Year One Is Free. What About Year Two?

Standard disclosure: AR Registered Agent.org owns this page and competes with the company it is about. The argument, though, rests on something missing from Inc Authority's website rather than on anything you have to take our word for.

The First Year Really Does Cost Nothing

Buy an Inc Authority formation package and registered agent service is included at $0 for twelve months. We went looking for the catch in that specifically: a setup charge, a shortened term, a clawback clause. There is not one. For an Arkansas owner starting out with limited cash, twelve free months of something the state requires you to have is a good deal, and we would take it too.

What Happens at Month Thirteen

This is where it stops being fine. Inc Authority never states publicly what the agent service costs once those twelve months are behind you. We checked the FAQ, the package pages, and the homepage. It is not in small print, not behind a toggle, not in the terms of service. It is simply not there.

That absence is not a presentation detail, either. Agent service is not something you buy once and forget; it is a line item that repeats for as long as the company keeps its charter.

We are not going to guess at it either. Inventing a competitor's renewal would destroy the only thing this page is asserting, which is that published prices beat unpublished ones. The structural point stands without a figure: every other service in this market prints a renewal, and the renewal is what a business actually pays across its life. A price that first appears at checkout or on a phone call appears after the free year has already done its work.

Ours Is Printed Where You Can Read It

$99 for the first year and $99 for every year after, stated on our pricing page rather than revealed at the end of a checkout flow. Documents served on us in Arkansas are scanned before the business day closes and sent straight to your inbox. Our address occupies the Secretary of State's record in place of yours. Our pricing carries one further line, $15 an item for scanning ordinary correspondence rather than legal process, and it is public for the same reason the annual rate is.

On a page about printing prices, we had better print this one as well: BetterLegal advertises $90 a year, and $90 is less than $99. Ours is among the lowest annual rates published for Arkansas, and published is doing real work in that sentence.

In Arkansas, Being Wrong Costs You Nothing

Here is what changes the calculation locally. In plenty of states, discovering a renewal you hate means paying the state for the privilege of leaving. Arkansas charges $0. The statement of change, lodged with Business and Commercial Services at the Arkansas Secretary of State under the name Notice of Change of Registered Agent Information, carries no fee at all, whether you submit it on paper or online.

So the exposure created by an unknown renewal is capped here. If a year-two invoice shows up at a figure you would have turned down before signing, the whole penalty is ten minutes with a free form plus whatever the replacement charges. Do it in the right order and there is not even a gap: hire the new agent, file the change naming them, and only then close the Inc Authority account, so the record passes straight from one agent to the next. Details are on our change of agent guide.

Order Here Or read how all nine providers price the same job in our Arkansas rankings.