Plenty of businesses today need a genuine Dublin address without needing a desk, Monday to Friday. If you’ve never come across the term before: a virtual office gives your business a real, professional address, along with mail handling, without the cost or commitment of renting a full-time office.
In one sense it’s “virtual” because you engage with the service remotely. In another sense it’s entirely physical, because the address is tied to a real building, on a real street, in a real city, in our case 20 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2.
What a virtual office actually gives you
It’s a genuine business address you can publish on your website, invoices, business cards and all your company correspondence.
Mail arrives, you’re notified instantly, and you decide what happens to each item – scan it, forward it, collect it, or have it shredded.
On top of that, our plans provide you with on-demand access to meeting rooms, day desks and focus rooms at the same address whenever you need physical space to meet a client or get some work done.
With this bundle you have the professional presence of a Dublin office without paying for a Dublin office that you don’t need full-time.
The alternatives, and why most businesses avoid them
A PO box seems like the obvious cheap option, but it falls down quickly. Banks don’t accept a PO box as a business address, and neither do many of the other institutions an regulatory bodies that businesses deal with day-to-day. A mailbox rental shop runs into the same roadblock.
An accountant’s address is a step up but typically only covers formal CRO and Revenue correspondence and won’t handle the rest of your business mail like bank statements, client letters, invoices, certificates, general correspondence.
Plus your accountant is unlikely to have full mail room infrastructure designed to sort, handle and allocate incoming mail professionally.
We are contacted regularly by businesses who started with one of these cheaper options and moved to a professional virtual office (us) once they realise the limitations of the cheaper option.
From Niche to Normal: Who This Actually Suits
This used to be a niche option. It isn’t anymore. Remote and hybrid working have gone from tolerated to standard, and we now see everything from legal and accounting firms to design studios and independent creators using a virtual office as their base.
If a team occasionally wants to get together in person, meeting rooms and day desks are bookable on demand. If a team eventually wants a full-time physical base, private offices are available at the same address too, but many businesses genuinely never need that step.
As well as Ireland based founders, International and non-resident founders are a part of who benefit and use our virtual office offering. Overseas companies and non-resident directors can use the service to establish an Irish presence, provided at least one director of the business is resident in the EU, EEA, UK or US.
What it would cost to rent space instead
By way of comparison a desk in a premium serviced office building in Dublin 2 generally starts in the region of €650 per month upwards, depending on the exact location within the building, proximity to meeting rooms, natural light and so on. So, a four person office would cost between €2,600 and €3,200 /month.
A virtual office gives you the address and professional presence for a fraction of that, because you’re not paying for space that you don’t need. You only pay for space if and when you need it.
That’s why the service works so well for businesses that never need physical space at all. For example, pure e-commerce operations or UK and other overseas entities that need the Dublin address purely for regulatory purposes. They don’t need physical space so they just don’t pay for it.
How fast can you actually be up and running
Activation can happen in as little as 15 minutes. The online onboarding questionnaire itself takes about 5 minutes and asks you to upload your KYC documentation as you go.
Most customers complete onboarding in the same sitting as signing up and are active within that 15-minute window.
If you don’t have your documents to hand, or can’t complete the questionnaire straight away, don’t worry – our onboarding team will work alongside you so that you can complete everything in your own time.
Ready to get a Dublin address without the overheads of physical space
If you only need an address for formal CRO and Revenue purposes, the Starter Plan is genuinely great value.
If you also need business mail (to include bank statements, client letters, invoices, certificates, general correspondence) plus a signed contract and access to the physical spaces, then the Pro Plan is the one for you.
