Coverage · OH
Form your American company in Ohio.
Same desk, same prices, Ohio’s own machinery. Filings here run through the Secretary of State — Business Services, and the state calls its agent a statutory agent. What follows is Ohio’s actual formation landscape.
The Ohio facts
Ohio calls the role the statutory agent.
Your charter is filed with the Secretary of State — Business Services. The statutory agent you appoint must be reachable at a physical Ohio address during business hours — for founders abroad, that appointment is the whole reason a desk like this one exists. Under Sethhost, the statutory agent of record is CorpNet, Incorporated, our disclosed wholesale partner, appointed at filing and named in your service agreement.
Keeping the company alive in Ohio
Ohio requires no annual or biennial report for LLCs or corporations. Your agent information changes only when you file the change itself — which makes filing it promptly the whole discipline.
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 Ohio
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 Ohio
How much does Sethhost charge in Ohio?
The same as everywhere: Launch $499 one-time and Hosted $79 per month. Ohio’s own LLC filing fee is $99 — separate, charged at cost, and itemized for your state at checkout before your filing is placed.
What does Ohio call its registered agent?
The statutory agent — and the filing office is the Secretary of State — Business Services. State terminology is not pedantry: the wrong term on a form is how filings get rejected.
Can I form in Ohio 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.