tell us whether a shelf company or a fresh incorporation fits your timeline better.
Buy a Clean, Ready-Made Singapore Company
Tell us what you need the company for and when you need it. Talk to Excellence Singapore: we will send you the currently available companies with incorporation dates and pricing, walk you through the evidence for the one you choose, and handle the transfer from KYC to handover.
Faster than a new registration in most cases, because the company already exists and there is no name approval or registration step. Once KYC is cleared and the transfer documents are signed, we file the share transfer and officer changes with ACRA and the company is yours to run. Opening the corporate bank account is a separate step that follows the transfer.
Prices start from S$1,800 and depend on the age of the entity and the inclusions you choose. Every purchase covers the share transfer to you, the changes of directors and company secretary, the ACRA filings for each change, and the handover pack: the updated business profile, certificate of incorporation, constitution, board resolutions and share certificates. Options such as a registered address or a nominee director are quoted on top.
Yes. Foreigners can own 100 percent of a Singapore private limited company, including one bought off the shelf. The company must still have at least one director who is ordinarily resident in Singapore, and our nominee director service can fill that seat until you relocate or appoint a local director.
No, and it should not. A genuine shelf company has never traded, so it has never needed a bank account, and an old account on a supposedly dormant company would be a warning sign. After the transfer you open a fresh corporate account in the company's name, and we can assist with the account opening as an optional add-on service.
Contact us for the currently available companies. We sell from our own stock and the list changes as companies are bought and added, so we share the current names, incorporation dates and pricing directly rather than publishing a list that would quickly go out of date.
Because we hold and maintain the companies ourselves, and we prove it rather than ask you to take our word. Before you sign, you receive the current ACRA business profile, the filing history for every year since incorporation, and written confirmation of zero liabilities in the sale agreement. The company has never traded, so there are no contracts, debts or claims attached to it.
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