This option does not allow you to print a copy of the renewed registration.Ī valid Discover, MasterCard or VISA debit or credit card is accepted for payment of all online renewals. No personal information is displayed on the screen and there are no reminders of other registrations or licenses that may need to be renewed. Privacy and security concerns prevent you from submitting a change of address with this option. Quick Renewal requires only the license plate, watercraft MC number, or snowmobile registration number, which allows you to renew your own registrations as well as those of a family member or friend. The system will also provide reminders, such as when it's time to renew your driver's license. You can print a copy of your renewed registration to carry with you until your tab arrives. The Secretary of State offers two convenient methods for renewing your vehicle and watercraft registrations - Quick Renewal and Authenticated (Logged in) Renewal, which would require you to log into your account with us.Īuthenticated (Logged in) Renewal allows you to renew your registration and, because you have also logged into your account and provided information to us so that we can identify you, you may also change the address on your vehicle's registration. If this is the case, you may be able to recover the PDF and save it or print it. Depending on your computer settings and the circumstances that cause the problem with the PDF, it is possible that a back-up copy was placed in a temporary folder on your computer. Check to see if a copy of the PDF was automatically saved.If you were conducting a transaction as a business customer, we will need the full business name, a license plate or VIN from a vehicle used in the transaction, the type of transaction and the date of the transaction. Provide your full name, driver's license or state ID number, the type of transaction you were conducting when the PDF failed and the date of the transaction. If you received an error message and can't print your documents, please contact the Michigan Department of State. Did you receive an error message? Certain problems with the application, server or other systems may prevent you from printing your transaction receipt documents.Your registration and tab will arrive by mail.

You will not receive a registration document online if you renewed a registration using the Quick Renewal option. If you have completed either a duplicate registration or a renew registration transaction and lose your transaction receipt documents, you can reprint your vehicle registration by completing a Duplicate Registration transaction.

For duplicate or renewal registrations only.

If you close the PDF screen or sign out of your session before printing or saving the PDF, you will lose your transaction documents and will need to contact the Michigan Department of State. Is it a problem with your printer's paper or ink? If you've saved the PDF or kept the window open, you can fix the printer problem and reprint the PDF.If you are having problems printing the PDF, please read the following: In the unlikely event that printing fails, you'll have a backup. Regardless.We recommend that you save the PDF of your transaction receipt documents to your computer. It took me about 3 minutes to discover the above three problems. Sometimes you wonder if the people that develop the software actually ever use it. I guess I can live with that but after you open your file and you discover that it's not the one you wanted, you go back to the SOS software and guess what: you got to start over again because it doesn't save the last screen!!! (Isn't this an obvious problem?) Not good.Ģ - When you have a long list you can't access the bottom file on that list because it's covered by the menu below it (incredible!)ģ - Every time you open a file it opens it in Safari. You end up having to click on each file individually and cancelling after that. Here are my mayor 3 problems:ġ - The screen cuts off long file names making it very difficult to find the file you're looking for. This could be such a great application! But it's not.

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