Oregon Registered Agent
Get a professional Oregon Registered Agent service to secure your privacy and keep your business in compliance with Oregon’s Secretary of State.
You can put any willing person (over 18) as your registered agent, but hiring our professional service ensures that your business always get prompt notices, keeps personal information off public documents, and puts a safeguard between you and tricky state deadlines.
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- Same-Day Scans, Instant Notifications
- Privacy by Default®
- Business Address
- Instant Domain, Website, Email & Business Phone
What Is a Registered Agent?
A registered agent is a person or company that you designate to receive legal mail (like service of process) on behalf of your business. Registered agents exist to provide an official and reliable way to contact your business.
If your business is ever served with a lawsuit, the process server will deliver the paperwork directly to your registered agent. At that point, your business is legally considered served. The registered agent should then forward you your mail, quickly and securely.
According to Oregon law (ORS 60.111), the state of Oregon requires the following of a registered agent:
- A registered agent must be a state resident or a company that provides registered agent services.
- Registered agents must maintain a registered office (a physical address in Oregon).
- Registered agents must accept legal documents (service of process) during normal business hours.
At a minimum, your registered agent must list a physical address on the public record and be present at that address during business hours. But ideally, your registered agent should do more.
How To Be Your Own Registered Agent
If you do not mind your name and address on public record, you may act as your own registered agent in Oregon. Keep in mind that you must keep regular business hours at this address, as to be available to accept certain documents in person.
To act as your own registered agent, simply fill out your name and address on the formation documents in the spaces where it asks for registered agent information when forming your business.
Change Your Oregon Registered Agent
There are two ways to change your registered agent in Oregon.
- 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/Address Form with the Oregon Secretary of State. There is no fee to file this form.
Change Your Registered Agent to Yourself in Oregon
If you have already formed your company, you can change your Oregon agent by filing a Change of Registered Agent/Address Form with the Oregon secretary of state. If you mail in the form, it will take roughly one week to process, and the same goes for a faxed-in filing. If you deliver it in person or mail your form via FedEx, processing will only take a day. Here are some pointers for filing the form:
- You will need your registry number. If you do a name search on the Oregon Secretary of State website, you will be able to find the number for your Oregon LLC or Oregon corporation. This is an identification number for your business, given to it by the state when you form your business.
- Put your name and address in the spaces where it asks for new registered agent information.
- If you do not want to mail it, you can file via fax. Fax file the credit card cover sheet and Change of Registered Agent form. There is no fee unless you request a confirmation copy, which is $5.
- You are now your own registered agent!
Being your own registered agent in Oregon is pretty simple. The only concern, however, is whether you want your name and address to become public information—this makes it accessible to anyone. Also, if your address is liable to change frequently or you are unable to maintain the required business hours, it could be a hassle to serve as your own registered agent.
Our Oregon Registered Agent Service
Northwest is the best registered agent in Oregon. Our 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: We scan your legal docs the same day we receive them and reach out if your essential mail goes unread.
- Privacy by Default®: We list our business address on public docs to keep your personal info safe. And unlike those other guys, we never sell your data.
- Corporate Guides®: Have questions? We have answers. Our guides are business experts whose sole job is to provide support for all your 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.
Order Registered Agent Service in Oregon
You sign up online, clicking on one of the buttons or links that says “HIRE US.”
We collect the first year’s fee for registered agent service up front.
For new businesses, once your business registration filing with the Oregon Secretary of State is complete, we’ll become your registered agent.
About a year later, we’ll send an invoice for another year of our Registered Agent Service in Oregon. 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 Registered Agent Service or paying a bill but for keeping up with corporate paperwork formalities like the Oregon Annual Report.
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Oregon Registered Agent FAQs
- State law requires all legitimate, registered businesses to appoint one.
- The Secretary of State will reject your business filing if you don’t appoint a registered agent.
- A registered agent requirement gives the public and the state a reliable way to contact your business.
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? Well although being your own registered agent will cost you $0, a registered agent’s name and address becomes part of the public record in Oregon. Additionally, the registered agent is required to be available to accept service of process during normal business hours five days a week.
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 of the public record.
Yes! Privacy is important to us. If it’s important to you, too, you can use our Oregon Virtual Office ($29/month) or Oregon Mail Forwarding ($20/month) service to use our address as your own. With Oregon Virtual Office or our premium mail forwarding, you get a unique suite number, so the only company with that address is you.
Not expecting much mail? Our Registered Agent Service includes five pieces of free mail forwarding a year. After that, you can pay $15 bucks for each extra piece you want forwarded.
If you want to legally notify someone through their Oregon registered agent service, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.
- You can do an Oregon business name search on the state’s website
- Type in the company name you are trying to look up
- Look at the OR registered agent 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:
- A process server, the county sheriff, or any third party will walk into our Portland office and hands us the documents (service of process), then we sign for them.
- The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court which states that they served us.
- 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 walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Oregon.