The $249 Appointment, Priced Against a Flat $99

The publisher of this page is Indiana Registered Agent.co, a competing registered agent service billed at $99 a year. That is the interest at stake here, stated before anything else. The LegalZoom figures below are its own advertised rates as of our July 2026 verification.

The Best-Known Name in the Category

LegalZoom carries the only name in this category that needs no introduction, and that has practical value. A lender, an accountant, or a co-founder asked to approve the choice will not question it. Buying the familiar option removes an argument from a founder's week, and there is no dishonest pricing beneath it either: one figure, published, with no introductory rate quietly set to expire.

$249 a Year, Charged Whether or Not You Notice

That figure is $249 a year, it renews automatically, and no first-year reduction surfaced in our review. Set against $99, the annual difference is $150, repeating for as long as the entity stays on Indiana's register.

Consider what the premium cannot buy. The statutory duty attached to the appointment is fixed: a physical Indiana street address, staffed in ordinary business hours, accepting service of process and correspondence from the Secretary of State. Post office boxes are excluded outright, which is the state's only real filter. Every provider in this market satisfies the identical specification, and Indiana grades none of them on the invoice they send you.

Our Five Lines, and One Superlative We Skip

Five items, each verifiable. Documents delivered to our Indiana registered office are scanned and forwarded the same business day. The renewal invoice carries the same figure as the first one. Checkout sells one service, so no tier has to be declined. Our address occupies the public agent field instead of yours. And the only additional charge is stated in advance: $15 per item to scan ordinary business mail alongside the legal documents.

We decline the cheapest claim. BetterLegal publishes $90 a year, which is below us, and a page arguing for transparent pricing cannot hide the one figure that undercuts it. Ours belongs among the lowest flat rates in Indiana rather than at the bottom of them.

Switching From LegalZoom in Indiana: Form, Fee, Route, Order

The instrument is State Form 56367. Indiana titles it a statement of change of registered agent, its caption carries the governing authority at Indiana Code 23-0.5-4-6, and the fee line prints NO FILING FEE. The recipient is the Indiana Secretary of State, Business Services Division. Two routes exist and both cost the same nothing: the change can be completed online through INBiz, or the downloadable form can be signed and mailed. The document is also listed on the Secretary of State's business forms index for anyone who prefers to start from the state's own catalog.

One structural point governs how the fields are completed. The form cannot be filled in truthfully without an incoming agent's name and Indiana street address, because Indiana records a substitution rather than a resignation. That single requirement produces the whole sequence.

1. Appoint the replacement. The new agent has to exist, and consent, before the paperwork can name it.
2. File State Form 56367. No payment accompanies it on either route.
3. Confirm the record. Check your entity listing and look for the new name before treating the handoff as finished.
4. Cancel with LegalZoom. Last, and ahead of the renewal date, because that charge processes on its own schedule no matter what Indiana's file now says.

The renewal date is worth isolating, because it is the only deadline anywhere in this operation. Indiana imposes none. The statement has no filing window, no seasonal restriction, and no processing charge to reconcile. Every constraint on timing comes from the private contract you are leaving, which is the reverse of how most people assume state filings work. Our Indiana change of agent guide walks the form line by line.

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Every provider we track appears with its annual price in the Indiana ledger.