Your Registered Agent Service

You need to designate an agent when you file your business with the state. But a registered agent is much more than a named person who collects your business’s mail. For example, they take care of your official documentation, ensure you don’t miss compliance deadlines, and help you keep on top of your business’s day-to-day running.

As well as being a legal necessity for most businesses, a good registered agent helps you run essential parts of your concern smoothly.

Do I need a registered agent?

If your business is a Limited Liability Company (single or multi-member), a corporation, or a nonprofit, then the answer is almost certainly, ‘Yes.’

When you file with the state, you need to give details of your registered agent. The state uses this as its point of contact for you, so all your legal, compliance and other communications will go to your registered agent once your business formation is complete.

Even better, using a registered agent service from IncReg gives you extra business support, filing services, and comprehensive advice from our team of experts.

When I get a registered agent, what will they do?

Your registered agent is there to fulfill vital legal and compliance functions for you.

• Receive Service of Process, which is the notice of a lawsuit. If this arrives, then your registered agent will alert you immediately.
• Receive and forward compliance and legal communications.
• Help you stay in good standing by ensuring that documents and reports that need to be filed officially are done so and on time.
• Accept tax forms and other official correspondence and ensure you return them. With wraparound services from IncReg, we take care of your tax, accounting, and business records so you can focus on your growing business.

Can I be my own registered agent?

With IncReg, we’ll do the heavy lifting for your early business setup. But if you’re managing everything yourself, you’ll find you have a lot to deal with. Therefore, you might wonder if you can be your own registered agent. After all, it’s one less person and address to think about.

Well, you can, but we don’t recommend it, as it rarely saves you time or money.

• The registered agent is an important legal point of contact for the state. That means if someone serves you legal papers and you aren’t physically there, you might not know you’ve been served.
• As a business owner, you want to travel, work flexibly and be free to manage your timetable when you need to. Whether that’s lunchtime or a 2 am brainwave. Well, as a registered agent, you must always be available during core business hours and be available to receive formal documents during them. And if you aren’t there? See the next point.
• Your state may allow “substituted service”. This means that if you aren’t present to receive legal papers, it will still be recorded as though you had been. The lawsuit will be forwarded elsewhere, published, and the clock will start ticking on your judgment. And you may be completely unaware anything has happened.
• As your own registered agent, you’ll be making your address public and attaching it to your business. This can mean unwanted attention and far more junk mail than you want.
• If you want to expand to other states, you’ll need a registered agent in each of them.
• Your registered agent gives you peace of mind that you haven’t missed key pieces of compliance, filing dates, or any legal matters.

Who can be a registered agent?

When you decide to get a registered agent for your business, you’ll need to ensure that your agent fits the criteria. They must be:

• an adult (over 18);
• be in the state where you’re registering your business and not using a PO Box or mail-forwarding service;
• prepared to keep core business hours to ensure you don’t miss any vital communications.

Is there anything my registered agent can’t do?

We usually think of an agent as someone who is authorized to act on our behalf. However, a registered agent doesn’t fulfill this function for your business in the same way.

For example, it’s important to remember that when you get a registered agent, they won’t make any decisions about your business. But they will help you by giving you the peace of mind that you haven’t missed anything important, you’re up to date and that large amounts of important administration and filing are taken care of.

Getting a registered agent through IncReg

Increasingly, businesses choose to get a registered agent using business-management companies like IncReg. The benefit of having key support and peace of mind far outweighs the cost.

As well as ensuring you are up to speed when it comes to dates, deadlines, and permits, we’ll take care of the many things that suck time and energy away from new-business owners at the crucial early stages.

We are experts in business formation and ensuring compliance is running smoothly. After all, we’ve helped many businesses—just like yours—find their feet and concentrate on the important things while we take care of the tripwires, like compliance, filing, tax, and accounting.

• We cover the mandated, core business hours of 8 am to 5 pm, every working day, so you have the peace of mind that you’ll never miss an important communication or document delivery.
• Ready to expand? We’ll register you in every state you need and give you a registered agent to handle everything.
• You get the utmost privacy and confidentiality. Lawsuits can come without warning, but with a registered agent, this won’t happen on your premises. That means you don’t have to worry about being served with legal papers in front of your clients, customers, or employees. And with IncReg as your registered agent, we will ensure you’re informed right away.

Before you consider setting up a registered agent yourself, contact our team of experts and discover how we can help you quickly, efficiently, and at competitive prices.