Updated: 14 Aug 2026
Every private limited company in Singapore has to appoint a corporate secretary within six months of incorporation. That part is settled by law. What isn't settled is who you appoint, and the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive option in this market is roughly fifteen times.
Some providers charge under S$200 a year and bill you separately for almost every filing. Others charge four figures and include a named secretary who sits in on your board meetings. Both are legitimate. The trick is knowing which one your company actually needs.
Here are seven corporate secretary services operating in Singapore right now, compared on published pricing, service scope, and how they handle the day-to-day.
Margin Wheeler is included in this comparison. Information relating to other providers is based on publicly available information at the time of writing.
Corporate Secretary Services in Singapore at a Glance
| Provider | Published Annual Fee | Best Suited For | Support Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margin Wheeler | From S$300 (usual S$500) | SMEs wanting a named person who knows their file | Dedicated relationship manager |
| Swiftly | From S$300 (Premium S$600) | Founders who want filings automated end to end | Platform-first, with support |
| Osome | S$300 to S$600 | Founders already using Osome for accounting | In-app chat |
| Sleek | S$350 to S$1,500 | Companies wanting secretary bundled with compliance | Assigned account team |
| HeySara | From S$199 | Dormant or very low-activity companies | App-based, pay per action |
| InCorp Global | From S$350 | Groups with entities across Asia-Pacific | Assigned consultant |
| BoardRoom | Roughly S$1,000 to S$3,000+ | Listed, pre-IPO, or multi-jurisdiction entities | Named secretary, board-level |
Prices reflect rates published on each provider's website and change from time to time, so confirm current figures before you commit.
1. Margin Wheeler
Margin Wheeler has been handling corporate secretarial work in Singapore since 2011 and is an ACRA-registered filing agent (FA20200411). We're the best-reviewed corporate service provider on Google in Singapore, with more than 400 reviews at a 4.9-star average and over 99 percent of those reviews at five stars.
Our corporate secretary service is priced at S$500 a year, dropping to S$300 with the MW2026 voucher applied at checkout. Companies that incorporate with us get the first year of secretarial service included, which is worth checking before you pay for the two separately.
What's Actually Included
The annual fee covers the ACRA disbursement for appointing a named secretary, maintenance of your statutory registers and minute books, the Register of Registrable Controllers, AGM minutes, first board resolutions, and share certificates. Filing reminders are automatic, and document courier for signing is free.
The part clients tend to mention most is the advisory. Every company gets an exclusive relationship manager and unlimited consultation on secretarial matters, so questions about a share transfer or a director change don't turn into a billable event. Our secretarial team includes people who came from Boardroom, Intertrust, and Rajah & Tann, and they've handled VCCs, offshore structures, and SGX-listed entities alongside private companies.
The most common problem we see when a company switches to us is an incomplete statutory register. Somewhere along the way a share transfer or a director resignation was filed with ACRA but never written into the register or minute book, so the official record and the internal record no longer agree.
It surfaces at the worst possible moment, usually during due diligence for an investment round or a bank facility. Rebuilding a register after the fact takes far longer than maintaining it, which is why we reconcile the full history against ACRA records at handover rather than picking up from wherever the previous provider left off.
The Trade-Offs
Complex director's resolutions are chargeable depending on scope, so a company with frequent corporate actions should ask for a scoped quote rather than assuming everything sits inside the base fee. And if you want a fully self-serve app where you never speak to anyone, our model leans the other way, since the whole point is that a real person is attached to your file.
If you're setting up rather than switching, our company incorporation service bundles the first year of secretary in, and strike-off support is there at the other end if the company winds down.
2. Swiftly
Swiftly launched in 2020 as a fully automated corporate services platform and is an ACRA-registered filing agent with an MOM employment agency licence. It carries a 4.8-star Google rating and is one of the more genuinely tech-led options in this market.
Standalone corporate secretary service starts at S$25 a month, working out to S$300 a year for the Basic tier. That covers essential ACRA filings including the annual return and AGM, with each drafted resolution billed separately. The Premium tier at S$600 a year removes that, giving unlimited free resolution drafting, which is worth doing the maths on if your company issues shares or changes officers more than once or twice a year.
Where Swiftly is strongest is process. MyInfo and Singpass handle local verification, Sumsub covers passport checks for overseas founders, and documents are generated and e-signed automatically before going to ACRA. The counterweight is track record: a company founded in 2020 has a shorter history than the incumbents, and the automation-first model gives you less hand-holding when a filing gets unusual.
3. Osome
Osome runs a chat-based platform covering secretary, accounting, and tax across Singapore, Hong Kong, the UK, and the UAE, and has served more than 30,000 businesses globally. It's an ACRA-registered filing agent, and everything happens in-app rather than over the phone.
Corporate secretary sits at S$300 and S$600 a year depending on tier, with the higher tier adding annual return filing and AGM handling. Osome's real advantage shows up when you take accounting from them too, because the same team already holds your numbers when the annual return comes due.
The catch is the same as the appeal. If you like resolving things by chat, it works well. If you want to call someone about an urgent share transfer at 6pm, the model doesn't really accommodate that.
4. Sleek
Sleek was founded in 2017, serves over 8,000 Singapore businesses, and holds ACRA Filing Agent, MAS Major Payment Institution, and MOM Employment Agency licences alongside ISO 27001 certification. It's one of the more heavily accredited providers on this list.
Secretarial plans run at three published tiers of roughly S$350, S$500, and S$1,500 a year, and the tiering is genuinely useful because it maps to how much corporate activity you expect rather than to company size. Sleek's plan comparison tables are among the clearest published anywhere in this market.
The S$1,500 tier is a real step up in price, and companies often land there once they need more than routine filings. Sleek also pushes its bundled compliance packages hard, so the standalone secretary price isn't always the number you end up paying.
5. HeySara
HeySara is an ACRA-registered filing agent with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, holds a 4.8-star rating, and has supported more than 2,000 companies. Its Digital plan at S$199 a year is the lowest published base price in Singapore that we could find.
That S$199 covers a named secretary, register maintenance, AGM document preparation, compliance advisory, and app-based deadline reminders. Everything else is priced per action: S$50 for a non-share change like appointing a director, S$100 to S$200 for share allotments or transfers, S$200 per financial year for annual return filing, and S$100 one-off for CorpPass registration.
Add those up for an active company and the S$199 headline stops being the real number fairly quickly. For a dormant or holding company that files an annual return and little else, it's hard to beat. Higher tiers run up to around S$998 a year for companies that want the human-touch model instead.
6. InCorp Global
InCorp Global operates across eight Asia-Pacific markets and covers secretarial, accounting, payroll, immigration, and audit work under one roof. Corporate secretary services start from around S$350 a year, though most engagements are scoped through a consultant rather than bought off a price list.
The value here is regional. If you're running a Singapore holding company with subsidiaries in Malaysia, Indonesia, or Vietnam, having one provider handle secretarial compliance across all of them removes a genuine coordination headache.
For a single Singapore Pte Ltd with straightforward filings, that breadth is capacity you're paying to have available rather than capacity you'll use. Pricing also isn't fully published, so upfront comparison takes an enquiry call.
7. BoardRoom
BoardRoom is the enterprise end of this market. It acts as share registrar or transfer agent for more than half the companies listed on the SGX, runs 14 offices across Singapore, Australia, China, Hong Kong, and Malaysia, and has been in corporate services for decades.
Fees typically run from around S$1,000 to S$3,000 or more a year, and what you get for that is a different category of service: a named company secretary who attends board meetings, governance advice mapped to the Singapore Code of Corporate Governance, share registry management, and dividend administration.
For an SME filing one annual return a year, this is more governance infrastructure than the company can use. For a listed entity, a company preparing for an IPO, or a group with a real board that meets quarterly, it's the appropriate choice and the price reflects that.
How to Choose a Corporate Secretary in Singapore
Start with how much corporate activity your company actually generates in a year. A dormant holding company that files an annual return and nothing else is well served by a S$199 digital plan, because there's almost nothing for a secretary to do beyond the statutory minimum. A company issuing shares to new investors, changing directors, or restructuring is a different animal, and on a pay-per-action plan those events add up fast.
Then look at what's excluded rather than what's included. Annual return filing, resolution drafting, share transfers, and CorpPass registration are the four line items most often billed separately, and they're also the four things most companies eventually need. Ask any provider for the all-in cost of a typical year for a company like yours, not the headline fee.
Finally, decide how you want to reach them. Chat-only support is fine when your filings are routine and terrible when something is time-sensitive and unusual. If your company has foreign shareholders, an unusual share structure, or plans to raise money, having a named person who already knows your file is worth paying a little more for.
A mistake we see fairly often is companies picking on headline price alone, then paying for it in resolution fees the following year. Before you commit, ask any provider to quote the all-in cost of a year that includes one share transfer and one director change, since that's a fairly ordinary year for a growing company. Our own corporate secretarial service covers that advisory inside the annual fee, which is a large part of why clients switching from pay-per-action plans tend to stay.
Now, How to Pick the Right Fit for Your Company?
There's no single best corporate secretary in Singapore, only a best fit for how your company operates. HeySara wins on entry price for quiet companies. Swiftly and Osome suit founders who'd rather handle everything through a platform. BoardRoom is the right answer for listed and pre-IPO entities, and InCorp makes sense when you're managing entities across several countries.
Where we tend to fit is the middle, which is also where most Singapore SMEs actually sit: companies with enough going on that filings aren't purely routine, but not enough to justify enterprise fees. That's the case for a corporate secretary with unlimited advisory and a relationship manager attached to your file, rather than a queue.
If you're switching providers or appointing for the first time, it's worth having the conversation alongside your other compliance needs, since accounting and corporate tax filing run on the same annual calendar and the handover is far cleaner when one team sees all of it.