What Is A Virtual Office?

A virtual office provides an address for a business to use for receipt of post, parcels and other correspondence. They are often used where the business owner does not have a dedicated office premises or prefers not to use that address for commercial reasons, e.g. it is not based locally to its target market or customers.

A virtual address is also a convenient location to register a limited company with Companies House avoiding use of a home or residential address. This protects your family from disruption caused if customers, suppliers or other organisations or individuals decide to visit unannounced.

A virtual office can give you a more professional business presence, provide convenient receipt of parcels, post and signed for deliveries during the working day when you need to be focusing on getting your work done.

Linked with a local geographic telephone number it can provide your potential customers with a reassuring local business presence.

If you don't need additional space to operate you business from, starting from around £500 per year, a virtual office is significantly cheaper than leasing Office Space.