# Polish Company Setup for Foreign Businesses > Registering a Polish company from abroad? We coordinate your sp. z o.o. setup with the law firm and notary, then run its accounting, payroll and compliance from day one — one partner, not a hand-off. > Source: https://certapoland.com/company-registration-poland/ # Polish Company Setup for Foreign Businesses **Polish company setup for foreign businesses — registration, accounting & payroll from day one.** For foreign companies registering a Polish entity — not local founders setting up a Polish sole proprietorship (JDG), and not a substitute for legal advice on which corporate form to choose. If you haven't decided yet whether you need a company at all, start with [how to enter Poland](/enter-poland/) instead — it may be that you don't need one yet. Legal firms can register the company. Accounting firms can run the books. EOR platforms can hire without an entity. Certa Poland helps foreign companies choose the right path and keep the Polish setup compliant after day one. ## The short answer We coordinate the setup of your Polish limited company (sp. z o.o.) as a foreign-owned entity — working with the law firm and notary who handle the incorporation — and move straight into running its accounting, payroll and compliance, so you are never handed a freshly registered company with no one responsible for what happens next. Company setup on its own is not something we offer in isolation; we always pair it with ongoing accounting, because an unattended Polish company is where compliance problems start. ## When a Polish company makes sense - You are building a genuine local presence: an office, a local sales function, or a team that will grow past a handful of people. - The role you're hiring for is decision-making or commercial in nature — negotiating and concluding contracts, or making management decisions from Poland — where a company of your own is often the more predictable structure. See [the permanent-establishment risk guide](/guides/permanent-establishment-poland-hiring-decision-makers/) for why the role, not the paperwork, is what matters here. - You need a Polish legal entity to hold contracts, a bank account or licenses in its own name. - You are already running Polish operations through another route and have outgrown it. ## When it does NOT make sense yet If you have one to a few people to hire in Poland and you're not yet sure how big this gets, opening a company is often the wrong first move — you'd be paying for a structure sized for twenty people to employ two. The more common path: hire your first person or small team directly in Poland without your own entity, learn the market with people actually on the ground, and incorporate later — once you know you're staying, with a team and an accounting partner already in place rather than starting cold. That's exactly the decision [how to enter Poland](/enter-poland/) walks through, and it routes to [hiring without an entity](/hire-employees-in-poland/) if that fits you better. ## Documents we need from you Once the assessment confirms a company is the right route, setup typically draws on: your parent company's registration details and good standing, identification for the people who will be directors/shareholders of the Polish entity, a decision on registered address and planned share capital, a description of the business activity the Polish entity will carry out, and a power of attorney so we can handle the Polish formalities on your behalf. We confirm the exact list for your case at the assessment — it varies with structure and country of origin. ## What we do not provide - **Company setup on its own, without ongoing accounting.** We don't coordinate an incorporation and then disappear — an unattended Polish entity is a compliance risk, not a convenience. - **Legal advice or opinions** on corporate structure, contracts or disputes. We work alongside an independent lawyer and tax adviser for anything beyond scoped accounting and compliance work, and say so upfront when a question needs one. - **Visa or immigration services.** If your setup involves relocating people to Poland, that is handled by a separate specialist, not by us. - **Services for Polish (JDG) founders.** This page is for foreign companies entering Poland, not for local sole-proprietor registrations. ## How we work We start with an assessment: your reason for entering Poland, the role(s) involved, and an honest read on whether a company is the right structure at all — including telling you when it isn't yet, per the section above. If a company is the right call, we coordinate the registration — with the law firm and notary who file it — and move directly into setting up the accounting, payroll and compliance function around it, so there is no gap between "the company exists" and "someone is responsible for its Polish obligations." ## Pricing Setup — coordinating the incorporation — is a one-off fee **from €1,000 to €5,000 + VAT**, depending on the complexity of the structure, plus the statutory costs of incorporation (notarial, court and registration fees); the exact figure is confirmed at the assessment. Once the company is running, ongoing accounting, payroll and compliance **starts from €1,000/month + VAT** and scales with the volume and complexity of the books — the number of accounting operations, VAT settlements, transfer pricing, VAT OSS and similar. It is not a percentage of payroll and does not track salary levels. This €1,000/month is for running the full accounting of a Polish company. If you only need to employ one person without setting up a company, that is a different service — [employment compliance without an entity](/hire-employees-in-poland/), €300 per employee per month, net of VAT. Two different jobs, priced separately. See [pricing](/pricing/) for how our packages are structured, and [accounting for foreign-owned companies](/accounting-for-foreign-companies-in-poland/) for what the ongoing side covers in detail. ## Next step If you're ready to set up a Polish company — or want an honest read on whether you need one yet — **[Book an assessment →](/book-assessment/)**. **Related:** - [Accounting for foreign-owned companies in Poland](/accounting-for-foreign-companies-in-poland/) - [How to enter Poland: hire first or incorporate?](/enter-poland/) - [Hire an employee in Poland without your own entity](/hire-employees-in-poland/) - [EOR vs. setting up a Polish company — how the two routes compare](/compare/eor-vs-subsidiary-poland/) - [Do you need a Polish subsidiary to hire?](/guides/do-you-need-a-polish-subsidiary-to-hire/) - [Permanent-establishment risk when hiring in Poland](/guides/permanent-establishment-poland-hiring-decision-makers/) --- *This page is general information about a service, not legal or tax advice. Figures shown are indicative until confirmed in a written assessment. The specifics of your case are confirmed case by case, with licensed legal and tax advisers where the law requires it.*