US business address
Do you need a US business address?
Useful, frequently confused with the registered agent, and routinely oversold as a route to US banking. It gives you somewhere for post to arrive and something credible to put on an invoice. It does not give you a bank account.
Per year · a real street address with a unique suite number · mail scanned to your dashboard
A street address that receives, scans and forwards
- 01Address assigned
- 02Use it on invoices and forms
- 03Mail arrives
- 04Scanned the same day
- 05Read anywhere
What it is
Somewhere for US mail to land, and something credible to put on an invoice.
The registered agent is a legal requirement in all 50 states: a person or company with a physical street address in your state of formation, available during business hours to receive service of process and official state correspondence. It is $49 in year one with us. A business address is a commercial convenience with no statutory role — $149 a year with RazorFile, with everything scanned the day it lands. You must have the first. You may want the second. Services that blur them are usually selling the cheaper one as the more important.
A US address on your invoices, contracts and website footer reads as a company that operates in the market it is selling to, and for enterprise clients that impression is not nothing. It sits alongside the entity, the EIN and the ability to submit a W-9 as things that reduce friction with US counterparties — none decisive on its own, cumulatively useful.
- What it is
- A street address with a suite
- Not a PO box. Post arrives and is scanned to your dashboard the same business day; parcels forwarded on request. $149 a year with RazorFile.
- Same as a registered agent?
- No
- The registered agent is a statutory requirement in all 50 states — $49 in year one with RazorFile, $149 a year after.
- Makes you a US resident?
- No
- Tax residence follows where you live, not where your post is delivered.
- Gets you a bank account?
- No
- Providers set country rules based on where the owner lives; an address does not change that.
Why it matters
Bought for the wrong reason, it disappoints. Bought for the right one, it is essential.
This is the reason most founders buy one, and it is the one thing it does not do. Neobanks and traditional banks apply country policies based on where the beneficial owner resides — Mercury publishes a prohibited-countries list that includes several of the 16 countries we write guides for, and a Delaware mailbox does not move you off it. Worse, presenting an address as though it were your place of business when it is a forwarding service can look like misrepresentation during onboarding, which is a materially worse outcome than being declined. An address bought for that purpose is money spent on the wrong problem. Buy it for mail and presentation, which are real benefits. Read our banking page for your country to find out what is actually open to you.
How it works
From an envelope in the US to a scan on your phone.
A mailing address is a convenience, not a legal status. It does not create a US presence for tax purposes, does not satisfy the registered agent requirement, and does not affect a bank's country rules. If you have been told a US address will get you an account that your country of residence otherwise rules out, that advice is wrong and following it may cost you the application.
What arrives here
- Bank and card mailDebit cards, letters and verification codes sent by post.
- IRS and tax noticesLetters to the company — scanned the day they land.
- Customer and platform postCheques, returns and anything a marketplace sends.
01Within one business day
A real street address is assigned to your company
A physical US address with its own suite number, not a PO box. It is yours to put on invoices, your website, platform forms and provider applications.
02From day one
You use it where a US address is expected
Stripe, Amazon, marketplaces and banks all have an address field. A street address with a suite reads as a company that operates where it sells.
03Any business day
Mail arrives and is signed for
Letters from banks, the IRS, platforms and customers are received at the address on your behalf.
04Same business day
Scanned the same day
The envelope is opened and scanned to your dashboard with an email alert. Parcels are held and forwarded on request.
05Minutes later
You read it wherever you live
The bank letter you would otherwise have waited three weeks for is in your inbox the day it arrived.
US business address
$149
$149/yr
For a company you already have, or added to a formation order. Any state or government fee is invoiced at cost, exactly as the state charges it. Full refund before we begin the work.
Add a US Business AddressWhat’s included
- A real US street address with its own suite number — not a PO box — for your website, invoices, contracts and platform forms
- Every letter opened and scanned to your dashboard the same business day, with an email alert; parcels held and forwarded on request
- A single place for government and provider correspondence to land
Not included
- The registered agent function, which is a separate statutory requirement
- Any change to your tax residence or the country whose rules apply to you
- Bank or Stripe approval, which turns on where you live rather than where your post goes
Two addresses, two jobs
Business address and registered agent are not the same thing.
Whether mail is scanned or only forwarded, and how quickly. Whether the provider accepts government post, which is where the item you must not miss will come from. And whether the address is one many other companies also use, which some counterparties do notice. A cheap address that delays your state correspondence by three weeks is worse than no address at all.
- Registered agent
- Required by law · receives legal and state documents · $49 in year one with RazorFile
- Business address
- Optional · receives business mail · appears on your invoices and forms
- PO box
- Rejected by most banks and platforms as a business address
- Your home abroad
- Accepted by some providers, a friction point with others
Direct answers
Frequently asked questions.
Checked 2026-07-28. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it the same day.
No. The registered agent is a statutory requirement with a physical address in your state of formation, responsible for receiving legal and government notices. A business address is a commercial mail service with no legal role. You need the first regardless of whether you buy the second.
Generally not. Providers decide on where the beneficial owner lives, and several publish country lists that exclude markets we serve. An address does not change your residence, and presenting a mailbox as a place of business can create a bigger problem than the one it was meant to solve.
Some agents permit it and many do not, because the agent address exists for service of process rather than commercial mail. Check before assuming. Using an address you are not authorised to use is a poor start with the one party that receives your legal notices.
Not by itself, but this is genuinely a question for a tax professional rather than for us. What creates US tax exposure depends on the nature of your activities, and a mailing address is one small fact among several an adviser would weigh.
Look like you are here
A street address with a suite number, and your mail in your dashboard.
A real US street address for your company, with every letter scanned to you the day it arrives.
US business address — $149
Add a US Business Address