State filings, store pages, invoices and email footers all publish an address. Put a private business address there instead: a real US street address, with your mail received and managed online.
Your home address, hidden
Most places that publish your address are fields you fill in yourself. Here's what goes in each one.
Formation documents and annual reports are public records.
Business address in the company address fields. Legal notices go to your registered agent.
The INFORM Consumers Act makes marketplaces show high-volume sellers' address.
Business address on the seller profile, backed by a lease if it gets checked.
Clients expect a company address on every invoice and contract.
One business address on all your paperwork and your contact page.
CAN-SPAM requires a physical postal address in every commercial email.
Business address in the footer of every campaign.
Google doesn't accept virtual office addresses.
Set up as a service-area business and hide the address. Don't list a virtual address here.
Registrars keep your street address on file, but redact it in public lookups.
Keep your registrar's privacy setting on and the details accurate.
Banks verify owners with their residential address. It is checked, not published.
Your real home address, shared privately with the bank. The business address covers the company.
A business address changes what you publish, not who you are. It won't remove listings already online, and banks, platforms and USPS still verify your identity. Rules differ by state and platform, so check each field first.
The public sees your company. Your home and your ID stay with you and the few who must verify you: Registate, USPS and your bank.
Everything that used to reach your front door now goes to your business address, and you manage it from the app.
A real US street address in your company's address fields instead of your home. Forming a new company? Start your LLC formation.
What should we do with it?
Nothing goes to your home unless you ask
We receive your letters and notify you. You choose to scan, forward, store or shred each one. How the virtual mailbox works.
The same business address on invoices, contracts, your website, marketplace profiles and every marketing email.
When a bank or marketplace asks you to prove the address, a lease and utility bill back it up. See the proof of address stack.
A business address in a major US city. Browse addresses.
USPS needs a signed Form 1583 and two IDs. They stay with us and USPS, not on the public record.
Update your filings, store, invoices and email footer. Mail now arrives at your business address.
What a business address keeps private, what it doesn't, and where each rule comes from.
Usually, yes. State filings are public records, and many states ask for a principal office or mailing address on the formation documents or annual report. What's shown depends on the state. Put a business address in those fields and your home stays off the record.
In most cases, yes, as your principal or mailing address. Some fields have their own rules: the registered agent needs a physical in-state address, and some states won't take a PO box for certain fields. Check each field before you file. If you form your LLC with Registate, we fill them in with you.
A registered agent receives legal notices for your company, and its address is public. It isn't your operating address, and banks usually don't accept it as a principal place of business. A business address is for everything else: company address fields, invoices, your website, your store and your mail.
No, and it shouldn't. USPS requires a signed Form 1583 and two forms of ID before mail is received for you, and banks still ask for the owner's residential address. That information is checked, not published. A business address changes what the public sees, not who you are to those who must verify you.
CAN-SPAM requires a valid physical postal address in every commercial email: a street address, a USPS PO box, or a private mailbox at a commercial mail receiving agency. Your business address is where your mail is received, so it can fill that line instead of your home. The other rules, like a working unsubscribe link, still apply.
No. Google's guidelines say a virtual office isn't eligible for a Business Profile. If you serve customers at their location, set up a service-area business and hide your address. That keeps your home off Google Maps without breaking the rules.
It can. Under the INFORM Consumers Act, marketplaces must show the name and physical address of high-volume sellers ($20,000 or more in annual sales on the platform). If your seller account uses your home address, buyers see it. Use your business address instead; Registate's lease and utility bill are made for the address checks marketplaces run.
In most cases, not publicly. Under ICANN's Registration Data Policy, registrars redact a registrant's street address in public lookups, but they still hold accurate details. Keep your registrar's privacy setting on.
Both keep mail away from your home. A PO box is at a post office, you collect mail in person, and many forms that ask for a street address won't accept one. A Registate business address is a real street address backed by a commercial lease, and you manage your mail online.
We receive it at your business address and notify you. In the app you choose to scan it, forward the original wherever you are, or store it. Nothing goes to your home unless you ask.
No. Beneficial ownership reports go to FinCEN and aren't published. Under FinCEN's March 2025 interim final rule, US-created companies are exempt, while foreign companies registered in the US still report. Check FinCEN's BOI page for the current status.
