Fill more desks and offices from local search.

Usually not. Google’s guidelines say a virtual office — a rented address a business doesn’t operate from — isn’t eligible for a Business Profile. A member can only list an office at a coworking space if it has clear signage, receives customers there during business hours and is staffed by their own team during those hours.

Your space itself can and should have its own profile, because you operate there and welcome visitors. Explaining these rules clearly to virtual office customers avoids suspended listings and awkward conversations later.

The Authority plan includes multi-location strategy, giving each site its own optimised profile, location page and visibility in its own area without your centres competing with each other.

Yes. Local search favours genuine local businesses with strong reviews and accurate details. We help you highlight what independents do well — a real community, a named manager, flexible terms and a space that feels part of the local area.

A refreshed Google profile and accurate workspace listings can bring more tour requests within a few weeks. Stronger map positions and AI recommendations usually develop over three to six months, depending on how many spaces compete nearby, and September and January, when teams rethink where they work, are good moments to be visible.

No. Like a good hot desk membership, our plans run month to month, and you can cancel any time before your next billing date. Your Google profile, listings and links remain in place.

Guide prices for day passes, hot desks, dedicated desks and meeting rooms help people decide whether to book a tour, and they reduce enquiries that go nowhere. Private offices vary more, so a “from” price per desk or per month with a clear list of what’s included works well.

If you provide a registered office, business, correspondence or administrative address for companies, partnerships or other legal entities, you’re acting as a trust or company service provider under the Money Laundering Regulations. Unless you’re already supervised by a professional body, you must register with HMRC and pass its fit and proper test before offering those services.

Registration also means carrying out customer due diligence on virtual office clients, so build identity checks into your sign-up process from the start.

Partnerships with local accountants, banks, business networks, chambers of commerce, universities and start-up support programmes can bring steady referrals. Hosting free events, workshops or networking breakfasts gives people a reason to visit and see the space for themselves.

A simple member referral reward — such as a free month or meeting room credit — also works well, because members are often the best judges of who would fit in.

Fast, reliable Wi-Fi, a well-run kitchen, quiet areas for calls and a manager who knows members by name matter more than design touches. Making it easy to move from a hot desk to a dedicated desk or a private office as a business grows keeps members with you instead of moving elsewhere.