Estimated total
$3,474
- Government feesPaid to Cleared, which pays the state and the city
- $2,675
- Cleared service feeCleared's own fee
- $799
Government fees are passed on at the published amounts, with no markup, and refunded in full if you cancel before we file.
Start my application
No charge to start. Before we file, Cleared invoices its fee and the government fees together, and pays the agencies for you.
Government fees, line by line
- State application fee
- $1,100
- Denver application fee
- $1,000
- State license fee
- $500
- Local license fee
- $75
- Total
- $2,675
Optional, only if they apply to you
- Concurrent review add-on (parallelizes state and local review) — $100
DR 8500 (08/14/26) - Non-owner manager registration (per manager) — $60
DR 8500 (08/14/26)
Not priced by any published source
- Fingerprint vendor charge (IdentoGO liquor code 25YQHT, or Colorado Fingerprinting C030LIQI) — not published, set by the vendor
Published processing windows
The agencies' own published figures — not a prediction of your outcome or a promised date.
- Zoning round-trip before filing: Up to 20 business days, run as two sequential steps of up to 10 business days each: CPD Records, then Zoning.
Denver process (denvergov.org) - Earliest a hearing can be set: A hearing cannot be set sooner than 30 days from the application date.
DR 8404 p.13 - Fingerprint background check: CBI reports fingerprint results in 10 to 15 days.
Colorado Bureau of Investigation - Denver city review target: Denver targets 7 business days for city review.
denvergov.org - State approval: State approval is required before the city license issues.
Colorado Liquor and Tobacco Enforcement Division - Idle-application closure: Denver closes an application after 12 months of inactivity.
Denver requirements guide
About this estimate
- Denver's own local renewal fee is charged separately and is not published on DR 8400, so no figure for it appears here.
Republished public information plus arithmetic. Source: Colorado DR 8500 Retail Liquor / Beer Fee Schedule, dated 2026-08-14 (rules fees_dr8500_2026-12). Fee schedules change; every estimate records the version it used. We confirm the current figures with the agencies before we invoice them and file.