Massachusetts Registered Agent

Yes, you can be your own registered agent in Massachusetts. However, after considering the registered agent requirements most business owners elect to hire a registered agent service instead. Why? Well although being your own registered agent will cost you $0, a registered agent's name and address becomes part of the public record.

Note: Your registered agent is required to be available to accept service of process during normal business hours five days a week.

The cost of a registered agent in Massachusetts depends on the service you use or if you decide to do it yourself. If you do it yourself, it's absolutely free except you risk your privacy and private information.

At Registered Agent Center, our Massachusetts Registered Agent Service only costs $125 and has always cost that. No hidden or surprise fees.

Here are five benefits of using a registered agent service:

1. If your business is web-based or doesn't have a physical presence within Massachusetts, the business still needs a registered agent located inside state lines.
2. Some Massachusetts business owners hire registered agent services because their business doesn't keep regular business hours in which service of process or official mail can be delivered.
3. Many business owners don't want their home or business address listed on public record as a point of contact, so they hire a registered agent.
4. Listing an employee or family member as your registered agent could be a huge mistake, as that may be the last person you want knowing the intimate details of lawsuits your business might become entangled in. Worse, just having a process server hand them a document is proof that you got it, regardless of whether they actually get it to you in a timely manner. You could miss a court deadline before realizing it.
5. If you don't want the added responsibility of tracking mail and notices from the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth (SOC), you can hire a registered agent to track the important paperwork for you. Having an online account to help maintain your business is often worth the nominal registered agent fee.

Hiring a registered agent provides you the luxury of not having to do it all.

First, if you never get sued, congratulations! But don't think of fees paid for a registered agent service as wasted money. Your Massachusetts registered agent should also keep you updated on any business reports owed to the state.

And if you hire Registered Agent Center, we'll provide you with any form you could file in Massachusetts, along with helpful tips for filing forms and paying the state with no markup, as well as amazing customer service. If you end up with multiple states with us, you'll be able to easily see your annual report dates in every state in your account.

Registered Agent Center doesn't charge more for high volume clients. If you know you're going to get served hundreds of times a year, we should create a custom price for you that makes sense to both parties. Our typical clients get fewer than 15 lawsuits a year and never pay additional fees.

We accept and scan all of our Massachusetts clients' documents on-site at our registered office in Pittsfield, MA in Berkshire County.

Please do! We're the only national registered agent service that allows our clients to list our address for everything when you're doing a filing to keep your private address off public records.

We don't want ALL of your business mail. It's not what we do. And it wouldn't serve you well. You wouldn't have a unique address or suite number. Any mail we receive on your behalf would come to Registered Agent Center, care of you.

But we understand that businesses and clients sometimes reach out to you through your registered agent. Through us. That's why we give you five FREE scans of regular business mail a year. You can request any additional documents to be forwarded at a per document rate of $15.

You should hire us first to be your registered agent for your Massachusetts nonprofit, LLC, or corporation, and then form. This is because the Secretary of the Commonwealth's Corporations Division will reject your business registration filing if you don't. You'll find all the forms and instructions you need to complete your filing instantly after you place an order.

Serving a registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. Regardless of whether you receive the documents your Massachusetts registered agent signs for on your business's behalf, once they accept the documents, you've been notified. This is a serious responsibility that we do not take lightly. This is how it works:

• A process server, the county sheriff, or any third party will walk into our office and hand us the documents (service of process), which we sign for.
• The process server then gives an affidavit (a receipt of service) to the court as confirmation that they served us.

To find a company's registered agent in Massachusetts:

• Perform a Massachusetts business name search.
• Type in the name of the company you're searching for.
• Find the registered agent's name and registered office street address in the search results.

If you want to legally notify a business through their Massachusetts registered agent service, just send a letter through certified mail directly to the registered agent at their registered office address.

In Massachusetts, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit a Statement of Resignation of Resident Agent (LLCs) or a Statement of Resignation of Registered Agent (corporations) to the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Corporations Division. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in Massachusetts.