What are the requirements for North Carolina registered agents?

• registered agents have to be a resident or companies that provide registered agent services.
• Have a registered office address that is a physical address located within the State of North Carolina
• Accept legal documents.

State law requires all legitimate, registered businesses to appoint one.

The secretary of state will reject your business filing if you don't appoint a registered agent.

A registered agent requirement gives the public and the state a reliable way to contact your business.

How Does the Rapid Registered Agent Service Work in North Carolina?

Easy Sign Up. You sign up online at the top right corner of this page. We’ll become your North Carolina registered agent service after you make your business registration filing with the Secretary of State.

Go-To Resource. We attempt to make your account a real go-to resource for you, not just forNorth Carolina registered agent service or paying a bill, but for actually keeping up with North Carolina corporate paperwork formalities.

The Tools You Need. Generate compliance forms auto-magically from your dashboard. If you sign up for the annual plan, we’ll send you an invoice for another year of North Carolina registered agent service 30 days before it’s due. If you want to keep using us, great; if you don’t, you can easily cancel.

Call us! We’re here to help walk you through the process of starting your new business. When you have a question, just call. We even put our phone number on the top of every web page. The people who answer the phones don’t read from scripts or try to sell you anything - we’re just here to help. We even make it easy to add registered agent services in other states.

How Will I Get My Documents From You?

We scan and upload every document in real time. You will then be notified by email and optionally by text message or fax. You can then use the secure link to view the document or log in to your dashboard at anytime to view it.

Can I Use Your North Carolina Registered Office Address To Get My Mail?

• Most of our clients list our registered office address on their articles of incorporation.
• We don’t want all your mail, that’s not what we do.
• We will throw away junk mail and forward any document from a government agency (state or Federal).
• The US Postal office might not deliver your mail reliably to us if you don’t have a lease at our address.
• As the registered agent, things come directly to us, Rapid Registered Agent, LLC care of you.

How Are North Carolina Registered Agents Served?

• A process server, the sheriff, or any third party will walk into our office and hand us legal papers (service of process).
• The process server then gives an affidavit to the court that they served to us.

Serving a registered agent is legal proof that you were notified. Regardless of whether you look at the docs or even receive them from your registered agent service. You were notified. We take this responsibility very seriously.

You can learn more about how a registered agent is served.