Remote working is no exception and location matters. Possession of an address at either Raffles place or Orchard road will carry some weight with the clients and on your ACRA registration and as such, the first thing to consider is whether the provider is in a reputable business premise, and not in some unknown industrial block which will cause eyebrows to raise when doing due diligence. Continue here to see our newest updates!
Besides the prestige factor, look at what you actually need in the day to day basis. There are companies that just want to have a physical mail address. The others need an individual to accept packages, make calls to book a meeting room and make a few calls in a month. The packages of many of the providers are so wrapped and in the process they charge you on things that you will never need to use. It is not a bad idea to read the fine print before you sign anything.
Handling the mails until it breaks down is one of those which they treat lightly. Ask them point-blank how they handle your letters, do they scan them and mail them back to you? How fast? What happens to packages? A mail service that picks up your mail once a week is not going to serve you well when you have to work with government mailings or even time sensitive documents.
Its registration point in the ACRA is worth halting. Singapore has local registered address and to which a business can be incorporated and also not all virtual office providers have the right infrastructure to facilitate this. Some are, some aren’t. In case of a new organization that you are merging or amending your registered address it is always good to pre-determine that they are on schedule and they know the processes. You will not like to learn that in three weeks, there is a complication.
The variance of the pricing structures is not as insignificant. Simple speeches can be as cheap as SGD 50 up to SGD 200 per month based on the venue and other additions. Add-on charges in every forwarded letter or every hour spent in the meeting room may seem as cheap in the short run. And do not be misled by the headline price.
It is also important to be stable and have reputation. The virtual office firm that silently goes out of business or is sold to a different business leaves your business address in no one to collect it in the wrong time. It is wise to assess the period of their operation and actual reviews that are not chosen and displayed on their home page and visit the physical space to see it with their own eyes before forming their minds. A destination, seemingly having nothing in common with the pictures on its site, has a meaning.
Coworking desks or even their own offices are also made available by other providers on a use basis, which in fact is useful when you require to have a professional office at times to see clients without the need to sign a contract. All of them do not do so well and some are not as available or are over-utilized and thus you might want this to be important to you and therefore, it would be worth trying them out first before you make any long term contract.
Responsiveness of characters in customer service is hard to observe during signup but it becomes irritating very soon in the case of bad customer service. Enquire of them a question before they can be a customer. Response time and is response of any use. A lot can be said about the future working relationship based on that little test.