Sole Proprietor in Austria: Protect Your Home Address

Registering a sole proprietorship in Austria at your home address makes that address public: it appears in your website's legal notice, on every invoice and in the trade register, which anyone can search online. A rented business address solves this from 49 euros per month. This guide explains where your home address surfaces, what the real risks are, and how to set things up cleanly before you register. Last updated June 2026.

Why does your home address become public in Austria?

Because Austrian rules require a business address to be visible in several places: in the legal notice (Impressum) on your website, on invoices and offers, and in the publicly searchable trade register. If you register your business at home, your private address goes public with it.

The exposure is broader than most founders expect:

• the legal notice on your website, indexed by every search engine
• invoices, quotes and order confirmations sent to every client
• the trade register, searchable online by anyone
• business letters and email signatures carrying company details
• directory listings and platforms that scrape and republish register data

Once the address is out, directories and data brokers copy it. Removing it afterwards is close to impossible, which is why the order of steps matters.

What are the risks of using your home address?

The main risks are unannounced visits from clients or unhappy business partners, a private letterbox flooded with business and advertising mail, and a permanent loss of privacy for everyone living with you. There is also the impression it leaves: a residential address on a quote reads differently than an established business location.

Moving house creates a second problem. If your apartment is your registered address, every private relocation forces updates to the register, your legal notice, invoice templates, bank records and client files. A stable business address decouples the company from your private life: you move, the business stays put.

How do you protect your home address as a sole proprietor?

Rent a business address before you register the business, then use it consistently everywhere from day one. Your home address then never enters a public record, and there is nothing to clean up later.

The business address in Vienna from 1010 Works places your company at Seitenstettengasse 5/37 in Vienna's first district, two minutes on foot from Schwedenplatz with the U1 and U4 metro lines. It is a real physical address with a staffed location, not a PO box, so official documents can be delivered there. For a one-person business, that means a first-district address on your invoices instead of your apartment door.

What does a business address cost in Vienna?

At 1010 Works, plans start at 49 euros per month plus VAT on annual billing, or 59 euros monthly, and every plan can be cancelled monthly.

• Basic: 49 euros per month on annual billing, 59 euros monthly. Business address with mail reception.
• Plus: 79 or 89 euros per month, with extended mail handling.
• Premium: 129 or 149 euros per month, including acceptance of RSb registered letters via postal power of attorney and 4 hours of meeting room use per month.

All prices exclude VAT. Full details are on the pricing page. For perspective: a single formal warning letter over a faulty legal notice usually costs more than a full year of the Basic plan.

How does your mail reach you?

Incoming letters are received at the location, and you choose what happens next: digital scanning, personal pickup Monday to Sunday, or forwarding. Most solo founders pick scanning, so mail is available digitally within hours of arrival, wherever they happen to work that day.

How scanning and mail forwarding from Vienna work in detail is covered on the service page. One point on official mail: RSb registered letters can be accepted with a postal power of attorney, which is part of the Premium plan. RSa letters can only be delivered to you personally; in that case you are notified about the deposit notice.

Conclusion

A sole proprietor in Austria does not have to publish a home address: a rented business address satisfies the requirements for the legal notice, invoices and the trade register. Setting it up before registration keeps your private address out of every public record permanently. At 1010 Works, the address at Seitenstettengasse 5/37 starts at 49 euros per month and can be cancelled monthly. Secure your business address in Vienna's first district before your home address ends up in the first directory.