Hawaii Registered Agent

Yes you can act as your own registered agent in Hawaii. This means you would be the person designated to accept all official mail on behalf of your business, including service of process, and will serve as your business’s primary contact with the state. There are only a few requirements for you to act as your own registered agent in Hawaii: you must be a resident and have a physical street address in the state of Hawaii where you keep regular business hours (the physical residence can be the same address as the business).

Being your own registered agent in Hawaii will cost you $0, however, when you act as your own registered agent, your name and address become part of public record. You’ll also have to maintain regular business hours (9 AM to 5 PM) at the address you listed.

Aloha! Our downtown Honolulu office is blocks away from the Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. We charge $125 a year for registered agent service in Hawaii.

We locally scan all items we receive at our registered agent office in Hawaii, a local Honolulu address, for no charge. One of the nice things our Hawaii resident agent clients enjoy is being able to log into their online registered agent account and see when their next Hawaii report is due. We appreciate the chance to be your Hawaii agent. Mahalo!

Definitely! We’re the only national registered agent service that allows our clients to list our address for everything when you’re filing your state paperwork. This helps keep your private address off public records, and shows how far we’ll go to protect your privacy.

We don’t want ALL of your business mail. It’s not what we do. And it wouldn’t serve you well. You wouldn’t have a unique address or suite number.

But we understand that businesses and clients sometimes reach out to you through your registered agent. That’s why we give you five FREE scans of regular business mail a year. You can request any additional documents to be forwarded at a per document rate of $15.

You should hire us first and then form your LLC or corporation because Hawaii’s Department of Commerce & Consumer Affairs, Business Registration Division will reject your business registration filing if you don’t list a registered agent. And if you list your own address as your registered agent, you can say farewell to your privacy.

Serving a registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. This is a serious responsibility that we do not take lightly. Here’s how it works:

• A process server, the county sheriff, or any third party will walk into our office and hand us the documents, which we sign for. This delivery is known as service of process.
• The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court as confirmation that they served us.

Note: If you’ve hire Northwest, you receive your documents long before the process server hands in their affidavit to the court, because we scan them to your online account within minutes of accepting them. 

You can look up a company’s basic details online with a Hawaii business name search. Here’s how that works:

• Type in the name of the company you’re searching for.
• In the results, you’ll find the company’s registered agent and registered office street address.

If you want to legally notify the business through their registered agent service, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.

To resign as a registered agent in Hawaii, you’ll need to submit a Statement of Resignation of Registered Agent to Hawaii’s Business Registration Division. Our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Hawaii digs deeper.

Yes! We send all of our clients reminders when the annual report is due. Annual reports will get mailed to your main business address not your registered agent’s. You can hire us to file for you, or file on your own.

Your Hawaii Annual Report’s due date is determined by when you initially formed your business, so things can get tricky. Check out our guide to Hawaii’s Annual Report to learn more, or just use our Renewal Service, and we’ll file for you. Mahalo!