Free for Twelve Months in Wisconsin, Then a Number Nobody Prints

Ownership note before we start counting. Wisconsin Registered Agent.co is a competing registered agent service at $99 a year, so this page has a destination and you should read it that way. Anything stated about Inc Authority comes from what Inc Authority published as of July 2026, and where the company published nothing, we say so instead of estimating.

Nobody Is Being Misled About Year One

Inc Authority includes registered agent service free for twelve months with formation. That is accurate and it is not qualified anywhere we could see. No trial converting at ninety days, no deposit, no minimum commitment tucked into the terms. Form through them and you have a compliant Wisconsin agent for a year at no cost.

Good offer. We would rather say that once, clearly, than spend a page trying to make a free thing sound sinister.

Run the Test Yourself, It Takes Four Minutes

Try this before you decide anything. Open Inc Authority's site and go looking for what the registered agent service costs in year two.

We ran that exercise in July 2026 and came back with nothing. The renewal figure was not on the pricing material, not in the package descriptions, and not in the support answers, and following the signup path did not surface it before a payment method was required. You may get further than we did, and if you do, you now have a number to compare, which is the whole point of the test.

This is worth being precise about. It is not evidence that the renewal is high, and we are not going to invent one. Companies that structure things this way generally quote the price accurately, just later, on the phone or at the last checkout screen. The problem is structural rather than moral: a price you cannot see cannot be compared, and comparison is the only leverage a buyer has. Every other service in this market can be lined up in a spreadsheet in ten minutes. This one asks you to buy first and price second.

The fix costs nothing. Email them, in writing, before your free twelve months close, and ask what the renewal will be. Keep the reply. Then compare it against the figures you already have.

Wisconsin Will Not Let Your LLC Take the Job Back

When a free year ends, the first instinct is usually to handle it in house. Wisconsin removes half of that option, and the removal is explicit rather than implied.

Your company cannot be its own registered agent here. The Department of Financial Institutions prints that restriction on its own published forms, so it is not a matter of interpretation, and it applies no matter how small or how local the business is. A human being is treated differently. A member or manager who lives in Wisconsin and keeps a business office at the address you put on the record is allowed to serve personally, and that route is genuinely open.

What it involves is worth knowing before it looks like a saving. The address becomes public in the department's entity search. Somebody has to be at it through business hours, every business day, without exception. And a process server hands the summons to whoever is standing there.

One more thing about the paperwork, since it says something about how this state treats the role. Form 13 is not an LLC form. It is the form, shared across five separate chapters of Wisconsin's statutes covering partnerships, limited partnerships, stock corporations, nonstock corporations and limited liability companies alike. Whatever kind of entity you run, the agent obligation is the same obligation, filed on the same page, at the same agency. This state did not build tiers into it.

$99, Written Down Where You Can Argue With It

Our price is on this page because that is the entire argument.

Ninety-nine dollars in the opening year. The same in the second. The same in the seventh, unless we ever change it publicly, in which case you will read about it before you are billed for it. One item at checkout, no setup fee, no upgrade path.

For that you get our Wisconsin registered office standing in for your address on the DFI record, legal process scanned on the day it is delivered and waiting in your portal with an email to tell you, compliance reminders keyed to which calendar quarter your annual report closes in, and a permanent document history you can pull at any hour.

The smallest sticker in this category is BetterLegal's, at $90, and it is not ours, so we would rather print that than be caught implying otherwise. Our claim is narrower and it survives the comparison: $99 counts among the smaller published prices here, and the word carrying the weight in that sentence is published, which is the specific thing this page is about.

When the Free Year Ends, the Exit Is a Ten Dollar Filing

Whoever you pick next, the mechanics are cheap. Wisconsin moves the appointment on Form 13, filed with the Department of Financial Institutions for $10 online or $25 on paper, and the outgoing agent has no role in it. Our change of agent page walks the whole filing.

Just start it before your twelve months are up rather than after. Enroll, file with the new agent details, confirm on the department's entity search that the record has changed hands, and let the free term expire behind you. A couple of weeks of deliberate overlap costs nothing at all, and it means the seat on your public record is never sitting there unattended while you sort out a price nobody would quote you.

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