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North Carolina Registered Agent

$10/month or $100/year  ·  per company, per state  ·  flat since 2007  ·  phone call the day you're served

North Carolina law requires every LLC, corporation, and LP to keep a registered agent — the entity's official address for service of process and state mail — with a physical North Carolina street address, for as long as the entity exists. Rapid Registered Agent is that agent for $10 a month or $100 a year, the same price in every state, with no packages, no setup fee, and no renewal surprises. We have done this since 2007.

Hire us as your North Carolina registered agent – $10/month

What North Carolina requires of your registered agent

• A physical street address in North Carolina — not a PO box, not a mail-forwarding box.
• Someone there during normal business hours to accept service of process in person.
• A North Carolina resident, or an entity authorized to do business in North Carolina.
• Prompt forwarding of everything received. North Carolina treats service on your agent as legal notice to you, whether or not the papers ever reach your desk.

The filing office for your registered agent and your entity is the North Carolina Secretary of State. If your company is ever left without an agent on record, North Carolina can strip its good standing — the status banks, lenders, and buyers check — until the default is cured.

North Carolina compliance your agent should keep you ahead of

• Annual report. Every North Carolina LLC files the Annual Report with the Secretary of State by April 15. The fee is $200, and you confirm your agent and addresses at the same time.
• Miss the deadline and North Carolina marks the entity delinquent and, after a notice-and-cure window, administratively dissolves it. Reinstatement means back filings, penalties, and a reinstatement fee.
• Foreign entities: if you formed in North Carolina but operate elsewhere, you keep a North Carolina agent here and a registered agent in your home state too.

We keep track of what North Carolina needs from you and send reminders in time. We do not file anything for you or charge you to "manage" it — we just make sure nothing lapses because a deadline slipped past you.

What our North Carolina service includes

• A phone call the day you are served. Not just a scan in your inbox — an actual call, because a lawsuit has a response clock.
• Our North Carolina address on the public record, not yours. Service of process and state mail come to us.
• Same-day handling. Documents are scanned and posted to your account the day they arrive, with email and optional text or fax alerts.
• Unlimited contacts per company, and separate contacts per state if you register in more than one.
• Your North Carolina filing forms and instructions — formation, change of agent, and any state filing — in your dashboard the moment you order.
• The same price every year. $10 a month or $100 a year, per company, per state. No upsells, no fee to forward your documents.

Switching to us in North Carolina

1. Order the service. The North Carolina change form and your instructions appear in your account right away.
2. File the Statement of Change of Registered Agent with the Secretary of State, naming Rapid Registered Agent. Existing entities can change agents at any time.
3. We take over. From the effective date, every legal notice and state communication for your company comes to us.

Forming a brand-new North Carolina company? List us as your agent on the formation document and we are in place from day one.

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Reviewed by Andrew Traub, a Texas-licensed attorney and the founder of Rapid Registered Agent. Rapid Registered Agent has acted as a registered agent for business owners since 2007.