How to Change Your Registered Agent in Wisconsin

Changing your registered agent in Wisconsin takes one filing with the Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) and a fee of $10 online or $25 on paper. This page walks through the official form, the fee, and each step, plus what to expect when you switch to our service.

Why Businesses Change Registered Agents

Faster document handling If your current agent is slow to forward service of process or misses deliveries entirely, switching means documents start moving the day they arrive. We scan and forward everything the same day.

Better value Plenty of providers charge $125 to $436 per year for the agent role. Our service runs $99 annually with every standard feature included, so customers paying premium rates often switch on value alone.

Privacy Serving as your own agent puts your street address into the DFI's public corporate records. Appointing a professional service replaces it with ours on future filings.

Availability An agent must be present at the registered office during normal business hours. If yours has proven unreliable, or you travel often, a staffed office removes the risk of missed process.

Relocation Owners who move out of state, close a Wisconsin office, or go fully remote still need a registered office at a physical Wisconsin street address. A professional agent keeps that anchor in place no matter where you work.

Form 13: Wisconsin's Statement of Change

The official filing is the Statement of Change (Registered Agent and/or Registered Office), issued by the DFI as Form 13 (Corp13). You can download the current Form 13 directly from the DFI. It is filed with the DFI's Division of Corporate & Consumer Services, and the same form covers a change of registered agent, a change of registered office, or both at once.

The official filing fee is $10 online and $25 for paper filings, with an optional $100 expedited service if you need the change processed faster. For an LLC, the filing operates under Wis. Stat. § 183.0116 when the company files the change, or § 183.0118 when the agent files it. One warning printed right on Form 13 deserves attention: "The entity may not name itself as its own registered agent" is the state's own language, so your LLC always needs a separate person or company in the role.

Steps to Change Your Registered Agent in Wisconsin

1. Select a replacement agent that satisfies Wisconsin law. A qualifying agent is either a natural person residing in Wisconsin whose business office is identical to the registered office, or a domestic or authorized foreign entity with a business office at that address. The registered office must be a physical Wisconsin street address, and the agent needs an email address on file and must consent to serve.
2. Complete Form 13. Identify your entity, name the new registered agent, and give the registered office address.
3. File with the DFI and pay the fee. Submit online for $10 or mail the paper form with $25.
4. Verify the state record. Once the DFI processes the change, look up your entity in the DFI's corporate records search and confirm the new agent appears.

Switching to Our Service

When you sign up, we immediately provide the registered office address and agent details you need to complete Form 13. File the change, pay the state's $10 fee, and we take over monitoring your registered office as soon as the DFI updates the record.

From that point on, documents delivered to your registered office are scanned and emailed the same day, with copies stored in your secure online portal. Our compliance tracking follows your Wisconsin deadlines too, including the annual report due at the end of your LLC's anniversary quarter, $25 when filed online.

Most changes process quickly, so there is no long limbo between agents. Your $99 per year covers the full service, with no setup fees added on top.

Order Here Questions about changing your registered agent in Wisconsin? Reach out at support@wiregisteredagent.org, Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm CT. We are glad to help with the transition.