Company chop maker for Hong Kong

Hong Kong made the common seal optional under the Companies Ordinance in 2014, but the everyday company chop carrying the name and CR number remains standard on commercial paperwork.

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Hong Kong separates the formal seal from the everyday chop, and only the first one changed. The Companies Ordinance made the common seal optional in 2014, so a company can execute documents by director signature. The rubber company chop, used on invoices, letters and forms, was never a legal requirement and is as common as ever.

What a company stamp in Hong Kong usually carries

The company name in English, and very often in Chinese alongside it.
The Business Registration number, or the Companies Registry number.
The registered office on a rectangular chop.
Round for the company chop, rectangular for address and endorsement chops.

Hong Kong stamp templates, ready to edit

Stars Corporate Seal template for Hong Kong, editable online — CAPSTONE stars sealSize: 56mmCustomize this seal

Star centre sealSize: 56mmUse your own logo

Octagon Company Seal template for Hong Kong, editable online — Octagon company sealSize: 56mmCustomize this seal

Square Corporate Seal template for Hong Kong, editable online — Square corporate crestSize: 56 x 56mmCustomize this stamp

Company Chop template for Hong Kong, editable online — Company chop (star)Size: 56mmUse your own logo

Date Stamp template for Hong Kong, editable online — Date stampSize: 56 x 22mmAdd an editable date

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Every preview on this page carries a faint Estamplab watermark. Your own download does not: the editor renders your stamp again, clean, as a transparent PNG, an SVG or a PDF. See the full template library.

Why make it digitally

Banks and government forms still expect a chop, and Hong Kong paperwork is heavily bilingual.
A company trading into the mainland is asked for one as a matter of course.
Registered details change, and a re-cut costs where an edit does not.

Questions

Does a Hong Kong company need a common seal?

No. The Companies Ordinance made it optional in 2014, and a company may execute documents by the signature of two directors, or a director and the company secretary, or a sole director. Check the articles, which may still provide for a seal.

What is the difference between a chop and a common seal?

The common seal is the formal instrument for executing documents. The company chop is the everyday inked mark identifying the company on invoices, letters and forms, and it carries no execution effect.

Should it be bilingual?

Usually. Hong Kong companies commonly register both an English and a Chinese name, and a chop carrying both saves keeping two.

How much does it cost, and what do I get?

Both, in the order that helps. Open a hong kong company chop sample as a layout, then use the hong kong company chop generator rather than a fixed hong kong company chop template, because the wording, shape and spacing are yours. Making a hong kong company chop online is free; the hong kong company chop price is $1.50 for a hong kong company chop png and $3.00 for the full set, and the hong kong company chop design stays editable after. It is a hong kong company chop maker, not a download.

What people call it in Hong Kong

rubber stamp Hong Kong: The physical die, cut from rubber by a shop. Design the artwork here, download the SVG, and take that to any stamp maker in Hong Kong: a vector file gives a sharper die than the photograph most people walk in with.
company stamp Hong Kong: The mark that goes on invoices, letters and forms in Hong Kong, saying which company issued the document. This is the one most businesses actually use.
company chop Hong Kong: Square, red, and applied to bind the company rather than merely to identify it. Anyone doing business in Hong Kong meets one quickly.
company seal Hong Kong: Reads as more formal than a stamp and is used where a document is being executed rather than merely marked. Common on certificates issued in Hong Kong.
stamp maker Hong Kong: The online version of walking into a stamp shop, minus the lead time. Works the same from a phone, which is how a lot of people in Hong Kong will reach it.
digital stamp: The file rather than the object: a transparent PNG that sits on a PDF as ink. Most documents that need a stamp in Hong Kong are now sent as files, and this is the version anybody actually sees.
round stamp: The ring is the recognisable part: name curving over the top, town or jurisdiction along the bottom. Keep the registration number flat in the middle where it can be read.
rectangular stamp: Straight stacked lines, which hold more text than a ring and are easier to read. The practical choice in Hong Kong for an address block or a received mark.
stamp templates: Browsing beats starting from nothing, because the hard part of a stamp is the layout and these already have one. The wording is placeholder text meant to be replaced.
free stamp maker: Designing and previewing costs nothing and needs no account, in Hong Kong as anywhere. You pay once when you download a file, and there is no subscription.
putting a stamp on a PDF: Putting the mark on the document itself, which is where most stamping in Hong Kong now ends up. The file is opened in your browser and never uploaded anywhere.

This describes common commercial practice rather than giving legal advice, and practice changes. Where a specific document matters, check the requirement with the body receiving it. Only produce a mark your own organisation is entitled to use.