IA wine direct shipper bonds.
$100 flat.
Iowa once required a $5,000 surety bond with every wine direct shipper permit application — but the legislature repealed that requirement effective August 18, 2022. If you still need this bond (an old filing, a marketplace, or a carrier asks for one), ours is $100 flat — the price you see is the checkout price.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Small fixed-amount bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the whole process:
Apply online
Business details, your county, and an effective date. That is the application — a small fixed bond like this has no financials and no credit section.
Pay & e-sign
Small fixed-amount bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File it wherever it is needed
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email. If a permit office, marketplace, or carrier asked for it, you have it in hand. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
What it is and who needs it.
What this bond was — and where it stands now
Iowa licenses out-of-state wineries that ship wine straight to Iowa consumers through a wine direct shipper permit under Iowa Code § 123.187, administered by the Alcoholic Beverages Division (now part of the Iowa Department of Revenue). The permit carries a $25 fee, semi-annual wine gallonage-tax reporting, and audit consent.
It used to also require a $5,000 surety bond — set out in administrative rule 185—5.9(123) — filed with each application unless the applicant had already posted a bond for a class "A" wine permit. That bond guaranteed the permittee would remit Iowa's wine gallonage tax and follow the alcohol-control laws.
That bond requirement was repealed effective August 18, 2022. So in plain terms: the state no longer makes you post this bond to get or keep a wine direct shipper permit. We'll still issue the $5,000 bond if a legacy filing, a marketplace, or a private carrier asks for one — but we won't tell you Iowa requires it, because as of 2022 it doesn't.
You might still want this bond if you are
One application, issued instantly.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit section, because a small fixed bond like this does not need one.
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Need the bond anyway? It is issued today.
$100 flat, no credit review, often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued — and we will not pretend Iowa requires it when it does not.