Cafés, dry cleaners, shops, agencies: which businesses can become a BoxSpot luggage-storage point?

Hotels and cafés spring to mind when people think of luggage storage. But the BoxSpot network was built on a broader idea: any well-located neighborhood business can offer this service — and earn extra income from it. The real question isn't "what type of business?" but "does your business tick the criteria?".

The four criteria that really matter

1. A location on a traveler flow. Near an ONCF or intercity bus station, in a tourist medina, on the airport-to-center route, next to a ferry port: travelers look for storage where they already pass by. An excellent business in a purely residential neighborhood will see few drop-offs; a modest stall across from the station will see them every day.

2. A securable space. A few enclosed square meters, out of the public's reach: a back room, a storeroom, an adjoining space. Neither size nor prestige matters — the lock and the organization do.

3. Staff present at the right hours. Drop-offs happen mostly in the morning, pick-ups at the end of the day. A business open throughout those windows — with a trained team on site — offers the experience travelers expect.

4. A registered status. The partnership is a contract: it requires a registered commercial activity (trade register, self-employed status…), the condition for transparent monthly payments by bank transfer.

Let's review the profiles

Cafés and restaurants: the natural candidates. Long opening hours, staff continuously on site, and the traveler who drops off often becomes a customer who orders.

Hotels and riads: the luggage room already exists for their guests; BoxSpot monetizes it with non-guests, plus the protocol.

Medina shops and bazaars: prime spots on tourist flows; the back room does the job, and the drop-off creates natural footfall past the stalls.

Dry cleaners, laundries, cobblers: premises used to keeping other people's belongings with tagging — storage is almost an extension of the trade.

Travel agencies and internet cafés: a staffed counter all day long, an already-traveling clientele, often underused space.

Convenience stores and grocers in tourist areas: unbeatable opening hours — often the decisive criterion for early-morning drop-offs or late pick-ups.

The cases that don't work

Premises with no enclosed space separate from the public; a point with no regular human presence (the protocol requires a trained operator at every drop-off and pick-up); or an unregistered activity. These aren't value judgments — simply the material and contractual conditions of the service.

How to tell whether your location has potential

Watch a day go by: do you see suitcases outside your window? Travelers asking their way to the station, the port, the riads? That's the best indicator there is. Applications are made online at partner.boxspot.ma — location and space are assessed during qualification, and the BoxSpot team gets back to you before the point ever goes live.