New Hampshire Registered Agent

You can be your own registered agent in New Hampshire. 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 many benefits to outsourcing your register agent, including:

• If your business is web-based or doesn’t have a physical presence within New Hampshire, the business still needs a registered agent located inside state lines.
• Some New Hampshire 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Essentially, if you don’t want the added responsibility of tracking mail and notices from the New Hampshire Department of State, Corporate Division, you can hire a registered agent to track the important paperwork for you.

First, if you never get sued, congratulations! But don’t think of fees paid for a registered agent service as wasted money. Your New Hampshire registered agent should also keep you updated on any business reports owed to the state.

If you hire Northwest Registered Agent, we’ll provide you with any form you could file in New Hampshire, 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 more for clients who get more than 15 lawsuits a year. 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.

We accept and scan all of our New Hampshire clients’s documents on-site at our registered office in Nashua, NH.

Absolutely. We’re the only national registered agent service that allows our clients to list our address for everything when you’re doing a filing to keep your private address off public records.

Yes! Just sign up for our unlimited New Hampshire Mail Forwarding option. You’ll get a unique suite number and New Hampshire business address you can use for mail, advertising and more.

Don’t need a unique suite number? Our New Hampshire Registered Agent Service comes with free limited mail forwarding. We’ll list our business address (no unique suite number) on your public docs to better protect your privacy. And, we’ll scan the occasional business mail we receive—up to five documents a year, for FREE. You can request any additional documents to be forwarded at a per document rate of $15.

You should hire us first to be your registered agent for your New Hampshire nonprofit, LLC, or corporation, and then form. The New Hampshire, Corporation Division will reject your business registration filing if you don’t already have a registered agent. You’ll find all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing instantly after you place an order.

Service on your registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. Regardless of whether you actually receive the documents your New Hampshire 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 Hampshire business name search with the Secretary of State.
• 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.

In order to notify a business, you can just send it to the New Hampshire registered agent via certified mail.

In New Hampshire, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit a Statement of Resignation of Registered Agent to the New Hampshire Department of State, Corporation Division. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in New Hampshire.