Free for a Year, Then a Number That Arrives by Phone

You are reading a competitor, and we would rather tell you than have you work it out later. Missouri Registered Agent.co sells Missouri registered agent service and profits when someone chooses us. On this particular subject we hold one line firmly: Inc Authority has not published a renewal price, and we are not going to estimate one for them. Guesswork would be worth less than the blank space it filled.

Zero Really Is Zero

Give the offer its due. Buy a formation package from Inc Authority and the first year of registered agent service is included at no cost. We looked for the fine print that usually accompanies an offer like that, an activation charge, a term shorter than advertised, a fee for cancelling, and none of it is stated. A brand new company gets a working agent for free during the stretch when free is worth the most. That is a genuine benefit, and it belongs in front of the criticism rather than behind it.

Nobody Publishes Year Two

The renewal rate is not published. Our July 2026 pass covered the home page, the premium package descriptions, and the list of frequently asked questions, and none of those three carries a figure for what the service costs once the free year concludes. When a price is missing from all the places a buyer would reasonably look, it usually means the number is revealed at the checkout stage or during a conversation with a salesperson.

We could put a plausible amount in this paragraph and nobody would check. We are not going to, because the moment we did, this page would be doing the same thing it is criticizing. The structural point stands without a number. Registered agent service is a permanent expense in Missouri, and you are being invited to commit to a permanent expense you have not been allowed to see.

Missouri Sells You a Ten-Dollar Veto

Now the encouraging part, and it applies whether or not you ever buy anything from us.

An undisclosed renewal is only dangerous when leaving is expensive. In Missouri it is not. The Corporations Division's schedule of fees and charges sets a change of registered agent, registered office, or both at a flat ten dollars for companies and corporations, one of the smallest such fees anywhere in the country. There is no exit penalty at the state level, no waiting period, and no annual filing window you have to fall inside to do it.

So when the quote finally reaches you, by email or over the phone, you are not cornered. Ten dollars and one form is the price of declining. That reduces an unpublished renewal from a real risk to an inconvenience, and it is the main reason we can write this page without sounding alarmed. Take the free year if it suits you. Just know what your answer costs if the second-year number turns out to be unpleasant.

Our Number, Available Before You Buy

Ninety-nine dollars a year, and ninety-nine dollars every year after, no phone call required to learn the second figure. What it includes: a Missouri registered office address that appears on your public filings in place of your home, same-day scanning and email delivery of anything served on us, a portal holding your full document history, and alerts when something touches the entity. There is one plan, and checkout does not open onto a menu of extras. Anything this page skipped is likely in the FAQ.

Our own row gets the same treatment we gave theirs. BetterLegal's published rate is $90 a year, lower than ours, which rules out any claim to the smallest number in Missouri. Ours is one of the smaller flat annual prices on offer in this state, it is written down before you buy, and it is still the same figure in year eight.

How Missouri Handles an Inc Authority Handover

The filing is a statement of change, catalogued by the state as Corp. 59. One version of the form serves limited liability companies, for-profit corporations, and nonprofit corporations, and it covers a change of agent, a change of registered office, or both at once. File it with Missouri's Secretary of State, where the Corporations Division handles it, and include the ten-dollar fee.

The form asks for your entity name as filed, the incoming agent, and the Missouri registered office address. That address has to be an actual street address inside the state; a post office box is allowed only in combination with one, never by itself. The instructions also close off the shortcut people reach for when a renewal quote annoys them, which is putting their own company on the agent line. Missouri bars a business from holding the appointment for itself, so the seat goes to a qualifying resident individual or an authorized corporation.

Then the rule that fixes your sequence. The new agent has to sign the statement, or written consent to the appointment has to be attached to it. Nobody is appointed without agreeing first, and because of that, the successor must be engaged before the form can be completed. The correct order is therefore hire, file, confirm, cancel. Inc Authority stays your agent of record until the Corporations Division updates the record, so nothing is exposed in between, but only if the cancellation comes last. Closing the account first would leave the state pointing at a provider who is no longer working for you. Our change of agent walkthrough covers what happens after the statement is submitted.

The easiest time to run this is during the free year, when there is no renewal charge pressing on the calendar and no quote to react to.

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