Business address decision guide

Find the right business address. Without the guesswork.

Compare virtual mailboxes, business addresses and staffed virtual offices based on what your business actually needs.

A first pass

Two answers open the full questionnaire. Later questions change with what you select.

The actual problem

Most founders are choosing among six different products.

A digital mailbox, a published business address, a staffed virtual office, a registered agent, and a real office solve different jobs. Banks, states, and Google do not treat them as the same thing.

Digital mailbox

Receive, scan, forward, or hold mail at a commercial mail receiving agency.

Business address

An address you want on filings or a website. Acceptance is not automatic.

Staffed office

A center with people, rooms, and usually mail. Still not a guarantee for Google.

Registered agent

A legal appointment for service of process. Separate from a mailbox plan.

How a result is chosen

Rules first. No invented inventory.

  1. 01
    Ask only what changes the answer.

    Mail-only visitors are not walked through meeting rooms. A registered-agent request is not sold a scan plan as if it were the agent.

  2. 02
    Name the service, then the problems.

    If a mailbox is the wrong tool for Google or a bank, the result says so before it lists providers.

  3. 03
    Show the record we actually checked.

    Every provider card has a retrieval date, a verification state, and a link to that company’s own location search.

Records in the catalog

Reviewed 19 October 2026. None of these are partner-approved placements.

iPostal1

Partially verifiedNot partner-approved

Digital mailbox and virtual business-address plans, plus a separate virtual-office plan that adds phone and fax. Not a staffed meeting-room product on the pages reviewed.

PostScan Mail

Partially verifiedNot partner-approved

Virtual mailbox with location-priced plans, package handling, and a published developer API. Not a staffed office.

Anytime Mailbox

Partially verifiedNot partner-approved

Network of real-street digital mailboxes. The operator tells customers not to assume the address will work for LLC or bank records.

Stable

Partially verifiedNot partner-approved

Business virtual address and mailbox with included scanning, a registered-agent add-on, and an API. Not a staffed office.

Traveling Mailbox

Partially verifiedNot partner-approved

Scan-and-forward mailbox with published monthly plans, including a small-business tier. Formation and banking acceptance were not verified.

Alliance Virtual Offices

Partially verifiedNot partner-approved

Staffed virtual offices inside coworking centers, with mail handling and meeting rooms that depend on the plan. National starting price was not published as one number.

Regus

Partially verifiedNot partner-approved

Staffed office brand offering a virtual office with address, mail handling, meeting rooms, and receptionists. A current national price was not on the page reviewed.