An Inc Authority Alternative You Can Price in Advance

We are not a neutral party here. AZ Registered Agent.org wrote this page and sells the Arizona service it recommends at the end. The central claim, though, is not about us and not really about Inc Authority's quality either. It concerns a figure absent from their website, and the absence is something you can confirm in five minutes without taking our word for any of it.

Free Is Free, and That Counts

Buy a formation package from Inc Authority and the opening twelve months of agent service arrive at zero. We went hunting for a catch inside that specific offer and came back with nothing. No setup fee, no prorated partial term, no clause quietly shortening the year. For an owner conserving capital while a company gets off the ground, twelve months of a service the state legally requires, at zero, is a real benefit. Take it if it suits you.

Year Two Is Not on the Website

Here is where it stops being simple. Nowhere does Inc Authority state what the service costs once those twelve months expire. We worked through the FAQ, the premium package listings, and the homepage. The number is not tucked into a footnote, hidden behind an expander, or buried in terms. It is simply not there.

A recurring price that appears nowhere public is a price you discover at checkout or over the telephone, and both of those moments arrive after the free year has already done its work of acquiring you as a customer.

We will not guess at the figure. Inventing a competitor's rate would destroy the only thing this page is actually asserting. The structural point holds without a number. Every competitor we track prints a renewal figure, and that figure governs what a company spends across its lifetime. Without it in front of you there is nothing to compare, which is arguably why it stays unprinted.

A Rate That Sits in Public

Our number appears on our pricing page rather than on a quote. Legal process reaching our Arizona office is scanned that business day, emailed, and stored where you can find it later. Your Commission record shows our street address. There are no tiers and no bundles at checkout, and the renewal invoice matches the first one exactly.

Our figure is not the state minimum. That distinction belongs to BetterLegal, which publishes $90 per year, and a page built on the argument that prices should be visible has no business hiding the one competitor who beats it. Among the annual rates published for Arizona, ours is near the low end, and it comes with a written commitment not to move.

In Arizona the Agent Is the Whole Compliance Job

This matters more here than in most states. Arizona LLCs file no annual report and pay no franchise tax, so there is no yearly filing to remind you the company exists. What remains is the appointment itself, which the state monitors continuously and which a lapse can turn into administrative dissolution. Since January 2026 the Commission has also sent a free dormancy attestation through its Arizona Business Center portal to any company showing no filings for two years, and that notice goes to the statutory agent or the owner of record. Whoever holds your appointment is the party who receives it. An agent who forwards state correspondence the same day is the difference between clicking a button and losing the entity.

The Arizona Filing Sequence After Inc Authority

Arizona sends these filings to the Corporation Commission rather than to a Secretary of State, so any vendor instruction pointing you at an SOS office belongs to some other jurisdiction. The document is Form L020, which the Commission titles a statement of change of principal address or statutory agent, made under A.R.S. § 29-3116. An LLC pays $5. A corporation files its own change statement and pays nothing. The Commission accepts either on paper or online, and expedited handling is available for $35 if the timing is tight.

Then the second document, which is why order of operations is not optional. A.R.S. § 29-3115 makes an appointment ineffective until the Commission has the new agent's signed acceptance, submitted on Form M002 with no fee attached. In practice this means the state has written your protection into its own procedure: nobody can be recorded as your agent without having already agreed to serve, so the transition runs from one consenting agent directly to the next and your entity is never sitting on the register unrepresented.

The working order is therefore enroll, sign, file, verify. Enroll with us and we provide the Arizona street address the L020 requires plus the signed acceptance the Commission wants. File both. Then pull up your entity in the Commission's public search and confirm the new agent shows on the record before you consider the job finished.

Last step, and it is the one people skip: close the Inc Authority account yourself. A state record showing a new agent does not cancel anybody's billing, and if their renewal figure is one you have never seen, you especially do not want it arriving by surprise.

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