Changing Your Wisconsin Registered Agent: One Form, Ten Bucks

Wisconsin keeps this one painless. A single form to the Department of Financial Institutions (DFI), $10 if you file it online, and your entity has a new registered agent on record. The details below.

Why People Switch

Privacy. Your home address sitting in the DFI's public database is a bad deal. Put our address there instead and the record scrapers lose your trail.

Speed. An agent who sits on your mail for a week is a liability. Scanning happens here the day a document lands.

Price. Paying $200 or more per year for this? The same service is $99 here.

Moves. Left Wisconsin, went remote, or closed the office? The registered office still has to be a physical Wisconsin street address, so you need someone who has one.

The Paperwork: DFI Form 13 (Corp13)

The state's document is the Statement of Change (Registered Agent and/or Registered Office), known as Form 13 (Corp13). It handles agent changes, office changes, or both in one shot, and it goes to the DFI's Division of Corporate & Consumer Services. Grab it from the DFI's business entity forms page.

The fee: $10 for online filing, $25 if you mail paper. LLC changes run under Wis. Stat. § 183.0116. And read the fine print the state put on the document itself, where Form 13 spells out that the entity may not name itself as its own registered agent. Someone other than the LLC has to hold the job.

Four Steps to a New Registered Agent in Wisconsin

1. Line up the new agent. Individual? Must live in Wisconsin with a business office identical to the registered office. Company? Must be domestic or authorized to do business in Wisconsin, with the same office match. Real street address only, and the agent consents and keeps an email on file.
2. Fill out Form 13. Entity name, new agent, new registered office address.
3. Send it to the DFI with $10. Online filing is $10; paper is $25. In a hurry? The DFI offers optional expedited handling for an extra $100.
4. Check the record. Run your entity through the DFI's public database and confirm the new agent shows up.

After You Switch to Us

Sign up and we hand you our Wisconsin address plus the details Form 13 asks for. You file, the DFI updates the record, and we start catching documents at your registered office right away:

• Same-day scan and email of everything that arrives
• Complete history stored in your digital vault
• Reminders ahead of your annual report window
• Your personal address gone from future public filings

File the change before canceling your old agent and there is no coverage gap.

One Number: $99/Year

Wisconsin street address, same-day scanning, vault storage, compliance alerts, privacy. All of it for a flat $99 a year, no tiers and no add-ons.

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