Indiana Registered Agent
Your Indiana Registered Agent is the person or company that accepts legal mail for your business. If your business gets sued, your registered agent gets served. You can be your own registered agent if you're up for it, or you can hire a professional service to keep your private information off the public record.
When you hire Northwest, you get more than just reliable local service. You get real experts who know the ins-and-outs of Indiana compliance, access to business services, and Privacy by Default®. Want more? Northwest is the only registered agent that can provide your business services from domains to DBAs easily, and all in-house.
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Northwest is the choice of professionals for registered agent service.
- Same-Day Scans, Instant Notifications
- Privacy by Default®
- Business Address
- Instant Domain, Website, & Email
What Is an IN Registered Agent?
Your registered agent is tasked with accepting important legal mail (service of process) on behalf of your business in Indiana. You can be your own registered agent, or you can appoint another person or a registered agent service to serve in this role. Per state law, all registered Indiana businesses are required to have a registered agent.
In Indiana, your registered agent must:
- have a physical street address in Indiana, no P.O. boxes
- be open during regular business hours
- accept documents on your behalf and get them to you
The whole point of a registered agent is so the general public will have a reliable way to send important mail or legal notices to your Indiana business. However, your registered agent should offer more than just the basics. At Northwest, we go above and beyond normal registered agent services. We list OUR business address on your public filings, which helps you keep your personal information out of the public eye.
We also scan every piece of mail that comes our way, and immediately upload it to your online account, so you’ll never miss an important notification. When you want more, Northwest is here.
How Do I Change My IN Registered Agent?
Looking to change registered agents? Here’s how you can make that happen in Indiana:
- File a change of registered agent form with Indiana’s Secretary of State.
- Name your registered agent, and include their information on your form. If you hire us, we’ll file the form instead, and will immediately be listed as your registered agent for Indiana.
The whole process is super easy, but if you want to dig into more detail, check out our page on How to Change Your Registered Agent in Indiana.
Why Northwest Is the Best Registered Agent in Indiana
At Northwest, we do business the right way. We’re dedicated to getting you your docs fast, protecting your privacy and offering you support. Here’s how:
- 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 5 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.
As the nation’s top choice for starting businesses easily and affordably, we also offer in-house services to build your business’s online identity:
- Domain name: Pick a domain name for your business with your choice of extension (like .com and .net).
- Website: We provide a pre-built business website for you to customize using an open source platform, so it’s yours to own whether hosted by us or anyone you choose.
- Business email address: Create up to 10 business email addresses. For branding ease, they’ll all end in your chosen domain name.
- Phone number: Keep your personal line private by establishing a local phone number for client communications.
- Web hosting: Our web hosting service includes SSL security at no additional cost.
How to Order Indiana 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 Indiana Registered Agent Service once your business registration filing with the state is complete.
About a year later, we’ll send you an invoice for another year of registered agent service in Indiana. If you want to keep using us, great; if you don’t, you can easily cancel.
With offices in every state, we make it easy to add registered agent services anywhere in the country. 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 registered agent service or paying a bill but for keeping up with Indiana corporate compliance.
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Registered Agent FAQs
Indiana state law requires all registered businesses to appoint a local registered agent. Indiana’s Secretary of State will reject your business filing if you don’t appoint a registered agent.
Big Data. It’s a scary thought. But we don’t store your credit card info. We don’t sell your data to others to make extra money.
This is serious! Your Indiana registered agent service is going to be your point of contact for serious legal notices. It only takes one screw-up to cause a real problem. We are the only national registered agent that locally scans everything into your online account in real time. We maintain our own commercial offices in each state, and when you hire us for Indiana registered agent service, we’ll scan everything from our office in Indianapolis, Indiana. We don’t just mail you a copy of your notice or email it to you. We have the most sophisticated calendaring response and tracking system of any Indiana registered agent service to help make sure you and whomever you want to be notified doesn’t just get a notice about something but that you’re actually looking at your documents.
Privacy. When you make a purchase on this website, you’re actually hiring Northwest Registered Agent. This isn’t a game, and this isn’t a decision to just make on a whim. When the general public or a government official wants to know who owns your company, your registered agent is who they will harass to find out. We have stringent privacy practices to keep your data private, trained staff who will not give away your information, and in-house data security professionals. We also stress-test our own systems regularly and we prosecute people who try to hack us.
Collections. Read the fine print. We pick up new clients switching Indiana registered agents every day because they’re annoyed by their current registered agent’s billing policies. We don’t send our clients to collections. If you don’t want to pay us, you don’t. We’ve never sent a client to collections. Our trademarked slogan is “We’re Just Not Annoying.” This isn’t just a policy we made up, it’s our entire company slogan.
We obviously think pretty highly of ourselves, but this is all we do. It’s not a line item on a profit and loss sheet. It’s not a dividend payment to our owners. It’s not an idea we hope will work out. And we sure as heck aren’t a massive corporate conglomerate looking for every penny of profit they can find with an army of salespeople. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of those, but this is our lives. This isn’t just a job to us, it’s our passion.
You should hire us first and then do you business registration filing because you can’t form an Indiana corporation or LLC without an Indiana registered agent. You find all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing instantly after you place an order.
We scan and upload your mail the same day we receive it. This means you’ll have access to all of your important mail the same day we receive it.
We don’t want to get all your mail. That’s not what we do. But we do want to help if possible. The US post office might not deliver your mail reliably to us if you don’t have a lease at our address. As the registered agent, things come directly to us. Northwest Registered Agent Service, Inc. c/o your company. If we do get mail for you on occasion, we will scan and upload it for you.
Serving a registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. Regardless of whether or not you look at the docs or even get them from the Indiana registered agent services: you were notified. This is a serious responsibility and we don’t take it lightly. Here’s how service works:
- A process server, the sheriff, or any third party will walk into our office and hand us legal papers (service of process).
- The process server then gives an affidavit to the court that they “served” us.
Absolutely! We are the only national registered agent that allows our clients to list our addresses for everything when you are doing a filing with the Indiana Secretary of State. This way you keep your private address off of the public record.
Easy. Start with an Indiana business name search.
- Type in the company name you are trying to look up.
- Look at the registered agent name and registered office street address.
- If you want to legally notify someone through their Indiana registered agent service, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.