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Not legal advice. Confirm the live registered-agent name and registered-office street on the Oregon Business Name Search before you file or treat a published street as current. That search is Oregon’s public lookup. The office that keeps it is the Corporation Division at the Oregon Secretary of State.

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Oregon registered agent: rules, prices, and graded services

Oregon’s street cannot be a commercial mailbox, a mail-forwarding shop, or a virtual office, and the $100 anniversary renewal is not that job

A registered agent is the person or company who can be handed a lawsuit for the business. It is not a mailbox. A registered agent is also called a statutory agent, or an agent for service of process. Handing over those court papers is called service of process. Oregon’s statute uses the words registered agent and registered office. The live Corporation Division pages use those same words. They do not say resident agent. A limited liability company must keep both in this state. The office must be a physical street where process may be personally served. It may not be a commercial mail receiving agency. It may not be a mail forwarding business. It may not be a virtual office. That three-way ban is the Oregon street rule. The Secretary of State must check that the agent’s listed street is a physical street and is not one of those three. The company may not name itself as the agent. That sentence is on the Corporation Division’s registered-agent page. Every year the LLC also files an annual report. An annual report is a yearly filing that updates the public record. The Corporation Division also calls that filing a renewal. It is due on the company’s anniversary. Anniversary means the exact day each year that is one or more years after the Secretary of State filed the articles. A domestic LLC pays $100. Changing the agent on the Information Change form is $0 on the live fee table. Putting a new name on a $100 paper is still not the registered-agent job. The job is taking court papers at the Oregon street and forwarding them. This page is the Oregon rule and the dated prices. It does not reprint vendor cards from another state.

Updated September 14, 2026 · Methodology · Prices retrieved September 14, 2026 from official pages

A registered agent is not a virtual mailbox. We do not score mailbox suites, virtual offices, or Google Business Profile eligibility here. Oregon’s statute says a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business, or a virtual office is not the registered office. If you need scans of catalogs, that is a different product on a different site.

What Oregon actually requires

A registered agent is the person or company who can be handed a lawsuit. Service of process means handing over those papers. ORS 63.111 says a limited liability company shall keep a registered agent and a registered office here. The agent may be a resident, or a domestic or authorized foreign company of the listed kinds, whose business office matches that office. The Division page says an entity cannot name itself, and that an owner can serve. 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. The office must be a physical street where papers can be handed to the agent. It may not be a commercial mailbox, a mail-forwarding business, or a virtual office. ORS 56.035 says the Secretary of State shall check that ban.

ORS 63.114 says the new agent consented, and that the two offices will match. The fee table lists the change at $0. The renewal, when open, can carry it too. ORS 63.787 is due on the anniversary day, not merely in that month. ORS 56.140 prices a domestic report at $100 and a foreign report at $275. Listing a name there is not taking the lawsuit.

ORS 63.117 ends the job on the 31st day unless a successor comes sooner. The Division page says 30 days. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one. ORS 63.647 allows dissolution for a missing agent, office, or report. ORS 63.651 gives 45 days after notice. If no agent is found, service on the Secretary of State is $20. That is not the change fee.

Related guide: Can I be my own registered agent? The office page says an owner can serve. The statute also lists companies. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one.

Related guide: What is a registered agent for an LLC? The job is taking a lawsuit at the Oregon street. The $100 report is a different paper.

Related guide: How much does a registered agent cost? The live change row is $0. The domestic annual report is $100 and is not the agent’s fee.

Related guide: How to change a registered agent on an LLC File the statement of change, or use the open renewal. The new agent must have consented.

Related guide: What is a commercial registered agent? Oregon has no ten-company register. A hired company serves only if its office matches and it consented.

Related guide: Service of process: what it means for an LLC Service of process means handing papers to the agent. The Secretary of State path is a $20 fallback.

Related guide: What is a registered agent address? The office is a physical street. A commercial mailbox, a forwarding shop, a virtual office, or a P.O. Box is not it.

Related guide: Best registered agent service The Secretary of State must check that the listed street is a real street.

Related guide: What is a certificate of good standing? The certificate is a different paper from the agent filing. This section does not print a certificate price.

The statute does not print a clock. The front desk is open weekdays, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Those are filing-office hours, not a registered-office clock. Someone has to be at an Oregon street to accept hand-delivered papers. A software login is not that street.

Cited prices, retrieved September 14, 2026

We print what the company’s official registered-agent page said on the retrieval date. No company publishes a different Oregon registered-agent price from the national card, except where we note an Oregon-page renewal line. 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 + OR 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

A change of registered agent or office is a separate Secretary of State filing unless you put the new line on the annual report while the renewal is open. We cite ORS 63.114, the $0 Information Change row, and the $100 domestic report. The $100 report can list the agent. It is still not the registered-agent job.

Who publishes an Oregon 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 Oregon Business Name Search before you file. Headquarters is not the registered office. The Secretary of State’s Salem contacts are not vendor suites.

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. Northwest names Portland, ZIP 97239, Multnomah County, on both the product page and the office list, and no street on either. LegalZoom names a Portland office and no street. Bizee publishes no Oregon street. ZenBusiness publishes the Secretary of State’s Capitol Street contacts. We label every published city vendor-claimed. Use the Business Name Search.

In-state office, the three-way street ban, and the $100 anniversary renewal

Oregon wants a registered office that is a physical street in this state where process may be personally served. The agent’s business office and that registered office must be the same street. A commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business, or a virtual office is not that street. A P.O. Box is not that street. The Secretary of State must check the listed agent street. The LLC may not name itself as the agent. Change the agent on the Information Change, $0 on the live table, or put the new line on the annual report when the renewal is open. The domestic report is $100. It is due on the anniversary day. If that report lists a different agent while the renewal is open, the office treats it as an update. Resignation ends on the 31st day, or sooner if a successor is filed. Stay without an agent, or miss the report, and the Secretary of State may start a dissolution after a 45-day notice. Those filings are not the registered-agent job. Oregon does not post a Florida-style 10–noon / 2–4 clock, and it does not run a Nevada-style ten-company commercial-agent register. Northwest claims Portland, ZIP 97239, Multnomah County. LegalZoom names a Portland office. ZenBusiness publishes 255 Capitol Street NE, the Secretary of State. Bizee names no Oregon street. Process Score has not been to those offices. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as ORS 63.111.

Service of process, not marketing mail

We grade scan-and-forward of service of process and official notices:

Home-address privacy

A commercial registered agent is how most Oregon 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. An Oregon LLC must name an agent. It cannot leave that line blank and it cannot name itself. Confirm the live line on the Business Name Search.

Scorecards

Northwest Registered Agent

Commercial registered agent
Year-1 / year-2 price
B+
National $125/year, same in year 2. Five-or-more-states is $100/year per state. No Oregon-only price.
SOS street and presence
B
Product page and office-locations list both name Portland, OR 97239, Multnomah County. No street. Confirm the Business Name Search. The page does not publish one.
Process and privacy
B
In-office scan of documents they receive. Grade the court-paper path, not the virtual-office or mail-forwarding add-on.

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: 2026-09-14

Official page

Bizee

Commercial registered agent
Year-1 / year-2 price
C+
Year 1 can be $0 with formation on the official card. Year 2 is $149. No Oregon-only price.
SOS street and presence
B-
No Oregon registered-agent street on the product pages. Houston HQ is not an Oregon registered-agent street. Confirm the Business Name Search.
Process and privacy
B
Published court-paper path: notify, scan to portal, FedEx the papers. Not a mailbox.

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: 2026-09-14

Official page

LegalZoom

Commercial registered agent
Year-1 / year-2 price
C
Official $249/year. Year 2 is “purchase rate,” subject to change. The page does not publish $299.
SOS street and presence
B-
Live Oregon article names a Portland office and no street. 255 Capitol Street NE is the Secretary of State. Confirm the Business Name Search.
Process and privacy
B-
Published court-paper scan, email, and postcard. Junk mail is filtered. That is not the product we grade.

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: 2026-09-14

LegalZoom

ZenBusiness

Commercial registered agent
Year-1 / year-2 price
C
Year 1 $99 + OR state fees is a first-year deal. Year 2 is $199, subject to change on the national card. Read the renewal line.
SOS street and presence
B-
Oregon product page publishes no ZenBusiness street or city. The Salem line is a Corporation Division contact. Confirm the Business Name Search. The page does not publish a suite.
Process and privacy
B-
Scan, dashboard, email; overnight for urgent legal notices. Not a mailbox. Their national product currently excludes PLLCs and nonprofits. That is ZenBusiness’s exclusion, not an Oregon statute.

Year 1: $99 + OR 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: 2026-09-14

ZenBusiness

What this page does not do

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.

Sources for this page

  1. ORS 63.111 and the official ORS chapter 63 (retrieved September 14, 2026), continuously maintain a registered agent and registered office; the office must be a physical street where process may be personally served; the office may not be a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business, or a virtual office; the agent’s business office must be identical to that office
  2. ORS 56.035 (retrieved September 14, 2026), the Secretary of State shall verify that a registered-agent address is a physical street and is not a mail forwarding service, virtual office, or commercial mail receiving agency
  3. ORS 63.047, ORS 63.001, and ORS 56.140 (retrieved September 14, 2026), articles must state the initial registered office street and the initial registered agent; anniversary is the exact day each year after the articles are filed; articles $100; domestic annual report $100; foreign authority and foreign annual report $275; Secretary of State process $20; the Secretary of State may waive a fee
  4. ORS 63.114, ORS 63.117, and ORS 63.121 (retrieved September 14, 2026), change by statement that the new agent consented; resignation is effective on the 31st day or sooner if a successor is filed; serve the registered agent; if none can be found, the Secretary of State
  5. ORS 63.787 (retrieved September 14, 2026), annual report lists the agent’s street and name; due by the anniversary; information current as of 30 days before; 45 days to correct an incomplete report; an amendment may update the report before the next anniversary
  6. ORS 63.647, ORS 63.651, and ORS 63.654 (retrieved September 14, 2026), the Secretary of State may start an administrative dissolution if the annual report is missing, if the company is without an agent or office, or if a change or resignation goes without notice; 45 days to cure after notice; dissolution does not end the agent’s authority; reinstatement within five years
  7. ORS 60.111 (retrieved September 14, 2026), corporation pair: registered office and registered agent; same physical-street ban; same commercial-mailbox, mail-forwarding, and virtual-office ban
  8. Oregon Secretary of State, Registered Agents and Service of Process, the Update Registration page, the business-structure page, Business Registry Fee Schedule, and the Information Change form (retrieved September 14, 2026), an entity cannot designate itself as its own registered agent; a P.O. Box or mail forwarding business is not the street; Information Change is the live change path; no processing fee on that form; change $0.00 and domestic renewal $100.00 on the table; 255 Capitol Street NE, Suite 151, Salem OR 97310-1327; front desk Monday–Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Secretary of State process $20.00; the office page prints a 30-day resignation sentence
  9. Oregon Business Name Search (retrieved September 14, 2026), official public lookup at sos.oregon.gov/business; lists registered agent and registered office
  10. Northwest Registered Agent, official registered-agent page, Oregon product page, and office locations (retrieved September 14, 2026), $125/year; first year free only with formation; $100/year per state at five or more states; product page names a Portland scan office and also sells Oregon Virtual Office and Oregon Mail Forwarding extras; office-locations list Portland, OR 97239, Multnomah County, and says they leave the street off this list
  11. Bizee, official registered-agent page, Oregon product page, and contact (retrieved September 14, 2026), free year 1 with formation on the official card; standalone $149/year; year 2 $149/year; Oregon page names $100 online / $50 paper Articles, an anniversary-month annual report, ORS 63.111, and the Corporation Division; no Oregon registered-agent street; /llc/oregon-registered-agent returned 404; Houston contact HQ is not an Oregon registered-agent street
  12. LegalZoom, official registered-agent overview and Oregon registered-agent article (retrieved September 14, 2026; article updated September 18, 2025), $249/year; auto-renews at the purchase rate, subject to change; Oregon article names a Portland office and no street; /articles/registered-agent-in-oregon returned 404 the same day
  13. ZenBusiness, official registered-agent page and Oregon registered agent (retrieved September 14, 2026; Oregon page last updated August 26, 2025), $99 + state fees year 1; $199 renewal, subject to change; Oregon product page publishes no ZenBusiness street; it prints 255 Capitol St. NE, Suite 151, Salem, OR 97310, telephone 503-986-2200, Secretary of State contacts, not a vendor suite; it also prints ORS 63.111, ORS 60.111, a $0 Information Change, a $100 annual-report change line, and a 31-day resignation; /oregon-resident-agent/ returned 404; national product currently excludes PLLCs and nonprofits

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