Company Creation: Home your company and business
Verified 01 January 2023 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
The domiciliation of your company is mandatory. It's a precondition necessary for creation, before registration. We also speak fluently head.
What applies to you ?
Attention: you must have choose your legal form (business or ISIS: titleContent) forward to relocate your company.
Home a individual business
It's about giving an address administrative and legal company.
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Depending on your address, you depend geographically on different courts and administrations.
This address appears in all documents of your company (invoices, contracts, formalities, declarations, etc.).
This is where customers can send their mail.
If you have a website, the address is one of the mandatory information to be entered on it.
It must also be specified in your business plan.
It represents theimage your company with your customers and partners.
Please note
The address of head and address of workplace are often identical for craftsmen, farmers or small commercial activities.
Head office address
You can relocate your company to your home address.
This residence with you may last so much time as you wish.
FYI
You must choose the address of your company forward sound registration the National company Register (NER).
What conditions?
You must meet the following conditions:
- You must be landlord or tenant your accommodation
- Your accommodation must be your main residence
You must verify that no mention (clause) shall to this domicile in:
- Residential lease
- Condominium settlement
- City planning Rules
To access the city planning rules for your town, you must ask your town hall.
How?
You must notify your landlord or condominium union that your home will be used for your company's address.
You warn him in writing by registered letter with acknowledgement.
After you agree, you must include your company's name on all your documents, including the lease, EDF invoices, telephone, etc.
Insurance
It is advisable to review your insurance contract "dwelling" with your insurer.
It's about supplementing it with a professional insurance. Professional equipment can be destroyed or stolen, etc.
Work place
Only active, without receiving goods or customers
You carry on your business professional at your personal home.
It's not just about housing your company, but also using your home as workplace.
You change the use of your home.
You must prevent taxes from this change of use in the 3 months following the start of the activity.
What conditions?
You must respect the following conditions:
- Live in a city of less than 200,000 inhabitants or in a ZFU TE: titleContent
- Live in your main residence
- Be the only asset in your company
- Do not receive customers or goods at your home
- No opposition in the lease agreement (as tenant) and city planning rules
- If you are on the ground floor, your activity must not cause noise nuisance to the inhabitants
Please note
You have no authorisation to request to carry on your business at home.
Insurance
It is advisable to review your insurance contract "dwelling" with your insurer.
It's about supplementing it with a professional insurance. Professional equipment can be destroyed or stolen, etc.
Multiple assets with receipt of customers and goods
You wish to carry out your professional activity at your home.
It's not just about housing your company, but also using your home as workplace.
You change the use of your home.
You must notify taxes of this change of use within 3 months of the beginning of the activity.
What conditions?
To practise your activity at home, you have to transform the use of it: moving from private to professional use.
To do this, you must request permissions following:
- Authorisation with your landlord if you rent or your condominium union if you live in condominium
- Permission to your town
- Building permit or declaration to be sent to your town hall in case of work
Insurance
It is advisable to review your insurance contract "dwelling" with your insurer.
It's about supplementing it with a professional insurance. Professional equipment can be destroyed or stolen, customers damaged, stocks damaged, etc.
If you own or rent a place, you can make it your company's address.
Benefits
You preserve your personal accommodation from your professional life.
You independently manage your head office.
Disadvantages
This choice is more expensive than the choice of a home in your own home.
It also requires more management time.
What is a commercial lease?
You wish to exercise commercial or artisanal activity.
You choose rent a place and make it your business address.
The commercial lease will then be the lease agreement that allows you tooperate the local for your business.
You need to know characteristics of a commercial lease.
Please note
If you have an activity liberal, we are talking about "professional lease".
Choose a sales outlet
Your sales office often matches the address of your head office.
The choice of your location and the type of room is critical to success of your company.
You must know and follow the obligations and formalities related to LES.
FYI
Paris City Hall on its website the list of vacant premises to set up your business with a low rent.
It is recommended to have a rent annual 8% maximum turnover tax-free.
The criteria for choose your location are:
- Immediate business environment: the more your space will be surrounded by other shops, the more potential customers there will be
- Nature of the surrounding shops: a street of food shops will be less busy in the afternoon
- Access to your premises: sidewalk width, close to parking spaces, direction of movement, pedestrian, etc.
- Visibility: Are there obstacles (street furniture) in front of the premises, window is she good? visible from the sidewalk?
- History of the place: to check with the surrounding shops.
Please note
Think about encrypt possible jobs to adapt the place to your business and learn about city planning permissions.
Purchase of trade funds
You want to have commercial or artisanal activity.
If you buy a business account and it contains a business space, you can use its address for your company.
You must be aware of the formalities related to transfer and redemption of trade fund.
Rental and management of a commercial fund
You want to have commercial activity.
You choose leasing a trade fund and make it your business address.
This is possible in the case where the owner of a trade fund does not exploit the trade fund but chooses to put it in leasing.
He signs management lease (or free stewardship) with you.
You operate its premises and you pay royalty to owner.
What's that about?
A home office (or business) is a business centre whose business is to provide an address to several companies.
He must have prefectural approval, which guarantees the quality of its services.
What is the use of a home office?
In addition to providing an address, the home office manages the administrative tasks related to the head office.
You can choose à la carte of the following services:
- Mail Management: Receive, Resend, Scan
- Phone
- Access to workspaces: offices, meeting spaces, coworking
- Drafting of quotes and invoices, etc.
It's a way of delegate the management of your head office to a service provider.
How?
- You choose the cabinet. This can be done by contacting the Synaphe, which provides a list of business centres officially recognised. You will find on their website list of member firms by name, city or department.
- You sign with your chosen cabinet a home agreement. This contract must be for a period of 3 months minimum.
- You can register your company the National company Register (NER)
You must inform this firm of any changes in your company's life.
Benefits
It is an economical solution that has the advantage of:
- Connect with other entrepreneurs
- Separate personal and professional life
- Free up time
We talk about coworking when companies share a professional space in a shared room.
You can choose to use this address as your company's head office and carry out your business there.
This choice can be applied to all types of activities (commercial, artisanal or liberal).
Warning
Most coworking spaces do not allow storage goods nor receive customers important regular.
Benefits
You can exchange with other professionals.
You share equipment (printers, coffee machines, etc.) with other contractors.
You can choose most of the time different services paid: mail, secretarial services, office rental, etc.
You do not have to provide a security deposit or right to lease.
What's that about?
The nursery is a structure ofaccommodation andsupport for young companies.
Your company must be recent (registered in the last 6 months).
You can integrate a nursery with different stages of your project ::
- To start your idea : incubation phase
- Project Carrier: Phasemarket research and business
- Creation Phase: About to Be registered the National company Register (NER)
- Newly created company (6 months maximum)
FYI
Maximum hosting time is 48 months.
Some nurseries are generalist, but most have a speciality.
Example: innovative company nurseries, start-up.
What's a nursery for?
It provides accommodation for the address of your company but also for your work (offices and meetings). She group and accompanies young companies.
A nursery brings you 2 benefits ::
- Exchanges with entrepreneurs who share your situation
- Business premises
It's a way ofsave logistics and not to be left alone.
What are the services and accompaniment?
In addition to home care, you will find the following services in a nursery:
- Equipment shared (photocopiers, binders, internet access, etc.)
- Secretariat, telephone reception of your company
- Personalised support to start your project and expand it
- Network partners potentials funders your project
- Relationship with other entrepreneurs for exchange : common areas (kitchen, relaxation, etc.)
- Learn : training and conferences
- Documentation and library specialised in the professions
How?
- You must submit a application at the nursery.
- If your file is selected, you must present your project to a committee.
- If your project is accepted, you will receive an approval.
- You sign an agreement and a short-term lease agreement (up to 3 years)
Where to find a nursery?
You can get closer to nursery networks in your area.
You can view our content about possible accompaniments.
What cost?
You must have an average rent between €100 and €300 per m2.
Home a business
It's about giving an address administrative and legal business.
We also speak fluently head.
Depending on your address, you depend geographically on different courts and administrations.
This address appears in all documents of your business (statutes, invoices, contracts, formalities, declarations, etc.).
This is where customers can send their mail.
If you have a website, the address is one of the mandatory information to be entered on it.
It must also be specified in your business plan.
It represents theimage your business with your customers and partners.
You must choose the head office of your business forward of draw up its statutes.
You must then enter it in your business statuses.
Please note
Every time you change your address, you must amendment of articles.
Who can give his address?
You can choose your personal address for your business if you are the legal representative.
Only the leader of a business and not one of the associates can domiciled the company at his personal address.
You can make this choice if you are one of the following:
- Managing a SARL: titleContent, a EURL: titleContent or SNC: titleContent
- Director-General or Chairman of the Board of Directors SA: titleContent
- President of a SAS: titleContent
What conditions?
You must meet the following conditions:
- You must be landlord or tenant your accommodation
- Your accommodation must be your main residence
You must check that no mention (clause) does not object in:
To access the city planning rules for your town, you can ask your town hall.
You meet the conditions
If you meet these conditions, you can house your business at home so much time as you wish.
You do not meet the conditions
If of the lease, city planning or condominium opposing at your address as head office, you are then limited to 5 years maximum.
You need to change your business home forward 5 years.
This change of address is made on Company formalities window before the end of the 5 years allowed.
How?
You must notify your landlord or condominium union that your home will be used to head office your business.
You warn him in writing by registered letter with acknowledgement.
Insurance
It is advisable to review your insurance contract "dwelling" with your insurer.
It's about supplementing it with a professional insurance. Professional equipment can be destroyed or stolen, etc.
If you own or rent a place, you can make it your company's address.
Benefits
You preserve your personal accommodation from your professional life.
You independently manage your head office.
Disadvantages
This choice is more expensive than the choice of a home in your own home.
It also requires more management time.
What is a commercial lease?
You wish to exercise commercial or artisanal activity.
You choose rent a place and make it your business address.
The commercial lease will then be the lease agreement that allows you tooperate the local for your business.
You need to know characteristics of a commercial lease.
Please note
If you have an activity liberal, we are talking about "professional lease".
Your sales office often matches the address of your head office.
Choosing your location and the type of room is crucial to the success of your company.
You must know and follow the obligations and formalities related to LES.
FYI
The town hall Parison its website the list of vacant premises to set up your business with a low rent.
It is recommended to have a rent annual 8% maximum turnover tax-free.
Purchase of trade funds
You want to have commercial or artisanal activity.
If you buy a business and it contains a commercial space, you can take its address for your company.
You must be aware of the formalities related to transfer and redemption of trade fund.
Rental and management of a commercial fund
You want to have commercial activity.
You choose leasing a trade fund and make it your business address.
This is possible in the case where the owner of a trade fund does not exploit the trade fund but chooses to put it in leasing.
He signs management lease (or free stewardship) with you.
You operate its premises and you pay royalty to owner.
We talk about coworking when companies share a professional space in a shared room.
You can choose to use this address as your company's head office and carry out your business there.
This choice can be applied to all types of activities (commercial, artisanal or liberal).
Warning
Most coworking spaces do not allow storage goods nor receive customers important regular.
Benefits
You can exchange with other professionals.
You share equipment (printers, coffee machines, etc.) with other contractors.
You can choose most of the time different services paid: mail, secretarial services, office rental, etc.
You do not have to provide a security deposit or right to lease.
What's that about?
A home office (or business) is a business centre whose business is to provide an address to several companies.
He must have prefectural approval, which guarantees the quality of its services.
What is the use of a home office?
In addition to providing an address, the home office manages the administrative tasks related to the head office.
You can choose à la carte of the following services:
- Mail Management: Receive, Resend, Scan
- Phone
- Access to workspaces: offices, meeting spaces, coworking
- Drafting of quotes and invoices, etc.
It's a way of delegate the management of your head office to a service provider.
How?
- You choose the cabinet. This can be done by contacting the Synaphe, which provides a list of business centres officially recognised. You will find on their website list of member firms by name, city or department.
- You sign with your chosen cabinet a home agreement. This contract must be for a period of 3 months minimum.
- You can register your company the National company Register (NER)
You must inform this firm of any changes in your company's life.
Benefits
It is an economical solution that has the advantage of:
- Connect with other entrepreneurs
- Separate personal and professional life
- Free up time
What's that about?
The nursery is a structure ofaccommodation andsupport for young companies.
Your company must be recent (registered in the last 6 months).
You can integrate a nursery with different stages of your project ::
- To start your idea : incubation phase
- Project Carrier: Phasemarket research and business
- Creation Phase: About to Be registered the National company Register (NER)
- Newly created company (6 months maximum)
FYI
Maximum hosting time is 48 months.
Some nurseries are generalist, but most have a speciality.
Example: innovative company nurseries, start-up.
What's a nursery for?
It provides accommodation for the address of your company but also for your work (offices and meetings). She group and accompanies young companies.
A nursery brings you 2 benefits ::
- Exchanges with entrepreneurs who share your situation
- Business premises
It's a way ofsave logistics and not to be left alone.
What are the services and accompaniment?
In addition to home care, you will find the following services in a nursery:
- Equipment shared (photocopiers, binders, internet access, etc.)
- Secretariat, telephone reception of your company
- Personalised support to start your project and expand it
- Network partners potentials funders your project
- Relationship with other entrepreneurs for exchange : common areas (kitchen, relaxation, etc.)
- Learn : training and conferences
- Documentation and library specialised in the professions
How?
- You must submit a application at the nursery.
- If your file is selected, you must present your project to a committee.
- If your project is accepted, you will receive an approval.
- You sign a convention and a lease agreement of a short duration (3 years maximum)
Where to find a nursery?
You can get closer to nursery networks in your area.
You can view our content about possible accompaniments.
What cost?
You must have an average rent between €100 and €300 per m2.
Who can help me?
Find who can answer your questions in your region
City planning information for your municipality
CityBusiness company Consulting
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI)Handcrafted companies consultancy
Chamber of crafts and craftsAgricultural companies Consulting
Chamber of Agriculture
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