Oregon Registered Agent

Yes, you can be your own registered agent in Oregon. However, after considering the registered agent requirements, most business owners elect to hire a registered agent service instead.

Why? Being your own registered agent is free, but a registered agent’s name and address becomes part of the public record in Oregon. Also, the registered agent is required to be available to accept service of process during normal business hours five days a week.

If you don’t want your personal information out in the open, and you aren’t going to be available Monday through Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM to accept legal mail for your business, hiring a pro is the way to go!

We accept and scan all of our Oregon clients’ documents on-site at our registered office in Portland, OR.

When we accept a document on behalf of your business, we will scan the docs from our Portland office within minutes to your online account.

Yes! We don’t mind if you put our address on your filing with the Secretary of State. We’re the only national registered agent service that allows clients to use the registered office address and keep your own address off the public record.

Yes! Privacy is important to us. If it’s important to you, too, you can use our Oregon Virtual Office or Oregon Mail Forwarding service to use our address as your own. With Oregon Virtual Office or our premium Mail Forwarding, you get a unique suite number, so you’ll be the only company at that address.

If you’re looking for privacy protection and only need a few pieces of mail forwarded each year, we also offer FREE limited mail forwarding for our registered agent service clients.

To find a company’s registered agent:

1. You can do a Oregon business name search.
2. 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.

Serving a registered agent is legal proof of notification. Whether you receive the documents your registered agent signs for or not, once they accept the documents, you’ve legally been notified. This is a serious responsibility and we don’t take it lightly. Here’s how it works:

1. A process server, the county sheriff, or any third party will walk into our Portland office and hand us the documents (service of process), then we sign for them.
2. The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court which states that they served us.
3. If you’ve hired us, long before the server hands in their affidavit to the court, you’ve received your documents because we scanned them to your online account within minute of having been served.

The best way to get started is to sign up for our instant Registered Agent Service online. Then you can do the filing with the Oregon Secretary of State to form your business. This is because you must list your registered agent when you complete the filing. If you don’t have one, your filing will be rejected.

Signing up for our registered agent service is also ideal because we provide all the forms and filing instructions you may need in your online account. We make the filing process as simple as possible.

In Oregon, to resign as a registered agent, agents need to submit written notice of resignation to the company they had been representing at the company’s mailing address or principal office. For a more detailed walk-through, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Oregon.