A live service account
A business VoIP phone line, provisioned for your suite and billed to your company every month. The line works. That is the point.
Physical Office Address
A utility bill for proof of address
When a bank asks for a utility bill, it wants an account that exists. We open a real service account in your company's name at the office you sublease from us, and bill it monthly.
What the utility bill shows
A live account that bills every month, in your company's name. Not a one-time letter.
Your company, your suite
The bill shows your registered company name and your suite number at the building you lease. Not a mailbox, not a PMB.
Dated every month
A fresh PDF invoice each month, with an invoice number, service period and itemized charges. Under 90 days old clears every window we know of.
Why a real utility bill takes 1 to 2 weeks
Ask how fast a provider can hand you the document. The answer tells you what the document is.
| What you get | How long | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| A PDF, the same day | 24 hours | A template. The buyer picks the billing date. |
| The building's own bill | 1 business day | A real account, in somebody else's name. |
| An account of your own | 1 to 2 weeks | Opened with a carrier in your company's name. |
Fabricated or altered bills are fraud, and the vendors banks use to screen documents compare uploads against issuer templates. We would rather be slower than the fakes.
How to get a utility bill in your company name
Choose a city
Pick a suite in a city where we lease office space. The live list is on the plan page.
Sign the sublease
A 12-month commercial sublease in your company's name, for a real suite you are entitled to use.
We open the account
We provision the phone service in your company's name at that suite. This is the 1 to 2 week step.
Download it monthly
Your invoice lands in your dashboard every month, alongside your signed lease and the rent invoices for the suite.
What the utility bill cannot do
Read this before you buy. It is the part most providers leave out.
It is a phone bill
Some lists name electricity, gas, water and internet, and not telecom. Ours is a business phone account. Ask your reviewer before you rely on it.
Not valid for Form 1583
USPS does not accept utility bills as Form 1583 address proof. That form needs two different documents, and this is not one of them. Read the Form 1583 guide
It ends with the lease
The account exists because the suite does. Cancel the office and the billing stops, because we close the account with the lease.
Lease and utility-bill documentation is designed to support address verification. Final acceptance depends on the institution's current policy and the applicant. See what each platform asks for
FAQs
Questions about the utility bill
What the document is, whose name it carries, and what it cannot promise.
Not everywhere. Wise says it cannot accept mobile phone bills, while Relay and Amazon accept them. Ours is a business phone line at your suite, not a mobile plan.
Your company's. The invoice carries your registered company name, your suite and city, the service period and the amount. That company-plus-address pair is what an address check matches against.
No. The account exists because the suite exists. A telecom account at an address you have no right to occupy is the thing we refuse to sell, and it is the thing verification teams are looking for.
Each institution applies its own current requirements, so we cannot answer for them. What we can say is what the document is: a genuine account in your company's name at a suite you lease. Ask your reviewer what they need, then check it against that.
Yes, and we tell you that before you buy. We are a USPS-registered CMRA at every site, and a bank can see the flag. What the lease and the utility account change is the evidence sitting behind the address, not the flag itself. Any provider promising to keep you out of that database is describing something they do not control.
Utility bills for proof of address: the long answers
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What is a utility bill for proof of address?
A utility bill for proof of address is a dated bill from a live utility account, showing your name or company name at the address you are claiming. Verification teams use it as evidence that someone with a right to the address is being billed for service there.
For a business, that means the account is in the company’s name at its operating address. A bill in a landlord’s name, or at an address the company only receives mail at, answers a different question. A mailbox has no utility account at all, because a mailbox agreement is not a lease of space. That is the gap eligible Physical Office Address plans close.
Is a phone bill a utility bill?
Usually, yes. Phone service is generally treated as a utility, and many verification checklists accept a phone bill as one. Where platforms draw a line, it is usually around mobile plans, not phone service in general.
Wise says it cannot accept mobile phone bills, while Relay and Amazon accept them and PayPal lists a phone bill by name. Ours is a business phone line provisioned for your suite, not a mobile plan. A checklist that names only electricity, gas, water and internet may still want one of those, so ask your reviewer before you rely on it. What each platform asks for.
How do I get a utility bill for a business address?
You get a business utility bill by holding the premises and opening an account for them. Two things have to be true: your company has a right to occupy the address, and a carrier has agreed to bill your company for service at it.
Without an office of your own, a commercial sublease is the usual route. We sublease you a suite, then provision a business phone line for it in your company’s name. The account takes 1 to 2 weeks to set up, and it bills monthly for as long as you hold the lease. Utility-bill documentation is included on eligible Physical Office Address plans at participating locations.