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Not legal advice. Confirm the live agent name and address on RCP search before you file or treat a published city as current. That search is the public company list. The office that keeps it is the Department of State of Puerto Rico, Departamento de Estado, Registro de Corporaciones. Confirm on that office before you treat a vendor page as current. The agent rule sits in Ley 164-2009, Chapter III (14 L.P.R.A. §§ 3541–3546).

Territory · Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico wants an agente residente at a designated office in the Commonwealth. An LLC pays a $150 annual fee by April 15. The filing office is the Departamento de Estado.

A registered agent is the person or company who can be handed a lawsuit for the business. It is not a mailbox. People also call that job a resident agent, or a statutory agent. Puerto Rico’s statute calls it an agente residente. Handing over those court papers is called service of process. The statute’s word for that is emplazamiento. The filing office is the Department of State of Puerto Rico (Departamento de Estado). The part that keeps company papers is the Registro de Corporaciones. The public site is RCP. This office is not a U.S. Secretary of State. The statute names the Secretario de Estado. That is the head of this Department. It is not the U.S. Secretary of State, and it is not a mainland Secretary of State counter. Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.02 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3542) says every corporation shall keep an agente residente in the Commonwealth. The statute’s name for the Commonwealth is the Estado Libre Asociado. The agent may be the corporation itself, an individual who lives in the Commonwealth, or a domestic or foreign juridical person authorized to do business here. That person’s business office must match the designated office. The office is ordinarily open during working hours so someone can hand over a lawsuit. Ley 164-2009, Art. 19.04 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3954) says every limited liability company shall keep a registered office and an agente residente in Puerto Rico, under that same chapter. The corporations page says an LLC does not file a corporation annual report. The report’s name is informe anual. The LLC instead pays an annual fee. The fee’s name is derecho anual. That page prints $150, due on or before April 15. The Ley 164-2009, Art. 21.03 (14 L.P.R.A. § 4043) text in the August 20, 2021 Act PDF still prints $100, due March 1. We print both. We do not invent a winner. Paying that fee, or filing the corporation report, is the company’s job. It is not the job of taking the lawsuit. This page is the territory rule and the dated prices. It does not reprint vendor cards from another state.

Updated September 28, 2026 · Methodology · Prices retrieved September 28, 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. Puerto Rico wants someone who can be handed court papers. If you need scans of catalogs, that is a different product on a different site.

What Puerto Rico actually requires

In plain language. If you formed a Puerto Rico corporation or LLC, the company has to name an agente residente. That is the person who can be handed a lawsuit. The office on the filing is in the Commonwealth. It matches the agent’s business office, and it is open during working hours. The company itself may take the job. A person who lives here may take it. A company authorized to do business here may take it. A corporation changes the agent on a certificate. The forms page lists that certificate at $60 for a for-profit and $4 for a nonprofit. The form adds up to the same $60 and prints the $4 nonprofit note. The Act PDF prints floors that are lower. An LLC change commonly uses an amendment certificate. The forms page lists that amendment at $80. The Act PDF lists $50 for several LLC certificates. A corporation files an informe anual by April 15. The forms page lists that report at $150. An LLC does not file that report. It pays a derecho anual. The Department’s pages print $150 by April 15. The Act PDF prints $100 due March 1, with a $100 penalty. The LLC fee form prints a $500 penalty and quotes April 15. We print those clocks and those dollars. We do not invent a winner. If an agent resigns and names no successor, the resignation waits 30 days. If no new agent is named in that time, the Departamento de Estado cancels the corporation’s certificate. Check the live name on RCP before you file.

Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.02 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3542) is who must keep an agent. Every corporation shall maintain an agente residente in the Estado Libre Asociado. The agent may be the corporation itself. The agent may be an individual resident in the Commonwealth. The agent may be a juridical person organized under Puerto Rico law, or a foreign juridical person authorized to do business here. In each case, that person’s business office shall coincide with the corporation’s designated office. That office is ordinarily open during working hours to receive emplazamiento and to do the rest of the agent’s job. The section does not print an age of 18. It does not print “9 a.m. to 5 p.m.” It does not print the words “P.O. Box.”

Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3541) is the office. Every corporation shall maintain a designated office in the Commonwealth. It may be the business location or another place. For this law, the designated office is the office registered with the Departamento de Estado where the agente residente is found. When a certificate or another corporate paper says “oficina principal” or “lugar principal de negocios,” that phrase means this designated office unless the paper says otherwise. Ley 164-2009, Art. 1.02 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3502) says the certificate of incorporation states the mailing address and the physical address of the designated office, including street, number, and municipality, and the name of the agente residente at that office.

Ley 164-2009, Art. 19.04 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3954) is the LLC sentence. Every compañía de responsabilidad limitada shall have and maintain in Puerto Rico a registered office and an agente residente, according to Chapter III. That chapter is the corporation office-and-agent chapter, including the rule that the entity itself may serve. We do not invent a second LLC-only agent statute beyond that cross-reference. Form 34-CORPLLC02, the Certificado de organización, asks for the street and mailing address of the main office, including street, number, and municipality, and for the agente residente in charge of that office. Ley 164-2009, Art. 19.05 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3955) says service on an LLC follows Chapter XII. We read that cross-reference. We do not reprint Chapter XII section by section. Ley 164-2009, Art. 20.03 (14 L.P.R.A. § 4023) sits in the foreign-LLC chapter. Subsection B says every corporation admitted to do business in the Commonwealth shall continuously maintain a designated office and an agente residente, under Artículo 13.10. The sentence says “corporación.” We do not rewrite it into a foreign-LLC rule the words do not print.

Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.03 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3543) is the corporation’s move. The board may move the designated office to another place inside the Commonwealth. The board may also replace the agente residente with another natural person or juridical person, including the corporation itself. A certified copy of that resolution is filed with the Departamento de Estado. Form 22-CORPOTR05 is the Certificado de cambio del agente residente de una corporación. It says that after the change, the physical and mailing address of the designated office and the business address of the agente residente shall be the same. It says the written consent of the new agent shall appear in the certificate or be attached. Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.04 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3544) is a different paper. The agent may change the designated-office address of the corporations it serves by filing a certified document with the Departamento de Estado. A name change of the agent is also filed with the Secretario de Estado.

Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.05 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3545) is a resignation that names a successor. The agent files a certificate of resignation with the Departamento de Estado and names the replacement. Authorized officers of the affected corporations must ratify and approve the change. Once those papers are in, the successor is the new agent. Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.06 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3546) is a resignation with no successor. The resignation has no effect until 30 days after the certificate is filed. The certificate must say the agent gave written notice to each affected corporation at least 30 days before filing, that the notice went by certified mail or was delivered at the last address the agent knew, and the date of that notice. If the corporation does not name a new agent before those 30 days end, the Secretario de Estado annuls the corporation’s authority to do business and cancels the certificate of incorporation. That cancellation is a cancelación. If the resignation has become effective and no new agent was named, emplazamiento follows the Rules of Civil Procedure of Puerto Rico. The forms page, read September 28, 2026, lists both resignation certificates, with a successor and without one. It prices each at CF $60 and SF $4. We read CF as con fines, a for-profit, and SF as sin fines, a nonprofit, because that is how the same table labels other rows. We do not invent a different meaning.

The change-of-agent dollars do not all say the same thing. Print them as they sit. The forms page lists “Certificado de cambio del agente residente de una corporación” at CF $60.00 and SF $4.00. It lists the change of designated office at the same pair. Form 22-CORPOTR05 prints Cifra 5133 at $24.00 and Cifra 5134 at $36.00. Those two lines add to $60. The form says a religious, fraternal, charitable, or educational nonprofit pays $4.00, split $1.60 and $2.40. The forms page and the form agree on $60 and $4. Ley 164-2009, Art. 17.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3921) is older statutory language in the same Act PDF. For a for-profit, a certificate of change of agent or of the designated office under Artículo 3.03 is not less than $50. For a nonprofit, that change is not less than $2. A for-profit resignation under Artículo 3.05 is not less than $10 per corporation. A nonprofit resignation under that article is not less than $2 per corporation. The forms page lists the resignation certificates at $60 and $4. The statute prints floors. The forms page prints a price. We do not treat the floor as the price on the form, and we do not treat the form as a repeal of the floor.

An LLC does not use that corporation change certificate on the forms page we read. The LLC table lists “Certificado de enmienda al certificado de organización” at $80. Form 43-CORPLLC11 prints R-4391 $50.00 and R-4392 $30.00, and it prints $80.00 as the figure that includes those lines. Ley 164-2009, Art. 21.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 4041) lists $50 for a certificate to designate an agente residente, $50 plus $2 for each LLC on a resignation with or without a successor, and $50 for a certificate of organization and for a certificate of amendment, among other certificates. The same article says the Secretario de Estado may modify the fees in that chapter by circular letter or administrative order. We did not open a circular that sets the $80. We print the Act’s $50 lines and the forms page’s $80. We do not invent a winner.

The yearly paper is a different job. Say it once so the dollars do not get mixed up with the lawsuit. The corporations page, read September 28, 2026, says corporations file an informe anual with the Registro on or before April 15 each year, except religious nonprofits. The report includes the physical and postal address of the designated office and the name and physical address of the agente residente. The forms page lists the for-profit informe anual at $150 and the nonprofit report at $5. Ley 164-2009, Art. 17.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3921) says the annual-report filing is not less than $100 for the for-profit schedule we read, and not less than $10 on the nonprofit schedule. The hub’s “Importante” note says LLCs do not file an informe anual with the Departamento de Estado. They pay a derecho anual of $150 on or before April 15, or the next business day if that date is a weekend or holiday. The same page still banners Orden Administrativa 2024-04, dated December 13, 2024. That order extends a second extension for 2023 corporate annual reports, for entities that already had that extension, from December 16, 2024 to January 22, 2025. It is not a new standing due date for 2026. It is not the LLC derecho anual. The page body still prints April 15. The forms page lists “Derecho anual” at $150. Form 38-CORPLLC06 prints Cifra 4391 $90.00 and Cifra 4392 $60.00. Those lines add to $150. The form says Artículo 21.03, section C, makes the fee payable on or before April 15, and that a late payment adds a $500 penalty plus interest of 1.5 percent a month. Ley 164-2009, Art. 21.03 (14 L.P.R.A. § 4043) in the Act PDF says the annual fee is $100. It says that fee is payable on March 1 of each year following the close of the calendar year. It says late fees draw interest of 1.5 percent a month. It says the penalty is $100, not $500. The form’s quotation of section C does not match the March 1 sentence in the PDF we read. The Department’s live pages print April 15 and $150. We print the PDF, the form, and the live pages. We do not invent a winner. Filing the report or paying the fee is the company’s job. It is not the job of taking the lawsuit. Ley 164-2009, Art. 21.03 (14 L.P.R.A. § 4043) also says that if the fee goes unpaid for three consecutive years, the domestic LLC’s certificate of organization is understood to be canceled. That three-year clock is not the 30-day resignation clock in Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.06 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3546).

Formation dollars sit next to those fees. The forms page lists a for-profit corporation filing at $150 and an LLC Certificado de organización at $250. Form 34-CORPLLC02 prints Cifra 4391 $150.00 and Cifra 4392 $100.00. Those lines add to $250. Ley 164-2009, Art. 21.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 4041) lists $50 for a certificate of organization. The same forms page lists an LLC good-standing certificate at $20 and a for-profit corporation good-standing certificate at $15. Ley 164-2009, Art. 17.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3921) says a for-profit compliance certificate is not less than $15. Ley 164-2009, Art. 21.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 4041) lists $20 for certificates of compliance. Those two lines match the forms page. The $250 and the $50 do not. We print both. The forms page also adds rush fees on LLC work: $100 within 24 hours, $200 the same day, and $500 within two hours the same day. Form 34 prints those same three add-ons. They are speed fees. They are not the agent’s yearly price.

The office we read prints a street and a phone. It does not print a clock. The physical line on the corporations page and the forms page is Calle San José, Esq. San Francisco, Viejo San Juan. The postal line is PO Box 9023271, San Juan, PR 00902-3271. The phone is (787) 722-2121. That post office box is the Department’s mail address. It is not a registered-agent street. The building in Old San Juan is the Department. It is not a vendor suite. Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.02 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3542) says the agent’s office is ordinarily open during working hours for emplazamiento. It does not print an opening time or a closing time. statedepartment.pr.gov redirects to www.statedepartment.pr.gov, which answered as its own English site. We did not use that site as the fee table. The Spanish pages at estado.pr.gov are the fee pages we read. The public lookup is RCP search. The portal home is rcp.estado.pr.gov/es. We did not pull a live search row on September 28, 2026. A city on a marketing page is still vendor-claimed until that search shows it.

Northwest’s Puerto Rico page, retrieved September 28, 2026, prints “$125 Per Year.” It says the company has offices in every state. It does not name a Puerto Rico city. It does not print a street number or a ZIP. We will not invent a San Juan number. It says a Puerto Rico registered agent keeps a physical street address where legal documents can be delivered, and is available during normal business hours. Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.02 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3542) says working hours. It does not print “normal business hours” as a clock. The page says the Puerto Rico Department of State’s Division of Corporations keeps the requirement. The Department’s own pages say Departamento de Estado and Registro de Corporaciones. We print both names. We do not call either one a U.S. Secretary of State. The page says Northwest will prepare and file a Certificate of Change of Registered Agent at no additional charge. It does not print $60 or $80. The forms page prints CF $60 / SF $4 for the corporation change and $80 for the LLC amendment. The page says you can serve yourself for the legal requirement, and that your own address can then be public. It says you may list their address for the addresses on the filing. It also sells extra mail scans: five free scans of regular business mail a year, then $15 a document. That add-on is a different product. We do not grade it as the registered-agent job. The page says a resignation is a Certificate of Resignation of Resident Agent filed online. It does not print the 30-day clock in Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.06 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3546).

Bizee’s national registered-agent page, retrieved September 28, 2026, prints a free first year with formation and a standalone price of $149/year. It says the company owns and operates offices in all 50 states and does not outsource. It does not say Puerto Rico. We opened bizee.com/llc/puerto-rico/registered-agent on September 28, 2026. It returned 404. Nearby Puerto Rico URLs we opened the same day also returned 404. We do not invent a Bizee Puerto Rico product page or a Puerto Rico street. The contact page lists 17350 State Highway 249, Suite 220, Houston, TX 77064. That address is not a Puerto Rico registered-agent address. Support hours on that page are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Central Time. Those are support hours, not a registered office in the Commonwealth.

LegalZoom’s registered-agent overview, retrieved September 28, 2026, prints $249/year. The footnote says the service auto-renews at the purchase rate until you cancel, the renewal rate is subject to change, and the purchase price is for a first-time registered-agent customer. We do not invent a year-two number the overview did not print. We opened legalzoom.com/articles/puerto-rico-registered-agent. It returned 404. Two nearby article URLs we opened also returned 404. We do not invent a LegalZoom Puerto Rico article, a LegalZoom city, or a LegalZoom street. The overview talks about documents scanned and uploaded. That is the court-paper path on the national card. It is not a Puerto Rico address.

ZenBusiness’s registered-agent product URL at zenbusiness.com/puerto-rico-registered-agent/ returned 404 on September 28, 2026. We do not invent a ZenBusiness Puerto Rico price. The national registered-agent page prints $99 plus state fees for the first year and a renewal at $199 a year. A banner on that page also says 50 percent off registered-agent service for the first year when you form an LLC. We print both sentences. We do not invent which one a Puerto Rico checkout would charge. The page says the service is for limited liability companies and corporations in all 50 states, and that ZenBusiness currently does not offer registered-agent service to professional limited liability companies or nonprofits. That exclusion is theirs. It is not a sentence in Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.02 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3542). A live ZenBusiness URL at zenbusiness.com/puerto-rico/ redirected, on September 28, 2026, to zenbusiness.com/puerto-rico-series-llc/. The page title is “How to Form a Puerto Rico Series LLC.” It is a series-LLC formation article. It is not a registered-agent price page. It says the agent is also called a resident agent, must have an office in Puerto Rico, and must be available during standard business hours. It says all LLCs, including series LLCs, must file annual reports by April 15 with the Puerto Rico Department of State. The corporations hub says LLCs do not file an informe anual and instead pay the derecho anual. We print both. The article publishes no ZenBusiness street.

Cited prices, retrieved September 28, 2026

We print what the company’s official registered-agent page said on the retrieval date. Where a Puerto Rico page prints its own price, we print that sentence. Where the Puerto Rico product URL returned 404, we print the national page and say so. 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 + applicable state fees for the first year (standalone); sometimes 50% off first year with formation $199/year renewal on the official product and help pages C / B- / B- Official page

A change of agent is a separate filing with the Departamento de Estado. The forms page prices the corporation change certificate at CF $60 and SF $4. Form 22-CORPOTR05 adds to $60 and prints $4 for the nonprofits it names. Ley 164-2009, Art. 17.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3921) prints floors of not less than $50 and not less than $2. The LLC amendment certificate is $80 on the forms page and on form 43-CORPLLC11. Ley 164-2009, Art. 21.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 4041) lists $50 for an amendment and $50 to designate an agent. Northwest’s product page does not print $60 or $80. Bizee has no Puerto Rico product page that printed a change dollar. LegalZoom has no Puerto Rico article that printed one. ZenBusiness’s national page does not print $60 or $80. The informe anual and the derecho anual can sit next to the agent on the public record. They are still not the job of taking the lawsuit.

Who publishes a Puerto Rico address

A city is not a registered office. We print only the addresses the companies publish for registered-agent use. We do not invent the rest. Confirm the live name and address on RCP search before you file. Headquarters is not the registered-agent address. Calle San José, Esq. San Francisco, is the Department. It is not a vendor suite. We did not pull a live search row on September 28, 2026. A city on a marketing page is still vendor-claimed until that search shows it.

If you are your own agent, the address on the public record is often your home. Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.02 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3542) lets the corporation itself serve, and it lets an individual who lives in the Commonwealth serve. Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3541) still wants a designated office in the Commonwealth, registered with the Departamento de Estado. The agent’s business office has to match. Northwest says you can serve yourself. Bizee, LegalZoom, and ZenBusiness did not give us a Puerto Rico product page that printed a self-service sentence we could grade. A commercial mailbox is not a sentence we found in Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.02 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3542). The statute prints a designated office that coincides with the agent’s business office, and working hours for emplazamiento. It does not print the words “P.O. Box.” Northwest’s product page names no city and prints no street number. Bizee publishes no Puerto Rico address. LegalZoom publishes no city and no address. ZenBusiness publishes no suite. Use RCP. Process Score has not been to those offices.

The $150 fee, the $60 change, and the April 15 paper

A Puerto Rico corporation keeps an agente residente under Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.02 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3542). An LLC keeps one under Ley 164-2009, Art. 19.04 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3954), which points back to that chapter. The office is a designated office in the Commonwealth. It matches the agent’s business office. It is ordinarily open during working hours so someone can hand over a lawsuit. The corporation change certificate is CF $60 / SF $4 on the forms page and $60 on the face of form 22-CORPOTR05, with a $4 nonprofit note. Ley 164-2009, Art. 17.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3921) prints not less than $50 and not less than $2. The LLC amendment is $80 on the forms page. Ley 164-2009, Art. 21.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 4041) lists $50. The informe anual is the corporation’s paper, due April 15 on the hub, at $150 on the forms page, and not less than $100 in the Act’s for-profit schedule. The derecho anual is the LLC’s payment. The hub and the forms page print $150 by April 15. The Act PDF prints $100 due March 1, with a $100 penalty. Form 38 prints cifras that add to $150, a $500 penalty, and a quotation of April 15. We print those dollars. We do not invent a winner. If the agent resigns with no successor, Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.06 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3546) waits 30 days and then the Secretario de Estado can cancel the corporation’s certificate. That cancellation is not the LLC’s three-year missed-fee clock. Northwest’s product page prints $125 and no street. Bizee’s Puerto Rico product URL returned 404. LegalZoom’s Puerto Rico article URL returned 404. ZenBusiness’s registered-agent product URL returned 404. We do not treat a company hours line as Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.02 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3542).

Service of process, not marketing mail

We grade scan-and-forward of service of process and official notices. The statute’s word is emplazamiento.

Home-address privacy

Naming a commercial agent is how many owners keep a home off the agent line. The Departamento de Estado still publishes the agent name and address on RCP. Privacy of the agent line is not privacy of every field. The corporation informe anual still asks for the designated office and the agent’s physical address. The LLC derecho anual is a payment, not a mailbox. A blank line is not the same thing as a private line. Confirm the live line on RCP.

Not legal advice. Confirm on the Department of State of Puerto Rico, Departamento de Estado, before you treat these grades as current. Check the live name and address on RCP search.

Scorecards

Northwest Registered Agent

Commercial registered agent
Year-1 / year-2 price
B+
Puerto Rico page prints $125/year, same in year 2. Five-or-more-states is $100/year per state on the national page. The Puerto Rico page does not print $100.
SOS street and presence
B-
Puerto Rico page names no city and prints no street number. Confirm RCP. We did not invent a San Juan suite.
Process and privacy
B
Same-day scan of documents they receive. Grade the court-paper path, not the extra mail-scan 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: 2026-09-28

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. The Puerto Rico product URL returned 404.
SOS street and presence
B-
No Puerto Rico registered-agent address. Houston HQ is not a Puerto Rico address. The product URL returned 404. Confirm RCP.
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: 2026-09-28

Official page

LegalZoom

Commercial registered agent
Year-1 / year-2 price
C
Official $249/year. Renewal rate is subject to change. We will not invent a year-two number.
SOS street and presence
B-
Puerto Rico article URL returned 404. Overview publishes no LegalZoom city or address. Confirm RCP. We did not invent a suite.
Process and privacy
B-
Published court-paper scan, email, and alerts. Junk mail 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: 2026-09-28

Official page

ZenBusiness

Commercial registered agent
Year-1 / year-2 price
C
National page prints $99 plus state fees, a 50 percent off formation banner, and a $199 renewal. The Puerto Rico product URL returned 404.
SOS street and presence
B-
Registered-agent product URL returned 404. Series-LLC article publishes no ZenBusiness street. Confirm RCP. We did not invent a suite.
Process and privacy
B-
Scan, dashboard, email; overnight for urgent legal notices. Not a mailbox. Their national product currently excludes professional limited liability companies and nonprofits. That is ZenBusiness’s exclusion, not Art. 3.02.

Year 1: $99 + applicable state fees for the first year (standalone); sometimes 50% off first year with formation

Year 2: $199/year renewal on the official product and help pages

Retrieved: 2026-09-28

Official page

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. The District’s filing office is also not a Secretary of State: District of Columbia scorecard. Alaska’s filing office is a division, not a Secretary of State: Alaska scorecard.

Sources for this page

  1. Ley 164-2009, Chapter III (14 L.P.R.A. §§ 3541–3546), Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3541), Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.02 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3542), Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.03 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3543), Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.04 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3544), Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.05 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3545), and Ley 164-2009, Art. 3.06 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3546) (Ley 164-2009 PDF, revision August 20, 2021, read September 28, 2026), designated office; agente residente, including the entity itself; change by board resolution; agent address change; resignation with a successor; resignation without a successor is effective 30 days after filing and can lead to cancelación
  2. Ley 164-2009, Art. 1.02 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3502), Ley 164-2009, Art. 19.04 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3954), Ley 164-2009, Art. 19.05 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3955), and Ley 164-2009, Art. 20.03 (14 L.P.R.A. § 4023) (same PDF), the certificate states the street, number, municipality, and the agente residente; an LLC keeps a registered office and an agente residente under Chapter III; LLC service follows Chapter XII; the foreign-LLC article’s subsection B says “corporación” and points to Artículo 13.10
  3. Ley 164-2009, Art. 17.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 3921), Ley 164-2009, Art. 21.01 (14 L.P.R.A. § 4041), and Ley 164-2009, Art. 21.03 (14 L.P.R.A. § 4043) (same PDF), corporation change of agent not less than $50 for-profit and not less than $2 nonprofit; LLC certificate of organization $50 in the statute list; LLC amendment $50; LLC annual fee $100 due March 1, with a $100 penalty and 1.5 percent monthly interest; the Secretario de Estado may modify Chapter XXI fees by circular or administrative order
  4. Departamento de Estado, corporaciones and formularios para corporaciones (read September 28, 2026), informe anual by April 15; for-profit report $150; LLC derecho anual $150 by April 15 and no LLC informe anual; LLC certificado de organización $250; LLC amendment $80; corporation change of agente residente CF $60 / SF $4; resignation certificates CF $60 / SF $4; Orden Administrativa 2024-04 extends a 2023 second extension to January 22, 2025 and is not a new standing due date; office at Calle San José, Esq. San Francisco, Viejo San Juan; PO Box 9023271, San Juan, PR 00902-3271; (787) 722-2121
  5. Form 22-CORPOTR05, form 34-CORPLLC02, form 38-CORPLLC06, and form 43-CORPLLC11 (PDFs retrieved September 28, 2026), change form adds to $60 and prints a $4 nonprofit note, and requires the office and the agent’s business address to match; organization form names the agente residente and prints $150 plus $100; annual-fee form prints $90 plus $60, quotes April 15, and prints a $500 penalty; amendment form prints $80
  6. RCP search and RCP portal (opened September 28, 2026), the public company list. We did not pull a live search row
  7. Northwest Registered Agent, official registered-agent page and Puerto Rico product page (retrieved September 28, 2026), $125/year; no city and no street number; change filing described at no additional charge, with no $60 or $80 printed
  8. Bizee, official registered-agent page and contact (retrieved September 28, 2026), free year 1 with formation; standalone $149/year; year 2 $149/year; Puerto Rico product URL returned 404; Houston contact headquarters is not a Puerto Rico registered-agent address
  9. LegalZoom, official registered-agent overview (retrieved September 28, 2026), $249/year; renewal rate subject to change; the Puerto Rico article URL we opened returned 404; no Puerto Rico address published
  10. ZenBusiness, official registered-agent page and the Puerto Rico series-LLC article (retrieved September 28, 2026; /puerto-rico/ redirects there), $99 plus state fees year 1 and $199 renewal on the national page, plus a 50 percent off formation banner; the registered-agent product URL returned 404; the article is not a price page and publishes no ZenBusiness address; national product currently excludes professional limited liability companies and nonprofits