Top 10 scariest workplaces
It’s Halloween! And in honour of the scariest day of the year we’ve compiled a list of the world’s most terrifying places to work. After reading these we’ll never be frightened of Monday morning meetings again... 1. Above the...
Did you know…? With John Fouracre
Who are you? Hi, I’m John and the support team leader at Clear Books. What does your role at Clear Books entail? I help the support team with any questions they need assistance with, and make sure they are all...
Nicholas Sanders’ week at Clear Books
My name is Nicholas Sanders and I have spent a week at Clear Books doing work experience. I’m 17 years old and in my second year of A-levels. I wanted to do my work experience at Clear Books as I...
Clear Books is now an ACCA Approved Employer!
Clear Books is now certified by the ACCA as a Gold Level Approved Training Centre! ACCA is one of the largest global accounting bodies under IFAC with over 170,000 qualified accounting members and more than 400,000 student trainees across 180...
Open Payroll and RTI
RTI (Real Time Information) is a method of reporting payroll information to HMRC that became compulsory for most employers in April 2013. As you may be aware, larger businesses using the PAYE scheme can now be charged RTI fines. Smaller...
It’s awards season at Clear Books!
Clear Books had a nice surprise in the post today as we received a certificate confirming us as a finalist in the Cloud Provider Innovation of the Year category at the 2014 UK IT Industry Awards. The winner will be...
Find out what tax relief and incentives your business is eligible for
As a UK business owner, you will be well aware of the variety of taxes you need to pay. However, depending on the criteria of your business you might also be eligible for certain tax relief or assistance with business...
Use Clear Books event space for free!
If you’re a Clear Books customer, we’re offering you the chance to use our newly refurbished events/ training centre in November completely free of charge! When we moved in to our new office earlier this year, we decided to retain...
VAT comparison user guide
We recently added a fantastic new feature to Clear Books Accounts, enabling users to compare VAT liabilities under standard VAT and the Flat Rate Scheme (FRS). We’ve now added a comprehensive guide to using this feature - click here to...
How cloud accounting software is changing the business model of accounting firms
As a cloud software provider, we often communicate the benefits of cloud technology in making your business more efficient, automated and flexible. However, cloud technology, and cloud accounting software such as Clear Books Accounts, has also opened up a variety...
Clear Books Accounting – the new name for our cloud accounting software
You may have noticed that on our new website, we’ve slightly adjusted the names of our applications. We wanted to make sure all customers were clear on which name refers to each app. When we started out as a company, we...
Clear Books to go Dutch
Clear Books is set to expand internationally by opening our first subsidiary in the Netherlands. Until now, Clear Books has focused exclusively on building our UK customer base and increasing our share of the UK cloud software market. With this move, business owners in...
Find out what our customers love about Clear Books
Many of our business users may well have attended one of our frequent Community networking events, giving small business owners a chance to learn more about Clear Books and network with others. At a recent Community event, we spoke to...
Vote for Clear Books!
We’re delighted to have been named in the 02 Smarta 100 list, recognising Clear Books as one of the most resourceful, original, exciting and disruptive small businesses in the UK. We've also been nominated in a specific category - Best...
Feature updates – September 2014
Clear Books is constantly evolving and developing, much of which is down to the feedback from the Clear Books Community with many users letting us know what they'd like to see added to our software. In order to keep you...
Welcome to the new Clear Books website
If you’re reading this blog, hopefully you'll have noticed that we’ve revamped the Clear Books website! As well as having a visual makeover, we hope you find using the new site a much nicer experience. The major improvements this new site brings...
Take a look at the Clear Books Mobile app
We wanted to let our customers know about a great feature that has recently been added to the Clear Books Mobile app. When creating expenses on the app, you can now take a photo of a receipt or bill on...
We’ve been shortlisted at the Nimbus Ninety IGNITE Awards
We are excited to announce that Clear Books has been shortlisted as a finalist in the 2014 Nimbus Ninety IGNITE Awards in the category of 'Disruptive Start-Up' company. Nimbus Ninety describe this specific award as 'celebrating the digital start-ups who are...
Did you know…? With Vanish Patel
Who are you? Hi, I’m Vanish and I’m a customer support analyst at Clear Books. What does your role at Clear Books entail? Being a customer support analyst involves various types of problem solving for different customers. This includes the...
Case study: Metric Accountants
We sat down with one of our accounting partners, Katrine L Richardson from Metric Accountants, to find out what it is she likes about cloud accounting and Clear Books. My name is Katrine, I am one of the directors and founders...
Introducing our new VAT comparison feature
Clear Books has created a new feature to enable users to make comparisons between standard VAT (in which VAT is based on the difference between VAT charged to customers and VAT paid on purchases) and the Flat Rate Scheme (FRS)...
How cloud accounting can change the relationship between accountant and client
Cloud accounting software brings numerous benefits to businesses and accountants alike. In a new Clear Books article, we take a look at how it can help with collaboration and make the lives of both businesses and accountants easier and more...
Case study: 2E Accountants Ltd
We recently spoke to several of our valued customers to find out what it is they like about cloud accounting and Clear Books. In this case study, we sat down with Riz Wasti, Director of 2E Accountants Ltd. My name...
We’ve been shortlisted for another award!
We are proud to announce that Clear Books has been shortlisted as a finalist for the “Cloud Provider Innovation of the Year” award. This award is part of the technology excellence section in the UK IT Industry Awards 2014. Adam...
We’ve been shortlisted at The British Accountancy Awards 2014
We are delighted to announce that Clear Books has been shortlisted for the ‘Client Software Product of the Year’ award at the The British Accountancy Awards. In addition to Clear Books being nominated, two Clear Books partner accountants have also...
Case study: Aidhan Accountancy
We sat down with one of our accounting partners, Tony Dhanjal from Aidhan Accountancy, to ask him about his experiences with online accounting, Clear Books and why he chose to implement us throughout his practice. Hi I’m Tony Dhanjal of...
Clear Books visits the Shout Network group
Last Friday, Chris and Mike from Clear Books headed up to Barton in Lancashire to attend the latest Shout Networking Joint Meeting. Shout Network is a networking organisation for small and medium businesses, with regular networking events taking place throughout...
Scheduled Maintenance – 8th September 2014
Clear Books will be unavailable between the hours of 00:00 BST and 06:00 BST on 8th September 2014 while scheduled maintenance is carried out. We hope that the time slot chosen minimises any inconvenience caused. Read More
Feature updates – August 2014
As some of you may know, the revamped Clear Books Community forum now includes a News area where we’ll be posting all updates for Clear Books products. If you haven’t already seen it, feel free to take a look here....
Did you know…? With Michael Evans
This is the first in a new series of articles we'll be running each month, which will focus on a different member of the Clear Books support team. We'll be finding out what time-saving features are available to Clear...