A registered agent is not a virtual mailbox. We do not score mailbox suites, virtual offices, or Google Business Profile eligibility here. New Hampshire wants a street in this state where someone can take court papers. Since January 1, 2026, that street cannot be a commercial mailbox, a virtual office, or a mail-forwarding shop that does not give the company a dedicated physical office. If you need scans of catalogs, that is a different product on a different site.
What New Hampshire actually requires
In plain language. New Hampshire wants a person or company who can be handed court papers at a New Hampshire street. That street has to be the agent’s own office. A post office box is not enough. A commercial mailbox, a virtual office, or a mail-forwarding service is not enough either. That ban started January 1, 2026. You can be the agent yourself if you live in New Hampshire, you are at least 18, and people can find you at that street during regular business hours. Changing the name or the street later is Form 10 for $15, or $17 if you pay online. If the agent quits, you have 31 days, or less if you name someone new first. If the company goes 60 days with no agent or no office, the Secretary of State may dissolve it. The $100 report due by April 1 is a separate filing. It lists the agent. It is not the job of taking the lawsuit. Check the live name on the QuickStart business search before you file.
RSA 304-C:36 is how New Hampshire names the agent for a limited liability company. Each limited liability company shall have and maintain in New Hampshire a registered office, which may be the same as any of its places of business, and a registered agent. The agent may be an individual who resides in this state and whose residential or business office is identical with the registered office. Or a corporation organized or authorized under RSA 292, RSA 293-A, or RSA 294-A whose business office is identical with the registered office. Or a limited liability company formed or authorized under this act, or a professional limited liability company under RSA 304-D, whose business office is identical with the registered office. Or a limited liability partnership formed or authorized under RSA 304-A:44 whose business office is identical with the registered office. That is the live list. The word the statute keeps using is street address. After a change, the street of the registered office and the business office of the agent must be identical. We print that list. We do not invent a shorter one.
The Secretary of State’s registered-agent page says a registered agent is a person, or an entity, designated to receive official documents and accept service of legal process. The registered office is the physical business address in New Hampshire of that agent. It cannot be a post office box. The same page says the agent should be available at the registered office during regular business hours. RSA 304-C:36 does not post Florida-style clock windows. We print the office’s “regular business hours” sentence. We do not invent a 9-to-5 line as if it were the statute. The same page also says the agent must be an individual, a corporation, or an LLC located in New Hampshire. The statute’s list is longer. It also names a limited liability partnership. We print the office’s three-word list and the statute’s four categories. We do not invent a winner.
The same Secretary of State page answers “Can I be my own registered agent?” with yes. Individuals, business owners, managers, or employees can be listed if they can be located at the registered-agent address in this state. RSA 304-C:36 allows an individual who resides in New Hampshire and whose home or business office matches the registered office. It also allows a limited liability company formed under the Act to serve as an agent when that company’s business office matches the registered office. That sentence is about who may hold the job. It is not North Dakota’s sentence that a business may not serve as its own registered agent. We do not print that ban here. An owner who lives in New Hampshire may serve. A commercial mailbox may not be the office.
RSA 5:15-d is the rule that makes this page different. The source line is 2025, 185:1, effective January 1, 2026. It applies to any registered agent the law requires for a corporation, a limited liability company, a limited liability partnership, a limited partnership, or any other business the Secretary of State registers. If the agent is a natural person, that person must be 18 or older and a resident of New Hampshire the whole time the person is named as agent. RSA 304-C:36 does not print an age of 18. RSA 5:15-d does. We print both. If the agent is another registered business entity, that entity must be in good standing. Good standing, in this section, means the entity is active on the Secretary of State’s records, current on annual reports and fees, and still keeps its own registered agent and registered office.
The same section is the mailbox ban. No corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or other business that must keep a registered office in this state shall designate the address of a commercial postal box provider, a virtual office, a mail-forwarding service, or any similar service as its registered office. A commercial postal box provider means a business primarily engaged in mail-receiving, forwarding, or virtual-office services, including private mailbox agreements, or mail-handling without a dedicated physical office space for the business entity. The Secretary of State page’s “cannot be a post office box” sentence is older office language. RSA 5:15-d is the statute that names the commercial mailbox, the virtual office, and the mail forwarder. Oregon also refuses a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail-forwarding shop, and a virtual office. Wyoming refuses UPS stores and virtual addresses. New Hampshire’s sentence is in RSA 5:15-d, and it has been in force since January 1, 2026. We print that sentence. We do not import Oregon’s check-the-street procedure or Wyoming’s store list.
RSA 304-C:36 II is how the company changes the line. The company files a statement with the Secretary of State. The statement names the company, the street of the current registered office, the new street if the office is changing, the current agent, and the successor if the agent is changing. It must say that after the change, the street of the registered office and the business office of the agent will be identical. The Secretary of State page calls that paper Form 10, Statement of Change of Registered Office or Registered Agent or Both, and prints a $15 filing fee. The LLC forms table prices Form 10 at $15. RSA 304-C:191 II(b) prices a statement under RSA 304-C:36 II at $15, and a statement under RSA 304-C:36 V at $15. Those two dollars match. The same forms page says that since July 1, 2004, every fee the state collects electronically includes an extra $2 handling charge under RSA 5:10-a. A paper Form 10 is $15. An online Form 10 is $15 plus $2, which is $17. We print both. We do not invent a third change dollar. Putting a new name on that paper is still not the registered-agent job. The job is taking court papers.
RSA 304-C:36 III and IV are how an agent steps down. The agent signs and files a written notice of resignation with the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State mails a copy to the company at its principal office. The appointment terminates 31 days after the notice is filed, or on the appointment of a successor, whichever comes first. The notice may also say the registered office is discontinued. The LLC forms table we opened prices Form 10, the change, at $15. It does not list a separate resignation fee. RSA 304-C:191 prices the change statements in RSA 304-C:36 II and V. It does not separately price the resignation notice in RSA 304-C:36 III. The same fee section has a catch-all: $15 for any other paper this Act provides when no different fee is specifically prescribed. We print the missing resignation row on the forms table and the catch-all in the statute. We do not invent a resignation dollar the LLC forms table did not print. ZenBusiness’s New Hampshire page, last updated August 26, 2025, notes Form 10 at $15 and a 31-day resignation. Those two sentences match the forms table and RSA 304-C:36 IV. Northwest’s New Hampshire page says they will pay and file the change for you. That is Northwest’s service. The state fee is still $15. Bizee’s New Hampshire page under-specifies the change as a state fee and does not print $15. We print the statute’s $15, ZenBusiness’s $15, Northwest’s service sentence, and Bizee’s missing dollar. We do not invent a Bizee dollar the page did not print.
If the agent moves to another place in New Hampshire, RSA 304-C:36 V lets that agent change the registered office of the companies it serves. The statement is the one in paragraph II, except only the agent has to sign it. The statement must say a copy was mailed to the company. RSA 304-C:191 prices that statement at $15. That is the agent’s own address change. It is still not the job of taking court papers.
RSA 304-C:136 is the clock that follows a missing agent. The Secretary of State may administratively dissolve a limited liability company if it is without a registered agent or a registered office in this state for 60 days or more. The same section says the same thing if the company does not notify the Secretary of State within 60 days that the agent or the office changed, that the agent resigned, or that the office was discontinued. Those are paragraphs III and IV. They are not the annual-report grounds. Paragraphs I and II are about two consecutive years of missed report fees or missed reports, and about a further 60 days after the fee or the report was due. The business FAQ says a domestic company that misses the April 1 report is placed in “Not in Good Standing,” and that after two consecutive years the business is “Administratively Dissolved.” That FAQ sentence matches the report grounds. It is not a shorter version of the 60-day agent ground. We print both clocks. We do not invent a winner. The same FAQ says a foreign registration that misses the current year’s report is “Administratively Suspended.” That is the foreign report path. It is not the domestic 60-day agent path.
RSA 304-C:137 is what the office does next. If a ground in RSA 304-C:136 exists, the Secretary of State signs a notice of dissolution and mails the notice and a reinstatement application to the company at its principal address. The notice states the grounds and the effective date. Administrative dissolution does not terminate the registered agent’s authority. RSA 304-C:138 says the company may apply for reinstatement within 3 years after the effective date of dissolution. The application recites the name and the date, says the ground did not exist or has been eliminated, and says the name still satisfies the name statute. If the application arrives more than 120 days after the notice was mailed, it must contain a certificate from the New Hampshire Department of Revenue Administration. RSA 304-C:191 II(f) prices that reinstatement application at $135. The same paragraph prices a late reinstatement under RSA 304-C:145 at $500. When reinstatement is effective, it relates back to the dissolution date, and the company may resume business as if the dissolution had never occurred. We print those dollars and that three-year window. We do not invent a shorter cure.
The annual report is a different paper. Say it once so the $100 does not get mixed up with the agent’s job. RSA 304-C:194 says each domestic limited liability company, and each foreign limited liability company registered here, delivers an annual report to the Secretary of State. Insurance companies that make returns to the insurance commissioner are the exception the section prints. The report sets out the name, the registered office address, the registered agent’s name, the principal office, the managers or at least one member, and a short description of the business. The information is current as of January 1 of the year the report is due. Except for one skip, the first report is delivered between January 1 and April 1 of the year after the calendar year of formation or registration. A company formed or registered between December 1 of the preceding year and April 1 of the current year does not file an annual report during that year. Later reports are still due between January 1 and April 1. RSA 304-C:191 II(f) prices the annual report at $100. If the report or the fee is late after April 1, the additional late fee is $50. The LLC forms table prints the same pair: report fee $100, late fee $50. The FAQ says the late fee cannot be waived. The report includes the agent’s name and the office address. Filing it and paying $100 is still the company’s Secretary of State job. A vendor may send a reminder. That reminder is a vendor extra. It is not the statutory job of taking court papers.
There is no New Hampshire LLC franchise tax hiding inside the registered-agent job. Business Profits Tax and Business Enterprise Tax are Department of Revenue Administration papers. They are not this filing. We do not score tax products. The certificate of formation is also not the registered-agent job. RSA 304-C:191 II(c) prices that certificate at $100. The LLC forms table prices Form LLC-1 at $100. Bizee’s New Hampshire page notes a filing fee of $100 and an annual report due April 1. The statute has two different $100 lines: formation, and the annual report. We print both. We do not invent a third formation number. The first paper names the agent. It is still not the job of taking court papers.
Service of process is the job, not marketing mail. RSA 304-C:37 says the registered agent is the limited liability company’s agent for service of process, notice, or demand. If the company has no registered agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, the company may be served by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, addressed to the company at its principal office. Service is perfected at the earliest of three dates: the date the company receives the mail; the date on the return receipt if someone signs for the company; or five days after the letter is deposited in the United States mail, if it is postpaid, correctly addressed, and the postmark shows the deposit. The section says this is not the only means of service. We do not invent a path that makes the Secretary of State the domestic LLC’s substitute agent. That sentence is not in RSA 304-C:37. We do not invent Florida-style 10-to-noon and 2-to-4 windows.
The public lookup sits on QuickStart. Confirm the live line on the business search before you treat a marketing city as current. Headquarters is not the registered office. The Secretary of State’s Concord contacts are not a vendor suite.
The contact page prints the mail address as Corporations Division, N.H. Department of State, 107 North Main Street, Concord, NH 03301-4989. The walk-in lobby is 28 School Street, Concord, NH 03301, Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The information line is 603-271-3246, open 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Email for general questions is corporate@sos.nh.gov. Email for annual reports is annualreports@sos.nh.gov. Those lines are Secretary of State contacts. They are not a vendor’s registered office. Those lobby hours are the office’s hours. They are not a statutory agent clock. New Hampshire does not post Florida-style 10-to-noon and 2-to-4 windows. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as RSA 304-C:36.
Cited prices, retrieved September 22, 2026
We print what the company’s official registered-agent page said on the retrieval date. No company publishes a different New Hampshire registered-agent price from the national card, except where we note a New Hampshire-page sentence. We do not invent a renewal.
| 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- | Official page |
| ZenBusiness | $99 + NH state fees for the first year (standalone); national card says $99 + state fees | $199/year renewal on the official pricing help page | C / B- / B- | Official page |
- 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 22, 2026 from northwestregisteredagent.com/registered-agent and the New Hampshire product page. The New Hampshire page says the price has always been that, with no hidden fees. They collect the first year’s fee up front unless you form through them. First year free only if you form through them. We do not treat that bundle as the standalone price. The New Hampshire page says they accept and scan documents at their office in Nashua, NH, and that scans are same-day. The same company also sells extra mail scans. Those extras are a different product. We do not grade those extras as the registered-agent job. The same page says they will pay and file the change of agent for you. That is their service. RSA 304-C:191 prices Form 10 at $15. We do not invent a Northwest state-fee dollar the registered-agent page did not print. The same page talks about being available during business hours. That clock is Northwest copy. We do not treat it as RSA 304-C:36.
- Bizee: official registered-agent page: free first year with formation; standalone $149/year; year two $149/year. Retrieved September 22, 2026 from bizee.com/business-management/registered-agent and the New Hampshire product page. That New Hampshire page notes a filing fee of $100 and an annual report due April 1. RSA 304-C:191 prices the certificate of formation at $100 and the annual report at $100, due by April 1. We print those matching dollars. The same page does not print the $15 Form 10 fee. It says the change has a state fee. After a free first year with formation, the official card says the agent service is $149 a year. The same page says Bizee owns offices in all 50 states. It names no New Hampshire street. The same page talks about notifications during business hours. That is Bizee copy. We print those vendor sentences. We do not invent a New Hampshire-only price from a missing dollar.
- LegalZoom: official overview retrieved September 22, 2026: “Get registered agent services for $249/year.” Product card: $249/year. The footnote says the service auto-renews and the renewal rate is subject to change. We do not invent a year-two number LegalZoom did not print. Retrieved from legalzoom.com/…/registered-agent-overview.html. The overview publishes no New Hampshire street. We do not invent a suite. The same overview talks about normal business hours. That clock is LegalZoom copy. We print those vendor sentences. We do not invent a higher year-two number.
- ZenBusiness: official New Hampshire page and the pricing help page: $99 plus state fees for the first year, and renewal at $199 a year. Retrieved September 22, 2026 from zenbusiness.com/new-hampshire-registered-agent and the pricing help page. The New Hampshire page was last updated August 26, 2025. It notes Form 10 at $15 and a resignation that ends after 31 days. Those two sentences match the forms table and RSA 304-C:36 IV. The same page talks about $100 to a few hundred dollars a year as a market range. That range is not a ZenBusiness price. The page publishes no ZenBusiness street. Secretary of State contacts printed on a vendor page are office contacts. They are not ZenBusiness. The national page says they currently do not offer registered-agent service to PLLCs or nonprofits. That is their national exclusion, not a New Hampshire statute. We keep the $99 and $199 card. We do not invent a New Hampshire-only price.
A change of registered agent is a separate Secretary of State filing. RSA 304-C:191 and the LLC forms table price Form 10 at $15. Online payment adds $2 under RSA 5:10-a. ZenBusiness prints the $15. Northwest says their filing service covers the change and does not print the state dollar. Bizee says “state fee” and does not print $15. LegalZoom’s overview does not print a New Hampshire change dollar. The annual report can list the agent. It is still not the registered-agent job. The $100 report fee is not this $15.
Who publishes a New Hampshire street
A city is not a registered office. We print only the streets the companies publish for registered-agent use, and the streets the Secretary of State’s willing-agent list actually prints. We do not invent the rest. Confirm the live name and street on the QuickStart business search before you file. Headquarters is not the registered office. The Secretary of State’s Concord contacts are not vendor suites. The willing-agent list says those companies are not endorsed by the Secretary of State.
- Northwest. The New Hampshire product page says they accept and scan documents at their office in Nashua, NH. It does not print a street or a suite. The Secretary of State’s willing-agent list, read with that page on September 22, 2026, prints two lines whose contact email is support@northwestregisteredagent.com. New England Agents, Inc. is listed at 159 Main St, Suite 100, Nashua, NH 03060. Northwest Registered Agent LLC is listed at 84 W Broadway, Suite 200, Derry, NH 03038. The product page’s city word is Nashua. The list also prints Derry. We have not been to either office. We do not pick Nashua or Derry, and we do not invent a suite the product page did not print. The suites above are the list’s words. Northwest also sells extra mail scans. Those extras are a different product. The city, the two list streets, and the email are vendor-claimed on the product page and office-printed on the willing-agent list. Use the business search for the name on your own filing.
- Bizee. Claims owned offices in all 50 states. The official registered-agent page names no New Hampshire street. The live New Hampshire product page names no New Hampshire street. The contact page lists 17350 State Highway 249, Suite 220, Houston, TX 77064 as headquarters. That address is not a New Hampshire registered-agent street.
- LegalZoom. The official registered-agent overview does not publish a New Hampshire street. We do not invent a suite. We do not treat a LegalZoom virtual-mail street as the registered-agent street.
- ZenBusiness. The New Hampshire registered-agent page publishes no ZenBusiness street or city. It prints Secretary of State office contacts. Those lines are the office. They are not ZenBusiness. We do not treat 107 North Main Street or 28 School Street as their suite.
If you are your own registered agent, the street on the public record is often your home. The Secretary of State says an owner, a manager, or an employee may serve if they can be found at the New Hampshire address. RSA 5:15-d adds that a natural person must be 18 or older and a New Hampshire resident the whole time they are named. A commercial mailbox cannot be that address. If you hire a commercial registered agent, the agent line is that organization’s name, and the street on the filing still has to be a real office, not a mail drop. Northwest’s product page names Nashua and prints no suite. The willing-agent list prints 159 Main Street in Nashua and 84 W Broadway in Derry. Bizee publishes no New Hampshire street. LegalZoom publishes no New Hampshire street. ZenBusiness publishes no ZenBusiness street. We label every published city vendor-claimed. Use the business search.
The mailbox ban, the $15 change, and the 31-day resignation
New Hampshire wants a registered office and a registered agent at the same street. Since January 1, 2026, that street cannot be a commercial postal box, a virtual office, or a mail-forwarding service that does not give the company a dedicated physical office. A post office box is already refused on the Secretary of State’s registered-agent page. An individual who lives in New Hampshire may serve. A natural-person agent must be 18 or older and stay a resident the whole time. An entity agent must be in good standing and must keep its own agent and office. The statute also lets a New Hampshire limited liability company serve as an agent when its business office matches. That is not a printed ban on the company naming itself. Change the agent on Form 10. The statute and the forms table price that form at $15. Online, add $2. ZenBusiness prints $15. Northwest’s filing service is their service and does not print the state dollar. Bizee does not print $15. Resignation ends 31 days after the notice is filed, or sooner if a successor is appointed. The LLC forms table does not list a resignation fee. Stay without an agent or an office for 60 days, or wait 60 days to report the change, and the Secretary of State may administratively dissolve the company. You can apply to put it back within 3 years. The fee is $135, or $500 on the late path RSA 304-C:191 ties to RSA 304-C:145. The annual report is $100, due by April 1, with a $50 late fee. That report lists the agent. It is not the job. New Hampshire does not post a Florida-style 10-to-noon and 2-to-4 clock, and it does not run a Nevada-style ten-company commercial-agent register. Northwest’s product page claims Nashua. The willing-agent list prints Nashua and Derry. LegalZoom names no city. ZenBusiness publishes Secretary of State contacts, not a ZenBusiness suite. Bizee names no New Hampshire street. Process Score has not been to those offices. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as RSA 304-C:36.
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 New Hampshire page talks about owned offices and does not print a New Hampshire street. 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 New Hampshire page adds same-day scans at the Nashua 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 overview names no New Hampshire street. 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 New Hampshire statute. The New Hampshire page prints Secretary of State contacts. Those lines are office copy. They are not RSA 304-C:36.
Home-address privacy
A commercial registered agent is how most New Hampshire owners keep a home off the agent line. The Secretary of State still publishes the registered office and the agent’s name, and it still publishes the managers or members the annual report requires. Privacy of the agent line is not privacy of every field. A New Hampshire limited liability company must keep a registered agent and a registered office. It cannot leave that line blank, and it cannot use a commercial mailbox as that office. Confirm the live line on the business search.
Not legal advice. Confirm on New Hampshire SOS before you treat these grades as current. Check the live name and street on the New Hampshire QuickStart business 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: 2026-09-22
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: 2026-09-22
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: 2026-09-22
ZenBusiness
Commercial registered agent- Year-1 / year-2 price
- C
- SOS street and presence
- B-
- Process and privacy
- B-
Year 1: $99 + NH state fees for the first year (standalone); national card says $99 + state fees
Year 2: $199/year renewal on the official pricing help page
Retrieved: 2026-09-22
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 RSA 304-C:36.
- It does not treat the April 1 annual report, or the $100 fee, as the registered-agent job. The report lists the agent. The job is taking court papers.
- It does not treat Business Profits Tax or Business Enterprise Tax as a Secretary of State registered-agent filing. Those are Department of Revenue Administration papers.
- It does not invent a winner between the forms table’s $15 Form 10 and the online total of $17. The extra $2 is RSA 5:10-a.
- It does not invent a resignation dollar. The LLC forms table does not list one. RSA 304-C:191 does not separately price RSA 304-C:36 III. The catch-all in that fee section is a different sentence.
- It does not invent a Bizee or Northwest or LegalZoom change dollar the pages we used did not print. ZenBusiness’s $15 matches the forms table.
- It does not treat Northwest’s “we will file the change for you” as the statute’s $15. That line is their service.
- It does not invent a winner between the product page’s Nashua claim and the willing-agent list’s Nashua and Derry streets.
- It does not treat the willing-agent list as an endorsement. The Secretary of State says it is not.
- It does not invent a sentence that a New Hampshire company may never be its own agent. That is a North Dakota rule. RSA 304-C:36 lets an individual resident serve, and it lets an LLC formed under the Act serve when the offices match.
- It does not invent an agent age from RSA 304-C:36 alone. The age of 18 is in RSA 5:15-d, effective January 1, 2026.
- It does not treat a Houston headquarters as a New Hampshire street.
- It does not treat 107 North Main Street, or 28 School Street, as a vendor suite. Those contacts are the Secretary of State.
- It does not invent a New Hampshire-only price a company did not print.
- It does not invent a LegalZoom New Hampshire street the overview did not print.
- It does not treat a post office box, a commercial mailbox, a virtual office, or a mail-forwarding service as the registered office.
- It does not pretend a New Hampshire limited liability company may skip the registered agent. RSA 304-C:36 says the company shall have one.
- It does not treat Northwest’s extra mail-scan product as the registered-agent job.
- It does not treat ZenBusiness’s “$100 to a few hundred” range as ZenBusiness’s New Hampshire price.
- It does not treat ZenBusiness’s exclusion of PLLCs and nonprofits as a New Hampshire statute.
- It does not score New Hampshire tax filings. Department of Revenue Administration taxes are not the registered-agent job.
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. Louisiana names the agent on a notarized Initial Report. The $30 anniversary annual report is still not that job: Louisiana scorecard. Iowa’s live statute names a registered agent with a place of business in this state. Changing the LLC agent on the live table is no fee. The $30 odd-year biennial report is still not that job: Iowa scorecard. Kentucky wants a registered office and a registered agent at the same street. Unless the agent signs the appointment, it waits on a written acceptance. The $15 June 30 annual report is still not that job: Kentucky scorecard. Nebraska’s LLC statute names an office and an agent for service of process. Changing the LLC agent on the live table is $25 online or $30 on paper. The $30 odd-year biennial report is still not that job: Nebraska scorecard. Kansas’s statute names a resident agent. Changing the agent is Form ROA at $30 online or $35 on paper. The $90 even-or-odd Information Report is still not that job: Kansas scorecard. Idaho’s anniversary-month annual report can change the registered agent if the agent line differs. The statute prices that report at no fee. The live change form’s paper surcharge is $20. The $100 commercial listing is still not that job: Idaho scorecard. New Mexico LLCs file no Secretary of State annual report. Staying without a registered agent for 30 days is how the state can revoke the company. The statute prices the LLC statement of change at $20: New Mexico scorecard. North Dakota will not let the company be its own registered agent. A statement of change is $10. A business LLC report, a farm report, and a corporation report are not the same day: North Dakota scorecard. Montana charges no fee to change the registered agent. The LLC and corporation annual report is due by April 15, and the on-time fee is waived on the fee table. A late report is $35. An LLC’s missing-report clock is 140 days. A corporation’s is 120 days, then 90 days to cure: Montana scorecard.
Sources for this page
- RSA 304-C:36 (text read September 22, 2026), a limited liability company shall maintain a registered office and a registered agent; the agent’s office must match that street; who may serve includes an individual resident, a corporation, an LLC, or an LLP; a change is a statement filed with the Secretary of State; resignation ends 31 days after filing, or sooner when a successor is appointed
- RSA 5:15-d and RSA 5:10-a (text read September 22, 2026), source 2025, 185:1, effective January 1, 2026; a natural-person agent must be 18 or older and a New Hampshire resident the whole time; an entity agent must be in good standing; a commercial postal box, a virtual office, or a mail-forwarding service cannot be the registered office; electronic fees add a $2 handling charge
- RSA 304-C:191 (text read September 22, 2026), statement under RSA 304-C:36 II or V is $15; certificate of formation $100; annual report $100; late annual report $50; reinstatement $135; late reinstatement under RSA 304-C:145 $500; no separate price printed for the resignation notice in RSA 304-C:36 III
- RSA 304-C:194 (text read September 22, 2026), annual report delivered between January 1 and April 1; information current as of January 1; the report lists the registered office and the registered agent; that filing is not the registered-agent job
- RSA 304-C:136, RSA 304-C:137, and RSA 304-C:138 (text read September 22, 2026), administrative dissolution if the company is without an agent or office for 60 days or more, or fails to notify the Secretary of State within 60 days of a change, a resignation, or a discontinued office; dissolution does not end the agent’s authority; reinstatement within 3 years relates back
- RSA 304-C:37 (text read September 22, 2026), the registered agent is the agent for service of process; if there is no agent, or the agent cannot be served with reasonable diligence, service may be by registered or certified mail to the principal office, perfected at the earliest of receipt, the return-receipt date, or five days after deposit in the mail
- New Hampshire Secretary of State, Registered Agents, the LLC forms and fees page, the business FAQ, the contact page, QuickStart, and the business search (retrieved September 22, 2026), the registered office cannot be a post office box; the agent should be available during regular business hours; an owner may serve; Form 10 is $15; annual report $100 by April 1, late fee $50; 107 North Main Street and 28 School Street, Concord; willing-agent list prints New England Agents, Inc. at 159 Main St, Suite 100, Nashua, and Northwest Registered Agent LLC at 84 W Broadway, Suite 200, Derry
- Northwest Registered Agent, official registered-agent page and New Hampshire product page (retrieved September 22, 2026), $125/year; first year free only with formation; $100/year per state at five or more states; product page names Nashua, NH, same-day scans, and a change-filing service, and does not print a street or the state’s $15
- Bizee, official registered-agent page, New Hampshire product page, and contact (retrieved September 22, 2026), free year 1 with formation on the official card; standalone $149/year; year 2 $149/year; New Hampshire page notes a $100 filing fee and an April 1 annual report; no New Hampshire registered-agent street; Houston contact HQ is not a New Hampshire registered-agent street
- LegalZoom, official registered-agent overview (retrieved September 22, 2026), $249/year; renewal rate subject to change; overview publishes no New Hampshire street
- ZenBusiness, official registered-agent page, New Hampshire registered agent, and pricing help (retrieved September 22, 2026; New Hampshire page last updated August 26, 2025), $99 + state fees year 1; $199 renewal; New Hampshire product page publishes no ZenBusiness street; it notes Form 10 at $15 and a 31-day resignation; national product currently excludes PLLCs and nonprofits