How the cloud can treat ‘World Cup Fever’
The 2014 World Cup begins this Thursday with an opening ceremony in Sao Paulo, Brazil. While some will be counting down the days until it finishes, for many it will be the highlight of the summer and they will be...
Scheduled Clear Books Maintenance – 9th June 2014
Clear Books will be unavailable for up to 120 minutes between the hours of 22:30 BST on 9th June 2014 and 06:00 BST on 10th June 2014 while scheduled maintenance is carried out. We hope that the time slot chosen...
Chance your luck – join the Clear Books community event on Friday 13th June
The first ever Clear Books Community networking event is right around the corner, and will give small businesses the chance to liaise with each other in a friendly and professional atmosphere. The event will be held at our training centre...
The new Clear Books Community forum is out now!
After months of development, redesigns and user experience improvements, we’ve relaunched our old Clear Books Network as the Clear Books Community. We designed the Clear Books Community as an outlet for our customer base to be able to share their...
Read Tim Fouracre’s views on building a successful business
Clear Books CEO and founder Tim Fouracre is featured in the June edition of ICAEW’s ‘Economia’ magazine. The feature, by Xenia Taliotis, focuses on a group of entrepreneurs who have used their accounting training and background to build a successful...
Weekly events with Clear Books Pro… will you be attending?
For the month of June, Clear Books Pro is hosting free Open Days for accountants and bookkeepers every Thursday. These half day events are designed to give you a full understanding of our Partner plan and to learn how you...
Clear Books founder featured in Elite business magazine
Our CEO and founder Tim Fouracre has been featured within Elite Business magazine on the subject of financial forecasting specifically highlighting the danger of cashflow pitfalls. Within the five minute money masterclass article, focusing upon financial forecasting, four business leaders...
Are you coming to Tick & Bash?
We’re fast approaching the date of our latest Tick and Bash event, 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 allows accountants and bookkeepers...
Accountants – you can now bulk process your clients’ payroll!
We’re always looking at ways we can improve the user experience with Clear Books applications, and wanted to let you know of a fantastic new feature for accountants when processing your clients' payroll. After feedback from our accounting partners, we’ve...
Take a look at our new purchase order feature
We’ve added a great new feature to Clear Books, allowing you to create a purchase order directly from a sales invoice so you can easily order something you've just sold. To do this, simply select To purchase order from the...
Thanks for visiting us at Accountex
After a very busy few weeks with lots of hard work and planning, we are delighted to say that our first year at Accountex - the UK’s largest accounting exhibition - was a huge success! Our British garden party stand...
Clear Books Pro is gearing up for Accountex!
Accountex - Europe's largest annual accounting exhibition - hits ExCel in London on Thursday 15th May with over 3000 people expected to attend over the two day duration. Here at Clear Books Pro we have been eagerly preparing for this...
Clear Books accounting partner featured in ‘Economia’ magazine
We were delighted to see one of our key accounting partners, Roger Moore, mentioning Clear Books in the latest edition of ICAEW’s ‘Economia’ magazine. Roger, from Beaufort Chancery Chartered Accountants, is featured heavily in the article titled ‘Keep them Sweet’....
Improving your Clear Books workspace
As Clear Books continues to develop and innovate, we’re always looking to improve the experience for our users which is why we've decided to make our interface wider. Previously we used a width of 960px as a standard to fit...
Tim Fouracre recognised in Accountancy Age feature
Clear Books CEO Tim Fouracre has been included in Accountancy Age’s 2014 ‘35 under 35’ feature. This annual list highlights the outstanding talent in UK accountancy as part of Accountancy Age’s ‘Young Professionals Day’. ’35 under 35’ recognises the talents...
Clear Books Pro will be at Accountex 2014…will you?
Accountex is Europe's largest exhibition and conference for the accounting profession. Taking place on May 15-16 at ExCel, London, the top minds from the accounting world will share their expertise while leading companies showcase their products. You can register for...
Crowdsourcing Twitter chat with Tim Fouracre
Our CEO Tim Fouracre took part in a twitter chat yesterday to discuss the use of crowdsourcing, and its effectiveness in providing value to the customer. As many of you will know, Clear Books has taken the crowdfunding model and...
Your suggestions become Clear Books software updates!
Have you visited the Clear Books Network area? This forum not only allows Clear Books users to ask questions and discuss features with the Clear Books community, it's also a vital source of feedback for the team here at Clear...
Paper vs Digital
Nowadays it’s all about saving the environment, recycling paper and sending digital birthday cards. ‘Save the trees!’ they say, and Clear Books absolutely agree, especially as we're an online accounting software provider striving for a paperless office for everyone. But...
Meet Clear Books new starters!
We've had a very busy day today in the Clear Books office, welcoming 4 new employees! The Clear Books team continues to grow rapidly following our move to a new, larger office - please take a look at our careers...
Employers – find out how to get a £2,000 NIC reduction
The new tax year brought about a very welcome change, originally announced in the March 2013 budget. Most employers will now benefit from a £2,000 reduction in the National Insurance contributions (NIC) they are billed for. This reduction relates to...
Clear Books helps raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer
This month one of our Clear Books accounting partners, Martin Briggs, is taking on the challenge to cycle from London to Paris over the course of 5 days to raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer. By cycling to Paris, Martin...
Infographic: What do clients want from an accountant / bookkeeper?
We recently got in touch with our community of small business customers, asking them about their experiences with accountants/ bookkeepers and what services they they want from you. The infographic below contains the results of this survey. Cloud accounting software...
Vertical monitors – not such a bad idea!
An article by Mashable titled “You're Looking at It Wrong — Why the Web Demands Vertical Screens” brought up the interesting and mind bending issue of how people use their screens. It’s pretty safe to say that, at this moment...
Clear Books team raise money for homeless charity Porchlight
Clear Books developer Rob Aiken recently spent a night sleeping outside as part of a fundraising effort for homeless charity Porchlight. Rob joined members of Canterbury Homeless Outreach, a student-led volunteering group at the University of Kent. By spending a...
New version of Clear Books Mobile out now!
We recently launched a new version of the Clear Books mobile app. The update brings a whole host of new features, including the incredibly popular mobile scans. You asked, so we delivered. You can now upload all of your receipts...
Support for Internet Explorer 8 has ended
As you may know, on 8th April 2014 Microsoft ended support for Windows XP operating system. Internet Explorer 8 is the last version of the Microsoft browser that was supported by Windows XP. Due to Microsoft ending support for Windows...
Security: Heartbleed vulnerability
On April 7th 2014, security researchers discovered a serious vulnerability (CVE-2014-0160) in OpenSSL, a very popular cryptographic library used by many websites, including Clear Books. This library ensures secure communication between server and client but also confirms the identity of...
Clear Books plc appoints three new directors
Clear Books is pleased to announce that on 1st April 2014 Brendan McLoughlin, Paul Maunders and Elizabeth Fouracre were all appointed to the Clear Books plc board of directors. Brendan and Paul each take individual roles as non-executive directors replacing...
How accountants make the leap to the cloud
We recently conducted a survey of our accountant and bookkeeper partners, to get some real-life insight into the logistics of moving your practice on to cloud based software. We wanted to share these experiences with you, and pass on the...
