Nevada Registered Agent Service
$35/year, every year
Your Nevada registered agent is your company’s official go-between for accepting legal notices from the state.
So, what does that mean?
If the state needs to deliver lawsuits or court summons, tax notices, or other legal documents to your company, you need to have a registered agent on hand to accept those documents.
Otherwise, you risk receiving a critical notice late–or not at all–which can have dire consequences for your business.
When you’re starting a new business, designating a registered agent for your company can seem overly simple (“Easy, I’ll just be my own registered agent!”) or completely confusing (“What even is a registered agent?”).
We’ll explain the duties of a Nevada registered agent and the advantages of using a registered agent service.
Our Registered Agent Service
Sign up with us and you get instant Nevada Registered Agent Service + a commercial Las Vegas business address.
- Secure online portal, accessible on-the-go
- Free use of our Las Vegas business address
- Same-day scans & uploads for legal documents
- Immediate notification when you receive documents
- 3 free regular mail scans
- Free library of business documents & resources
- 90-day free trial of business website + phone services
- Enrollment in Compliance (Renewal) Service for your Annual Report (Annual List)
- Access to more business filings & support services
- Unparalleled customer service from NV filing experts
What is a Nevada Registered Agent?
If you’ve only recently learned that registered agents exist, you’re not alone. Most people don’t know what a registered agent is until they form a company with the state. We’ll go over what you need to know.
What are the duties of registered agent?
A registered agent is basically a representative who accepts state and legal documents from the state on behalf of your business. This can include:
- service of process, such as lawsuits or court summons
- tax notifications (for example, if you owe taxes to the state)
- reminders to file your Nevada Annual Report (also called an Annual List)
After receiving your documents, your registered agent delivers them to you as quickly as possible.
Some registered agents physically forward documents. Others, like us, scan your documents so that you can access and view them immediately using an online account, wherever you are.
Do you need a Nevada registered agent?
Appointing a registered agent for your Nevada LLC or Nevada Corporation is required by state law. In fact, if you don’t list a registered agent on your company formation paperwork, your application will be rejected. So, you need to have a registered agent before you file your Articles of Organization or Incorporation.
On a practical level, having a registered agent helps ensure that:
- the state can always deliver important notices to your company
- you receive important documents quickly
- your company avoids the negative consequences of failing to receive a notice or receiving late notices
As long as your company is in business, you need to have a registered agent.
What happens if you don’t have a registered agent?
If you don’t maintain a registered agent after forming your company, you’ll be in violation of state law.
The penalties for non-compliance can vary.
Corporations: According to Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) 78.090.3, corporations that fail to maintain a registered agent are subject to a fine of at least $100 but not more than $500.
LLCs: Consequences for LLCs are less clear but potentially more serious. NRS 86.246.3 states that “the Secretary of State may take any action necessary” against a non-compliant LLC, including suspension or forced dissolution of the company.
Additionally, not having a registered agent could cause your company to:
- Miss or receive critical notices late, resulting in legal complications
- Lose the ability to sue the state or another company
- Lose your good standing with the state, which could prevent you from registering to do business in other states or secure funding through grants and loans
HEADS UP: Your registered agent doesn’t automatically file your formation documents for you. If you’d like us to serve as your NV registered agent and form your company, order Business Incorporation Service.
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How to Choose a Nevada Registered Agent
What are the options for registered agent in Nevada?
Most business owners choose to act as their own registered agent or to hire a registered agent service. However, you can also appoint an employee with a physical address in Nevada or another business connection, such as a lawyer.
What are the requirements for a registered agent in Nevada?
You can designate a person or a company that provides registered agent service as your registered agent in Nevada. Agents who make a business out of providing registered agent service, both companies and individuals, are called commercial registered agents.
All registered agents are required to have a physical street address (not a PO box) in Nevada where they can receive documents during regular business hours.
Non-Commercial Registered Agent
Non-commercial agents don’t need to be registered with the NV SOS.
- Must be at least 18 years old
- Must be a Nevada resident
Commercial Registered Agent Service
Must be registered as a Commercial Registered Agent with the SOS. On their registration, they must provide:
- Their full legal name as filed with the NV SOS
- All DBAs, fictitious firm names, websites/domain
- The name and contact info of the individual with decision-making power in the day-to-day running of the agency
- A declaration that no director, manager, or officer of the agency has been convicted of a felony.
Can you act as your own registered agent?
You are allowed to act as your own registered agent as long as you have an address in Nevada where you are available to accept documents during normal business hours. You’ll have to list your name and the address where you’ll be available on your formation paperwork.
What should you look for in a registered agent service?
When selecting a commercial registered agent service, look for:
- Fair prices (some companies will charge $100/year, $200/year, or more)
- A reliable and timely document delivery system
- Year-round availability during regular business hours
- Responsible and knowledgeable staff
- A stable business address
What Makes Us Unique: Our Business Address
If you work from a home office (or no office), using a business address can greatly benefit you and your company by:
- keeping your home address off of your formation documents, which go on the public record.
- boosting your credibility by allowing you to list a commercial business address instead of residential address on business filings.
What’s so special about our address?
While many of our competitors use vendors, we own our building. You’ll never have to update your business address because we changed vendors—our business address is permanent.
Reasons to Hire a Registered Agent Service
Preserve Your Privacy
A lot of business owners don’t know this, but serving as your own registered agent can reduce your personal privacy.
How? If you list your home address on your formation documents—for example, if you work from a home office—your address will go on the public record, where it will be available to anyone who searches for your company in the Nevada business database.
Using a registered agent service puts a layer of protection between you and the general public and allows you to protect yourself from scammers and nosy individuals.
Maintain Your Professional Image
If you’re serving as your own registered agent, chances are that you’ll have to list either your home or office address on your formation documents, so that will be where service of process agents deliver lawsuits and other documents. But you might not want to be served in front of your neighbors or customers—it’s embarrassing and could damage your reputation.
A registered agent service allows you to avoid being served in a public place and enjoy some discretion.
Enjoy Convenient Document Delivery
Registered agents are required to be available at their designated address M-F during normal business hours. When you serve as your own agent or appoint an employee, you’re at risk of missing a document delivery every time you travel for work, take a vacation, hit the slots on a slow day, or even just run out for an errand.
When you use a registered agent service, someone is always on site to accept your important documents, which protects you from the consequences of receiving a notice late (or not at all). You never have to worry about missing service of process, and you can work wherever you want.
Stay In Compliance
Choosing an employee or other individual to serve as your registered agent isn’t always the best idea. For example, what if that person suddenly quits or is just generally unreliable? You might find yourself without a registered agent and in non-compliance. However, with a registered agent service, you can rest assured that your agent is fulfilling their legal obligations and won’t leave you in the lurch.
On top of being reliable, many commercial registered agents help you keep up with required filings, such as your Nevada Annual Report (Annual List). In fact, we include enrollment in Compliance Service (called Renewal Service in your portal) in an effort to prevent you from missing the deadline and suffering negative consequences (such as a $175 late fee).
What Can We Do For Your Business?
Ordering Our NV Registered Agent Service
Ready to take the leap and start your business with us as your registered agent? Here’s an overview of the process.
1 – Sign up! You’ll get immediate access to your online account.
2 – Check your email. You’ll be receiving your registered agent information and welcome emails.
3 – Watch for document notices and compliance reminders. We’ll email you notifications about new documents and when your Annual Report deadline is approaching .
4 – Renew your registered agent service. We’ll email you a reminder when your year almost up.
Included With Registered Agent Service:
Enrollment in Compliance (Renewal) Service
A common mistake we see all the time is clients forgetting to file their Nevada Annual Report (also referred to as an Annual List), which can result in steep late fees and even administrative dissolution if the filing is not completed.
To prevent your business from experiencing these negative consequences, we include enrollment in Compliance Service (called Renewal Service in your portal) with Registered Agent Service.
Here’s how it works:
- You don’t pay anything upfront
- About 90 days before your Annual Report is due, we send you a reminder
- Then, we file on your behalf a healthy amount of time before the deadline ($100 + the state fee, charged only at filing)
- You stay in compliance without even having to think about it
If you want to file your own report, you can cancel the service at any time in your online account.
Nevada Business Presence: Website & Phone Package 90-Day Trial
When you check out, you’ll have the option to sign up for a 90-day free trial of our Nevada Business Presence: Website & Phone package.
Don’t worry if you’ve never made a website before—you’ll get free website setup assistance over the phone with one of our talented web team members.
What you get with the package:
- Domain name (ex: “YourBusinessNameHere.org”)
- Website with SSL security
- Business email that matches your domain name (ex: “[email protected]”)
- VOIP phone service with Nevada area code (get calls and texts using our free iOS or Android app)
Your domain name is free for a full year, up to a $25 value. All other services are free for 90 days and $9/month each after that. If you keep all of the services, you get a 20% discount, for a total of $21.60 per month.
Your Online Account
After you log in to your online portal, you’ll find a wealth of services and resources:
- Free library of business documents
- A mailbox where all of your legal documents and mail scans are uploaded for your viewing
- Answers to FAQs and more information about your service
- Access to additional services: Mail forwarding, virtual office, and more
- Access to additional filings: EIN, Trade Name (DBA), and more
Nevada Registered Agent FAQs
All business entities formed in Nevada and all out-of-state business entities registered to do business in Nevada are required by law to have a registered agent that is physically located within the state.
What’s best for you depends on your situation. Serving as your own agent might save you some money, but you may be sacrificing your privacy by putting your address on the public record. Plus, you put yourself at risk of missing document deliveries while on vacation or working elsewhere.
Using a service helps preserve your privacy, is convenient, and also saves you the embarrassment of being served at home or the office. Additionally, if you move, you’ll have to update your address, whereas our business address is permanent.
Because you need to include your registered agent’s information on your company formation paperwork, you need to sign up before forming your business.
Your registered agent won’t automatically file your formation documents. If we’re your registered agent, you can hire us for Business Incorporation Service.
You can access your documents any time by logging in to your online account. We will send you email notifications when new documents are delivered.
Simply sign up for service. When you log in to your online account, you’ll find a pre-filled and pre-signed Statement of Change of Registered Agent by Represented Entity. File this with the SOS ($60) and, bam!, we’re your new registered agent.
You can also hire us to file this document for you ($35 + state fee), so you don’t have to lift a finger. Learn more on our Change Registered Agent page.
Because we see many clients dealing with the fallout of missing their Nevada Annual Report (Annual List) filing, we include enrollment in our Compliance Service (called Renewal Service in your online portal). This protects your business from the negative effects of failing to file, such as a $175 late fee and even administrative dissolution.
We’ll send you a reminder of your due date about 90 days before it arrives. Then we’ll file on your behalf, well before the deadline, so you stay in compliance without having to spare your report a second thought.
Compliance Service is $100 + the state fee, charged only at filing. If you want to file your own report, just cancel the service from within your online portal.
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