How we rank, and how we get paid

When you sign up with a provider through a link on this site, that provider pays us a referral fee. This is how the site makes money, and it's the entire reason it exists. The fee comes from the provider's marketing budget, not from you — you pay the same price whether you click our link or go direct.

The order providers appear in — on the homepage table, in a state's recommended list, or anywhere else — is our editorial judgment based on verified price, included features, and real complaint patterns from BBB and Trustpilot. It is not based on which provider pays us more. Some providers on this site (LegalZoom, ZenBusiness) are ones we'd actively steer you away from, despite still earning a commission if you sign up anyway — we'd rather tell you the BBB complaint pattern than hide it for a bigger check.

Every price on this site starts from the provider's own pricing page. Where sources disagreed with each other — which happens more in this industry than you'd expect — we say so directly on that provider's review rather than picking whichever number looks best. Providers change pricing without notice; always confirm the current number at checkout before you commit.

Registered agent law is genuinely uniform boilerplate in most states. We only built out deep state pages where the law, fees, or mechanics are actually different — a mandatory state-default agent in New York, an explicit self-appointment ban in California and Texas, Delaware's franchise-tax linkage, Nevada's fee stack, Wyoming's low-friction filing costs. Where something is uncertain or we couldn't confirm it against an official source, we say so instead of stating it as fact.