A staffed Dover office that actually receives your service of process, scans it the same business day, and knows what the March and June deadlines do to an entity that misses them.
Every entity formed or registered in Delaware must keep a registered agent with a physical Delaware address. The role is not a mailbox. Delaware law sets out what the agent has to do, and an agent who does not do it can be taken to court by the Secretary of State.
| Registered Agent $99/year | Agent + Compliance $299/year | |
|---|---|---|
| Delaware registered office on your public filings | Included | Included |
| Service of process scanned and sent the same business day | Included | Included |
| State notices forwarded | Included | Included |
| Deadline reminders before 1 March and 1 June | Included | Included |
| Annual report prepared and filed | — | Included |
| Franchise tax calculated both ways and filed | — | Included |
| One Certificate of Good Standing a year | — | Included |
| Priority on apostille and corporate document work | — | Included |
State fees are separate and charged at cost, never marked up. We tell you the figure before anything is filed or paid.
Once we are your registered agent, every Delaware filing your entity is likely to need sits in one place, priced and ready to order: amendments, annual reports, certificates of incumbency, reinstatements, mergers, conversions, name reservations, certified copies and good standing certificates.
You need to be signed in to your account to open it. That is deliberate — it keeps client pricing private, and it means every order arrives already attached to the right entity, so we know what we are filing and for whom without a single email.
Not a client yet? The catalogue opens as soon as your registered agent service is active. Questions first — call 302-505-1459.
A registered agent at thirty-nine dollars a year is selling you an address. The economics only work at volume, which means scanning limits, a queue, and nobody who knows your entity.
The cost of that shows up in one place. Miss the annual report and Delaware adds a $200 penalty plus 1.5% interest a month, and the entity stops being in good standing. That is the moment a financing round, a property sale or an apostille order stops dead, and we see it regularly enough that we built a paid verification step around it.
The other place it shows up is the franchise tax calculation. A corporation can be quoted a figure under one method and a far smaller one under the other. Working out which applies is the whole job, and it is not something a mailbox does for you.
| Entity | Due | What Delaware charges |
|---|---|---|
| Corporation | 1 March | $50 annual report fee, plus franchise tax from $175 under the authorised shares method or $400 under assumed par value |
| LLC, LP or general partnership | 1 June | $400 annual tax. No annual report is filed |
| Corporations owing $5,000 or more | Quarterly | 40% by 1 June, 20% by 1 September, 20% by 1 December, the balance by 1 March |
| Missed either deadline | Penalty | $200 plus 1.5% interest per month, and the entity falls out of good standing |
The LLC annual tax rose to $400 for the 2026 tax year. If you budgeted $300 because that is what it has always been, that gap is worth checking before June.
You are not locked in. Changing the registered agent on a Delaware entity is a filing with the Division of Corporations, and we prepare it for you as part of coming across. There is no need to wait for a renewal date and no need to tell your current agent first.
Send us the entity name and the Delaware file number if you have it. We will confirm the entity is in good standing before anything is filed, because a change filed against an entity that is behind on tax simply gets rejected.
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7
Years in business
Serving Delaware since 2019
3 mi
From the Division
846 Walker Road to 401 Federal Street
Rating and review count as published on our Thumbtack profile, where you can read them in full. Those reviews are for our notary and signing work. Registered agent is a newer service and we would rather tell you that than imply otherwise.
You do not have to take our word for it. Delaware lets you check a certificate it issued directly with the Division of Corporations.
You will need two numbers, both printed on the certificate itself: the entity file number and the authentication number.
Two limits worth knowing before you try it:
If your certificate looks plain, that is correct
Since 1 July 2006 Delaware has printed every certificate in black ink on standard white paper, with the Secretary’s seal and signature included in the print. The old blue preprinted forms are gone. Clients regularly call us worried that a plain black-and-white certificate is a photocopy. It is not — and this is the page that proves it.
Tell us the entity type and where it stands. We will tell you what it needs this year and what it will cost, before you commit to anything.
