South Carolina Publishes a Two Dollar Fee. Swyft Filings Publishes $149 Without the Interval Beside It.

Before the argument, the interest behind it. South Carolina Registered Agent.co sells the same appointment for $99 a year, and yes, we want yours. Every Swyft Filings figure printed below is one that Swyft Filings publishes itself, checked in July 2026 and passed on unchanged.

What the Company Is

Swyft Filings runs a real formation operation with real staff and a checkout designed for people who would rather not read a statute before starting a company. Founders who used it to bring a South Carolina LLC into existence generally got the filing they paid for. We are not going to make claims about the quality of the service, because we have no basis for any.

The pricing structure is a different matter, and it turns on one word that is easy to skim past.

Read the Interval, Then Do the Multiplication

Registered agent service from Swyft Filings is advertised at $149. That $149 covers a quarter, not a year. Four of those land inside a single year, so the annual figure sits close to $596, and no first-year concession showed up anywhere in our July 2026 review.

The interval is disclosed, so this is not a complaint about concealment. It is a comment on how comparison actually works. Almost every competing agent service quotes an annual figure, so a shopper's eye has been trained to read the number as a year. Placed in that context, $149 reads cheap. Multiplied out, it is the highest effective rate in the South Carolina field by a wide margin.

Multiply before you compare. It costs nothing and it is the only defence against short billing intervals anywhere in this market.

A State That Bothers to Price Two Dollars

Set that against how South Carolina writes its own fee schedule, because the contrast is instructive.

Moving your registered agent here costs ten dollars. That is the filing an owner makes, and it is the one relevant to switching providers. The schedule then goes further and carves out a narrower case at a lower price: if the registered agent, acting on its own account, submits only a corrected street address for the registered office, the charge drops to two dollars. Not your filing, and not the one you will use when you change companies. It is included here only to show the level of detail the state thought worth publishing.

South Carolina printed a two dollar line item rather than rounding it away. A vendor quoting $149 without the word "quarterly" doing equal work beside it is operating to a different standard of precision, and the gap between those two standards is most of what this page is about.

The Ninety-Nine and What Stands Behind It

One invoice a year, $99, renewing at $99.

Behind it: a South Carolina street address holding your agent and designated office entries so your own stays private, imaging of anything served on the business inside the same working day with an alert sent as it posts, identical treatment for Secretary of State mail, a permanent document history in your dashboard, and optional forwarding of ordinary business mail at a published $15 per item.

Not the smallest figure on the market. BetterLegal's is, at $90. Ours sits in the low group of published South Carolina rates and holds its shape across years, which is the part a quarterly quote makes hard to evaluate.

Ending Swyft Filings in South Carolina for Ten Dollars

The change is one document and one ten dollar fee, authorized by S.C. Code § 33-44-109 and filed with the South Carolina Secretary of State. Paper and electronic routes both exist, Business Entities Online handles the electronic one, and your current provider is not asked to sign off on anything.

Appoint the replacement before you cancel the subscription. The notice asks for an incoming agent by name and address, and there is no version of it that records an empty appointment, because South Carolina treats the obligation as continuous rather than something reviewed once a year. Enrol here, file the notice with our details on it, watch the state's business search until it reflects the change, then end the Swyft billing.

Quarterly billing does at least give you four natural exit points a year instead of one. Ten dollars, filed at the next one, is the whole cost of taking it.

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