A UK-based team building accounting software for sole traders, small businesses, and the accountants who look after them.
Clear Books started in 2008 when our founder, Tim Fouracre, left his job to turn a small personal accounting app into a real product. For the first fifteen months it was a solo operation, no office, no team, just a laptop at home.
The hunch behind it was simple: accounting software didn't have to feel like a tax form. It could be clear. It could be simple. And it could treat the people using it like people.
Tim Fouracre walks away from his job to build Clear Books, solo, from home.
Clear Books becomes a team, programmers, designers, the beginnings of a proper company.
A UK team, building the same clear and simple product — now trusted by thousands of sole traders, small businesses and accountants.
Four short words that shape how we build the product, who we hire, and how we answer the phone.
Your invoices, VAT returns and payroll in plain English. Software you can open on day one without a manual.
Every feature has to earn its place. If a screen feels busy, it isn't done. Bank linking, MTD submissions, CIS, complex tax stuff made simple enough that you don't need an accountant just to file.
We've been building one focused product since 2008. Not a suite, not a platform, one tool we've never stopped improving.
Got a question? We pick up the phone. Got a problem? We fix it. We treat every customer the way we'd want to be treated, like a person, not a ticket.
We're programmers, designers, salespeople and marketers, football supporters, box-set watchers, bikers and gamers, building one award-winning accounting product, properly.
Today, Clear Books supports thousands of UK sole traders, small businesses and the accountants who look after them, with MTD filing, payroll and invoicing all in one place.
And we're part owned by the customers who use it every day, still building the same clear, simple product we set out to make in 2008.
Clear Books is part-owned by our customers, the people who've done the most rigorous due diligence possible by using it every day.
On HMRC's official list of MTD-compatible software for both VAT and Income Tax Self Assessment.
Registered with the Financial Conduct Authority under firm reference number 843585.
Clear Books Limited, registered in England & Wales. UK-based team, working across Britain.
Free for 30 days.
