The Arithmetic Behind a Quarterly Registered Agent Bill

This page is written by a competitor and the disclosure belongs in the opening lines. Louisiana Registered Agent.co sells the service under discussion at $99 per year and would gain from your decision to move. The figure attributed to Swyft Filings is that company's own published rate. The only operation we perform on it is multiplication.

No Criticism of the Service Is Intended

We identified no adverse evidence regarding how Swyft Filings performs this work, and we will not manufacture any. Their formation product is well regarded, the purchase process is orderly, and many owners have used them without difficulty. The subject of this page is the structure of the invoice and nothing further.

Quarterly Billing Conceals Its Own Total

Registered agent service is advertised at $149, billed quarterly. Four such charges within a twelve month period produce an annualized figure of approximately $596.

That is the largest yearly commitment among the services we track, and the reason it does not present as one is architectural rather than deceptive. The quarterly charge is a figure the buyer is shown; the annual charge is a figure the buyer must derive. No screen in the ordering process displays $596, so a comparison against any flat annual rate occurs only if the customer performs the calculation unprompted. A price the buyer has to compute is, in our view, not a fully presented price.

Roughly $497 per year separates those columns, for an obligation Louisiana defines identically regardless of which provider discharges it.

Louisiana Runs on Anniversaries, Not Quarters

A quarterly billing rhythm has nothing in common with the calendar this state actually enforces, and the mismatch is worth understanding.

Your LLC annual report falls due on or before the anniversary of the date the company was organized. The state portal accepts that report only within the thirty days immediately preceding the anniversary, which means there is no possibility of filing early and no relief for filing late. Miss the date and the entity ceases to be in good standing; the fee itself is $30 by mail or $35 online.

An agent's compliance function in Louisiana therefore consists of knowing one specific date per entity and giving notice before a narrow window opens. Nothing about paying in four instalments improves that. We time our reminders to the anniversary itself, ahead of the window, so the filing is a scheduled item rather than a discovered problem.

One Charge, Stated Once

$99 per year, invoiced annually, unchanged at every renewal. Whatever is served on our Louisiana office gets scanned the day it arrives and posted to the client dashboard, with an email notification attached. Our Louisiana address appears in your public record in place of your own. A single product is offered, so the enrollment total is the whole total, and there is no tier above it to be recommended later.

Our figure is low but not the lowest published. BetterLegal advertises $90 per year in this market, and we prefer to name it than to let an unqualified comparison stand. What we offer is a flat rate that does not move, with same-day document handling included in it.

Swyft Filings to Us: the Louisiana Change in Brief

A single form, #983, filed with the Louisiana Secretary of State's Commercial Division, carries the change of agent. It costs $25 for now; on October 1, 2026 Act 921 of this year's Regular Session takes that to $30. On paper the incoming agent's notarized affidavit of acceptance accompanies the form; through geauxBIZ the acceptance is given by email instead. Our annual report page covers the reporting calendar that follows.

There is a sensible moment to do this given quarterly billing. File with several weeks remaining on a paid quarter, so the record has already been updated before the next $149 posts. Do not time a cancellation ahead of state processing under any circumstances: appoint first, file second, verify the record third, and cancel last. The appointment then remains continuously occupied, which is what Louisiana requires of it and what protects you if a process server arrives mid transition.

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