New Jersey Registered Agent
To start a business in New Jersey, you’ll need an in-state registered agent to handle legal notices and navigate New Jersey’s Public Records Filing. But finding a reliable, local registered agent who makes this process simple can be tough.
With Northwest, you get a dependable, locally-based partner who swiftly handles state mail and compliance filings on your behalf. We’re here to ensure you stay compliant with ease, while our expert Corporate Guides® are available to support you through any business questions along the way.
- Business Address & Mail Scanning
- Domain, Website, Email & Phone Line
- Automatic Brand Protection
- Privacy By Default®
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What Is a Registered Agent?
A registered agent is a person or company that you designate to receive legal mail (like service of process) on behalf of your business. Registered agent services exist to provide an official and reliable way to contact your business.
Legal Requirements for NJ Registered Agents
Residency
The NJ registered agent must be a state resident or a company that provides registered agent services.
Street Address
NJ registered agents must maintain a registered office (a physical address in New Jersey).
Service
The registered agent must accept legal documents (service of process) during normal business hours.
How Do I Change My Registered Agent?
To change the registered agent for your New Jersey LLC or other business entity, you’ll follow this straightforward process:
Step 2
If you place an order with us, the form will be available instantly. We’ll even pay and file the change of agent filing for you.
Why Northwest Is the Best NJ Registered Agent
Our New Jersey Registered Agent Service includes the tools you need to keep your business running without a hitch. When you hire Northwest as the registered agent for your New Jersey corporation or LLC, you get:
- Same-Day Scans: We scan your legal docs the same day we receive them and reach out if your essential mail goes unread.
- Privacy by Default®: We list our business address on public docs to keep your personal info safe. And unlike those other guys, we never sell your data.
- Corporate Guides®: Have questions? We have answers. Our guides are business experts whose sole job is to provide support for all your business questions.
- Brand Protection: Keep an eye on your business name, domains, and trademarks, with built-in Brand Protection. We’ll alert you to potential conflicts early, and give you simple tools to build and manage your brand all in one place.
Want more? Northwest automatically sets your business up with Identity Services, including a free domain name, website, business email address and phone line so you can project professionalism while protecting your personal info.
How to Order Registered Agent Service
Step 1
Sign up online by clicking on one of the buttons or links that says HIRE US.
Step 2
We collect the first year’s fee for registered agent service up front.
Step 3
For new businesses, once your business registration filing with the New Jersey Division of Revenue is complete, we’ll become your registered agent.
Step 4
About a year later, we’ll send an invoice for another year of registered agent service. If you want to keep using us, great; if you don’t, you can easily cancel.
Step 5
It’s easy to add registered agent services in other states if your business expands. We have offices in every state. We don’t farm out work (or your info) to other companies—wherever you are, WE are your registered agent.
Step 6
We make your account a real go-to resource for you, not just for registered agent service or paying a bill but for keeping up with corporate paperwork formalities like the New Jersey Annual Report.
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New Jersey Registered Agent FAQs
The cost of a registered agent in New Jersey depends on the service you use or if you decide to do it yourself. If you do it yourself, it’s absolutely free except you risk your privacy and private information. At Northwest, our New Jersey Registered Agent Service only costs $125 and has always cost that. No hidden or surprise fees.
Yes, you can be your own registered agent in New Jersey. However, after considering the registered agent requirements most business owners elect to hire a registered agent service instead. Why? Well although being your own registered agent will cost you $0, a registered agent’s name and address becomes part of the public record. Additionally, the registered agent is required to be available to accept service of process during normal business hours five days a week.
There are numerous benefits for hiring a registered agent, including:
- If your business is web-based or doesn’t have a physical presence within New Jersey, the business still needs a registered agent located inside state lines.
- Some New Jersey business owners hire registered agent services because their business doesn’t keep regular business hours in which service of process or official mail can be delivered.
- Privacy. Many business owners don’t want their home or business address listed on public record as a point of contact, so they hire a registered agent.
- Avoiding distractions. Listing an employee or family member as your registered agent could be a huge mistake, as that may be the last person you want knowing the intimate details of lawsuits your business might become entangled in. Worse, just having a process server hand them a document is proof that you got it, regardless of whether they actually get it to you in a timely manner. You could miss a court deadline before realizing it.
- If you don’t want the added responsibility of tracking mail and notices from the New Jersey Division of Revenue, you can hire a registered agent to track the important paperwork for you. Having an online account to help maintain your business is often worth the registered agent fee.
Hiring a registered agent for your business is a big decision. The most important decision factor to consider is are you getting what you pay for?
First, if you never get sued, congratulations! But don’t think of fees paid for a registered agent service as wasted money. Your New Jersey registered agent should also keep you updated on any business reports owed to the state.
And if you hire Northwest Registered Agent, we’ll provide you with any form you could file in New Jersey, along with helpful tips for filing forms and paying the state with no markup, as well as amazing customer service. If you end up with multiple states with us, you’ll be able to easily see your annual report dates in every state in your account.
Northwest Registered Agent only charges additional fees if you get more than 15 lawsuits in a year. If you know you’re going to get served hundreds of times a year, we’ll create a custom price for you that makes sense to both parties.
We accept and scan all of our New Jersey clients’ documents on-site at our registered office in Branchburg, NJ.
Definitely! We’re the only national registered agent that allows our clients to list our address for everything when you’re doing a filing to keep your private address off public records.
With registered agent service, we give you five FREE scans of regular business mail (non-state and non-legal mail) a year. You can request any additional documents to be forwarded at a per document rate of $15.
Need more coverage? Our New Jersey Mail Forwarding Service gives your business a New Jersey business address and unlimited mail forwarding (choose daily digial scans or weekly physical forwarding).
You should hire us first to be the registered agent for your New Jersey nonprofit, LLC, or corporation, and then form. The New Jersey Division of Revenue will reject your business registration filing if you don’t list a registered agent. Plus when you sign up for service, you’ll find all the forms and filing instructions you may need in your online account.
Service on your registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. Regardless of whether you actually receive the documents your New Jersey registered agent signs for, once they accept the documents, you’ve been notified. This is a serious responsibility that we do not take lightly. This is how it works:
- A process server, the county sheriff, or any third party will walk into our office and hand us the documents (service of process), which we sign for.
- The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court as confirmation that they served us.
Note: If you’ve hired Northwest, you’ve received your documents long before the process server hands in their affidavit to the court—because we scanned them to your online account within minutes of having been served.
To find a company’s registered agent, you can do a New Jersey business name search.
- Type in the name of the company you’re searching for.
- In the results, you’ll find the registered agent’s name and registered office street address.
If you want to legally notify a business through their New Jersey registered agent service, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.
In New Jersey, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit a Certification of Resignation of Registered Agent (along with a separate affidavit) to the New Jersey Department of the Treasury. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in New Jersey.
