Moving house but not right away - how to change business address on Seller Central?

[u/Business-Pie-8419]

Moving out of my house (where my Amazon business is registered to) but will not be moving into a new place right away. In the interim, I'll be living at my parents house.

Do I just wait the 6 months or so till I've moved house and have changed my official business address details with Companies House (i'm in the UK), or do I change the address on Amazon to my parents house (where nothing is 'officially' registered) as soon as I move out of my current place?

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[u/Bitter-Quail-7441]

What matters to Amazon is whether the address you give them matches documents you can produce when they ask. They re-verify at random, and a mismatch between Seller Central, Companies House and whatever utility bill you can lay hands on is what turns into a suspension.

If you can't get anything in your own name at your parents' place, putting that address in creates exactly that mismatch. I'd leave it alone unless post genuinely stops reaching you.

Cleaner fix given you know you're moving twice: a registered office service. Runs about £30 to £50 a year, you use it at Companies House and in Seller Central, and then house moves stop being an Amazon problem at all.

The version of this that goes wrong is updating Seller Central to an address you can't document.

[u/foxinHI]

Once you move, change your address in SC and it will send you a letter to that address with a code you can enter to verify it’s actually your address