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Not legal advice. Confirm the live registered-agent name, email, and registered-office street on the Wisconsin Corporate Records Search before you file or treat a published street as current. That search is Wisconsin’s public lookup. The office that keeps it is the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions. The Secretary of State does not keep that list.

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Wisconsin registered agent: rules, prices, and graded services

Wisconsin’s DFI street cannot be a P.O. Box, a mailbox service, or a phone-answering line, and the annual report can change that agent

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. Wisconsin’s statute uses the words registered agent and registered office. The live LLC forms use those same words. They do not say resident agent. The office that keeps the public list is the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions. People call that office DFI. The statute calls it the department. The definition says department means the department of financial institutions. The Secretary of State does not keep this list. A Wisconsin LLC, and a company from somewhere else that registers here, must keep a registered agent and a registered office in this state. That office must be an actual physical location with a street address. It cannot be solely a P.O. Box. It cannot be a mailbox service. It cannot be a telephone answering service. That three-way ban is the Wisconsin street rule. The agent must also have an e-mail address and a place of business or activity in this state. Naming the agent is an affirmation of fact that the agent consented to serve. The LLC may not name itself as its own agent. That sentence is on the Articles form, the change form, and the annual-report instructions. Every year the LLC also files an annual report. An annual report is a yearly filing that updates the public record. A domestic LLC pays $25 online. It files during the calendar quarter of its formation anniversary, beginning the year after the articles take effect. A foreign LLC files in the first calendar quarter. If that report’s registered office or registered agent differs from DFI’s record, that difference is a statement of change. Wisconsin is the opposite of Massachusetts on that point. Changing a name on a $25 paper is still not the registered-agent job. The job is taking court papers at the Wisconsin street and forwarding them. This page is the Wisconsin 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. If you need scans of catalogs, that is a different product on a different site.

What Wisconsin actually requires

A registered agent is the person or company who can be handed a lawsuit. Service of process means handing over those papers. Wis. Stat. § 183.0115 requires a registered agent and a registered office. The designation affirms consent. The agent is a Wisconsin resident, or a domestic or authorized foreign company of the listed kinds, and the business office must match. The agent needs an email and a place of business here. Wis. Stat. § 183.0102 means the Department of Financial Institutions, not the Secretary of State.

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. It may not be only a post office box, a mailbox service, or a telephone answering service.

Wis. Stat. § 183.0116 is the change. Wis. Stat. § 183.0122 prices it at $10. The table lists $25 and an online price of $10. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one. Wis. Stat. § 183.0212 is the annual report, due in the anniversary quarter. A different agent line is a statement of change. It is still not taking the lawsuit. The statute prices a domestic report at $25. The table also prints $40. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one.

Wis. Stat. § 183.0708 allows dissolution if the report is missing for a year, the company has no agent for a year, or a change goes unreported for a year. The company has 60 days after notice. A resignation is effective after 60 days, or sooner with a successor. Wis. Stat. § 183.0119 serves the agent. If that fails, mail may go to the principal office.

Related guide: Can I be my own registered agent? A Wisconsin resident may serve if that person’s office is the registered office. The company may not name itself.

Related guide: What is a registered agent for an LLC? The job is taking a lawsuit at the Wisconsin street. The annual report can update the agent and is still a different paper.

Related guide: How much does a registered agent cost? The change dollars do not match. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one. The report dollars are separate.

Related guide: How to change a registered agent on an LLC File a statement of change, or let a different agent line on the annual report stand as the change.

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

Related guide: Service of process: what it means for an LLC Service of process means handing over a written record. If the agent cannot be served, mail goes to the principal office.

Related guide: What is a registered agent address? The office is a physical Wisconsin street. A P.O. Box, a mailbox service, or a phone-answering line is not it.

Related guide: Best registered agent service The agent needs an email and a matching Wisconsin place of business. The list sits at the Department of Financial Institutions.

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. Department hours, weekdays 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., are not a registered-office clock. Someone has to be at a Wisconsin street to accept hand-delivered papers. A software login is not that street.

Full requirement and citations

In plain language. Wisconsin wants a street where court papers can be handed over, and an email for the person or company who takes them. That street is the registered office. That person or company is the registered agent. A P.O. Box is not the office. A mailbox service is not the office. A telephone answering service is not the office. Naming the agent is an affirmation that the agent consented. The LLC cannot list itself as the agent. The filing office is the Department of Financial Institutions, DFI, not the Secretary of State. Every year the LLC also files a $25 online annual report in the quarter of its birthday. If that report’s agent line differs from DFI’s record, that difference is a statement of change. The job is still taking court papers at the street. Check the live name on the Corporate Records Search before you file.

Wis. Stat. § 183.0115 is the Wisconsin office-and-agent statute. Each limited liability company and each registered foreign limited liability company shall designate and maintain a registered agent and registered office in this state. The designation of a registered agent is an affirmation of fact that the agent has consented to serve. Wisconsin does not file a Florida-style written acceptance on the LLC record we retrieved. The affirmation is the consent. The registered office may, but need not, be the same as any of the company’s places of business or activity. The registered office must be an actual physical location with a street address and not solely a post office box, mailbox service, or telephone answering service. That is the street rule. We print it. This page keeps the full wording.

The same section is who may serve. Except as provided in s. 165.68 (5) (f) 1., the registered agent shall be a natural person who resides in this state and whose business office is identical with the registered office; a domestic corporation, nonstock corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, or limited liability partnership whose business office is identical with the registered office; or a foreign corporation, nonstock corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership, or registered limited liability partnership if that entity is authorized to transact business in this state and the entity’s business office is identical with the registered office. A registered agent must have an e-mail address and a place of business or activity in this state. The only duties under this chapter, once the agent has complied, are to forward process, notice, or demand served on or received by the agent; to give the resignation notice; and to keep the agent line current. That is the job. It is not a mailbox.

Wis. Stat. § 183.0102 is the dictionary for this chapter. Department means the department of financial institutions. Registered agent means an agent authorized to receive service of any process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the company. The short title is the Wisconsin Uniform Limited Liability Company Law. Northwest’s Wisconsin page talks about the Wisconsin Secretary of State. ZenBusiness prints DFI’s Madison street under a heading that says Wisconsin Secretary of State. Those are vendor sentences. The live office is DFI. We print the statute. We do not treat a vendor “Secretary of State” as § 183.0102.

Wis. Stat. § 183.0201 is what the articles must say. Articles of organization must state the name, the street and mailing addresses of the principal office, the name and street and mailing and e-mail addresses of the initial registered agent, and the name and address of each organizer. Leaving the agent off is a defect. Wis. Stat. § 183.0122 prices those articles at $130. The same section lets DFI charge a larger fee for paper. The live DFI fee table lists Limited Liability Company organization at $170.00 and organization via online filing at $130.00. The online formation directions we retrieved print $130.00. Form 502’s face prints $170.00. We print the statute and the table. The sources do not agree. This page does not add a third number. The Articles of Organization form repeats the street ban and adds a second sentence: the entity may not name itself as its own registered agent.

Wis. Stat. § 180.0501 is the corporation pair. Each corporation shall designate and maintain a registered office and registered agent in this state. The designation is an affirmation of consent. The registered office must be an actual physical location with a street address and not solely a post office box, mailbox service, or telephone answering service. The agent must have an e-mail address and a place of business or activity in this state. Northwest’s Wisconsin page cites § 180.0501 for the LLC job. That is the corporation statute. The LLC statute is § 183.0115. We print both. We do not treat the corporation cite as the LLC rule.

Wis. Stat. § 183.0116 is how the company changes the line. The company may change its registered agent or registered office as provided in s. 183.0212 (5) or by delivering a statement of change. Naming a new agent is again an affirmation of consent. Members or managers need not approve that filing. The company may instead amend its articles. Wis. Stat. § 183.0122 prices the statement of change at $10. The live DFI fee table lists Statement of Change of Registered Agent/Office at $25.00 and Statement of Change Online Filing at $10.00. Form 13’s face prints $25.00. Optional expedited service is another $100.00. We print the statute, the table, and the form. The sources do not agree. This page does not add a fourth number. Wis. Stat. § 183.0118 is how the agent changes its own name, e-mail, or street. The agent must notify the company in writing and tell DFI that the company has been notified.

Wis. Stat. § 183.0117 is how an agent steps down. The agent files a statement of resignation. The resignation is effective on the earlier of sixty days after DFI receives the statement, or the date a successor’s appointment is effective. That is a 60-day clock. It is not Minnesota’s 30-day clock. It is not Tennessee’s same-day clock. The statute prices that statement at $10. The live DFI fee table lists Resignation of Registered Agent at $10.00. Those two numbers match. The agent may resign whether or not the company is in good standing.

Wis. Stat. § 183.0212 is the yearly DFI paper this page will not confuse with the agent job. A limited liability company or registered foreign limited liability company shall deliver an annual report that states the name of the company, the street address of its registered agent in this state and the name and e-mail address of its registered agent at that office, the street address of its principal office, and at least one member or one manager. A domestic LLC delivers that report each year following the calendar year in which the articles became effective, during the calendar year quarter in which the anniversary date occurs. A foreign LLC delivers it during the first calendar quarter of each year following the year it registered. The DFI FAQ prints the same due-date table: a domestic report is due at the end of that anniversary quarter; a foreign report is due March 31. If an annual report contains a registered office or registered agent which differs from the information shown in the records of the department immediately before the report becomes effective, the differing information is considered a statement of change under § 183.0116. That is subsection (5). Wisconsin’s annual report can update the agent line when the filed line differs. It is not Massachusetts. Massachusetts’s $500 report cannot change the resident agent. The DFI FAQ says the same thing in office copy: an entity may change its registered agent, the agent’s email address, or the registered office by noting the change on its annual report, or by separately filing a Statement of Change or Amendment. That report can change the agent line. It is still not the registered-agent job. The job is taking court papers at the Wisconsin street.

Wis. Stat. § 183.0122 prices a domestic LLC annual report at $25 and a foreign LLC annual report at $65. The live DFI fee table lists a domestic LLC annual report at $40.00 and an annual report via online filing at $25.00. Form 5 instructions print $25.00 per year for a domestic LLC and $80.00 for a foreign LLC. Form 5’s face adds a $15.00 surcharge to file that report on paper. Fifteen plus twenty-five is forty. Fifteen plus sixty-five is eighty. We print the statute, the table, and the form. The sources disagree. This page does not pick one. ZenBusiness’s Wisconsin page, last updated August 6, 2026, says changing the agent on the annual report costs $40. That is ZenBusiness copy. The live domestic online report we retrieved is $25. The $40 row is the paper annual report, or the $40 articles-of-amendment row. We do not treat those three jobs as one number.

Wis. Stat. § 183.0708 is what happens if the report, or the agent, is missing. DFI may start an administrative dissolution if the company does not have its annual report on file within one year after it is due, if the company is without a registered agent in this state for at least one year, or if the company does not notify DFI within one year that its agent or office changed or that the agent resigned. The notice goes to the registered agent. The company has 60 days after that notice takes effect to correct the ground or show it does not exist. Miss that clock and DFI may dissolve the company. The administrative dissolution does not terminate the authority of the registered agent. Wis. Stat. § 183.0709 is the way back: apply, cure each ground, and pay the fees and penalties owed. The fee table did not print as a standalone row a reinstatement dollar.

Wis. Stat. § 183.0119 is how papers are handed over. A limited liability company may be served by serving its registered agent. DFI may serve any written notice authorized under this chapter by e-mailing it to the registered agent’s e-mail address on file. If the company has no agent, or the agent cannot with reasonable diligence be served, service may be by registered or certified mail, or a similar commercial delivery service, to the principal office on DFI’s record. Service of process, notice, or demand on a registered agent must be in a written record. Those paths are how court papers move. They are not the $25 annual report.

The Corporate Records Search sits on apps.dfi.wi.gov. Paper filings mail to State of WI-Dept. of Financial Institutions, Box 93348, Milwaukee WI 53293-0348. Express or priority mail, and the in-person counter, go to 4822 Madison Yards Way, 4th Fl., North Tower, Madison WI 53705. DFI’s contact page prints office hours Monday through Friday, 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Those hours are DFI’s hours. They are not a registered-office clock. Wisconsin does not post Florida-style 10–noon / 2–4 windows. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as Wis. Stat. § 183.0115. Wisconsin does not run a Nevada-style ten-company commercial-agent register. A commercial registered agent here is just a company whose Wisconsin office matches the registered office.

Confirm the live agent, email, and street on the Wisconsin Corporate Records Search before you treat a marketing city as current. Headquarters is not the registered office. The DFI desk in Madison is not a vendor suite. That search returned a live lookup form on retrieval. It lists the registered agent and the registered office address of record. It does not list domestic LLC member names.

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 Wisconsin registered-agent price from the national card, except where we note a Wisconsin-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 + WI 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 DFI filing unless you put the new line on the annual report. We cite Wis. Stat. § 183.0116, Wis. Stat. § 183.0212 (5), the $10 online / $25 paper change rows, and the $25 online domestic report. The $25 report can change the line. It is still not the registered-agent job.

Who publishes a Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin Corporate Records Search before you file. Headquarters is not the registered office. DFI’s Madison 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 Appleton, ZIP 54913, Outagamie County, on both the product page and the office list, and no street on either. LegalZoom published no live Wisconsin article on the two URLs we tried. Bizee publishes no Wisconsin street. ZenBusiness publishes DFI’s Madison Yards Way contacts and labels them Secretary of State. We label every published city vendor-claimed. Use the Corporate Records Search.

In-state office, the three-way street ban, and the annual report that can change the agent

Wisconsin wants a registered office that is an actual physical location in this state. The agent’s business office and that registered office must be the same street. A P.O. Box, a mailbox service, or a telephone answering service is not that street. The agent must have an e-mail address. The LLC may not name itself as the agent. Change the agent on Form 13, $10 online or $25 paper, or put the new line on the annual report. The domestic online report is $25. It is due in the anniversary quarter, beginning the year after the articles take effect. If that report lists a different agent, it is a statement of change. Resignation ends on the earlier of the 60th day or a successor. Stay without an agent for a year, or miss the report for a year, and DFI may start a dissolution after a 60-day notice. Those filings are not the registered-agent job. Wisconsin 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 Appleton, ZIP 54913, Outagamie County. LegalZoom published no live Wisconsin article. ZenBusiness publishes 4822 Madison Yards Way, DFI. Bizee names no Wisconsin street. Process Score has not been to those offices. We do not treat a company 9-to-5 line as Wis. Stat. § 183.0115.

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 Wisconsin owners keep a home off the agent line. DFI still publishes whatever other addresses you put on a formation filing or an annual report. Privacy of the agent line is not privacy of every field. A Wisconsin LLC must name an agent. It cannot leave that line blank and it cannot name itself. Confirm the live line on the Corporate Records 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 Wisconsin-only price.
SOS street and presence
B
Product page and office-locations list both name Appleton, WI 54913, Outagamie County. No street. Confirm the Corporate Records 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 mail-scanning 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 Wisconsin-only price.
SOS street and presence
B-
No Wisconsin registered-agent street on the product pages. Houston HQ is not a Wisconsin registered-agent street. Confirm the Corporate Records 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-
No live Wisconsin article on the two URLs we tried. 4822 Madison Yards Way is DFI. Confirm the Corporate Records 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 + WI 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-
Wisconsin product page publishes no ZenBusiness street or city. The Madison line is a Department of Financial Institutions contact. Confirm the Corporate Records 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 a Wisconsin statute.

Year 1: $99 + WI 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. Wisconsin is the opposite: 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. Oregon’s street cannot be a commercial mail receiving agency, a mail forwarding business, or a virtual office. The $100 anniversary renewal is not that job: Oregon scorecard.

Sources for this page

  1. Wis. Stat. § 183.0115 (retrieved September 14, 2026), designate and maintain a registered agent and registered office; designation is an affirmation of consent; the office must be an actual physical location with a street address and not solely a post office box, mailbox service, or telephone answering service; the agent must have an e-mail address and a place of business in this state
  2. Wis. Stat. § 183.0102 (retrieved September 14, 2026), department means the department of financial institutions; registered agent means the agent authorized to receive service of process, notice, or demand
  3. Wis. Stat. § 183.0201 and Wis. Stat. § 183.0122 (retrieved September 14, 2026), articles must state the initial registered agent’s name and street, mailing, and e-mail addresses; articles $130; statement of change $10; resignation $10; domestic annual report $25; foreign annual report $65; paper filings may cost more by rule
  4. Wis. Stat. § 183.0116, Wis. Stat. § 183.0118, and Wis. Stat. § 183.0117 (retrieved September 14, 2026), change by statement or by the annual report; a new designation is an affirmation of consent; resignation is effective on the earlier of 60 days or a successor
  5. Wis. Stat. § 183.0212 (retrieved September 14, 2026), annual report lists the agent’s street, name, and e-mail; a domestic LLC files in the anniversary quarter beginning the year after the articles take effect; a different agent or office on that report is a statement of change
  6. Wis. Stat. § 183.0708 and Wis. Stat. § 183.0709 (retrieved September 14, 2026), DFI may start an administrative dissolution if the annual report is a year late, if the company is without an agent for at least one year, or if a change or resignation goes a year without notice; 60 days to cure after notice; dissolution does not end the agent’s authority
  7. Wis. Stat. § 183.0119 (retrieved September 14, 2026), serve the registered agent; DFI may e-mail the agent; if no agent can be served, registered or certified mail to the principal office; service on the agent must be a written record
  8. Wis. Stat. § 180.0501 (retrieved September 14, 2026), corporation pair: registered office and registered agent; same physical-street ban; same e-mail rule; Northwest’s Wisconsin page cites this section for the LLC job
  9. DFI Corporation Fees, the File Online page, Form 502, Form 13, Form 5, Form 5 instructions, and the Business Entity FAQ (retrieved September 14, 2026), LLC articles $130 online / $170 paper; change $10 online / $25 paper; resignation $10; domestic annual report $25 online / $40 paper; Form 5 foreign LLC $80; the entity may not name itself as the registered agent; the annual report can change the agent line; 4822 Madison Yards Way, North Tower, Madison WI 53705; Monday–Friday 7:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
  10. Wisconsin Corporate Records Search (retrieved September 14, 2026), official public lookup at apps.dfi.wi.gov; lists registered agent and registered office; does not list domestic LLC member names
  11. Northwest Registered Agent, official registered-agent page, Wisconsin 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 an Appleton scan office, cites § 180.0501, and says the Wisconsin Secretary of State requires a registered agent; office-locations list Appleton, WI 54913, Outagamie County, and says they leave the street off this list
  12. Bizee, official registered-agent page, Wisconsin product page, and contact (retrieved September 14, 2026), free year 1 with formation on the official card; standalone $149/year; year 2 $149/year; Wisconsin page names $130 online / $170 paper Articles, an anniversary-quarter annual report, and DFI; no Wisconsin registered-agent street; /llc/wisconsin-registered-agent returned 404; Houston contact HQ is not a Wisconsin registered-agent street
  13. LegalZoom, official registered-agent overview (retrieved September 14, 2026), $249/year; auto-renews at the purchase rate, subject to change; no Wisconsin street on the official overview; /articles/wisconsin-registered-agent and /articles/registered-agent-in-wisconsin returned 404 the same day
  14. ZenBusiness, official registered-agent page and Wisconsin registered agent (retrieved September 14, 2026; Wisconsin page last updated August 6, 2026), $99 + state fees year 1; $199 renewal, subject to change; Wisconsin product page publishes no ZenBusiness street; it prints 4822 Madison Yards Way, North Tower, Madison, WI 53705, telephone (608) 261-9555, under a Secretary of State heading, DFI contacts, not a vendor suite and not the Secretary of State; it also prints § 183.0115, a $25 Statement of Change, a $40 annual-report change line, and a 60-day resignation; /wisconsin-resident-agent/ returned 404; national product currently excludes PLLCs and nonprofits

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