Are you an entrepreneur? If so, you'll need to register your company and set up your head office somewhere, before you can devote yourself to developing your business.
Although domiciliation is compulsory, you are free to choose the type of domiciliation and the location of your head office.
For example, you can opt for a business address in a business center.
Today's focus is on domiciling your head office in a business center.
First of all, it's important to review the definition of commercial domiciliation.
This involves locating your head office in a business center managed by a domiciliation company.
More concretely, this refers to obtaining an administrative and legal address for your company, playing a dual role: practical and strategic.
This service is governed by decree no. 85-1280 of July 5, 1985.
It should be noted that this type of domiciliation is not always compatible with all activities.
This means that retail or other trading activities cannot opt for a domiciliation.
This form is more suited to "service" activities.
Secondly, it's important to consider the various advantages of locating your head office in a business center.
A strategic role: a prestigious address for its head office
The strategic role of a domiciliation in a business center is a question of image: opting for a commercial domiciliation allows you to choose where your company is domiciled, and thus to choose a prestigious address for its head office.
This gain in prestige in turn boosts credibility and confidence among potential customers and other investors.
What's more, it'smuch cheaper than renting or owningcommercial premises.
Finally, it's a way of preventing your professional life from encroaching on your private life, as in the case of a company domiciled in your own home.
A practical role: complementary services
What's more, domiciling your company in a real business center has a practical role to play in providing additional services.
These services are of various kinds:
- A mail management service is also available. Your registered office address becomes your administrative address, which is where your mail will be received. With commercial domiciliation, your business mail is fully taken care of, depending on the option you choose (provision, forwarding, scanning, etc.).
- The opportunity to use a telephone answering service. This allows you to screen calls and take messages.
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Rental of offices and meeting rooms to welcome customers, suppliers or partners.
Of course, none of these services are mandatory. You can opt for them according to your needs and budget.
Finally, we'd like to take a look at the specific features of domiciling a company's head office in a business center.
In order to obtain such a domiciliation, it will be necessary to sign a domiciliation certificate beforehand.
The purpose of the domiciliation certificate is to make this official.
This contract can be signed in different ways, depending on the procedures used by the various domiciliation companies. Today, there are 100% online domiciliation solutions that enable you to obtain this certificate in just a few minutes.
To complete this certificate , the entrepreneur must first choose the business center he or she wants, the length of the commitment and, finally, the option for managing his or her business mail.
In conclusion, commercial domiciliation is becoming an increasingly attractive alternative.
Whereas in the past, people tended to opt for domiciling their business at home or renting their own commercial premises, today there's a real craze for commercial domiciliation as an alternative.
Written by our expert Quentin Moyon
October 8, 2018
