A registered agent is not a virtual mailbox. We do not score mailbox suites, virtual offices, or Google Business Profile eligibility here. Louisiana wants a municipal street. The live FAQ says a physical address in Louisiana. A P.O. Box only is not that street. If you need scans of catalogs, that is a different product on a different site.
What Louisiana actually requires
A registered agent is the person or company who can be handed a lawsuit. Service of process means handing over those papers. The office is the Secretary of State. La. R.S. 12:1308 says each LLC shall maintain a registered office and at least one registered agent. The agent may be a citizen who lives here, a partnership or professional law corporation authorized to practice law here, or a domestic or foreign corporation or LLC authorized to transact business here. An entity agent must name at least two individuals at its Louisiana address. Another sentence says one individual. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one. A street is a place a person can walk up to. A P.O. Box is a mailbox at the post office. A P.O. Box only is not that street.
The first paper that names the agent is the Initial Report, not the articles. It needs a municipal address, not a post office box only, and a notarized affidavit of acceptance. La. R.S. 12:1308(C)(1) says a later change needs that same affidavit. The fee table prices the change, form #983, at $25. The later schedule prices it at $30. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one.
The annual report is due on the anniversary. The live table prices it at $30. The later schedule prices annual reports at $35. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one. The report lists the agent. Filing it is not the job of taking the lawsuit. Whether the report can change the agent is a separate conflict. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one.
If the agent resigns, a successor must be appointed within thirty days. If the office stays vacant for thirty days, the Secretary of State’s office may be treated as the registered office. A corporation resignation ends on the thirty-first day. The LLC clock is thirty days. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one.
Related guide: Can I be my own registered agent? A citizen who lives in Louisiana may serve. An entity agent must name two people.
Related guide: What is a registered agent for an LLC? The job is taking court papers at a Louisiana street.
Related guide: How much does a registered agent cost? The live change is $25 and the live annual report is $30.
Related guide: How to change a registered agent on an LLC File a statement with a notarized acceptance.
Related guide: What is a commercial registered agent? An entity agent files a certificate naming at least two people.
Related guide: Service of process: what it means for an LLC Process is served on the registered agent.
Related guide: What is a registered agent address? The Initial Report wants a municipal address, not a post office box only.
Related guide: Best registered agent service The test is a Louisiana street where papers can be handed over.
Related guide: What is a certificate of good standing? A certificate of good standing is a different paper from the agent filing.
The statute does not print a clock. The Secretary of State page prints counter hours. Those hours are not a clock in the statute. Someone has to be at a Louisiana street to accept hand-delivered papers. A software login is not that street.
Full requirement and citations
In plain language. Louisiana wants a person or company who can be handed court papers at a Louisiana street. That person or company is the registered agent. The first paper that names that street is the Initial Report. The report needs a real municipal address. A P.O. Box only is not that street. Each agent must sign a notarized paper that says the agent accepts the job. If the agent is a company, that company also files a certificate naming at least two people at its Louisiana address who may take the papers. Every year the LLC also sends a $30 annual report on the anniversary. That paper lists the agent. It is still not the registered-agent job. Check the live name on the Commercial Search before you file.
La. R.S. 12:1308 is how a Louisiana LLC keeps the agent today. Each limited liability company shall continuously maintain a registered office in this state and at least one registered agent. The agent shall be a citizen of this state who resides in this state; a partnership or professional law corporation authorized to practice law in this state; or a domestic corporation, domestic limited liability company, foreign corporation, or foreign limited liability company authorized to transact business in this state, which is authorized by its articles or certificate to act as the agent of a limited liability company for service of process and which has on file with the secretary of state a certificate setting forth the name of at least two individuals at its address in this state, each of whom is authorized to receive any process served upon it as such agent. That is the live sentence. We print it. This page keeps the full wording. Legal process and other notices or demands may be served on the limited liability company by service upon this agent and, if the agent is a partnership, upon any partner. The location and post office address of the original registered office and the full name and post office address of the original registered agent shall be stated in the initial report as provided in La. R.S. 12:1305. ZenBusiness’s Louisiana page, last updated August 26, 2025, cites the same section and then says a business must name at least one individual to act as the agent and file a certificate affirming this. The live statute we opened asks an entity agent for two named individuals. We print the vendor sentence and the statute. The sources do not agree. This page does not add a third count.
La. R.S. 12:1305 is what the articles and the Initial Report must say. The articles shall set forth the name of the limited liability company, the purposes or that its purpose is any lawful activity, and whether the company is a low-profit limited liability company. The articles do not have to name the registered agent. The Initial Report does. It shall be signed by each person who signed the articles, or by that person’s agent, and shall set forth the location and municipal address, if any, not a post office box only, of the registered office; the full name and municipal address, if any, not a post office box only, of each registered agent; a notarized affidavit of acknowledgment and acceptance signed by each registered agent; and the names and municipal addresses, not a post office box only, of the first managers or members if they have been selected. If those people are not named yet, a supplementary report shall be filed as soon as they have been selected. The live fee table prices Articles of Organization-Louisiana Limited Liability Company, form #365, at $100, and Supplemental Initial Report-Louisiana Limited Liability Company, form #366, at $25. Bizee’s Louisiana page names a $100 online / $75 mail Articles of Organization. The live LLC row we retrieved is $100. The live corporation Articles of Incorporation row is $75. We print those three numbers. The sources do not agree. This page does not add a fourth number. Leaving the Initial Report unsigned, or leaving the notarized acceptance off, is a rejected filing. That first paper is still not the registered-agent job.
The live File Business Documents page, retrieved September 19, 2026, is the office sentence for the same street and the same affidavit. The document must be notarized when required by statute. It must contain municipal street addresses, not post office box numbers (mailing purpose only). It must be accompanied by an affidavit of registered agent if a registered agent is being appointed. It must contain the notary number and printed or typed names of the notary and witnesses. The live Business Filings FAQ says all business registrations require, by law, an agent with a physical address in Louisiana. An agent, or as it is sometimes called, registered agent, can be almost anyone of legal age and a legal resident of Louisiana. An agent is someone designated to receive legal documents served on the business. An agent has an obligation to forward those legal documents to the business. The agent’s name and address are publicly available and are displayed on the Secretary of State’s website. Those office sentences match the municipal-address rule. We print them. This page keeps the full wording. A P.O. Box only is not that street.
An older Secretary of State HTML page, Louisiana LLC Filing Instructions, is the URL some guides still cite for online formation. We opened it on September 19, 2026. It returned 404. A missing page does not supply a seven-day online agent-acceptance clock. The live File Business Documents page and the live Initial Report statute are the sources we print for the affidavit. LegalZoom’s Louisiana article, updated May 15, 2026, says the Articles of Organization include a dedicated agent-acceptance section where the agent signs before the formation papers go to the state. Bizee’s Louisiana page says the agent must sign the designation in the Articles. The live articles statute we opened does not require the agent line on the articles. The Initial Report does. We print those vendor sentences and the statute. The sources do not agree. This page does not add a third form title.
La. R.S. 12:1308(C)(1) is how the company changes the line after organization. A limited liability company may change its registered agent or registered office by filing a statement signed by a manager, if management is vested in one or more managers, or by at least one member, if management is reserved to the members. Any change of registered agent shall be accompanied by a notarized affidavit of acknowledgment and acceptance signed by the new registered agent. The change is effective when the secretary of state accepts the statement for record. The live fee table prices Change of Registered Office or Agent-Louisiana Limited Liability Company, form #983, at $25. LegalZoom’s Louisiana article prints the same $25 and a statutory convenience fee for online credit-card payments. The live fee table’s special-handling row prices that card fee at $5. Those $25 rows match. The form-983 PDF URLs we tried returned 404 the same day. We print the live table row. A missing link does not supply a PDF. Putting a new name on a $25 paper is still not the registered-agent job. The job is taking court papers at the Louisiana street.
Whether the $30 anniversary report can change the agent is a live conflict. We print the sources. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one. The live FAQ, retrieved the same day, says you may add or delete a registered agent by filing the Change of Registered Office or Agent form, and that if your annual report filing is due or past due, you may make these changes on your annual report filing. ZenBusiness’s Louisiana page says if the annual report is coming due, you can make the change while you file that report, that the Secretary of State will send an email to the new agent to verify consent, and that changing the agent on the annual report will not cost anything extra beyond the $30 annual-report filing fee. LegalZoom’s Louisiana article says, for an online change through geauxBIZ, the Secretary of State sends the new agent an email to confirm consent electronically, and that for paper filings the agent’s signature must be notarized. La. R.S. 12:1308(C)(1) still says any change of registered agent shall be accompanied by a notarized affidavit of acknowledgment and acceptance signed by the new registered agent. We print those four sources. The sources do not agree. This page does not add a fifth path.
La. R.S. 12:1308(E) is how an agent steps down. A registered agent may resign, but the resignation shall be effective only by providing written notice to the limited liability company and the secretary of state. If the registered agent resigns, or for any other reason the limited liability company ceases to maintain a registered agent, a successor agent shall be appointed, and the successor’s address shall be filed, within thirty days of the resignation or other event which terminated the tenure of the former agent. Upon compliance, the successor agent shall be vested with the powers of the agent succeeded. La. R.S. 12:1308(F) is the vacant-office sentence. The designation of a registered office remains effective until a change is filed. If no statement of change is filed within thirty days after the registered office has been vacated, the office of the secretary of state may thereafter be treated as the registered office by any person other than the limited liability company itself. The registered office shall be considered the domicile of the limited liability company for all purposes. ZenBusiness’s Louisiana page says the agent remains on file until the 30th day after resignation unless a replacement is appointed sooner, that the state does not provide a pre-set resignation form, and that the paper costs $25. The live fee table we retrieved prices form #983 at $25. It does not print a separate resignation row. We print the statute, the live $25 change row, and ZenBusiness’s 30-day / $25 pair. The sources do not agree. This page does not add a fourth clock.
La. R.S. 12:1308.1 is the yearly Secretary of State paper this page will not confuse with the agent job. On or before the anniversary date of organization of each limited liability company, a manager, if management is vested in one or more managers, or a member, if management is reserved to the members, shall file an annual report each year stating the municipal address, which shall not be a post office box only, of its registered office; the name and municipal address, which shall not be a post office box only, of each of its registered agents; and the name and municipal address, which shall not be a post office box only, of each manager or each member. The live fee table prices Domestic LLC Annual Reports at $30. The live FAQ says the yearly filing is a requirement even if there are no changes, that you may print the form from the Commercial Database up to four weeks before the due date, and that you may also file online. geauxBIZ is the live portal. Its own FAQ, retrieved the same day, says you sign in, choose “File an amendment, such as an annual report,” enter the charter number, and click File Annual Report. LegalZoom’s Louisiana article names geauxbiz.com. The live portal we opened is geauxbiz.sos.la.gov. We print both hosts. The sources do not agree. This page does not add a third door. Bizee’s Louisiana page says an annual report is required and is due by the anniversary of formation. That vendor sentence matches the statute we opened. Putting a name on a $30 anniversary paper is still not the registered-agent job. The job is taking court papers at the Louisiana street.
The live FAQ is also the missed-report clock. If you have received a Notice of Intent to Revoke, you must submit a completed annual report within 30 days of the date of the notice, or within 60 days if it is a foreign corporation or LLC. Failure to do so will result in the revocation of your charter. If the charter is revoked, a reinstatement form will be required and filing fees will be significantly higher than that of an annual report. The live fee table prices Articles of Reinstatement at $75 and an additional $30 for each annual report due. That $30 paper lists the agent. It is still not the job.
La. R.S. 12:1-501 is the corporation pair. Each corporation shall continuously maintain a registered office in this state and a registered agent. That agent may be an individual who resides in this state, or a domestic or foreign corporation or other eligible entity that continuously maintains an office here, files a statement naming at least two individuals at its address in this state who may receive process, and is authorized by its organizational documents to act as the agent. La. R.S. 12:1-202 is how a corporation names that agent on the articles. The articles shall set forth the name and street address, not a post office box only, of its initial registered agent. A written consent to appointment, signed by the initial registered agent, shall be attached or appended to the articles. LegalZoom’s Louisiana article, updated May 15, 2026, cites La. R.S. 12:1-501 as the rule that every LLC, corporation, nonprofit, and foreign entity must keep a registered agent. The live LLC statute we opened is La. R.S. 12:1308. We print the vendor cite and the LLC section. The sources do not agree. This page does not add a third section. La. R.S. 12:1-503 is the corporation resignation clock. The agency appointment is terminated on the thirty-first day after the statement was filed. The LLC successor clock we opened is thirty days. We print both. The sources do not agree. This page does not add a third day.
The live fee table we retrieved on September 19, 2026, still prices the current rows. Articles of Organization, form #365, is $100. Change of Registered Office or Agent, form #983, is $25. Supplemental Initial Report, form #366, is $25. Domestic LLC Annual Reports are $30. The same page, and the live FAQ, say that effective October 1, 2026, the fees for the Commercial Division will increase in accordance with Act 921 of the 2026 Regular Legislative Session. The official Fee Schedule Effective 10/1/26 prices Articles of Organization-Louisiana Limited Liability Company at $125, Change of Registered Office or Agent-Louisiana Limited Liability Company at $30, Supplemental Initial Report-Louisiana Limited Liability Company at $30, and Annual Reports at $35. Those October numbers are not the live table we retrieved today. We print both tables. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one for a filing dated after October 1. Confirm the live table before you pay.
The public lookup sits at coraweb.sos.la.gov. Confirm the live line on the Louisiana Commercial Search before you treat a marketing city as current. The FAQ also calls that lookup the Commercial Database. Headquarters is not the registered office. The Secretary of State’s Baton Rouge contacts are not a vendor suite.
Paper filings go to Louisiana Secretary of State, Commercial Division, P.O. Box 94125, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9125. Delivery on the live File Business Documents page is 8585 Archives Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70809, in the building behind the Louisiana State Archives. Hours of operation on that page are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The page asks walk-in customers to try to arrive by 4 p.m. The live FAQ prints the same 8585 Archives Ave. suite. The Commercial Division phone on that page is 225.922.2880. geauxBIZ prints 225.925.4704. Those hours are the Secretary of State’s hours. They are not a registered-office clock. Louisiana does not post Florida-style 10–noon / 2–4 windows. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as La. R.S. 12:1308. ZenBusiness’s Louisiana page prints 8585 Archives Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70809, and P.O. Box 94125. Those two 8585 lines match. We print the live 8585 Archives Ave. suite. The live office page did not print a second street that.
Cited prices, retrieved September 19, 2026
We print what the company’s official registered-agent page said on the retrieval date. No company publishes a different Louisiana registered-agent price from the national card, except where we note a Louisiana-page sentence. The page does not publish a separate renewal price.
| Vendor | Year 1 | Year 2 | Letters | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwest Registered Agent | $125/year standalone; first year free only if you form the entity through Northwest | $125/year (same price; $100/year per state if you have five or more states) | B+ / B / B | Official page |
| Bizee | Free first year when you form through Bizee; standalone registered agent $149/year | Official pages we retrieved say $149/year after the free first year (or $149 from day one if you buy standalone) | C+ / B- / B | Official page |
| LegalZoom | $249/year on the official registered-agent overview (first-time customers) | Official footnote: auto-renews at the purchase rate until you cancel; “The renewal rate is subject to change.” | C / B- / B- | LegalZoom |
| ZenBusiness | $99 + LA state fees for the first year (standalone); national card says $99 + state fees | $199/year renewal on the official national pages; those pages say the rate is subject to change | C / B- / B- | ZenBusiness |
- Northwest Registered Agent: official page: “$125 Per Year.” Same price in year two on the national card. Five or more states is $100 a year per state. Retrieved September 19, 2026 from northwestregisteredagent.com/registered-agent and the Louisiana product page. First year free only if you form through them; we do not treat that bundle as the standalone price. The Louisiana page says they accept and scan documents on site at their registered office in Lafayette, LA. The same page also sells five free scans of regular business mail a year, with extra scans at $15 a document. Those extras are a different product. We do not grade those extras as the registered-agent job. The same page talks about the Louisiana Annual Report. That vendor sentence matches the live anniversary report. The live domestic LLC fee we retrieved is $30.
- Bizee: official registered-agent page: free first year with formation; standalone $149/year; year two $149/year. Retrieved September 19, 2026 from bizee.com/business-management/registered-agent. A bizee.com/llc/louisiana-registered-agent URL returned 404 the same day. The live Louisiana page is bizee.com/llc/louisiana/registered-agent. That page names a $100 online / $75 mail Articles of Organization. The live fee table we retrieved is $100 for LLC articles. The live corporation Articles of Incorporation row is $75. We print those numbers. The same page says an annual report is required and is due by the anniversary of formation. The live statute we retrieved is a $30 anniversary report. After a free first year with formation, the official card says the agent service is $149 a year. The same page talks about a physical street during normal business hours. That is Bizee copy. We print those vendor sentences. A missing hyphenated URL does not supply a Louisiana-only price.
- LegalZoom: official overview retrieved September 19, 2026: “Get registered agent services for $249/year.” Product card: $249/year. Retrieved from legalzoom.com/…/registered-agent-overview.html. The live Louisiana article is legalzoom.com/articles/louisiana-registered-agent, updated May 15, 2026. That article publishes no LegalZoom Louisiana city or street. It prints a $100 Articles of Organization fee and a $25 change. The live table we retrieved is $100 and $25. Those two numbers match. A legalzoom.com/articles/registered-agent-in-louisiana URL returned 404 the same day. The article cites Louisiana Revised Statute RS 12:1-501 as the rule for every LLC. The live LLC statute we opened is La. R.S. 12:1308. The same article talks about typically 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays. That clock is LegalZoom copy. We print those vendor sentences. The page does not publish a suite or a higher year-two number.
- ZenBusiness: official Louisiana page: first-year and renewal dollars are the national card. The national page says $99 + state fees for the first year and renews at $199/yr, subject to change. The Louisiana page, last updated August 26, 2025, talks about $100 to a few hundred dollars a year as a market range. That range is not a ZenBusiness price. We keep the national card. A zenbusiness.com/louisiana-resident-agent/ URL returned 404 the same day. The live Louisiana page is /louisiana-registered-agent/. That page cites La. R.S. 12:1308, prints a $25 change, says you can change the agent on the $30 annual report, and prints Secretary of State contacts at 8585 Archives Ave. and P.O. Box 94125. The live File Business Documents page we retrieved uses the same 8585 Archives Ave. suite. Those two streets match. The national page says they currently do not offer registered-agent service to PLLCs or nonprofits. That is their national exclusion, not a Louisiana statute. Retrieved September 19, 2026 from zenbusiness.com/registered-agent and the Louisiana registered-agent page.
A change of registered agent is a separate Secretary of State filing unless you treat the $30 anniversary annual report as a change path. Live pages disagree about that path. We cite the $25 change row on the live table, LegalZoom’s $25 change, ZenBusiness’s annual-report path, the live FAQ that says you may make the change on a due or past-due annual report, and La. R.S. 12:1308(C)(1)’s notarized-affidavit sentence. The yearly paper can list the agent. It is still not the registered-agent job.
Who publishes a Louisiana street
A city is not a registered office. We print only the streets the companies publish for registered-agent use. The pages we read do not publish the rest. Confirm the live name and street on the Louisiana Commercial Search before you file. Headquarters is not the registered office. The Secretary of State’s Baton Rouge contacts are not vendor suites.
- Northwest. The Louisiana product page says they accept and scan documents on site at their registered office in Lafayette, LA. The office-locations page lists Lafayette, LA 70508 Lafayette Parish, and says they leave the street off this list. No street is published. The two city lines match on Lafayette. We have not been to a Lafayette office. Northwest also sells extra mail scans from that location. Those extras are a different product.
- Bizee. Claims owned offices in all 50 states. The official registered-agent page names no Louisiana street. The live Louisiana product page names no Louisiana street. The hyphenated Louisiana URL we tried returned 404 on September 19, 2026. The contact page lists 17350 State Highway 249, Suite 220, Houston, TX 77064 as headquarters. That address is not a Louisiana registered-agent street.
- LegalZoom. The official registered-agent overview does not publish a Louisiana street. The live Louisiana article names no LegalZoom city or street. The second Louisiana article URL we tried returned 404 the same day. The page does not publish a suite. We do not treat a LegalZoom virtual-mail street as the registered-agent street.
- ZenBusiness. The Louisiana registered-agent page publishes no ZenBusiness street or city. It prints Secretary of State contacts at 8585 Archives Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70809 and P.O. Box 94125, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9125. Those lines are office contacts. They are not ZenBusiness. The live File Business Documents page we retrieved uses the same 8585 Archives Ave. suite. We do not treat that suite as their office.
If you are your own registered agent, the street on the public record is often your home. If you hire a commercial registered agent, the agent line is that organization’s name. If that organization is an entity agent, La. R.S. 12:1308 also wants a certificate naming at least two individuals at its Louisiana address. Northwest names Lafayette on the product page and Lafayette, LA 70508 Lafayette Parish on the office list, and no street on either. LegalZoom publishes no Louisiana city. Bizee publishes no Louisiana street. ZenBusiness publishes the Secretary of State’s 8585 Archives Ave. suite. We label every published city vendor-claimed. Use the Commercial Search.
In-state office, the notarized Initial Report, and the $30 anniversary paper
Louisiana wants a registered office in this state and at least one registered agent. The first paper that names that street is the Initial Report. The report needs a municipal address, not a P.O. Box only, and a notarized affidavit of acknowledgment and acceptance signed by each agent. An entity agent files a certificate naming at least two individuals at its Louisiana address. Change the agent after organization on a $25 form #983 paper. That change still needs a notarized affidavit under La. R.S. 12:1308(C)(1). The live FAQ and ZenBusiness also describe an annual-report change path. We print both. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one. Resignation needs written notice to the company and the Secretary of State. A successor shall be named within thirty days. If the registered office is vacated and no change is filed in thirty days, the office of the Secretary of State may be treated as the registered office by persons other than the LLC. The annual report is $30 on the live table, due on or before the anniversary. Stay past a Notice of Intent to Revoke and the charter can be revoked. The live table will move on October 1, 2026. We print today’s $100 / $25 / $30 rows and the October $125 / $30 / $35 rows. Northwest claims Lafayette, ZIP 70508, Lafayette Parish. LegalZoom names no Louisiana city. ZenBusiness publishes 8585 Archives Ave., a Secretary of State contact. Bizee names no Louisiana street. Process Score has not been to those offices. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as La. R.S. 12:1308.
Service of process, not marketing mail
We grade scan-and-forward of service of process and official notices:
- Bizee: notifications by text and email; court papers mailed via FedEx with tracking; portal upload by employees. The Louisiana page talks about a physical street during normal business hours. That is Bizee copy. Contact-page support hours are Monday–Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. CST. Those are support hours, not registered-office hours.
- Northwest: “We scan every document you receive right where you receive it—in our office.” The Louisiana page adds on-site scans at the Lafayette office. Their extra mail-scan product is a different product. We do not grade those extras as a mailbox.
- LegalZoom: upload, email, and a postcard for urgent legal mail; they say they shred junk mail. The live Louisiana article names no LegalZoom city and a typical 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. line. Junk-mail shredding is not the job we score. That clock is not the statute.
- ZenBusiness: scan and upload to a dashboard; email; overnight the original for urgent legal notices. Their own FAQ says you cannot use the agent address as your business address. Their national product currently excludes PLLCs and nonprofits; that is their exclusion, not a Louisiana statute. The Louisiana page prints Secretary of State contacts at 8585 Archives Ave. Those suites are office copy. They are not La. R.S. 12:1308.
Home-address privacy
A commercial registered agent is how most Louisiana owners keep a home off the agent line. The Secretary of State still publishes whatever other addresses you put on a formation filing or an annual report. Privacy of the agent line is not privacy of every field. A Louisiana LLC must keep an agent. It cannot leave that line blank. Confirm the live line on the Commercial Search.
Not legal advice. Confirm on Louisiana SOS before you treat these grades as current. Check the live name and street on the Louisiana Commercial Search.
Scorecards
Northwest Registered Agent
Commercial registered agent- Year-1 / year-2 price
- B+
- SOS street and presence
- B
- Process and privacy
- B
Year 1: $125/year standalone; first year free only if you form the entity through Northwest
Year 2: $125/year (same price; $100/year per state if you have five or more states)
Retrieved: 2026-09-19
Bizee
Commercial registered agent- Year-1 / year-2 price
- C+
- SOS street and presence
- B-
- Process and privacy
- B
Year 1: Free first year when you form through Bizee; standalone registered agent $149/year
Year 2: Official pages we retrieved say $149/year after the free first year (or $149 from day one if you buy standalone)
Retrieved: 2026-09-19
LegalZoom
Commercial registered agent- Year-1 / year-2 price
- C
- SOS street and presence
- B-
- Process and privacy
- B-
Year 1: $249/year on the official registered-agent overview (first-time customers)
Year 2: Official footnote: auto-renews at the purchase rate until you cancel; “The renewal rate is subject to change.”
Retrieved: 2026-09-19
ZenBusiness
Commercial registered agent- Year-1 / year-2 price
- C
- SOS street and presence
- B-
- Process and privacy
- B-
Year 1: $99 + LA state fees for the first year (standalone); national card says $99 + state fees
Year 2: $199/year renewal on the official national pages; those pages say the rate is subject to change
Retrieved: 2026-09-19
What this page does not do
- It does not rank mailbox networks or virtual offices.
- It does not publish combined star ratings or a fake 4.8.
- It does not treat a company 9-to-5 line as La. R.S. 12:1308.
- It does not treat the $30 anniversary annual report as the registered-agent job. That paper lists the agent. It is still not the job.
- The sources disagree. This page prints both sides: the live FAQ’s annual-report change path, ZenBusiness’s $30 no-extra-fee sentence, andLa. R.S. 12:1308(C)(1)’s notarized-affidavit sentence.
- The sources disagree. This page prints both sides: Bizee’s $100 online / $75 mail Articles fee and the live $100 LLC / $75 corporation pair.
- The sources disagree. This page prints both sides: LegalZoom’s cite toLa. R.S. 12:1-501 for LLCs and the live LLC statute, La. R.S. 12:1308.
- The sources disagree. This page prints both sides: today’s $100 / $25 / $30 live table and the October 1, 2026 $125 / $30 / $35 table.
- It does not set a seven-day online acceptance clock. The older HTML instructions URL we opened returned 404.
- It does not treat a Houston headquarters as a Louisiana street.
- It does not treat 8585 Archives Ave. or P.O. Box 94125 as a vendor suite. Those contacts are the Secretary of State.
- A company did not print a Louisiana-only price.
- The live article did not print a LegalZoom Louisiana street.
- It does not treat a P.O. Box only as the agent street. The municipal address is the street that may not be a post office box only.
- It does not set a one-person entity-agent certificate. The live LLC statute asks an entity agent for two named individuals.
- It does not pretend a Louisiana LLC may skip the agent. La. R.S. 12:1308 says the company shall continuously maintain a registered agent.
- It does not treat Northwest’s extra mail-scan product as the registered-agent job.
- It does not treat the $30 annual report, or the $30-per-report reinstatement add-on, as a commercial-agent price.
Choosing among being the agent yourself, asking a lawyer, or hiring a commercial agent: DIY vs lawyer vs commercial. California’s scorecard is a different statute: California scorecard. Texas keeps the written consent with the company: Texas scorecard. Florida files the acceptance and posts a 10–noon / 2–4 clock: Florida scorecard. Delaware bans a virtual-only agent and sets the commercial bar above 50: Delaware scorecard. New York starts with the Secretary of State already on the agent line: New York scorecard. Nevada makes a commercial agent register at ten companies: Nevada scorecard. Wyoming bans UPS stores and virtual addresses as the registered office: Wyoming scorecard. Arizona makes the statutory-agent appointment wait on a signed acceptance: Arizona scorecard. Illinois gives you 60 days after your agent resigns, then you are not in good standing: Illinois scorecard. Ohio cancels the articles if you miss the 30-day statutory-agent notice: Ohio scorecard. Georgia wants the registered office at the same street as the agent: Georgia scorecard. Pennsylvania files a registered office, not a registered agent: Pennsylvania scorecard. New Jersey wants a street for your registered agent and will not take a P.O. Box alone: New Jersey scorecard. Colorado will not take a commercial mailbox or a P.O. Box as the registered-agent street: Colorado scorecard. North Carolina’s LLC annual report is $200 paper or $203 online by April 15. That filing is not the registered-agent job: North Carolina scorecard. Virginia’s LLC pays a $50 annual registration fee and files no annual report: Virginia scorecard. Washington files the agent’s prior consent and will not take a P.O. Box or a PMB as the street: Washington scorecard. Michigan’s statute names a resident agent and sends the filing to LARA: Michigan scorecard. Indiana’s live statute names a registered agent. Older Indiana law called the same job resident agent: Indiana scorecard. Massachusetts’s LLC statute names a resident agent. The $500 annual report cannot change that line: Massachusetts scorecard. Maryland’s statute names a resident agent and sends the filing to SDAT, not the Secretary of State: Maryland scorecard. Tennessee wants a registered office and a registered agent at the same street. The $300 LLC annual report is not that job: Tennessee scorecard. Minnesota wants a registered office. A Minnesota-formed company may name an agent. The free December 31 renewal is not that job: Minnesota scorecard. Wisconsin files the agent at DFI, not the Secretary of State. A P.O. Box, a mailbox service, or a telephone answering service is not the office: Wisconsin scorecard. Oregon’s street cannot be a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail-forwarding shop, or a virtual office. The $100 anniversary renewal is not the registered-agent job: Oregon scorecard. Missouri LLCs file no annual report with the Secretary of State. They still must keep a registered office and a registered agent: Missouri scorecard. Alabama’s street cannot be solely a mailbox service or a telephone answering service. The Business Privilege Tax return is a Department of Revenue paper: Alabama scorecard. South Carolina’s LLC statute names a designated office and an agent for service of process. Typical pass-through LLCs file no annual report with the Secretary of State: South Carolina scorecard. Arkansas’s LLC statute sends the job to the Model Registered Agents Act. The $150 franchise-tax paper is due May 1: Arkansas scorecard. Connecticut’s office is the Secretary of the State. Live form BUS-09 bans a P.O. Box on the business and residence street. The separate mailing line may be a P.O. Box: Connecticut scorecard. Utah’s office is the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code. A P.O. Box is only allowed on the mailing line. The $18 annual report is due in the anniversary month: Utah scorecard. Mississippi’s office is the Secretary of State. The LLC statute sends the job to the Mississippi Registered Agents Act. The domestic LLC annual report is $0 and due April 15: Mississippi scorecard. Oklahoma’s LLC statute lets the company name itself as the agent. The $25 anniversary certificate is not that job: Oklahoma scorecard. Iowa’s change of registered agent is no fee on the live LLC table. The $30 odd-year biennial report is still not that job: Iowa scorecard.
Sources for this page
- La. R.S. 12:1308 and La. R.S. 12:1305 (retrieved September 19, 2026), continuously maintain a registered office and at least one registered agent; entity-agent certificate names at least two individuals; Initial Report lists municipal addresses, not a post office box only, and a notarized affidavit of acknowledgment and acceptance; articles do not have to name the agent
- La. R.S. 12:1308.1, La. R.S. 12:1-501, La. R.S. 12:1-202, and La. R.S. 12:1-503 (retrieved September 19, 2026), annual report on or before the anniversary lists municipal addresses, not a post office box only; corporation statute also asks for two named individuals; corporation articles attach a signed consent; corporation resignation ends on the thirty-first day
- Forms & Fee Schedule and the Fee Schedule Effective 10/1/26 (retrieved September 19, 2026), live LLC articles $100 form #365; change $25 form #983; supplemental Initial Report $25 form #366; annual report $30; October 1, 2026 table $125 / $30 / $30 / $35; Act 921
- File Business Documents, the Business Filings FAQ, geauxBIZ, and the Commercial Search (retrieved September 19, 2026), municipal street addresses not post office box numbers; affidavit of registered agent; physical Louisiana address; annual report required even with no changes; Notice of Intent to Revoke 30 days, or 60 days for a foreign company; 8585 Archives Ave.; P.O. Box 94125; 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Louisiana LLC Filing Instructions returned 404
- Northwest Registered Agent, official registered-agent page, Louisiana product page, and office locations (retrieved September 19, 2026), $125/year; first year free only with formation; $100/year per state at five or more states; product page names a Lafayette office and extra mail scans; office-locations list Lafayette, LA 70508 Lafayette Parish, and no street
- Bizee, official registered-agent page, Louisiana product page, and contact (retrieved September 19, 2026), free year 1 with formation on the official card; standalone $149/year; year 2 $149/year; Louisiana page names a $100 online / $75 mail Articles of Organization and says an annual report is due by the anniversary; no Louisiana registered-agent street; /llc/louisiana-registered-agent returned 404; Houston contact HQ is not a Louisiana registered-agent street
- LegalZoom, official registered-agent overview and Louisiana registered-agent article (retrieved September 19, 2026; article updated May 15, 2026), $249/year; Louisiana article publishes no LegalZoom street; it prints a $100 formation and a $25 change and cites La. R.S. 12:1-501 for LLCs; /articles/registered-agent-in-louisiana returned 404 the same day
- ZenBusiness, official registered-agent page and Louisiana registered agent (retrieved September 19, 2026; Louisiana page last updated August 26, 2025), $99 + state fees year 1; $199 renewal, subject to change; Louisiana product page publishes no ZenBusiness street; it prints 8585 Archives Ave. and P.O. Box 94125, Secretary of State contacts; it also prints a $25 change and an annual-report change path; /louisiana-resident-agent/ returned 404; national product currently excludes PLLCs and nonprofits