Wichita, Kansas: door-to-door solicitor permit

• The answer: No door-to-door license was found. Wichita’s code has no peddler, solicitor or canvasser chapter. The closest chapter, Itinerant Merchants, covers temporary sellers who set up in a building, vehicle, tent or lot to sell and deliver merchandise (3.95.020(b)), and it exempts “sales of merchandise by exhibiting samples, or by catalogue or brochure for future delivery” (3.95.030(a)(2)). The city’s own license list has no solicitor license either.
• Where it comes from: Business Licensing, 455 N. Main, Express Office, 1st Floor, is the office that issues the city’s licenses, including the transient merchant license. Its page says Wichita does not require a standard business license for all businesses, only for certain ones.
• Fee: None for door-to-door sales, because no license was found. A transient merchant license has its own fee schedule in 3.95.050, but that license is for temporary fixed-location sellers.
• Hours you may knock: The code sets no knocking hours for door-to-door sales. The only hours in these chapters apply to licensed transient merchants (3.95.050(b)).
• What the rep carries: Nothing city-issued was found for door-to-door reps.
• Code: Wichita Code of Ordinances, Title 3, Chapter 3.95, Itinerant Merchants (3.95.020, 3.95.030, 3.95.040) and Title 5, Chapter 5.74, Soliciting Sales (5.74.010). Municode shows the version as May 15, 2026 (current).
• Worth knowing: One old rule still bites: it is unlawful to solicit, on any public street, sidewalk, park or other public place “or at any doorway or entrance way immediately abutting thereon,” the sale of magazine subscriptions or of tangible personal property for later delivery (5.74.010). Pitch from the customer’s porch, not the sidewalk. Alarm companies are licensed separately; “Alarm Business” is on the city’s license list.
• Read it yourself: Wichita Code Chapter 3.95, Itinerant Merchants · Wichita Code Chapter 5.74, Soliciting Sales · City of Wichita, Business Licenses · checked 19 September 2026

Ask the clerk, and write the answer down: Does the city require anything of a for-profit rep selling services door to door (fiber, solar, pest)? Does Business Licensing treat a door-to-door rep who delivers goods on the spot as a transient merchant under Chapter 3.95? Is there any city rule on No Soliciting signs or knocking hours? Clerk’s name ______________   Direct line ______________   Date called ______________