Hawaii Registered Agent
Every LLC and corporation doing business in Hawaii must maintain a registered agent. We'll explain what this means and the various ways your company can fulfill this requirement, including how you can be your own registered agent. We'll explain the privacy benefits you get when you hire a professional registered agent. Hire Northwest, and you get a free business address, mail forwarding, same day mail scans, and access to loads of other services like a local business phone number, domain services, and more!
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$125 a Year Every Year
Northwest is the choice of professionals for registered agent service.
- Same-Day Scans, Instant Notifications
- Privacy by Default®
- Business Address
- Instant Domain, Website, Email & Business Phone
What Is A Hawaii Registered Agent?
A registered agent is a person or business, appointed by you, that will accept legal documents (aka service of process) and official mail on behalf of your business. In other words, your registered agent’s Hawaii address acts as the official place where any service of process and official mail for your Hawaii LLC, Hawaii corporation, or Hawaii nonprofit will be sent.
The legal requirements for registered agents in Hawaii are outlined in state law. Your registered agent must:
- Be a resident of Hawaii, or a domestic or foreign business entity registered in Hawaii.
- Maintain a physical street address (no P.O. Boxes) in Hawaii.
A registered agent can do so much more than just receive mail. At Northwest, we go above and beyond the minimum to ensure top speed, security, privacy, and support.
How Do I Change My Hawaii Registered Agent?
There are two ways to change your registered agent in Hawaii:
- Hire us and we’ll complete the change of agent form for you for free.
- Do it yourself and file a Change of Registered Agent by Entity with the Hawaii Department of Commerce & Consumer Affairs, Business Registration Division.
Why Northwest Is the Best Registered Agent in Hawaii
Our Registered Agent Service includes the tools you need to keep your business running without a hitch. When you hire Northwest as your registered agent, you get:
- Same-Day scans, instant notifications: We accept and scan your docs at our local office the same day. We notify you instantly and reach out to you if your essential mail goes unread.
- Privacy by Default®: We automatically minimize the exposure of and access to your personal data. If we can put our address on a public doc instead of yours, we do. If we don’t have to list your personal info, we don’t. We have tough privacy policies to keep your data safe and private. And we never sell your data.
- Free limited mail forwarding: Of course we’ll get you your state and legal mail. That’s our job. But what if we get some of your regular business mail? It happens a lot—clients and businesses trying to connect with you via your registered agent. We scan five documents per year for FREE. We can also scan additional mail at a per document rate of $15.
- Corporate Guides®: Have questions? We have answers. Our guides are business experts whose sole job is to provide phone and email support for all your toughest business questions.
If you’re ready for more, Northwest can help. We provide more than just legal services. We’ve got everything you need to turn your business plan from a to-do list to a customer-facing, money-making machine.
Want to get your business in front of eyes across the world? Claim your custom domain name. When you tack on website hosting, we’ll get you an expert-built website, hosted and secured by us.
Want to start talking to suppliers, advertisers, customers, and more? Set up business email addresses and a separate business phone number so you can protect your data and keep your communication professional.
How to Order Hawaii Registered Agent Service
You sign up online, clicking on one of the buttons or links that says HIRE US.
We collect the first year of the registered agent service fee up front.
For new businesses, we’ll become your registered agent once your business registration filing with Hawaii’s Department of Commerce & Consumer Affairs, Business Registration Division is complete.
About a year later, we’ll send you an invoice for another year of Hawaii Registered Agent Service. If you want to keep using us, great; if you don’t, you can easily cancel.
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.
We make your account a real go-to resource for you, not just for Hawaii Registered Agent Service or paying a bill but for keeping up with Hawaii corporate compliance.
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Hawaii Registered Agent FAQs
State law requires all Hawaii registered businesses to appoint a local registered agent. Hawaii’s Department of Commerce & Consumer Affairs, Business Registration Division will reject your business filing if you don’t appoint a registered agent. Basically, the registered agent requirement exists so the state of Hawaii and general public have a reliable way to contact your business or serve it legal notice.
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 aloha 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 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.
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.