A Lapsed Agent Is the Only Way to Lose a Missouri LLC on Paperwork

Straight disclosure, since it affects how much weight this page deserves: we sell the thing we are recommending. Missouri Registered Agent.co charges $99 a year to hold this appointment. Bizee, which spent years operating as Incfile, is a competitor, and every price attributed to them here comes from their own published materials as they read in July 2026.

The Free Window Is a Real Benefit

We are not going to pick at a genuine offer. Buy formation from Bizee and registered agent service comes bundled at no charge for somewhere between three months and a full year, with the length set by the package you choose. For a founder assembling a business on a thin budget, free coverage during the opening stretch is worth having, and the service does the job while it lasts. If Bizee was going to form the company regardless, take the included months and enjoy them.

Then the Meter Starts

When the bundled period closes, standalone service resumes at $149 a year, and it keeps resuming for as long as the entity exists. That is $50 a year above what this site charges for the same statutory duty. Across five years past the free window, the gap comes to two hundred fifty dollars, which is straightforward subtraction against Bizee's published rate.

The larger issue is not the fifty dollars, though. It is the handoff.

Why the Handoff Is Riskier in Missouri Than Elsewhere

Most states give you an annual filing that acts as a tripwire. Miss it, get a delinquency notice, and the notice sends you back to look at your record. Missouri has no such tripwire for an LLC. Nothing at all is due here on a yearly basis. No report, no alternating-year version, no renewal of a registration, no franchise tax, and therefore nothing arriving in the mail to prompt a review of anything.

What remains is RSMo 347.030, which requires your company to have and continuously maintain a registered agent and a Missouri registered office. Continuously is the operative word. Failing at it is grounds for administrative dissolution, which means the agent line is the single paperwork failure that can cost you the company at the Secretary of State. There is no missed-report path to dissolution here, because there is no report to miss.

Put those two facts together and the free-window expiry becomes the thing to watch. A card that declines, an email that lands in spam, a package whose three-month term you misremembered as twelve, and the appointment can go unattended in a state that will never send you a reminder about it. Write the expiry date down on the day you buy. Nothing else is going to.

What Reliability Looks Like at $99

The whole point of this service is that it is boring in the right way. One charge a year, the same amount every time, no tier to be promoted into and no bundle clock counting down in the background. Anything served on us in Missouri is imaged the day it arrives and reaches your inbox that same afternoon, then stays in the portal for good. Your public filing carries our address rather than your own. If something touches your entity, you hear about it from us.

We do owe you one caveat about our own row. BetterLegal advertises $90 a year, so the lowest published price in Missouri is not ours. Ours is among the lowest, it is flat, and it does not begin as a free offer that has to be tracked.

Leaving Bizee: Missouri's Version in One Paragraph

Missouri asks for one statement of change, indexed as Corp. 59, filed with the Secretary of State's Corporations Division for $10, and signed by the incoming agent or accompanied by that agent's written consent. Because the signature is required, the replacement is necessarily in place before anything reaches the state, and Bizee stays your agent of record until the change is processed, so a properly ordered switch has no gap in it at all. Our Missouri change of agent guide has the rest.

Handle it before the bundled months run out and you will never see the $149.

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