Swyft Filings Alternatives for Alabama Registered Agent Service

This page is published by Alabama Registered Agent.co, which sells registered agent service in Alabama for $99 a year and would like to sell it to you. The Swyft Filings number below is their published billing term. The analysis applied to it consists of multiplying by four.

Quarterly Billing Suits Some Businesses

Four modest charges can land more comfortably than one larger annual debit, particularly for a company managing cash week to week. That is a legitimate reason to prefer the cadence, and Swyft Filings is an established filing provider with an ordering process that works. Choosing a payment schedule on purpose is a decision, not an error. What follows is only about what the schedule totals.

$149 Quarterly Is Not a Quarterly Comparison

Swyft Filings charges $149 every three months for agent service. Four cycles come to approximately $596 in a year. No separate first-year reduction turned up in our review.

That is the whole point of this page. Every other provider in the category quotes annually, so a quarterly figure dropped onto a comparison list reads mid-range while its annual equivalent sits at the top of the market.

Close to $497 a year separates the two columns. The service being purchased on either side is the same statutory function Alabama defines in Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.31: an in-state street address, staffed during business hours, where legal process can be handed to a person. Not a mailbox. Not an answering service.

Every Term We Have

$99 per year. The renewal bills at $99. Nothing sits above it. Court papers and state mail get scanned the day they arrive and go out by email, with everything kept in your portal as well. Your public filings carry an Alabama street address that satisfies the statute instead of carrying yours. Business Privilege Tax reminders are included. Mail that falls outside legal process scans at $15 an item, our sole additional charge.

Straight talk on the price ranking: BetterLegal publishes $90 a year, which is under our figure. $99 is one of the lowest yearly rates published in Alabama, charged once and unchanged at every renewal, and it needs no conversion before you can compare it with anyone.

Swyft Filings to a Flat Alabama Rate: The State's Part

Alabama handles the change with one instrument, registered as Change of Registered Agent or Registered Office by Entity, numbered nowhere, and Ala. Code § 10A-1-5.32 covers the procedure. It is delivered to the Secretary of State's Business Services Division, the fee schedule prices it at $100, and submission may be by mail or by email to miscellaneous.filings@sos.alabama.gov.

You will need the entity's exact registered name, its state ID number, and the name and Alabama street address of the agent coming in. That last item is why the appointment has to happen first. Engage the new agent, complete the form with their details, then submit. Handled in that sequence the public record passes from one valid agent to the next in a single step, and at no point does the register show your company without one.

Timing has a budget dimension the state ignores. A quarter already charged runs its full term no matter when the form goes in, so filing near the close of a paid period wastes less than filing right after a new invoice lands. And end the subscription with Swyft Filings yourself. Quarterly charges continue until the billing relationship is closed, whatever the Alabama record shows.

Order Here The filing guide for agent changes sets out each step, and our ranking page lines up all nine providers by price.