Permits and licenses on one connected record — issued with the whole property in front of you.
Civic Mesa Permitting & Licensing is a complete counter your office can run on its own: building and site permits alongside every business, contractor, food, alcohol, and animal license you issue, with fees, renewals, and inspections on each record. Guarded lifecycles block illegal status jumps, an expiring-soon report keeps renewals from lapsing, and staff issue with the full history of a property already loaded. Acquire it by itself — or turn it on beside the rest of the Civic Mesa suite. Either way, it's built to be the best product in its category.
Permits and licenses in one connected record.
Run your building and site permits alongside every business, contractor, food, alcohol, and animal license your office issues — with fees, renewals, and inspections on each record. Because permits and licenses share the same property and party data as your code office, staff stop re-keying and issue with the full history of a property in front of them.
- Applications through issuance
Applied → approved → issued → finaled, with every status change stamped on the permit's own timeline.
- Licenses, guarded lifecycle
Business, contractor, food, alcohol, and animal licenses with validated transitions that block illegal status jumps.
- Renewals clone the record
Renew in one action; the system clones the prior license and links back to it, so the history stays intact.
- Expiring-soon report
Licenses bucket as expired, expiring soon, or current so clerks work renewals before they lapse.
- Open-case warning at issuance
Issue on a property with open code cases and the system warns you before the permit goes out.
- Shared fee engine
Set and mark-paid fees on permits and licenses, captured on the record for the front counter.
Every license, bucketed by status — so nothing slips past renewal.
Business, contractor, food, alcohol, and animal licenses live on the same counter as your permits, each on a guarded lifecycle. Clerks see at a glance what's due, and the record won't let a status jump somewhere it shouldn't.
- Guarded lifecycle. Validated transitions block illegal status jumps, so a license can't quietly land in a state it never earned.
- Expiring-soon report. Licenses bucket as expired, expiring soon, or current so clerks work renewals before they lapse.
- One-action renewals. Renew and the system clones the prior license and links back to it, so the full history stays intact.
Fees, renewals, and history on the record — and the property already loaded.
Open a license and you have its fees, its renewal chain, and its full timeline — plus the property and party data it shares with your code office. Staff issue with the history in front of them instead of re-keying it from another system.
- Shared fee engine. Set and mark-paid fees on the record, captured for the front counter — the same engine that runs your permits.
- Open-case warning at issuance. Issue on a property with open code cases and the system warns you before the license goes out.
- A record that stays intact. Renewals link back to the prior license, so the whole history reads as one connected chain.
Right-sized for any local government — not just big counties.
Permitting & Licensing scales from a one-clerk front counter to a full building department. It's the same top-tier product whether you issue a few contractor licenses a year or run high permit volume across an entire county.
Counties
Run building and site permits at volume across unincorporated areas, coordinate permit techs and inspectors, and issue with a property's full code history already in view.
Cities & towns
Business, contractor, food, and alcohol licenses on the same counter as your permits — with an expiring-soon report so renewals never lapse and fees are captured for the front desk.
Villages & small municipalities
A one- or two-person counter gets a real system instead of a binder — guarded license lifecycles, no IT department required, and every clerk included in the price.
Special districts & authorities
Health, fire, and licensing authorities issue food, animal, and trade licenses with validated transitions and a fee record they can hand to an auditor.
A full product today. A platform when you're ready.
Buy Permitting & Licensing by itself and run your whole counter on it. Add another Civic Mesa product later and it clicks in under the same umbrella — the same property, people, and map — with no migration and nothing re-keyed.
Add Code Enforcement
Issue on a property with open code cases and staff are warned before the permit or license goes out — because permits, licenses, and cases are all one record.
Add Notifications
Permit and license decisions, renewals coming due, and inspection results fire automatic email or SMS to the applicant — no manual follow-up.
Add CRM & 311
Resident reports of unpermitted work land in one queue and convert straight to a case — with a tracking code the resident can follow and two-way messaging back.
See Permitting & Licensing on your own jurisdiction.
Book a demo, then run a pilot on your real permits, licenses, and branding — import from your current vendor, dry-run first, and evaluate on your own records. Flat per-module pricing with unlimited users, and your data stays portable, so there's no lock-in.