A registered agent, resident agent, or statutory agent (dependent upon your state where you do business) is an individual or state-qualified corporate agent. A registered agent is responsible for receiving important documents from state entities and receiving service of process (SOP) communications when legal action is taken against a business entity. A registered agent is identified within a business's articles of incorporation/organization. It is required by law in all 50 states that companies registered as legal entities have and declare a registered agent. This structure is set up in part to help protect businesses as a part of due process.
Having a registered agent is required whenever you register a new Corporation or LLC in South Dakota. You must select a reliable company or individual to act as your South Dakota registered agent. Failing to establish and maintain a registered agent can negatively affect the legal status of your company within the state and result in extra, unnecessary expenses. The person or entity must be located and available during normal business hours at a physical street address within the borders of South Dakota. A mailbox service or P.O. Box is not sufficient to represent your company as its registered agent.
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A registered agent provides you with an official address to receive your annual filing notices and other legal notices, handling them correctly and with compliance. Having important notices sent directly to your business location or home has many risks such as important mail being misplaced.
With a registered agent, you will not need to maintain a physical business location or hours. Having a registered agent keeps you compliant with receiving legal notices by always being available during normal business hours. If you change your business address or move in the future, you will not need to update your business information with the state of South Dakota.
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A registered agent will help protect the privacy of your home address. If you choose to use your home address as your registered agent, this information will be listed in public directories.
Through EntityWatch®, the innovative and proprietary technology developed first by InCorp, our information system ties into most of the state databases to give you up-to-date information on the status of your entities including the filing status, the current registered agent, officers, and directors. EntityWatch® also advises you of changes to help prevent corporate identity theft.
View and upload all your state business filings, corporate documents, and statuses via the Internet on our comprehensive client website at no additional fee. Our Entity Management System (EMS) is where you can keep track of compliance events using our compliance calendar, view and/or store your corporate documents from anywhere in the world, track your forwarded mail, pay your invoices, and order additional services is included at no additional charge! (Now available as an app for iOS devices.)
For multi-state companies, you will receive a consolidated bill for all your business entities in every state hosted.
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For over 20 years we have provided top-tier service with one of the lowest prices in the industry and have only raised our prices one time (while many of our competitors raise their prices on their long-term clients yearly!) Our standard fee to serve as your South Dakota registered agent is only $129 per state! And you can save even more when you choose multi-year service.
Over-the-counter expedited business document filing service are available for most states. Receive notification of all service of process in real-time and receive said service of process within 24-hours of receipt via Express Mail, facsimile, or email.