Abstract The determinants of interdependent business processes of development of service cooperation in rural territories of Ukraine are considered in the article. A comprehensive methodological approach to assessing the aggregate system of indicators, covering active business processes of forming the optimal level of the functional potential of service cooperatives and providing an individual approach to the diagnosis of their operating system in rural areas is substantiated. The network of service cooperatives of rural areas by types and areas of activity, as well as the amount of state support for agricultural service cooperatives in Ukraine are analyzed. The integrated level of the state of the functional potential of service cooperatives in rural areas of Ukraine is determined. From the standpoint of the process approach, an indicative assessment of the level of functional potential of service cooperatives in rural areas according to the indices of productive, business, investment-innovation, and foreign economic activity of the operating system is proposed. The growth of the determinant relationship of active business processes in the operating system of service cooperatives of a new type is aimed at increasing the resource supply of rural areas, taking into account the stimulating and disincentive factors of their development of security and social responsibility.