Inc Authority's Year Two Is the One Number You Cannot Look Up

The company doing the criticizing here sells the alternative. This site is ours; OH Registered Agent.org charges $99 annually to hold an Ohio statutory agent seat, and we profit when somebody switches. Weigh the argument accordingly, then check it, which is a thing you can actually do with everything below.

Zero Is Zero

Form a company through Inc Authority and the opening year of agent service is handed over at zero cost. That is not a discount dressed up as a giveaway; the first twelve months genuinely cost nothing. For an owner watching every dollar at launch, a free year is a free year, and we are not going to sneer at somebody for taking it.

Now Try to Price the Second Year

Here is a four-minute exercise. Pick any provider in this market and find what agent service costs after the introductory arrangement ends.

ZenBusiness: $199 a year, published. LegalZoom: $249, published, flat. Rocket Lawyer: $125, published, identical at every membership tier. Bizee: $149 standalone once the bundled months run out, published. Northwest: $125, published. Ours: $99, printed on our pricing page and again three paragraphs down.

Then try Inc Authority. We could not find it. Not in the material describing the packages, not in the answers-to-common-questions section, not anywhere a static page would ordinarily carry a recurring rate. The most likely explanation is not a conspiracy. The number probably surfaces inside a checkout flow, or when a salesperson says it out loud on a call. That is a business decision a company is entitled to make.

It is also a decision that transfers work to you. Every other name above can be compared against every other name above in the time it takes to open a few tabs. Inc Authority can be compared only after you have started something.

Ohio Is the Opposite Kind of Institution

Which is worth noticing, because the state you are doing business in went the other direction entirely.

Ohio publishes what it charges: the Articles of Organization fee, the agent change fee, the whole catalog, laid out on the state's published filing forms and fee schedule page where anybody can read it before committing to anything. It publishes what it knows about you, too. Type your company name into the business search and the agent currently on file appears, with the address, free, no account, no funnel. And it asks almost nothing of you afterward, because Ohio requires no annual report from business entities at all.

So an Ohio owner can verify, in under a minute and at no cost, exactly who is holding their statutory agent seat. The price that seat will cost next year is the piece the state cannot tell you. That has to come from the provider, and one provider in this comparison does not put it in writing.

Both of Our Numbers, on the Page You Are Reading

Year one with us costs $99. Year two costs $99. There is no third number, because we sell one thing.

For that, an Ohio street address goes onto your public filings instead of your home address. Service of process reaching that address is scanned within the same business day, emailed out, and archived permanently in your portal. Compliance alerts cover the deadlines that genuinely apply to your entity. Checkout has one item in it.

Since this page is an argument about published numbers, one more published number belongs on it: BetterLegal's $90 a year, which undercuts ours. So $99 is among the lowest annual rates in print for Ohio rather than the lowest one in existence, and the part we will defend without qualification is that it does not change on you.

Ohio Does Not Make You Ask Permission to Leave

Moving the appointment is one form, number 521, and $25 paid to the Secretary of State. Our Ohio agent change guide has the details.

The one trap specific to leaving a free arrangement is worth naming. Closing your account with a provider does nothing to the state's record. Ohio still lists whoever is listed until a Statutory Agent Update says otherwise, so the account you cancel and the agent field you fix are two separate actions in two separate places. Do them in the right order: get us appointed on the record first, confirm it in the business search, then wind down whatever is left on the other side. Otherwise you have quietly left your company represented by a company that has stopped working for you.

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