Inc Authority Alternatives for Alabama Registered Agent Service

Alabama Registered Agent.co publishes this page and sells the $99 service it points to, which is a bias worth knowing before the argument starts. The argument itself is not about our service. It is about a number that is missing from Inc Authority's website, and you can confirm the absence yourself.

Zero Is Zero

Inc Authority includes registered agent service free for the first year with its formation packages. We looked for the catch in that specific claim and did not find one. No setup charge, no partial year, no fine print reducing the offer. For an owner who is short on capital while getting a company off the ground, a free year of a service Alabama legally requires is a genuine benefit and we are not going to talk anyone out of taking it.

The Renewal Is Not Printed Anywhere

Year two is where this stops being straightforward. Inc Authority does not publish what registered agent service costs after the free year ends. We checked the FAQ, the premium package pages, and the homepage. The figure is not tucked into a footnote or hidden behind an expander. It is simply not on the site.

A price absent from a company's website is a price you learn at checkout or on a phone call, which is after the free year has already done its job of acquiring you.

We are not going to guess at what that number is. Inventing a competitor's price would undermine the only thing this page is actually claiming. The structural observation stands on its own: every other provider in this market publishes a renewal figure, and the renewal figure is the one that determines what a business pays over its life. A buyer who cannot see it cannot run the comparison at all.

A Price You Can Check Before Ordering

• $99 the first year. $99 every year after. Listed on our pricing page rather than quoted on request.
• Same-business-day scanning of court papers and state mail, emailed to you and stored in your portal.
• An Alabama street address on your public record, meeting the registered office requirements in Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.31.
• Deadline reminders keyed to the Business Privilege Tax, which is what Alabama still collects now that its Secretary of State report is gone.
• Mail that is not legal process scans at $15 an item, a figure stated before you buy rather than after.

The superlative we skip: BetterLegal advertises $90 a year, below our $99, and it belongs in this paragraph rather than nowhere. Ours is one of the lowest annual rates published for Alabama. The relevant word is published.

In Alabama, an Exit Costs $100

The local stake is higher here than in most states. Changing a registered agent in Alabama runs $100 at the Secretary of State, several times what a number of states charge for the same page. So an unknown renewal is not merely an inconvenience here. If year two arrives at a figure you would never have agreed to, your choices are paying it or paying the state $100 to get out from under it. Knowing the renewal before you commit removes that decision from your future entirely.

Leaving Inc Authority: The Alabama Change Filing

You file one document, Change of Registered Agent or Registered Office by Entity, unnumbered and lodged with the Secretary of State's Business Services Division for $100. The statement-of-change route it uses was created by Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.32, and Alabama takes the filing by mail or by email.

Enroll with us before the document goes out. It asks for the incoming agent's Alabama street address, and appointing ahead of filing keeps a valid agent on the register at every moment, with no interval where your entity shows none. Once it processes, confirm the update in the Secretary of State's business entity search.

Order Here Our change of agent steps cover the filing, and the Alabama price rankings compare every provider.