Two Kinds of North Dakota Agent, One Expiring Bundle

Standard disclosure, up front: this comparison was written by a competitor. The agent service North Dakota Registered Agent.co provides here costs $99 a year. Bizee's figures below are the ones Bizee publishes, recorded during a July 2026 check.

The Free Months Are Real Months

Bizee, which traded as Incfile for most of its history, tucks registered agent coverage inside its formation packages. The included span is as short as one quarter and as long as twelve months, set by the package you pick. If forming the company through a service was already the plan, that coverage genuinely reduces what you spend, at the point in a company's life when spending hurts most. No argument from us on that.

Then It Becomes $149 a Year

Once the included period ends, standalone agent service bills at $149 annually. That transition is the whole substance of this page. It is not concealed, but it arrives by calendar rather than by conversation, and calendars are easy to lose track of during a first year in business.

North Dakota Sorts Agents Into Two Categories

This state enacted the Model Registered Agents Act ahead of every other state, which makes the commercial and noncommercial distinction live here rather than academic.

A commercial registered agent files a listing with the Secretary of State and becomes selectable by that listing on any entity's record. We hold one.

Noncommercial agents come in two shapes under § 10-01.1-06 and the Secretary of State's own guidance: a person whose home is in North Dakota, or a registered company keeping an office somewhere inside the state. A member who lives here and keeps regular hours can occupy the seat that way.

Both categories carry identical duties. The distinction is administrative, and it is why a move between commercial agents amounts to selecting a different listing rather than assembling documentation.

What $99 Covers, With No Expiry Attached

Ninety-nine dollars a year, and the same figure at renewal, with nothing bundled that later runs out. It covers a compliant North Dakota business address on your state filings, a same-day scan of whatever gets served on us with the email attached, alerts before the November 15 annual report and its $50 state fee, dashboard access around the clock, and your personal address kept off the public file. One product sits at checkout. There is no month thirteen.

There is a lower sticker in this market than ours. BetterLegal quotes $90 annually, below our $99, and we would rather be the ones telling you. Our claim is that $99 is priced near the floor of this market without being the floor, and that it never converts into a second number.

Where the Bizee Handoff Actually Happens

The route is FirstStop. North Dakota gave up paper business forms in favor of an account-based portal, so the statement of change that removes Bizee gets completed on screen at the Secretary of State's site and priced at $10. Nothing gets printed, signed, and posted, and no form number attaches to it because the state issues none for business filings.

The sequence:

1. Enroll here. You receive our North Dakota name and street address, and because we are a listed commercial agent, our record already sits with the state.
2. Sign into FirstStop and open your entity.
3. Complete the statement of change with our details in the agent fields.
4. Pay the $10 filing fee.
5. Verify the public listing reads correctly, then close out the Bizee account.

Keep the seat occupied throughout. Bizee holds the role until the statement lands, we hold it from that instant, and the record is never blank in between. The law makes the change effective at filing, which is what makes a clean handoff possible in the first place, and no vote of the members is needed to authorize it.

Timing note: the filing can go in while your bundled months are still running. The ten dollars does not change, and nothing about a free period restricts an agent change. Moving early simply means the transition is not competing for attention with a renewal invoice.

The Only Deadline That Matters Here

Set a reminder for the day the bundle ends, or remove the need for one. Our change of agent page covers the filing, and the annual report guide covers November.

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