Clear Books plc raises £839,913 from its customers – thank you!
We did it! Thank you to everyone, all 735 of you who now own a part of Clear Books. We took a unique approach to fundraising. We re-registered as a plc and built our own investor platform to accept applications...
Clear Books presents GoCardless integration revamp
If you’re wondering what GoCardless is and what an integration with Clear Books mean, here’s a quick snapshot: GoCardless is a payment tool integrated with Clear Books allowing you to request and receive Direct Debit payments from your customers. We...
Cloudfunder: Excel With Business/ Filtered
1. What does your business do? We offer high impact online training, where we filter out material our users don't need to know, or know already, using some cleverly chosen questions. 2. Why did you invest in Clear Books? We...
Your £18m call to arms
Clear Books is priced at £18m. How did we come up with that figure? There are two ways to value a business. There is the financial analyst who compares to existing businesses and looks at multiples of revenue. Then there...
Cloudfunder: 123 Technology
1. What does your business do? My business is 123 Technology. Based in Central London, my team of seven takes the hassle out of technology for entrepreneurs, small businesses and family offices. I set up the business after working for...
Clear Books plc FY14 half year update
Clear Books plc ("Clear Books" or the "Company") is pleased to announce highlights of its unaudited interim results for the 6 months ended 30 September 2013. Highlights Re-registered as a public limited company on 9th September 2013 First half of...
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)...
Cloudfunder: Everlevel
1. What does your business do? IT technology is forever changing with faster, better, innovative systems constantly being introduced to improve the way we operate. The people at Everlevel Ltd have experienced the IT revolution from the introduction of the...
Cloud Funding – week 1
What a fantastic first week which saw Cloud Funding raise over £160,000 from 100 new and existing shareholders. You can meet some of these cloudfunders every day on the blog and read about our press coverage too. Our vision is to create a...
Cloudfunder: Rokk Media
1. What does your business do? Rokk Media is a twelve year old digital agency that develops specialist software, mobile apps, websites and online marketing for clients as diverse as HSBC, T-Mobile, Met Office and Plymouth University. Operating from a...
Cloudfunder: Rejuvenate IT
1. What does your business do? Our business is Rejuvenate IT. We're the best provider of friendly IT support in Bournemouth. There are 12 of us, all techies, we're 5 years old. We provide IT, VoIP and Internet to SMEs. 2....
Cloudfunder: Accountancy Choice
1. What does your business do? My business provides a complete accountancy service to small and medium sized businesses. The practice has been running since 2009 and I have over 20 years of experience in accounting. We have a range...
Cloudfunder: Allen’s Electrical Ltd
1. What does your business do? Allen's Electrical Ltd is an electrical contractor in Torquay with two employees but we're growing. 2. Why did you invest in Clear Books? Impressive product and growth. 3. Clear Books is asking its customers to...
Five thousand shareholders
Our vision with Cloud Funding is for every single Clear Books customer to own a part of our company. All 5,000 of you, even if you only buy one £8.94 share. With 5,000 shareholders, who are all our customers, we...
Cloud Funding press update
Here's a quick recap of some of the press coverage we have had this week. On Monday we were in the Financial Times. On Tuesday we were in Growing Business. On Wednesday we were in TechMarketView. On Thursday we were...
Return on investment
Common questions around your return of investment have included how to sell your shares, what the dividend policy is and are we going to list on a stock market. Selling your shares Clear Books plc is an unlisted public company...
Valuing a tech startup
Clear Books plc is valued at just over £18m pre-money (i.e. prior to the launch of our Cloud Funding share offer). No method of valuation is perfect but as a fast growing startup here is the rationale behind ours. Please...
UK versus global growth
We have had a few questions about our Cloud Funding share offer that I will address each day through a series of blog posts. Today's question is whether or not Clear Books plc is going for global growth. The answer...
Infographic: Find out what your clients want
We surveyed a whole bunch of small businesses across the UK to find out exactly what they’re looking for in an accountant. The results are now in, displayed below as a lovely infographic! Do please let us know by commenting on...
Cloud Funding – day 1
The 23rd September 2013 marked the launch of Cloud Funding. If you hadn't noticed, Clear Books plc is raising £839,913 to grow the business and the day got off to a great start with coverage in the Financial Times. As a...
Clear Books plc Cloud Funding share offer launched
It's Tim here, the founder of Clear Books. As you know we recently became a public limited company. We did that so that we could ask you, our customers (and the general public), to consider becoming a part-owner of our...
Clear Books plc customers
We are commemorating the milestone of Clear Books becoming a plc with a montage of some of our customers' logos in a www.milliondollarhomepage.com style. We like it so much that a framed and printed copy is going to adorn our office...
Clear Books plc
We have some exciting news for our customers. Clear Books is now a public limited company, Clear Books plc. You place your trust in us by using our cloud business software to run your business. By becoming a public limited...
Budget tool update
A couple of months ago we made our re-vamped budget tool available to all Clear Books customers. Since then we have been gathering your feedback and improving the feature based on your suggestions. Things to look out for in this...
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 ....
Open Payroll gets the new theme
The recent launch of the new Clear Books theme has been a massive success, with over 95% of our customers now using it. The new theme was initially released in the Network, Partner Module and Staff Room and is continually...
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...
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...
Clear Books Cashbook – simple cash book software
Clear Books Cashbook has now been launched to all Clear Books Accounting and Bookkeeping Partners. Clear Books Lite is a stripped down version of Clear Books, providing simple online cashbook software for clients with very basic requirements. The features included in...
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...