Florida Business Address
Establishing Your Business Address in Florida
In Florida, you’re required to provide a business address to the Florida Division of Corporations when you form an LLC or corporation. This is your Florida business address—the public address of your company.
Some Florida businesses without commercial locations list their home address as their business address, jeopardizing their privacy and business reputation.
You can use our Florida business address for FREE when you hire us for Florida Registered Agent Service. That means your personal information won’t be published on public filings, and your business profile can benefit from our professional permanent address.
Understanding Your Business Address
Let’s clear up a common misunderstanding. In Florida, your business formation paperwork—Articles of Organization for Florida LLCs or Articles of Incorporation for Florida corporations—requires you to list two separate addresses. These are your principal office address and your registered agent address. They serve different purposes, so it’s important to understand those differences.
What is a Florida principal office address?
Principal office address is the term the Florida Division of Corporations usually uses for your business address, which is the address at which you conduct business. If you’re operating a brick-and-mortar storefront like a coffee house, this is the address folks enter into their mapping tools to get directions to your shop. If you’re operating remotely, or out of your own home, this is where things may get a little more complicated.
For most businesses, the principal address is the same as the mailing address, but Florida will allow you to use a different address (including a PO box) for your mailing address if you prefer.
What is a registered agent address in Florida?
Both your registered agent address and your principal office address are published in documents made available to the public, thanks to the Sunshine State’s Sunshine Law, which requires that all records made or received by a public agency (including the Division of Corporations) be made available to the public upon request.
That’s why we offer free use of our Florida business address when you hire us to form your business or act as your registered agent. Some registered agent services only let you use their registered agent address for service of process and legal mail, but because we offer complete mail coverage options and believe so strongly in business owners’ privacy, we’re glad to offer use of our address as your principal address, mailing address, and your Florida registered agent address.
The Importance of Your Florida Business Address
Choosing the right Florida business address is important because keeping your business private in Florida is a hard thing to come by. This is mainly because of Florida’s “Government in the Sunshine Law” (Chapter 286 of the Florida statutes).
Florida’s “Sunshine Law” is basically an open records law that requires the Florida Division of Corporations to make state business filings accessible to the public. These aren’t redacted documents. Any names, phone numbers, and addresses appearing on your formation documents and annual reports are freely accessible to anyone with a computer, an internet connection, and a little old-fashioned curiosity.
Try it yourself. Just visit Florida’s Sunbiz website, do a random records search, and browse around. For any Florida business you land on, you’ll see a basic business listing that includes the business’s most recent information, but you’ll also see a series of document images and PDF files at the bottom of each listing. This list represents every public filing that business has ever made.
Benefits of Using Our Business Address
Frankly, Florida’s approach to transparency can be a little scary. Maybe this sort of transparency is no big deal for traditional brick-and-mortar businesses with commercial locations they want to display publicly, but for non-traditional businesses—online businesses and home-based businesses among them—it can cause all sorts of problems.
List your home address, for instance, and you’ll likely be dealing with piles of junk mail and random salespeople—maybe even dissatisfied customers showing up at your door. And even if you’re renting a commercial space, it isn’t necessarily the space you want associated with your business in the long run. Maybe it’s a low-rent space in an underserved part of town that you’re intending to leave in a year. Well, you can change your Florida business address and amend your state documents, but you can’t erase those old documents from Florida’s Sunbiz website.
Fortunately, you have options when you hire Florida Registered Agent LLC. Because you can use our Florida business address, you can mitigate some of the business privacy issues raised by Florida’s Sunshine Law and project the image of a more stable business at the same time.
4 Ways To Use Our Florida Business Address
When you hire Florida Registered Agent LLC, you can use our Florida business address on your public filings, and our registered agent service and business formation services automatically include a free mail scanning option—up to 3 mail scans per year—for any business that needs it.
But we can go much further. We offer a few Florida Mail Scanning service packages and a comprehensive Florida Virtual Office package—services we’ll describe in detail below.
And note that, for all of these packages, the mail scan limit doesn’t apply to legal notices and other official state mail we receive as your Florida registered agent. The limits only apply to your ordinary business mail.
1. Business Address + Free Mail Scanning with Registered Agent Service ($49/ year):
This free option is available when you sign up for our $49 Florida registered agent service. It’s ideal for new businesses that don’t need a lot of mail coverage but still need a stable Florida mailing address. When we receive mail for your business, we’ll scan it right away and upload it to your secure online account.
Our free mail scanning option is also available when you order our incorporation service.
If you expect your business to receive a bunch of non-state mail, check out the options with higher mail scanning limits below.
2. Business Address + Unique Suite Number & 10 Mail Scans Per Year ($49/ year):
This $49 per year package includes a unique mailing address, a secure online account, plus 10 mail scans per year in addition to the 3 mail scans you get with our registered agent service! It’s perfect for a growing business that needs a little more mail coverage but doesn’t yet need the higher limits included in our more robust Florida mail scanning packages.
As part of this package, you’ll get a mailing address with a unique suite number, and we’ll always promptly scan and upload your business mail to your secure online account.
3. Business Address + Unique Suite Number & 25 Mail Scans Per Year ($99/ year):
This $99 per year package also includes a unique Florida mailing address for your business, but it extends your mail-scan limit to 25 items per year. It’s perfect for a business that’s growing and needs more mail coverage, but which hasn’t yet reached the stage where it needs unlimited mail scans.
As with all of our mail scanning options, this package includes a secure online account, and we’ll promptly scan any mail we receive for your business and upload a PDF copy that you can access online.
4. Virtual Office + UNLIMITED Mail Scans & Phone Service ($19/ month):
Our Florida Virtual Office option is the total package. It includes everything offered by our mail scanning options—a secure online account, a unique suite number, and same-day mail scanning—but goes even further to include UNLIMITED free mail scans, a real office lease and an easy-to-use virtual phone line for your business.
What do we mean by a virtual phone line? We mean an internet-powered, user-friendly business line with the Florida area code of your choosing. Make calls directly from your client account (on any device), choose between 2 different call forwarding options, and instantly read your incoming messages with our voicemail transcription tool. Signing up for our Platinum Virtual Office Package—with built-in virtual phone service—means you’ll never have to give out your personal phone number to customers. This is just one more way we can help keep your personal information private and secure.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I use your address for my business mail?
Yes! We offer a wide range of Florida mail scanning and virtual office packages. Check out the 4 Ways You Can Use Our Florida Business Address section above and select the package that fits your needs.
Is it okay to use my home address as my business address in Florida?
Yes, so long as you don’t mind the consequences. It’s legal to use your home address as your business address in Florida, but keep in mind that whatever address you include on your public filings is freely available through a business search at Florida’s Sunbiz website.
This is the most obvious benefit of using our Florida business address instead: you’ll get a legitimate business address for your public filings without publicly associating your home address with your business.
Can I use a PO Box for my business address in Florida?
A PO Box cannot be used as a principal office address in Florida. You could technically list a PO box as your business’s mailing address. But do you really want list a PO box on your website and business cards? Is that the image you want to project as a business?
When you hire Florida Registered Agent LLC, you can use our Florida address for your registered agent address, your principal office address, and your mailing address. Having a physical street address will help establish a more professional first impression with clients and customers.
How do I change my business address in Florida?
Once you have established a business address in Florida, changing that business address requires updating your information with the relevant state and federal agencies that have your address on file (including the IRS), as well as updating your bank and any vendors or important customers who need to be in the know.
You can update your business address online through the Florida Division of Corporations website, and the Florida Department of Revenue also provides an online option for updating your business address. But you’ll also need to keep your bank, vendors, and customers in mind, and you’ll need to consider other items—for instance, your business cards and website—that will need to reflect any changes you make to your business address.
A better option? Hire Florida Registered Agent LLC and use our Florida business address instead. That way, your official location will stay the same no matter how often you change locations.
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