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Doing business in Kansas from another state

If your LLC does business in Kansas as Kansas defines it, you register with the Kansas Secretary of State, Business Services Division for $115.

Step 1: put these questions to Kansas’s law

  1. An employee or contractor works from the state. Ask whether the statute counts work done by people located in the state, and whether employees and independent contractors are treated alike.
  2. You sell to customers there but have no one on the ground. Ask whether the statute treats sales from outside the state differently from activity inside it.
  3. The LLC owns or leases property there. Ask whether owning or leasing real estate is listed as an activity that does, or does not, count.
  4. You open an office, shop or warehouse. Ask whether a fixed place of business is named in the statute. Settle the answer before you sign a lease.
  5. You hold meetings or keep a bank account there. Ask whether the statute lists these ancillary activities, and whether they count by themselves.

Kansas’s sources do not name a statute on this page; start at the Kansas filing page.

Step 2: if the answer is yes

Form
Form FA, Application for Registration, Foreign (non-Kansas) Business
Fee
$115
Paper from your home state
None for an LLC
Agent
A resident agent in Kansas

Best 2 Foreign Registration Services in Kansas (2026)

Step 3: if you would rather not file it yourself.

#ServiceService feeKansas feeAgent
1Mainstay Filing$199$115Year one included, then $149/yr
2KS Registered Agent.org$199$115Year one included, then $99/yr

Service prices read from each provider’s Kansas page on October 28, 2026. The state fee is the official figure below and is paid to the Kansas Secretary of State, Business Services Division. Only one registered-agent brand on our list serves Kansas, so this list has two entries.

Kansas questions

When does an LLC from another state have to register in Kansas?

When its activity in Kansas meets Kansas’s own definition of doing business. We do not paraphrase it; read it through the Kansas filing page.

What does registering in Kansas cost?

$115 to the Kansas Secretary of State, Business Services Division.

What is required after registering?

Information Report (Kansas Secretary of State), every two years, $90 (due: april 15, every second year), and a resident agent in Kansas.

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