A Free Year, and a Number Nobody Will Print

Read this knowing we want the sale. The $99-a-year Florida agent service recommended at the bottom of this page is ours, trading as FL Registered Agent.org, and everything above it is written by people with a stake in your answer. The one thing going for the argument here is that you can test it yourself in a few minutes, because it turns on something absent from a website rather than something we are asking you to take on trust.

The Free Year Holds Up Under Inspection

Order a formation package from Inc Authority and the agent role arrives attached to it, free, for twelve months. We went looking for the catch such offers usually carry and could not document one. Twelve months, nothing to pay, and no charge we could see for walking away at the end of them.

For a company in its first year, a mandatory line item priced at zero is money kept. Credit given, without qualification.

Year Two Has No Number Attached

What the service costs after that first year is not stated.

A recurring price normally lives somewhere a buyer can read it before buying. This one does not appear on any page we could reach. The reasonable inference, and it is only an inference, is that the figure gets delivered at checkout or over the phone, at the point where the free year has already done its work.

We are not going to guess at it. Making up a figure would undercut the only thing this page has to offer, which is a check you can run for yourself in a browser.

Two things follow without needing any number at all.

The first is that Florida will require this appointment every year the company stays on the register. The renewal is therefore not a detail of the purchase. It is most of the purchase, and it is the part with nothing written next to it.

The second is about when you learn the figure. Before you order, changing vendors costs a click. After a year of trading under a formation that vendor filed, with their address sitting on your Sunbiz record, moving takes a state filing and a fee. The information arrives at precisely the moment acting on it is hardest. There is a simple defence: get the renewal in writing before you pay anything, from Inc Authority or from us or from whoever else is on your shortlist, and treat a refusal to put it in an email as an answer in itself.

Why an Unpublished Renewal Costs More in Florida

Florida's compliance calendar is not forgiving, which raises the stakes on any vendor relationship you cannot budget for.

Under Fla. Stat. § 605.0212 every Florida LLC owes the state an annual report, filed online, every single year, whether or not one detail about the company has changed. The registered agent is the party the Division of Corporations and any process server deal with, and the agent's address is what appears on that report. A relationship carrying that much load should not have an unknown price attached to its second year. Not because withholding the number proves bad intent, but because a cost you cannot forecast is a cost you cannot plan around.

Our Renewal Is the Same Sentence as Our Opening Price

Ninety-nine dollars this year. Ninety-nine dollars in each year after that, published on our pricing page well ahead of any commitment. Service of process scanned and emailed the day it lands at our Florida office. Reminders ahead of the state's dates. Our Florida street address on the public record instead of yours. There is no higher tier for anyone to move you into later, because there is no higher tier.

We rank ourselves honestly. At $90, BetterLegal undercuts us by nine dollars, so treat $99 as among the lowest published Florida figures rather than the lowest one going.

Florida Prices the Exit at $25

If the renewal quote does eventually arrive and you decide against it, leaving is cheap here. An LLC files INHS18 with the Division of Corporations and pays $25, and the state updates the agent of record. That is the whole cost of changing your mind in this state.

Line the two appointments up so they overlap. Engage the new agent, file, confirm the change on Sunbiz, then end the old arrangement. An appointment that lapses before its replacement is recorded leaves your company briefly unreachable at exactly the moment you were trying to improve its coverage.

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