A $100 Difference Every Year, Closed by a $20 Form

House rules first, because they matter for how you read the rest. Tennessee Registered Agent.co wrote this page and sells the service it recommends, at $99 a year. The ZenBusiness numbers are not ours to shade; they came off ZenBusiness's own published pricing in a July 2026 check.

On Their Software We Have No Complaints

ZenBusiness builds the best-looking dashboard anybody sells in this line of work, and we would rather say so plainly than damn it with qualifiers. Their onboarding walks a first-time owner through decisions without making them feel stupid, the record-keeping tools are tidy, and the whole thing looks like somebody cared about it.

If a polished interface is part of what you are buying, they have built one worth paying for.

We built something else. One Tennessee address, watched every business day, at one price.

Read the Price in Two Steps

• Year one, bought standalone: $99, plus whatever the state charges at filing
• Year two and everything after: $199
• The comparison figure: $199, because that is the one you pay most of the time

Tennessee wants a registered agent named on your file the whole time the company exists, and nobody gets to pay an opening rate twice. A ten-year-old LLC has seen $199 nine times.

Against our flat $99, that is a gap of $100 a year, permanently, and it exists whether or not you ever open the dashboard.

The Twenty Dollars That Closes It

Here is the arithmetic that makes this an easy decision rather than a close one.

Tennessee charges $20 to change the registered agent on your record. That is the entire cost of acting. Set it against a $100 annual difference and the filing pays for itself in about ten weeks, then keeps paying every year after that without any further effort from you.

Fair warning on our own number before it sounds like a boast: $90 shows up on BetterLegal's price page, nine dollars under us, so "one of the lowest flat rates in Tennessee" is what we claim and nothing stronger.

What Actually Happens When You Replace Them

The change is a single filing, and Tenn. Code Ann. § 48-249-110 is the provision that governs it. Here is the whole sequence.

Get the incoming agent appointed before anything is filed. ZenBusiness stays on your public record until the state processes the change, so lining up the replacement first means the two overlap. Do it in reverse and there is a window where your listing names a company that no longer works for you, and a summons delivered into that window is still validly served. Nothing about switching requires you to accept that.

Confirm the new agent qualifies. Tennessee wants either an individual living in the state or an entity organized here or authorized to do business here, and the agent has to keep an office at the same street address the filing gives as your registered office. Those two addresses are one address, not two related ones. A post office box will not be accepted, and the address is written out with city, ZIP, and county.

Complete form SS-4534. The state's change-of-agent form asks for your entity name as Tennessee spells it, the control number the Secretary of State assigned you, and the incoming agent's name and Tennessee address. Sign up with us and you are handed every one of those details.

Pay the $20 and send it to the Division of Business and Charitable Organizations. One small tip: card and e-check payments carry a convenience charge, and a mailed check does not.

Watch the entity listing change, then close the ZenBusiness account. Cancel on confirmation, not on submission.

Your outgoing agent has no signature on this form and no ability to slow it down. Our change of agent page covers the same ground with more detail.

Included at Ninety-Nine Dollars

• Our Tennessee address carried on the public record so yours does not have to be
• Service of process scanned, uploaded, and emailed the same business day it arrives
• Reminders before your annual report window opens and before the deadline closes it
• A portal holding everything we have ever received on your behalf
• $99 to start and $99 to renew, with no second product on the order form

Worth remembering while you budget: Tennessee's LLC annual report is not a flat charge. It is $50 per member with a $300 minimum, so most small companies pay $300 and larger ones pay more. That is the state's number and it is not going anywhere. The agent line is the part of the bill you actually choose.

If the dashboard is worth a hundred dollars a year to you, keep it with our blessing. If it is not, the exit costs twenty dollars once.

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