Coverage · PA
Form your American company in Pennsylvania.
Same desk, same prices, Pennsylvania’s own machinery. Filings here run through the Department of State — Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations, and the state calls its agent a registered office. What follows is Pennsylvania’s actual formation landscape.
The Pennsylvania facts
Pennsylvania speaks of a registered office, not a registered agent. An entity lists its own Pennsylvania address or names a Commercial Registered Office Provider (CROP) — a company in the business of serving as the office for others. This is the system our sister desk, PA CROP Services, works in daily.
Your charter is filed with the Department of State — Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations. The registered office you appoint must be reachable at a physical Pennsylvania address during business hours — for founders abroad, that appointment is the whole reason a desk like this one exists. Under Sethhost, the registered office of record is CorpNet, Incorporated, our disclosed wholesale partner, appointed at filing and named in your service agreement.
Keeping the company alive in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania replaced its old decennial report with an annual report under Act 122. The facts for an LLC: the annual report fee is $7, and the report is due September 30 each year, first due the year after formation. Forming the LLC costs a $125 state filing fee, charged at cost. Corporations file on the schedule the Department of State sets for corporations; the LLC figures above are the ones most founders here need.
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.
Publication — Pennsylvania corporations
Pennsylvania corporations carry a publication requirement (legal journal and newspaper of general circulation in the county of the registered office). It is pre-quoted before filing: $399, a pass-through charge. Pennsylvania LLCs have no equivalent step.
Our home ground
Pennsylvania is where this desk’s operator sits. PA Registered Office Services, LLC is a licensed Pennsylvania commercial registered office provider (a CROP), working from Erie under PA DOS file #0015295203 — the credential on our homepage is a Pennsylvania one, and it is real. For Sethhost clients the registered agent of record, including in Pennsylvania, is CorpNet, Incorporated under the wholesale structure disclosed across this site; the CROP operation is the sister desk that runs PA CROP Services for Pennsylvania companies directly.
How Sethhost serves Pennsylvania
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 Pennsylvania
How much does Sethhost charge in Pennsylvania?
The same as everywhere: Launch $499 one-time and Hosted $79 per month. Pennsylvania’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 Pennsylvania call its registered agent?
The registered office — and the filing office is the Department of State — Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations. State terminology is not pedantry: the wrong term on a form is how filings get rejected.
Can I form in Pennsylvania 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.