New Hampshire launches ‘one-stop’ portal for businesses accessing state resources

Connecting New Hampshire

By: Maureen Milliken (Manchester InkLink)

Image: From nhbusinessgateway.gov 

Publication Date: December 10, 2025

CONCORD, NH – New Hampshire business owners and entrepreneurs now have a new tool that will help streamline the state’s business-related resources.

The NH Business Gateway, launched today, is a portal that combines more than 130 resources spread across 11 state agencies, putting them in one location, nhbusinessgateway.gov. The portal makes business resources more easy to navigate and, “more importantly provides a clear outline of the steps involved for businesses,” Gov. Kelly Ayotte and the state Department of Business and Economic Affairs announced in a news release Tuesday.

Estimates are that the portal could result in more than $100 million in new business revenue in  New Hampshire in as little as five years, the release said.

NH Business Gateway features a business dashboard designed to organize deadlines, permits, and filings, while also delivering guidance on business needs. Its layout is based on the questions most commonly asked by business owners and entrepreneurs, and contains three main sections: Start, which lists steps that guide entrepreneurs through the process of developing a business plan, registering a business, and applying for tax accounts and licenses; Manage and Grow, which help  business owners remain in good standing, make legal changes to their business, and find additional programs that best fit their needs.

New Hampshire joins the other New England states that also have centralized business portals, each a little different, including Connecticut [Businesses CT.gov], Maine [Maine Business Portal], Massachusetts [Massachusetts Business Front Door] and Vermont [Vermont Business Portal]. 

Business and Industry Association President Michael Skelton said the model is a “proven tool” that other states that compete with New Hampshire for jobs and investment have already implemented. 

“The NH Business Gateway significantly enhances our economic competitiveness, allowing us to better leverage one of our key advantages – a responsive, adaptive government and streamlined government regulatory environment,” he said.

Ayotte said that the portal will “make it easier, not harder, to do business in our state.” 

She added that the NH Business Gateway “is the result of months of collaboration” among  agencies from the BEA to the Department of Information Technology.

“My message to companies looking to grow is this: the Granite State is open for business and ready to welcome you!” Ayotte said in the release.

In addition to creating one location for the state’s more than 137,000 small businesses to find and track information, the BEA and the information technology department partnered to launch a single sign-on, NH Access, which allows inividuals to securely access multiple state agencies and services with one login.

“NH Business Gateway is the result of innovative collaboration between a dozen state agencies to giving businesses a clear, efficient way to interact with the state and making government resources more accessible,” said James Key-Wallace, interim BEA commissioner. “This tool will be a tremendous benefit to the business community, and any feedback we receive will allow us to continually update content to better suit their needs.”

Over the past few years, BEA has focused on making government services more accessible to the tens of thousands of New Hampshire businesses that interact with it annually. States with business portals have seen an average five-year compounded annual growth rate in the number of small businesses; 30% higher than states without portals, according to the news release.

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