Change Your South Carolina Registered Agent: Form, Fee and Steps

Changing your registered agent in South Carolina takes one filing and $10. The document is the Notice of Change of Designated Office, Agent or Address of Registered Agent, filed with the South Carolina Secretary of State under S.C. Code § 33-44-109. Whether you are leaving a service that underperforms or moving off self-representation, the mechanics are quick, and this page walks through them.

South Carolina's Official Change Form and Fee

The Form: Notice of Change of Designated Office, Agent or Address of Registered Agent. South Carolina Secretary of State forms carry no form numbers; the filing is identified by its name and its statute, § 33-44-109. The official PDF is available from the state's Downloadable Paper Forms page, and the same filing can be submitted online through Business Entities Online.

The Fee: $10, set by S.C. Code § 33-44-1204(a)(9), which prices a "statement of change of designated office or agent for the service of process, or both" at ten dollars. One narrow variant exists: when the registered agent itself files only a change to the street address of the registered office, the fee is $2.

Where It Goes: The South Carolina Secretary of State, either electronically or by mail with the paper form.

Why Businesses Change Their Registered Agent

Privacy: Serving as your own agent puts your address in the public record. A professional service replaces it with ours.

Reliability: An agent who scans slowly, communicates poorly, or disappears during business hours exposes your company to missed service of process.

Price: Plenty of national services charge $125 to $436 per year. Paying premium rates for baseline service is a common reason to move.

Operational Changes: Relocations, office closures, and restructurings often make a new agent arrangement necessary.

Steps to Change Your Registered Agent in South Carolina

1. Select a qualified replacement. Under S.C. Code § 33-44-108, the agent must be an individual South Carolina resident, a domestic corporation, another limited liability company, or a foreign corporation or company authorized to do business in the state, with a street address on file.
2. Complete the Notice of Change form. It asks for your entity's name, the current designated office and agent information, and the new agent's name and street address.
3. File it with the South Carolina Secretary of State and pay the $10 fee. Submit online through Business Entities Online or mail the signed paper form.
4. Verify the update. Once processed, the new agent appears in your entity's public record; confirm it through the state's business search before treating the change as complete.

What the Switch Adds Up To

• State filing fee: $10, one time, paid to South Carolina
• Our service: $99 per year, no setup fees or hidden charges

What Happens to Documents During the Transition?

Until the Secretary of State processes the filing, documents may still reach your previous agent. If you have been acting as your own agent, keep watching your old registered address until the state record shows the change. From that point forward, everything routes to us and enters our same-day scanning workflow.

Why Switch to Us?

Same-Day Scanning: Every document we receive for your business is scanned and posted to your secure portal the day it arrives.

Privacy Protection: Our address appears on your public filings instead of yours, reducing unwanted solicitation.

Compliance Monitoring: Correspondence from the South Carolina Secretary of State is scanned the same day, keeping you current on anything the state needs from you.

Transparent Pricing: $99 per year covers the complete service, with no setup fees and no tiers.

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Enroll in a few minutes, and we will supply the completed Notice of Change form with filing instructions for the South Carolina Secretary of State. File it with the $10 fee, and once the state records the change, we take over document handling for your business.

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