Launch · Virtual Office & Address
Keep Your Home Address Off the Register
A registered office, service address and business address for your company, with your post handled for you, so Companies House, your website and your product’s legal pages show a business address rather than where you live.
What is included
Registered office address
An appropriate UK address for official post, in the same country your company is registered in, used with the provider’s permission.
Director service address
A public correspondence address for each director, so your home address stays on the private register.
Business address
An address for your website, invoices and letterhead, where your plan includes trading use.
Mail handling
Post received and scanned or forwarded, as set out in your plan, so official letters reach you wherever you work.
Registered email set-up
Help choosing and filing the registered email address every company must give Companies House. It is not shown publicly.
Address change handled
Moving an existing company to the new address, with the Companies House filing and a checklist for HMRC, your bank and your website.
How it works
Tell us what you need
A registered office only, or service and business addresses and mail handling too. We confirm the location, provider and price before you commit.
Complete the checks
Address providers must carry out anti-money laundering checks, so you provide identity details for the company, its directors and its owners.
Agree the terms
You sign the service agreement, which sets out how your post is handled and how either side can end the arrangement.
Update Companies House
We use the address when your company is formed, or file the change of registered office, and give you a checklist for everywhere else it appears.
What you will need
- Your company name and number, or your formation details if the company is new
- Identity documents for each director and person with significant control, as the provider requests
- Which addresses you need: registered office, director service addresses, business address
- How you want post handled, scanned or forwarded
- A forwarding address for any post sent on to you
For established and overseas companies
Setting up in the UK
Overseas companies use a UK registered office when they set up a UK subsidiary, and a UK business address while they test the market before taking premises. Established businesses use a separate address for a new subsidiary or brand, or to move a registered office away from a director’s home or a site they are leaving.
Talk to us about UK set-upRegistered office and business address providers in the UK must be supervised for anti-money laundering, so we confirm who provides your address, and their supervision details, before you sign up.
Scope it free, then build it
Your MVP brief is the brief
The brief you write in the free MVP builder is what we quote from. It tells us who the product is for, the Must-have features, the main journeys and the budget, so work on Virtual Office & Address starts from your brief, not a blank page. It fits these stages:
Questions founders ask
Can I use a virtual office as my registered office?
Yes, if it is an appropriate address: post sent there must come to the attention of someone acting for your company, and delivery must be able to be recorded. It must be in the same UK country your company is registered in, and you need the provider’s permission. PO boxes cannot be used.
Will my home address still appear anywhere?
Your registered office and directors’ service addresses are public, so using business addresses keeps your home off those records. Directors still give their home address to Companies House, but it is held on a private register. If your home address appears in older filings, you can apply to Companies House to protect it, but if it is your current registered office you must change that first.
Can I put the address on my website and invoices?
Companies must show their registered office address on their website, business letters and order forms. Whether you can also present the address as your trading address depends on the plan you choose, and we confirm this before you sign up.
Why do you need identity documents?
Businesses that provide registered office and business addresses must be supervised under the anti-money laundering rules, and must carry out customer due diligence when they take on a new customer.
Do you offer addresses outside the UK?
On request. We can help with addresses in other countries through local partners, and we name the partner and their terms before you go ahead.
The rest of your launch set-up
Set these up together, alongside your MVP build, so the company, address, phone and accounts match from day one.