Companies House Webcheck built into Clear Books
Today we are pleased to announce that we have worked with Companies House to make their webcheck service available right inside Clear Books. This means you can order from a huge range of official documents that have been recorded with Companies House for over 2 million companies.
documents without needing to re-enter your card details each time.
If you ever extend credit your customers, or pre-pay your suppliers then this is a handy tool to let you find out more about their financial circumstances.
Certain information is available completely free, such as….
- Registered Name, Address and Company Number
- Type of Company, and Area(s) of Business
- Date of Incorporation, Last Accounts Filed Date, Next Accounts Due, Last Annual Return Filed, Next Annual Return Due
Other documents are charged at £2 + VAT, and will be automatically added on to your monthly Clear Books bill (no need to get your credit card out each time!) There is a huge range of documents available, but some of the most popular are:
- Form AA – Annual Accounts
- Form 363a – Annual Return (A Full List of Directors and Shareholders)
- Form 88(2) – Allotment of Shares
- Form 288a – Appointment of Director or Secretary
- Form 288b – Termination of Appointment of Director or Secretary
To access these documents simply navigate to Reports > CH and search for the company you are interested in.
How to make your accountant happy
Bring it in complete.
The value of this was highlighted recently when a client brought his books in and I asked him to clear some bushes in the garden. An hour and a half later the job was done, the rubbish taken away and the client was paid for his troubles.
What would have been the effect though, if I had said he could only cut down one bush then, and I would let him know sometime later when he could come to deal with the second and subsequent bushes?
Common sense says the job would have taken much longer and he would have charged considerably more.
The same goes for accountants – check that the information is complete.
New office located in Southcombe Business Centre
Monday 9th November notched up another milestone for Clear Books when we moved into our first ‘proper’ office. So if we’ve been a bit quiet over the past couple of days you now know why. Southcombe Business Centre is located very close to the Olympia exhibition centre in London just off Hammersmith Road. 
Dashboard – financial position, performance & debts
The new Clear Books dashboard has gone live. It is vastly improved although further improvements are due in the coming weeks including the ability to re-position blocks in a similar fashion to iGoogle, the ability to hide blocks as well as a range of new blocks containing alternative data.
Letter received from HMRC confirming recognition for Internet VAT filing
I can confirm that you have now successfully tested your Internet Filing Enable Software package to Vendor Single Integrated Proving Service (VSIPS) test service.
You have successfully tested for all of the forms available. These forms are:
VAT100
Your business name, details of the tested product and your URL will now be included on the HMRC recognition web pages at http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/channelsPortalWebApp.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pageVAT_ShowContent&id=HMCE_PROD1_026455&propertyType=document
which lists the VAT Online enabled software products that have successfully passed through the testing process.
Online accounting growth story… write your own chapter
We’ve had some interesting questions raised about our growth plans. It’s important for prospective interns and employees (we are recruiting see jobs and careers) to appreciate where we have come from and where we are going. It may be interesting to our users too.