New Jersey Registered Agent

Yes, you can be your own registered agent in New Jersey. 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. Additionally, the 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 New Jersey 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 New Jersey Registered Agent Service only costs $125 and has always cost that. No hidden or surprise fees.

There are numerous benefits for hiring a registered agent, including:

• If your business is web-based or doesn't have a physical presence within New Jersey, the business still needs a registered agent located inside state lines.
• Some New Jersey 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.
• Privacy. 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.
• Avoiding distractions. 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.
• If you don't want the added responsibility of tracking mail and notices from the New Jersey Division of Revenue, 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 for your business is a big decision. The most important decision factor to consider is are you getting what you pay for?

First, if you never get sued, congratulations! But don't think of fees paid for a registered agent service as wasted money. Your New Jersey 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 New Jersey, 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 New Jersey clients' documents on-site at our registered office in Branchburg, NJ.

Definitely! We're the only national registered agent 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.

Need more coverage? Our New Jersey Mail Forwarding Service gives your business a New Jersey business address and unlimited mail forwarding (choose daily digital scans or weekly physical forwarding).

As your registered agent we allow the use of our address wherever it is accepted. We want your information to be as secure as possible. However, Amazon changed their Terms of Service to start a business account and now requires additional documentation such as utility bills and more, which registered agents cannot provide.

You should hire us first to be the registered agent for your New Jersey nonprofit, LLC, or corporation, and then form. The New Jersey Division of Revenue will reject your business registration filing if you don't list a registered agent. Plus when you sign up for service, you'll find all the forms and filing instructions you may need in your online account.

Service on your registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. Regardless of whether you actually receive the documents your New Jersey registered agent signs for, 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, you can do a New Jersey business name search.

• Type in the name of the company you're searching for.
• In the results, you'll find the registered agent's name and registered office street address.

If you want to legally notify a business through their New Jersey registered agent service, just send a certified letter directly to the registered agent name and registered office address.

In New Jersey, to resign as a registered agent, you need to submit a Certification of Resignation of Registered Agent (along with a separate affidavit) to the New Jersey Department of the Treasury. For a more detailed walkthrough, you can refer to our guide on how to resign as a registered agent in New Jersey.