Before you start, gather three things
- Your Florida document number. This is the entity identifier assigned when the company was formed. LLC numbers begin with L, profit corporation numbers begin with P, foreign entities with F. You can find it by searching your company name in the Division of Corporations records.
- Your FEI/EIN, or the knowledge that you do not have one and have not applied for one. Section 605.0212 requires the report to state the federal employer identification number or, if none, whether one has been applied for.
- A card. The Division accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover credit cards, debit cards carrying a Visa or MasterCard logo, and prepaid Sunbiz E-File accounts. Checks and money orders are mail-only and slower, which matters a great deal in September.
The filing, step by step
- Go to sunbiz.org and open the annual report filing. The Division publishes the current year's annual report link on its own site. Use the state site directly. Search results for "sunbiz" often surface paid look-alike sites above the real one.
- Enter your document number. The system pulls up your entity and loads the data currently on file. Everything you see next is what the state believes about your company today.
- Enter or confirm the entity's email address. This is the address the filing confirmation goes to. The Division sends confirmation to the entity's current email address on file, not to whoever happens to be filling out the form.
- Review the principal office and mailing address. Correct them here if they have changed. This is the whole point of the report: keeping the public record current.
- Review the registered agent. Name and Florida street address. A P.O. box is not a valid registered agent address. If you are changing the agent, the new agent has to sign.
- Review the managers, managing members, officers, or directors. At minimum the report must list the name, title or capacity, and address of at least one person with authority to manage the company.
- Sign electronically. You type the name of a person authorized to sign for the company. That typed name is the signature on the filing, so make sure the person named actually has authority.
- Pay and keep the confirmation. $138.75 for an LLC, $150 for a profit corporation, plus $400 if you are filing after May 1. The email confirmation is your proof of filing. Save it.
Where these filings actually go wrong
1. The confirmation goes to an address nobody reads
The Division sends the filing confirmation to the entity's email address on file. On companies more than a couple of years old, that address is very often a former accountant, a former partner, or a dead domain. The filing succeeds, the owner never sees it, and the same thing happens next year with the reminder notice. If you do nothing else on the filing screen, fix the email.
2. The registered agent has quietly stopped being one
Failing to appoint and maintain a registered agent is independently a ground for administrative dissolution under section 605.0714(1)(c), separate from the annual report. If the person listed has moved, resigned, or stopped answering, filing the report does not fix that.
3. You pay before anything checks that you picked the right entity
Owners with two or three companies file the same one twice and leave the other delinquent. The system does not warn you, because from its side nothing is wrong. Read the entity name on screen against the document number you meant to file, every time, before you pay.
4. September
The report has to be delivered by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on the third Friday in September, which is September 18 in 2026. That is also the last day the Division will accept payment by check for the 2026 year. Card payments run through 5:00 p.m. EST on September 25, and that is the day the entity is administratively dissolved or revoked in the state's records. A mailed check that arrives September 22 does not save the company.
What it costs, either way
| Filing after May 1, 2026 | Yourself | Through us |
|---|---|---|
| State annual report fee (LLC) | $138.75 | $138.75 |
| State late fee | $400.00 | $400.00 |
| Service fee | $0.00 | $129.00 |
| Total | $538.75 | $667.75 |
That is the honest comparison. The state fees are identical either way, because they are the state's fees. What the $129 buys is that someone else confirms your entity data against the Division's record, completes the report, submits it, pays the state on your behalf, and sends you the confirmation, usually the same or next business day. If you are past the deadline and staring down $538.75 in state fees you did not plan for, the question is whether you want to do the form yourself tonight or hand it to someone who does this all day.
Rather hand it off?
We check your details against our Division of Corporations data snapshot, file the report, pay the state fees on your behalf, and email you the Sunbiz confirmation. Our service fee is $129 through September 11, 2026 and $249 on and after September 12, 2026, when the statutory cutoff requires same-day handling. State fees are itemized separately before you pay anything.
We file it for you: $129 + state fees Or check your entity's status free