When Bizee's Included Months Expire in California

Before anything else: this comparison comes from CA Registered Agent.org, a company with $99 a year riding on which way you decide. Everything attributed to Bizee below is taken from their published pricing without adjustment.

The Formation Bundle Is Real Money

Buy a Bizee LLC formation package and registered agent service arrives free of charge for a stretch running from three months up to twelve, the length depending on which tier you picked. For a founder who was forming through Bizee anyway, those months are cash that stays in the account, and we could not find a penalty clause lurking underneath the offer. It is a legitimate reason to start with them.

$149 Begins on a Date You Did Not Choose

Once the included stretch closes, and for anyone buying the service on its own, Bizee registered agent coverage runs $149 per year. The rate is published and steady, which already puts Bizee ahead of parts of this market on transparency. The friction is not the number. It is the handover into it: the included window ends on a date tied to your package rather than to any anniversary a human being would remember, the charge processes against a card already stored, and $149 slides past a bank statement review without provoking a single question.

For a California LLC the comparison gets simple the moment that window shuts, because from that point both services perform an identical statutory function for different money.

Two Things to Pin Down While the Window Is Still Open

The first is the exact expiry date, which tracks your package tier and nothing else, so dig it out of the order confirmation rather than guessing from the formation date.

The second is which California address is currently printed in the agent field of your record. The address travels with the agent and moves whenever the agent does, and founders who formed in a hurry occasionally discover that their own home went onto the filing and quietly stayed there. California sharpens that discovery, because a resident individual holding the role has their street address published with the entity, whereas a qualified corporate agent has no address shown on the filing whatsoever.

Worth separating from all of this: the $800 minimum franchise tax the Franchise Tax Board collects from California LLCs every year is a tax obligation, not a Secretary of State filing, and no agent service of any kind makes it go away.

Why $99 Has Nothing to Expire

Our rate contains no bundled phase, so there is no cliff at the end of one. $99 buys the year, and $99 buys the year after. A summons delivered to our California address is digitised the same business day and waiting in your account before evening. The agent line of your public record shows a compliant California street address instead of yours. Statement of Information reminders are inside the fee. If you want ordinary correspondence scanned too, that is $15 per piece and it is the only extra we sell.

One correction before the arithmetic tempts anyone: a $90 annual rate is published by BetterLegal, so ours is among the lowest annual prices in California rather than the very lowest.

One Updated Statement, No Fee

California folds the agent change into a document you already file, since the state publishes no standalone change form at all: the Statement of Information again, LLC-12 for a limited liability company, lodged at bizfileOnline with the new agent written in. Sent outside your scheduled filing periods it costs $0. Sign up first and file second, because California expects the agent field to stay occupied without interruption. And since the state charges nothing either way, there is no reason to wait for the first $149 invoice to arrive before acting. Our change of agent guide covers the form and the confirmation step.

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