Delaware Registered Agent

The cost of a registered agent in Delaware 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 Delaware Registered Agent Service only costs $125 and has always cost that. No hidden or surprise fees.

Here are five reasons to hire a professional registered agent service instead of acting as your own registered agent:

1. If your business is web-based or doesn’t have a physical presence within Delaware, the business still needs a registered agent located inside state lines.
2. Some Delaware 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.
3. 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.
4. It’s a way of 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 involving your business. 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.
5. If you don’t want the added responsibility of tracking mail and notices from the Delaware Division of Corporations, 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 nominal registered agent fee.

A good registered agent will be worth the price you pay and give you a sense of ease. That’s Northwest.

First, if you never get sued, congratulations! But don’t think of fees paid for a registered agent service as wasted money. Your Delaware 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 Delaware, 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 on your account, you’ll be able to easily see your annual report dates in every state.

Northwest Registered Agent doesn’t charge more for high volume clients. If you know you’re going to get served hundreds of times a year, we should create a custom price for you that makes sense to both parties. Our typical clients get fewer than 15 lawsuits a year and never pay additional fees.

We accept and scan all of our Delaware clients’ documents on site at our registered office in Dover, Delaware.

As your registered agent we allow the use of our address wherever it is accepted. We want your information to be as secure as possible. However, Amazon changed their Terms of Service to start a business account and now requires additional documentation such as utility bills and more, which registered agents cannot provide.

Yes. You will be unable to form a Delaware business entity if you do not have your registered agent’s information.

A process server will deliver a summons form (basically instructions for responding to the lawsuit) and a complaint form (this describes who is suing, the reasoning behind the lawsuit, and what the person or entity suing want from the lawsuit—typically this is an amount of money) to a Delaware registered agent’s address.

The registered agent will sign the process server’s documents acknowledging receipt of the lawsuit. If you’ve hired us, within minutes of receiving service of process, we’ll upload the document to your account and you’ll instantly receive an email prompting you to log into your account.

You can easily find a company’s registered agent with a Delaware 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.

To legally notify a business, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.

In Delaware, to resign as a registered agent, you must submit a Certificate of Resignation of Registered Agent to the Delaware Secretary of State and make sure to provide the name and address of the new registered agent if appointing a successor. It’s pretty straightforward, but for a more detailed walkthrough you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Delaware.