Company seal maker for Ireland

Ireland is the outlier: the Companies Act 2014 still requires an Irish company to have a common seal, where most comparable jurisdictions made it optional.

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Almost every country in this list has been moving the same way, from a required seal to an optional one. Ireland went the other way and kept the requirement. Section 43 of the Companies Act 2014 obliges a company to have a common seal with its name engraved on it, which makes this one of the few places where the answer to "do I need one" is simply yes.

What a company stamp in Ireland usually carries

The company name engraved on it, which is what the Act specifically requires.
The CRO number, the registration number issued by the Companies Registration Office.
Often the year of incorporation in the centre.
A second seal for share certificates is permitted where the constitution allows it.

Ireland stamp templates, ready to edit

Common Seal template for Ireland, editable online — Common sealSize: 56mmCustomize this seal

Solid Ring Company Seal template for Ireland, editable online — Solid ring (white text)Size: 56mmCustomize this seal

Address Stamp template for Ireland, editable online — Address stampSize: 56 x 22mmCustomize this stamp

Signature And Date Stamp template for Ireland, editable online — Signature & dateSize: 56 x 22mmCustomize this stamp

Company Scales Seal template for Ireland, editable online — Company seal + scalesSize: 56mmCustomize this seal

Partner Sign-off template for Ireland, editable online — Partner sign-offSize: 56 x 34mmCustomize this stamp

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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

Sealed documents increasingly exist only as PDFs, and an embossed seal does not scan.
The name has to match the register exactly, and it changes on a name-change filing.
A company formed abroad but trading in Ireland is regularly asked for one.

Questions

Does an Irish company have to have a common seal?

Yes. Section 43 of the Companies Act 2014 requires a company to have a common seal with its name engraved in legible characters. That is unusual: the UK, Australia, Singapore, South Africa and Nigeria have all moved the other way.

What has to be engraved on it?

The company name, in legible characters, as registered. Most seals also carry the CRO number and the year, though the Act is specific only about the name.

Who applies the seal?

Your constitution decides. It commonly requires a director and the secretary, or two directors, to countersign the sealing, and the sealing is usually recorded in a register.

Can I design my own, or pick from templates?

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

What people call it in Ireland

rubber stamp Ireland: The physical die, cut from rubber by a shop. Design the artwork here, download the SVG, and take that to any stamp maker in Ireland: a vector file gives a sharper die than the photograph most people walk in with.
company stamp Ireland: The everyday identity mark: registered name, registration number, and whatever else practice in Ireland expects on a commercial document.
company seal Ireland: 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 Ireland.
common seal Ireland: Named in the articles of most companies registered in Ireland, whether or not anybody has taken it out of the drawer this decade. Worth having a legible one if your articles mention it.
stamp maker Ireland: Searched by people who want it made now. Nothing is installed and no account is needed to start, which matters more in Ireland than a shop's opening hours do.
digital stamp: A stamp that never needs re-inking or reordering. When an address or a registration detail changes in Ireland, you edit it instead of buying a new die.
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 Ireland 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 Ireland 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 Ireland 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.