Texas Wants an Agent Who Agreed to the Job, Not a Subscription Tier

We are a competitor writing about a competitor, and pretending otherwise would waste your time. TX Registered Agent.org fills the Texas agent role for $99 a year and would like to fill yours. Rocket Lawyer's prices below are drawn from their own published material, checked in July 2026, and we have not adjusted them.

Their Pricing Discipline Is Better Than the Category's

Give them the credit properly. Their registered agent product is priced at $125 annually, and the figure stays put across every membership tier they sell. No introductory rate that doubles at month thirteen, no cheaper number conditional on keeping some other product alive, no second answer waiting on a different page. In a market where two-tier pricing is close to standard, publishing one figure and honoring it deserves saying out loud before any criticism arrives.

The membership behind it is also a genuine product. Document templates, review by attorneys, consultations at member rates. A company that reaches for those several times a year gets its money back without straining.

The Objection Is Fit, Not Honesty

Agent service at Rocket Lawyer arrives as one module inside a legal platform. That is exactly right if the platform is what brought you. It is a strange purchase if what you actually needed was a Texas street address with somebody standing behind it during working hours, and you are now funding a document library to reach one line of the account.

Worth testing that against what Texas is actually asking a registered agent to be.

Texas Treats the Appointment as an Agreement

Most states let you write a name into a field. Texas adds a condition that changes the character of the thing. Under Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code § 5.207, the party you designate must have consented to serve, in writing or electronically, and that consent is its own artifact. It is not created by the act of filing, and the state does not treat your designation as self-executing proof that anybody agreed to anything. Texas even publishes a separate consent document for the purpose rather than folding the question into the change filing.

Read plainly, the statute says the registered agent role is a relationship somebody entered deliberately. It is a commitment to be reachable at a fixed Texas address during business hours and to pass along what arrives there. That is a duty a person or a company accepts, not a feature that switches on when a subscription upgrades.

Which is the right frame for the $125 question. Nothing about a membership tier makes the underlying commitment stronger. The agent either agreed to stand at the address or did not, and the state's interest ends there.

What Ninety-Nine Dollars Covers Here

Our Texas registered office address, printed on your public filings where your own would go. Consent to serve, issued the moment you enroll, so the statutory precondition is satisfied before any form moves. Service of process imaged the working day it reaches us, then dropped into your portal with an alert. Advance warning of the May 15 franchise and Public Information Report deadline at the Comptroller. Everything we take in on your behalf stays in a portal you can reach whenever you like.

One add-on exists and we print it rather than spring it: ordinary mail, the kind that is not legal process, is imaged for $15 per piece. That charge is ours, it applies only to optional handling, and it is a separate thing entirely from the fifteen dollars Texas collects for the agent change filing described below. Two unrelated fifteens, one ours and one the state's.

On price we stop short of a superlative. Somebody does undercut us: BetterLegal's $90 is a real published number, so read our $99 as near the bottom of the Texas range rather than sitting at it.

Rocket Lawyer to Us: The Texas Sequence, Consent First

The filing is Form 401 with the Texas Secretary of State, the one-page change that rewrites the agent and office lines of your entity's record. For an LLC the state charges $15. You can send it through SOSDirect, the online filing system, or mail the paper version. Rocket Lawyer does not sign it and cannot delay it.

The order of operations follows straight from the consent rule. Because the incoming agent's agreement has to exist before the designation is any good, the sequence runs: obtain the consent, then file the form, then cancel the old service. Our consent is issued at signup, so step one is done before you have filled in a single field. The form itself asks for your entity name, the file number the Secretary of State gave you, and the new agent's name with a Texas street address for the registered office.

Then wait. Pull your entity record after the filing processes and confirm our name appears in the agent line. Only after that do you touch the Rocket Lawyer account, because a cancellation that lands ahead of the state's update leaves days in which nobody named on the record is actually being paid to stand at that address. The detailed version is on our change of agent walkthrough.

These two decisions also separate cleanly. Moving the agent on your Texas record does nothing to your membership, so if the templates and the attorney consultations earn their place, hold onto them. What you are cancelling is one line item, not a relationship.

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