All posts by David Carr

Another nomination for Clear Books!

We are thrilled to announce that Clear Books has been nominated for Best Software Provider Of The Year from the Institute of Bookkeepers! We are delighted to be considered and would like to thank the brilliant team over at ICB...

/ 29th November 2013

Clear Books comes Highly Commended in Practice Management award

It's been a busy few months for Clear Books, and now to top it off we've come Highly Commended in the Accountancy Age Practice Software of the year category! Having spoken to Accountancy Age we can confirm this means we...

/ 25th November 2013

Thanks ICB – your bookkeepers are fantastic!

Yesterday, Clear Books marketing girls Lizzie and Tara set of  to the rather stylish Pullman's Hotel in London Euston to exhibit at the Institute of Chartered Bookkeepers (ICB) Bookkeepers Summit. It was our first opportunity to showcase our brand spanking...

/ 15th November 2013

Clear Books holds the first Tick & Bash evening

Autumn is now officially upon us, and the accounting calendar is getting rather busy... so Clear Books hosted an evening of drinks and nibbles to help keep spirits in the accounting community high! A lovely bunch of accountants came from...

/ 8th November 2013

Calling all accountants!

Clear Books has noticed that there are no social events for sole practitioners to get together for after-work drinks or to simply mingle with other accountant types. So Clear Books has put one (and there will be many to follow)...

/ 2nd October 2013

Announcing: Clear Books Mobile 1.0

Since the mobile app launch in February earlier this year, we have been working hard to improve the app - using your feedback as guidance. Today I am really pleased  to announce the  release of Clear Books Mobile 1.0 ....

/ 4th September 2013

Another free webinar from Clear Books

Get your hands on another free webinar, courtesy of Clear Books. Our lovely lead designer, Michelle Choi, shares her wisdom in an effort to help SMEs improve their branding. We’ve made this video available for all our customers in the...

/ 22nd August 2013

Easy online learning – recommended by Clear Books!

Recently we’ve started talking to Excel with Business, who have developed a wealth of online course content designed to help businesses of all sizes with their training needs. In the near future Clear Books hopes to be able to develop...

/ 14th August 2013

Improving table filter design

We're looking to improve the filter above tables to make them more helpful for our users. Currently filters are a set of drop downs (example above) and not very helpful if you are  trying to look for a specific invoice...

/ 9th August 2013

Know more about your stock

You are now able to use Clear Books to analyse which customer have been buying each of your stock items and the unit prices you are charging customers compared to what suppliers are charging you. This will improve how you...

/ 23rd July 2013

Clear Books presents enhanced project reporting

Clear Books has launched a new report allowing you to compare revenue and costs between different projects. This will make it even easier to pick out the best performing areas of your business. It’s not a problem if you forgot...

/ 9th July 2013

Allocate payments with your mobile

A new feature requested by a lot of Clear Books customers has arrived and is ready to use in the latest version of Clear Books mobile app. You will now be able to allocate payments to unpaid invoices straight from...

/ 27th June 2013

Remittance per payment rather than invoice

All customers now have the option to send payment remittance emails on a payment by payment basis To use this time saving new feature click on the Payment id which is located at the bottom of the invoice the payment...

/ 25th June 2013

Make sense of your business accounts

Are you new to finance? Do you have a team that is eager to get their heads round double entry bookkeeping, invoicing and all those little tax quirks? We would like to welcome you to the Clear Books HQ to...

/ 21st June 2013

Recurring invoice notifications

You will now be notified via email every time a batch of recurring invoices is generated. Don’t want a notification? That’s fine too. Switch the feature off by heading to Settings > Organisation > Toggle features. This is yet another...

/ 19th June 2013

Clear Books and CheapAccounting.co.uk announce strategic partnership

Tim Fouracre and Elaine Clark, the respective Managing Directors of Clear Books and CheapAccounting.co.uk are delighted to announce that they have agreed a strategic working partnership resulting in a unique entry level version of the Clear Books Cloud Accountancy solutions...

/ 17th June 2013

Improvements to journals

All ideas posted to the Clear Books Network are constantly being reviewed by the team and we are always on the lookout for popular ideas to implement. Ideas such as adding functionality to journals. During the most recent review it...

/ 6th June 2013

Toggling the hover navigation in Clear Books

Here at Clear Books we value the customer's feedback. Following the first stage of redesign, some have voiced their issue with the navigation which pops up when your mouse cursor hovers over the links. Whilst handy to many as a...

/ 5th June 2013

Your lightbulb ideas shine the way forward

Your ideas are what keep Clear Books at the top of the (ever competitive) accounting software game. The way we see it, no one knows better about what our customers want than our customers themselves. Seems pretty obvious when it’s...

/ 16th May 2013

Clear Books delivers ViaPost

Everyone who uses Clear Books will be aware of how easy it is to create an invoice and email it directly to their customers. But what if you don’t know a customer’s email address? Or they prefer not to receive...

/ 14th May 2013

Have your say!

Clear Books is and always has been, developed around the need of  our customers. We want to provide you with the best online accounting software out there.   We will be holding a focus group this month and really want...

/ 10th May 2013

Brand new “Introduction to Finance” seminar with Clear Books

Due to popular demand Clear Books is going to start hosting "Introduction to Finance" seminars. We are aware that not all customers can be experts at business finance. With this in mind we have designed a new seminar aimed at...

/ 9th May 2013

How well do you really know your customers and suppliers?

As businesses, we all know how important it is to know our customers and suppliers. Making sure that the people you do businesses with are financially stable is key to business success. That’s why Clear Books is releasing the Companies...

/ 2nd May 2013

Work Experience at an Accounting Partner

I’ve been in the Clear Books support team for nearly six months and so far so good. I have enjoyed learning all about the software, helping out customers and evolving with the team. I’m no accountant by any stretch, but...

/ 26th April 2013

Clear Books Brings You Free Seminars!

As a small business, Clear Books knows just how many things there are to think about to drive things forward: marketing, office management, HR, SEO, excellent customer service...the list goes on! In our quest to go that extra mile for...

/ 17th April 2013

Mileage tool – driving you to success!

Regular visitors to the Clear Books Network will be aware of the suggestion of a mileage tool, which was submitted by Mohamed Aly. This idea is currently the most popular feature request, with a whopping 64 votes and 11 comments....

/ 17th April 2013

Introducing the new Clear Books. Designed with you in mind.

If you’re an avid reader of the Clear Books blog you will already know that we have been working our fingers to the bone designing a new theme to make Clear Books even more fantastic than it already is! And...

/ 11th April 2013

Open Payroll-Designing a New Brand

Corresponding with the recent introduction of RTI filing by HMRC, Clear Books has launched a new face to the Open Payroll home page inspired by the new Clear Books design. With this launch comes a prime opportunity to create a new and exciting brand...

/ 2nd April 2013

Brand new invoice list released – check it out today!

As I’m sure many of you are aware, we have been working hard to improve the look and feel of Clear Books with our new user friendly theme. If you haven’t yet experienced the sleek new theme, enable it today...

/ 27th March 2013

How will the £2,000 jobs tax allowance affect small British businesses?

For small businesses the 2013 budget brought with it the 'Employment Allowance' . This is a £2,000 saving on Employers' National Insurance Contributions for small businesses due to take effect from April 2014. Clear Books and Open Payroll, providers of online...

/ 21st March 2013