Coverage · FL
Form your American company in Florida.
Same desk, same prices, Florida’s own machinery. Filings here run through the Department of State — Division of Corporations (Sunbiz), and the state calls its agent a registered agent. What follows is Florida’s actual formation landscape.
The Florida facts
Your charter is filed with the Department of State — Division of Corporations (Sunbiz). The registered agent you appoint must be reachable at a physical Florida address during business hours — for founders abroad, that appointment is the whole reason a desk like this one exists. Under Sethhost, the registered agent of record is CorpNet, Incorporated, our disclosed wholesale partner, appointed at filing and named in your service agreement.
Keeping the company alive in Florida
Florida runs on Sunbiz, the Division of Corporations’ public filing system, and its calendar has hard edges. Every Florida LLC files an annual report on Sunbiz between January 1 and May 1 each year, starting the year after formation. The report fee is $138.75. Miss May 1 and a flat $400 late fee is added — there is no waiver — and an LLC whose report is still unfiled in September is administratively dissolved that month. The annual report is also where most Florida agent changes are actually made, because it is the filing where the registered agent is restated.
Inside Hosted, those dates sit on your compliance calendar from the day you form — set from your filing record, not a national average — and annual report filing service is part of the subscription where your state uses one. Reminders are best efforts and you remain responsible for your deadlines; that sentence is in the agreement, and it is on this page too.
How Sethhost serves Florida
Formation is prepared at your direction and confirmed by you before filing (Docket 01). The EIN runs through the IRS workflow for founders with or without a Social Security number (Docket 03). Official mail received by the agent is retrieved by our desk each business day and mirrored into your portal under the mail protocol — best efforts, in writing, with no timeframe promised upstream. A five-page website and a US number complete the visible half of the company (Docket 06).
Questions on Florida
How much does Sethhost charge in Florida?
The same as everywhere: Launch $499 one-time and Hosted $79 per month. Florida’s own LLC filing fee is $125 — separate, charged at cost, and itemized for your state at checkout before your filing is placed.
What does Florida call its registered agent?
The registered agent — and the filing office is the Department of State — Division of Corporations (Sunbiz). State terminology is not pedantry: the wrong term on a form is how filings get rejected.
Can I form in Florida from outside the US?
Yes — that is the standard case here. You choose the state; we never recommend one, because that is legal advice. Compare states on the coverage board and in the guides, then direct us.