Services that file your Washington foreign registration

What a filing service actually does

A foreign qualification service orders your certificate of existence, checks the name in Washington, handles the registered agent, and files the Foreign Registration Statement. It does not change the $180 fee, and it does not answer whether your work counts as doing business, which the Secretary of State leaves to you or your lawyer either way.

Whoever files it, the state's price is the same. The $180 and the online processing charge go to the Secretary of State, the certificate goes to your home state's records custodian, and the service's own fee is the only number that differs between the routes.

So the comparison is narrow and real: the service fee, what it includes, and what renews. The registered agent is usually the renewal, because the first year is often bundled and the second is billed. Read the doing-business page before paying anyone, because the service that files beautifully cannot decide whether the filing is owed.

$180The Foreign Registration Statement carries a $180 filing fee plus an online processing charge and a certificate of existence from the home jurisdiction, whoever prepares it. — Washington Secretary of State, retrieved 2026-09-29

Published service fees beside the $180 state fee

Every figure below comes from the service's own page, checked on the date shown. The services price this filing as an add-on to formation plans rather than a headline plan, so the published service fee is the honest comparison column, and a service without a published number says so in the table rather than inheriting one.

The state fee is constant at $180 across every row. What moves is the service fee, whether the registered agent is inside it, and what the agent costs when the bundled year ends.

Check each page again before buying. Plans move, and the date on each claim is the day it was read.

$209MyCorporation publishes a foreign qualification service at $209, filing in any of the 50 states. — MyCorporation foreign qualifications page, retrieved 2026-09-29

$239CorpNet publishes foreign qualification starting at $239 per state, with the price not including $29 shipping and handling, add-ons, or state fees. — CorpNet foreign qualifications page, retrieved 2026-09-29

$399Harbor Compliance publishes a foreign qualification service fee of $399 that includes registered agent service for one year, with state filing fees separate. — Harbor Compliance foreign qualification page, retrieved 2026-09-29

Services matched to what an expansion needs

Each entry below sits where its own published offer fits a kind of expansion. The order is presentation order, and nothing on this page grades the services against each other.

Every price here is what the service published about itself on the date checked. Confirm the current offer on each service's own page before signing up, because none of these prices is locked by anything on this site.

1. Tailor Brands

   When the Washington work is substantial enough that a fresh Washington LLC beats registering the existing one, this is the platform route: LLC formation plans start at $0 plus state fees, and the Certificate of Formation costs the same $180 the foreign registration costs. The plans page does not list foreign qualification as a filing service, so an existing LLC staying intact should use another row. Paid tiers add faster processing and the annual compliance feature.

2. MyCorporation

   The published price is the point here: $209 to prepare and submit the foreign qualification in any of the 50 states, with an online questionnaire and step-by-step help. Its page does not publish what registered agent service costs, so budget the agent separately or use the free change-of-agent filing later to move off whatever you start with.

3. CorpNet

   Suits a one-state expansion that wants the adjacent registrations handled in one order. The $239-per-state filing includes obtaining the certificate of good standing from your home state and serving as registered agent in your formation state and foreign states, and the order can carry payroll tax registrations in employee states and sales tax permits where you sell taxable goods. Add $29 shipping and handling, and state fees are separate.

4. Harbor Compliance

   Made for the LLC that will qualify in several states, not just Washington, because the compliance relationship is the product as much as the filing. The $399 service fee covers the name availability check, the certificate of good standing, the certificate of authority filing, and a year of registered agent service, with offices in every state for the address requirement. State filing fees are collected on top, determined and invoiced by a specialist.

5. Bizee

   The whole foreign qualification process is handled here, from the name search and the registered agent to the certificate of authority filing with your certificate of good standing attached, plus lifetime alerts across states and the federal BOI report. No price is published on the service page, so the number arrives by contact. Its formation plans, $0 Basic upward, each include a free first year of registered agent service, which is the pattern to expect on the renewal here.

6. LegalZoom

   Worth the call when a lawyer should look at the expansion before the filing. LegalZoom handles the filing in all 50 states, including registered agent service, name availability checks, and certificate of good standing retrieval, but the service price is not published on its foreign qualification pages. Its registered agent service, useful on its own if you file yourself, is published at $249 per year and auto-renews at the purchase rate until cancelled.

$209MyCorporation publishes a foreign qualification service at $209, filing in any of the 50 states. — MyCorporation foreign qualifications page, retrieved 2026-09-29

$239CorpNet publishes foreign qualification starting at $239 per state, excluding $29 shipping and handling, add-ons, and state fees. — CorpNet foreign qualifications page, retrieved 2026-09-29

$399Harbor Compliance publishes a foreign qualification service fee of $399 that includes registered agent service for one year. — Harbor Compliance foreign qualification page, retrieved 2026-09-29

first yearBizee states that registered agent service is free for the first year when forming a business in a new state with Bizee. — Bizee foreign qualification page, retrieved 2026-09-29

$249 per yearLegalZoom's registered agent service costs $249 per year and auto-renews at the purchase rate until cancelled. — LegalZoom registered agent page, retrieved 2026-09-29

File it yourself with the Washington Secretary of State

You can skip every service. File the Foreign Registration Statement yourself with the Washington Secretary of State for the same $180 plus the online processing charge, with your own certificate of existence attached.

No lawyer is required, and the filing is an online form with the certificate uploaded. The two decisions inside it that a service would otherwise make for you are the registered agent, which the agent guide covers, and the effective date, which can be the filing date or one up to 90 days out.

This route is the benchmark for the whole page. It is the same filing at the same fee with nobody in between, and what a service adds is the typing, the agent address, the certificate chase, or the deadline reminders. The cost breakdown and the checklist run the whole route end to end.

$180The Foreign Registration Statement is filed online with the Secretary of State for $180 plus an online processing fee, with the certificate attached, up to 90 days ahead. — Washington Secretary of State, retrieved 2026-09-29

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