Florida Contractor License Lookup
The official way to verify any Florida contractor credential is DBPR's Verify Licensee portal. This page documents what the portal shows and when we verified it — it does NOT scrape it, and nothing on this site depends on the portal being reachable.
01 The official portal
DBPR Verify Licensee — official lookup S-FL-LOOKUP
Published by Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR). We tested it live in a real browser on 2026-10-01 (the scripted fetcher receives HTTP 403 behind Cloudflare, so browser verification was used — recorded in our verification trail below).
Source S-FL-LOOKUP — Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR)
DBPR — Verify Licensee (official license lookup) — search options, result columns and detail fields observed 2026-10-01
https://www.myfloridalicense.com/portalsearches/VerifyLicensee
Retrieved 2026-10-01 · last verified 2026-10-01
TESTED LIVE in a real browser on 2026-10-01: search options by Name / Number / City-County / Type (category 'Construction Industry'); result columns License Type, Name, Name Type (Primary/Alternate/DBA), License Number/Rank, Status/Expires, Main Address; detail page adds County, Licensure Date, Special Qualifications, Construction Business qualification, Alternate Names, View Related License, View License Complaint, and a 'Data current as of' timestamp. Sample observed: CFC056678 — Certified Plumbing Contractor — Current, Active — expires 08/31/2028 — Hillsborough.
02 What you can consult
| Search by | Results show | Detail page adds |
|---|---|---|
| Name, license number, city/county, or type (category: Construction Industry) | License type, name, name type (Primary/Alternate/DBA), license number/rank, status and expiry, main address | County, licensure date, special qualifications, construction business qualification, alternate names, related licenses, license complaints, and a "data current as of" timestamp |
Observed sample during verification: CFC056678 — Certified Plumbing Contractor — Current, Active — expires 08/31/2028 — Hillsborough. S-FL-LOOKUP
03 Status vocabulary
DBPR's official glossary (read in the same browser session) defines the status terms the portal renders — for example Current, Involuntary Inactive, Delinquent, License Expired, Probation, Null & Void, Revoked, plus secondary terms Active and Inactive. S-FL-GLOSSARY
California's statuses are seeded as rows (official phrase + can-contract flag per status). Florida's are NOT yet: the shared status table has no jurisdiction column, so per-state rows would mix states dishonestly. Until that is modelled, treat the glossary above as observed vocabulary and confirm can-contract meaning on the portal itself — we will not guess it.
04 How to verify a license yourself
- Open the Verify Licensee portal.
- Search by license number if you have one (most reliable), otherwise by name or city/county under the Construction Industry category.
- Check the status and its expiry date on the detail page, plus the "data current as of" timestamp.
- For registered contractors, remember: the registration is only valid in the local jurisdictions the registrant reported — certified vs registered.
05 No scraping dependency
This site renders from its own verified database. The portal is linked, not scraped: if myfloridalicense is unreachable, every page here keeps working, and nothing we publish claims to be a live license status. The live status always comes from the official portal.
| Checked | Subject | Method | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-01 | S-FL-LOOKUP | http check | confirmed |
| 2026-10-01 | S-FL-FAQ | http check | conflict |