Make the most of your Clear Books account!
When we asked our customers what they wanted from our upcoming business networking event, the most popular suggestion by far was a ‘Clear Books Clinic’ where you can meet our support team in person and get advice and ask questions...
The art of PR: Meet communications expert Glen Goldsmith
Learning how to effectively promote your business is one of the most important things an entrepreneur should know. In the third of our ‘CBCE speaker’ series, we spoke to media relations consultant Glen Goldsmith about his upcoming talk at Clear Books...
Suggest and vote for the Clear Books features you want to see
Users’ ideas posted on our community forum are the source of many of the new features and improvements you see in Clear Books. You too can propose new ideas for features and improvements you wish to see. We consider all ideas...
Recipe of the month – January
In keeping with the Clear Books slogan of ‘Together We Save Time’, we wanted to introduce a light-hearted new monthly feature to our blog and newsletter - a time-saving lunch recipe from a member of the Clear Books team. With...
Do more business online in 2015
It might come as a surprise to you to learn that almost half of the small businesses in the UK don’t yet use the internet for their business. With many of you reading this blog using Clear Books online software,...
How to grow your business with Clive Lewis, Head of Enterprise at ICAEW
It’s exactly one month until Clear Books Community Exhibition and over the next few weeks we’ll be giving you a taster of the exciting speakers you can look forward to hearing at the event. First up, meet chartered accountant and...
Happy New Year!
We hope everybody has had a relaxing and cosy Christmas and there’s enough leftover turkey and chocolate to ease you gently into January. Our favourite thing about the new year is the opportunity it brings to start afresh and really...
Clear Books Support Christmas 2014
Clear Books Support will be unavailable from 1pm Wednesday 24th December to 8am Monday 29th December. This will mean that phone and chat support will not be available. Emailed response will still be accepted but the response time will not...
Congratulations to the 2014 AccountingWeb Community Award winners!
AccountingWeb have today announced the winners of their 2014 Community Awards, sponsored by Clear Books. We're delighted to be working with such an active online community of accountants and bookkeepers, and these awards are a great way to recognise those...
Christmas and the Cloud
Christmas is wonderful: the markets, the twinkly lights, seeing family — and the presents of course. But for small businesses it can cause major logistical headaches: unreliable transport, bad weather, staff on holiday and plenty of colds and bugs flying...
Pre-Christmas update: Clear Books Community Exhibition
We’ve been thrilled with the response to our upcoming Community Exhibition on 6th February. Almost all of the exhibitor slots have been filled and attendee tickets are selling fast. Don’t worry though — there’s still time to get yours. We’ve...
Yodlee issues: an explanation
We are as concerned as our users about the repeated Yodlee issues. I feel that an elaborate explanation is appropriate, explaining why the service is unreliable and perhaps more importantly— why Yodlee will always be unreliable (if it wasn’t —...
Clear Books sponsors the 2014 AccountingWeb Community Awards
For the second year running, Clear Books is proud to sponsor the AccountingWeb Community Awards. AccountingWeb is the largest independent online community for accounting and finance professionals in the UK, and a site that is used often by many Clear...
Meet ASC Finance for Business!
Are you an entrepreneur looking for advice on how to raise finance for your business? Then ASC Finance for Business can help. They’re just one of the exhibitors already signed up for Clear Books Community Exhibition on 6th February ready...
Clear Books team doodles Christmas in 30 seconds
To celebrate the coming of Christmas, I asked the team at Clear Books to take part in a fun short activity. Each person was given a random Christmas-related word which they had 30 seconds to draw. Most panicked and spent...
Clear Books nominated at 2015 Business Finance Awards
Following our recent win at the British Accountancy Awards, we’re delighted to announce that Clear Books has now also been nominated for an award at the upcoming 2015 Business Finance Awards. We’ve been nominated in the category of ‘Software Product...
Don’t forget Small Business Saturday!
As a champion of small businesses we’re really excited about Small Business Saturday tomorrow. It’s a great reminder and opportunity to head down to the nearest high street and see what your local independent shops have to offer. American Express...
New resource guide: Introduction to tax for small businesses
If you’re starting your own business and find tax confusing, our new simple guide to the different types of tax you need to know about will help. [slideshare id=42090792&doc=clear-books-cloud-intro-to-business-tax-141127061629-conversion-gate01&type=d] We’ve also included a list of helpful resources...
Making your life easier
The Clear Books team is always working on new features and tools that help make your life easier, and save you time so you can focus on growing your business. Every time we add a new feature to our applications,...
Let’s welcome the Dutch version of Clear Books!
Clear Books has launched the new website for Clear Books NL, our Dutch subsidiary allowing business owners in the Netherlands to take advantage of the many great features of Clear Books’ Online boekhoudsoftware (online accounting software!). Our NL team has...
Helping small businesses keep on top of employment rules
Nothing is more important to a business than the commitment and skill of its workforce, but it can be hard to keep up with employment regulations, training opportunities and other employee-related information. Luckily the highly useful Business is Great website...
Accountants – join Clear Books for Christmas drinks!
On Thursday 4th December, Clear Books Pro will be hosting the Christmas instalment of Tick and Bash and we’d love to see plenty of accountants and bookkeepers there! Tick and Bash is a quarterly social event hosted by Clear Books which...
Clear Books is Client Software Product of the Year!
We’re thrilled to announce that Clear Books has been named Client Software Product of the Year at the British Accountancy Awards. The awards, which are run by Accountancy Age, celebrate excellence in the accountancy profession and aim to recognise...
Clear Books named as a Smarta 100 company
We received a nice surprise in the post this week - a certificate confirming Clear Books' place in the Smarta 100 list. The O2 Smarta 100 is an annual celebration of the most resourceful, inspiring and disruptive small businesses in...
Make new connections at our December networking event
We’re holding the latest Clear Books Community networking event on 3rd December, and we’d love to see you there! The free event is aimed at UK small businesses and is a great opportunity to meet and network with other small...
Save even more time with Clear Books
We recently surveyed our community of accountants to ask what tips they use to save time and get more done. Read what they had to say here: [slideshare id=41849137&doc=time-saving-141121050946-conversion-gate01] There are also lots of other helpful guides and...
CBCE: Meet our first ticket holder!
You may have heard that on 6th February 2015 Clear Books will be holding it’s first Community Exhibition in London. Tickets went on sale earlier this week, both to attend the event and also to exhibit your business to attendees, and...
Clear Books Community Exhibition is coming!
We’re excited to announce that Clear Books’ first ever Community Exhibition, supported by Microsoft, will be held on 6th February 2015 at Microsoft’s central London offices. The programme for the one day event is based on feedback from our community...
What’s your perfect winter workspace environment?
We've been having a bit of a battle with the office temperature at Clear Books this week as the weather fluctuates between tropical sunshine and freezing downpours. But despite the hottest Halloween on record we can’t deny that after Bonfire...
‘Hugs’ of the month – October
Each week, the Clear Books team sets aside some time to work on what we call ‘customer hugs’ - work that focuses solely on improving the way a feature works, or creating an entirely new feature to make your life...