Hawaii registered agent (August 2026)

Official · $0 agent fee

Name yourself on Hawaii Business Express

Hawaii does not sell a registered-agent product. BREG records who will accept service of process. You can name yourself. There is no DCCA subscription for that role.

hbe.dcca.hawaii.gov Hawaii Business Express

This is the right path if you (or someone who consented) will actually be at a Hawaii street address when process is delivered, and you accept that name and address on the public BREG file.

A commercial agent is optional. It is the usual way to keep a home off the agent line. It is not required if you already qualify.
Walk-in / paper: cca.hawaii.gov/breg/registration/ — 335 Merchant Street, Room 201, Honolulu.

Who must have a registered agent

Printed in current HRS, not inferred. Domestic profit corporations (§414-61), nonprofits (§414D-71), LLCs (§428-107), and limited partnerships (§425E-114) must continuously maintain a registered agent with a business address in this State. Partnerships designate or change under §425-19.

Form X-7 lists profit corporation, nonprofit, general partnership, limited partnership, LLLP, LLP, and LLC. Sole proprietorships and unregistered trade names are not in those RA-must-maintain sections. If you never formed a filing entity, this page is not your door.

Street address, hours, public record

HRS §425R-3 requires an actual street address or rural route box number in the State. Form X-7 says number-and-street place of business. A P.O. box is not that field.

Chapter 425R as fetched does not print “9 a.m.–5 p.m.” Vendor pages (Northwest, LegalZoom) print regular business hours. Those are vendor statements, not a numbered DCCA clock.

Form X-7 footer: all business registration filings are open to public inspection (HRS §92F-11). DIY puts your name and Hawaii street address on an inspectable agent line. That is the privacy contrast with a commercial agent, not a DCCA fee.

Form X-7 (switch)

Statement of Change of Registered Agent By Entity, HRS §425R-7. PDF revision 11/2025. Nonrefundable filing fee $25.00 for 200 or fewer entities; $1 each at 201+; LLP $50. Optional expedite $25 on BREG fee tables.

Live PDF: cca.hawaii.gov … X-7.pdf. Change takes effect on filing. X-7 is not formation, not annual report, and not GET.

Optional paid agents

You do not need a commercial agent if you qualify. Figures below were taken from those pages on September 16, 2026, Hawaii time. The Harbor signup link below is a paid referral. Cape, Northwest, and LegalZoom still have no referral links on this page.

This page includes a paid affiliate / referral link; if you buy through it, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Not legal advice.

Short scan only. Official DIY has no agent subscription. State X-7 fee is extra unless a vendor prints that they cover it.
	DIY	Cape	Harbor	Northwest	LegalZoom
Headline price	$0 agent fee	$40/yr or $249 lifetime	$99 new, $159 renew	$125/yr	$249/yr
DCCA agent line	Yours (public)	Theirs	Theirs (Honolulu office, their copy)	Theirs (Honolulu, their copy)	Theirs
Switch fee	X-7 $25 (LLP $50) + optional $25 expedite	You file X-7; they do not print that they pay $25	They quote the state’s $25 + optional $25 expedite	They print they complete the form for free; state fee not itemized	They print they cover typical Hawaii $25

Cape / CPM

$40/yr, or $249 lifetime

Same offer on cpmregisteredagent.com and oahumanagement.com. Checkout also shows $349 setup once plus $40/yr, and lifetime+setup $599+tax. Checkout adds 4.712% Hawaiʻi GE on the purchase (their product tax line, not a BREG fee).

Citations: Home · Services

Harbor Compliance

$99 new, $159 renew

Hawaii page: starting at $99 for new customers, renews at $159 annually. Multi-year lock at $99/year is also printed there.

Do not flatten Harbor’s $99 Harbor’s homepage, where the referral link lands, advertises a $99/year “no hidden fees” registered agent card. That card is for Texas. Hawaii is $99 for the first year, then $159 to renew, per Harbor’s Hawaii page. Use the Hawaii dollars above, not the homepage headline.

Citations: Hawaii RA page

If you buy through this link, hawaiiregagent.com may earn up to 50% commission on registered-agent service (Harbor’s printed program also notes a 2% default on some sales), plus a $100 bonus when monthly sales exceed $1,000. Cookie: 30 days. Harbor / Awin can change or end that program.

Northwest

$125/yr

Physical street address, no P.O. boxes (their copy). They print that being your own agent costs $0 and that the name and address become public. They add “regular business hours (9 AM to 5 PM)” — vendor copy, not the statute.

Citations: Hawaii RA page

LegalZoom

$249/yr

Article updated April 30, 2026. They print they cover change-of-agent filing fees (typically $25 in Hawaii). Overview asterisk: auto-renews; renewal rate subject to change; purchase price for first-time registered-agent customers.

Citations: Hawaii article · Overview

How to choose

DIY

If you will take service at a Hawaii street address and accept a public agent line.

Cape

Cheapest printed commercial annual among those fetched ($40/yr).

Harbor / Northwest / LegalZoom

If you want a national shop. Check Harbor’s $159 Hawaii renewal, not the $99/year Texas card on Harbor’s homepage.

Sources

Vendor prices re-fetched September 16, 2026, Hawaii time. Harbor referral added September 5, 2026.

Hawaii Business Express — https://hbe.dcca.hawaii.gov/
Form X-7 — X-7.pdf — rev. 11/2025, $25
BREG registration — cca.hawaii.gov/breg/registration/
Domestic LLC fees — dllc/fees
HRS §425R-3, §425R-7, §428-107, §414-61 (capitol.hawaii.gov)
Cape — cpmregisteredagent.com
Harbor — hawaii-registered-agent
Northwest — registered-agent/hawaii
LegalZoom — registered-agent-in-hawaii — updated April 30, 2026