Starting a delivery company in Morocco: legal form, paperwork, budget and first customers (2026)

01Which legal form for a delivery company?

• Starting alone?Begin as an auto-entrepreneur: registration is free, and you declare 1% of what you take in. It's all in our guide to the auto-entrepreneur status for couriers.
• Hiring couriers, buying motorbikes, signing with shops?Move to a SARL AU (one partner) or a SARL (several): the company holds the contracts, the vehicles and the wages, and your liability is limited to what you put in.

02The paperwork, step by step

1. 1The negative certificate (certificat négatif): it reserves your company name with OMPIC, the industrial and commercial property office. It's the first document, requested online through Direct Entreprise; allow about 230 DH.
2. 2The articles of association: the purpose (delivering parcels and goods for others, for instance), the registered office, the manager, the capital and how it's split.
3. 3The registered office: rented premises, or a domiciliation service that gives you an address without renting an office.
4. 4The capital: set freely. For a SARL, nothing has to be locked in the bank as long as it doesn't exceed 100,000 DH.
5. 5Registration: business tax, tax ID, ICE and trade register, at the regional investment centre (CRI) or online.
6. 6Legal notices: within a month of registration, one notice in a legal-notice newspaper and one in the Official Bulletin.
7. 7The CNSS: registering your company with social security is compulsory, and every courier you hire must then be declared.

For your vehicles: registration papers in the company's name, and insurance that covers carrying goods for others. If you buy a truck over 3.5 tonnes, our guide to becoming a courier in Morocco explains the road haulier register.

03The budget: the paperwork, then the real cost

Setting up the company itself costs little. Here is the breakdown an online company-formation service published in March 2026, for a SARL whose formalities you handle yourself:

With a firm that does everything for you, packages published in 2026 run from about 3,500 DH (with six months of domiciliation) to 6,000 DH and more. The capital isn't an expense: it's the money you put into the company to get going.

The real budget is running costs, every month:

Cost of a courier on the minimum wage = 3,422.72 DH gross + 21.09% employer contributions ≈ 4,145 DH a month

• Wagesat the 2026 minimum wage, an employed courier costs their employer about 4,145 DH a month, including CNSS contributions and the vocational training tax. For market wages, read our guide to courier pay in Morocco.
• Vehiclesbuying or leasing the motorbikes, cars or vans, and their maintenance and fuel.
• Insurancethird-party cover for each vehicle, and cover for the goods carried.
• Phones and trackingevery courier needs a smartphone and a data connection.
• Cash flowyour couriers collect recipients' cash for your customers; that money isn't yours, and it has to get back to them fast.

04What the press says about parcels under one kilo

This isn't something a guide can settle: it needs a lawyer's view. Here is what the Moroccan press wrote about it in 2026, without this guide taking a position.

• The monopolyaccording to Le Desk (March 2026), law 24-96 on the post reserves mail in all its forms to Barid Al-Maghrib, and private companies may not deliver parcels under one kilo. The same article notes that more than half of e-commerce parcels weigh under one kilo.
• The court casesin May 2026, Médias24 reported several rulings by the Casablanca commercial court in Barid Al-Maghrib's favour against delivery operators, including Jumia, Tawssil Cash Plus, Ghazala Messagerie and Sapress, with the one-kilo threshold written into the decisions. According to La Vie Éco (June 2026), CTM Messagerie was in turn ordered to pay Barid Al-Maghrib 20,000 DH and stop the activity in question; Cathedis was also taken to court.
• The reformdraft law 36-25, sent to the government's General Secretariat in March 2026, would open express delivery to competition. According to Médias24 and La Vie Éco, it provides for a five-year licence, reserved for companies headquartered in Morocco, and a fee paid to Barid Al-Maghrib. Le Matin (May 2026) reports that prior authorisation would become compulsory to deliver parcels, with heavy penalties without it, and that the text could be adopted in the September 2026 parliamentary session.

What it means for you: before you launch your company, and before you sign with a shop whose parcels weigh under one kilo, get a lawyer's advice and follow the reform. On Delivery Center, a parcel weighs at least 1.5 kg.

05Finding your first customers

• Online shops in your cityon Instagram, Facebook or WhatsApp, they're looking for a reliable courier who hands back the cash quickly.
• Local businessesshops, wholesalers and stores that deliver to their customers every week and prefer a single contact.
• Companiesparts, samples, goods between two sites or two cities.
• Parcels posted on Delivery Centersenders post their parcels in 151 cities, and your company can offer its price on each one.
• Your reputationtimes kept, cash returned on time and a record of every handover are worth more than any advert.

To see what a sender compares between two delivery companies (price, delivery time, how fast the cash comes back, return fees), read our guide to delivery prices in Morocco.

07Frequently asked questions