How to change your registered agent
Francis Webb, Founder, 1 Day EIN LLC
Switching registered agents is one of the smallest filings a company can make — a single statement to the state, a fee measured in tens of dollars, no disruption to the company itself. The paperwork takes minutes. What matters is the order you do it in, because the one real risk is a gap in coverage between the old agent and the new one.
This page covers both states we operate in, from their own fee schedules and statutes, read 16 September 2026.
First, in this order
1. Engage the new agent before touching anything else. Both states require the incoming agent's consent — Colorado's filing includes a confirmation that the appointee has consented (C.R.S. 7-90-701), and Wyoming requires agents to certify acceptance on prescribed forms (W.S. 17-28-101). A change filed without a consenting agent on the other end is the gap you are trying to avoid.
2. File the change with the state. Details by state below.
3. Only then cancel the old agent. Cancel first and you create a window in which your company has no agent — and an agentless company is on the path described in what happens when an LLC falls out of good standing. Wyoming prices that state of affairs explicitly: reinstating a dissolved company costs $100, but $350 if it has no registered agent (fee schedule).
4. Update the address everywhere you used it. Bank, payment processors, the IRS if it was your mailing address, marketplaces, invoices. The state filing changes none of these.
Colorado
Colorado handles the change online with a Statement of Change, and the fee schedule lists it at $10 (Colorado SoS fee schedule, read 16 September 2026 — Colorado business filings are online-only). You will need the new agent's name and Colorado street address, and the filing confirms the agent has consented.
Wyoming
Wyoming's change is also a small filing, with one honesty note: the state's fee schedule lists no separate line for a change of registered agent. The nearest line is "Amendment/Dissolution/Any Other Filing — $60.00" (fee schedule, read 16 September 2026), and agent changes can also be made in the course of other filings. Confirm the exact fee in the Secretary of State's own filing system before you file rather than trusting any third-party page — including this one — to have it right. What is certain from the statute: the new agent must be at a physical Wyoming street address and must accept the appointment.
What switching does not do
It does not interrupt your company's existence, change its EIN, reset its formation date, or notify anyone except the state. Mail sent to the old agent after the switch is the reason step 4 exists — the state's records update, but every private counterparty still has whatever address you gave them.
The economics, briefly
The filing itself is $10 in Colorado and tens of dollars in Wyoming. What makes switching worth the ten minutes is the renewal delta: on the figures in what a registered agent does, the same statutory role renews at anything from $50 to $299 a year. A one-time $10 filing that moves a $249 renewal to a $50 one pays for itself twenty times over in the first year — and every year after.
If the agent you are switching to is us: the registered agent and US business address service is $50 a year for Wyoming or Colorado — a real street address with mail opened, scanned and delivered to your portal — on /pricing with everything else we charge.
This page is general information, not legal advice. State fees and statutes linked above were read 16 September 2026; confirm current fees on the state's own system before filing. Next quarterly re-check: 1 December 2026.