Swyft Filings, Annualized, Next to a Flat Arkansas $99

Read this knowing who wrote it. AR Registered Agent.org sells Arkansas registered agent service, so the comparison below flatters us. The arithmetic is Swyft's own published rate multiplied by four, which you can redo without our help.

There Is a Case for Paying in Quarters

Cash flow is real. A seasonal Arkansas business with a thin winter would rather absorb four moderate charges than one lump in February, and a company running everything through a monthly bookkeeping close may prefer expenses that arrive in even pieces. Quarterly billing is a legitimate structure and we are not going to pretend it exists only to deceive.

Four Times a Year Is the Whole Story

Swyft Filings puts registered agent service on a quarterly invoice of $149. Four quarters make roughly $596 a year, and we found no first-year discount that changes it. That number, not $149, is the one to hold beside anybody else's annual rate, and the reason the conversion feels like work is that it is the only step standing between the sticker and the truth.

Nothing about the Arkansas job explains $596. Whoever holds the role keeps a street address in the state, stays available during business hours, and forwards what arrives. Swyft is not performing a fundamentally different version of that for six times the money.

Roughly fifteen hundred dollars of difference across three years, produced entirely by how often the invoice arrives.

Our Terms, All of Them

One charge a year at $99, unchanged when it renews. Anything a process server leaves at our Arkansas office is scanned that same business day, emailed out, and kept in your portal. Our Arkansas street address, the kind § 4-20-104 requires, replaces yours on the Secretary of State's public record. Franchise tax reminders land before each May 1 without a compliance plan attached. We publish one further charge, $15 an item, for scanning ordinary business mail rather than legal process, and if you never send us any, the line never appears.

Since this page is built on a price argument, here is the number that argues back: BetterLegal publishes $90 a year. We are nine dollars above the cheapest sticker in Arkansas and we print that in our own rankings. Among the lowest published rates is the accurate claim, and it is the one we make.

The Arkansas Exit From Swyft Filings, Step by Step

The state's half of this costs nothing. Arkansas authorizes a statement of change at Ark. Code Ann. § 4-20-108 and publishes it as the Notice of Change of Registered Agent Information, one combined form covering every entity type, carried under catalog number DO-3 and listed for LLCs as DO-03. The Business and Commercial Services Division takes it, on paper or through the state's online system, at a fee of $0.

Order of operations, since a quarterly cadence tempts people to do this backwards. Appoint the new agent first, because the form requires the incoming agent's exact name and Arkansas street address before it can be filed at all. Submit the change second. Verify third, on the Secretary of State's business entity search, which is the moment the handoff is genuinely complete and confirms your record was covered the whole way through. Cancel the Swyft subscription last, so that nothing about your billing decisions can leave the state's record without an agent on it.

You may want to time that cancellation near a quarter boundary to avoid paying for weeks you will not use. Arkansas does not care either way and does not charge you for the choice. Form links are on our change of agent walkthrough.

Order Here All nine Arkansas providers, annualized, are in the rankings. Contact us with questions.