When the Bizee Inclusion Ends: $149 a Year, or a $15 Filing

The commercial interest here should be visible from the first line. West Virginia Registered Agent.co is a direct competitor of Bizee for the work described below, and prices that work at $99 per year. The Bizee terms summarized below come from that company's published pricing as reviewed in July 2026.

The Value of the Inclusion

Bizee, formerly Incfile, includes agent coverage in its formation packages at no cost, for a term of three months at the entry level and up to a full year at the higher tiers. For a founder who has already decided to form through Bizee, that inclusion is worth exactly what it appears to be worth. The address line has to be occupied by someone from the moment the Articles of Organization are filed, Bizee is willing to occupy it at no cost, and no argument on this page improves on free.

What Happens When the Included Term Ends

Standalone renewal is $149 per year. The transition is the weak point, and it is weak for a structural reason rather than a dishonest one: an arrangement that never generated an invoice also never generated a reminder. The first bill arrives after the decision to keep paying has effectively been made by default, at which point the designation is already on the state record and changing it feels like a project rather than a form.

It is not a project. West Virginia treats it as one application and fifteen dollars.

The Cost of Moving Is Fifteen Dollars

Worth sitting with, because it changes how much the renewal decision is really worth. If the choice is $149 a year against $99 a year, the annual difference is $50, and the one-time cost of acting on that difference is a $15 state fee. The filing pays for itself inside the first four months, and it does not need repeating.

For context on what else West Virginia charges: the Articles of Organization cost $100 once, and the annual report is $25, filed between January 1 and the last day of June. The state's fees are small, published, and stable. The recurring vendor fee is the larger line on most owners' compliance budgets.

What $99 Includes Here

Ninety-nine dollars annually, renewing at the same amount. Included: a compliant West Virginia business address that appears on state filings instead of a personal one, scanning and email delivery of documents on the day they arrive, a dashboard available at any hour, and alerts ahead of the annual report deadline. There is no package structure, so there is nothing to upgrade from and nothing to decline.

Lest the comparison be read too broadly, BetterLegal's published annual rate of $90 is lower than ours. The supportable statement is that $99 ranks among the lowest flat prices in the West Virginia market, and that it is the same figure at every renewal.

The Bizee-to-Us Transfer: Every Step West Virginia Requires

1. Confirm the successor qualifies. The state's list runs to an individual whose home is in West Virginia, a corporation organized under state law, a second limited liability company, or an out-of-state corporation or company cleared to transact business here.
2. Obtain Form AAO from the Secretary of State. It is a single application serving every registered entity type, covering agents, officers, and addresses in one document. Item 1 identifies the type of entity filing.
3. Complete item 4, the section that changes the agent for service of process, and supply the new West Virginia office address.
4. Secure the incoming agent's signature on the form. Consent is given on the instrument itself, so no separate acceptance document is required and no acknowledgment is sought from Bizee.
5. Deliver the completed application and the $15 fee to the Business & Licensing Division, by mail or through the state's online portal.
6. Verify the change in the Secretary of State's business records, then close the Bizee account.

The last two steps are in that order for a reason. West Virginia never leaves an entity without a lawful recipient for process, because the Secretary of State absorbs that function when no agent is designated, so a lapse is not a legal emergency. It is a delivery problem: for as long as the record names Bizee, anything served travels to Bizee, and the same-day scanning you are switching to has nothing to scan. Clients enrolling with us have the application prepared and submitted as part of signup, with no service charge added to the state's $15. The change of agent page covers the procedure in full, and the FAQ handles the rest.

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