Tax guide for accidental landlords
The state of the UK’s housing market over the last few years may have meant that you’ve found yourself as an accidental landlord with a property you weren’t able to sell. According to research by Rightmove, accidental landlords make up...
It’s our birthday but we’re giving you the gift
Clear Books turns the grand old age of 5 on Tuesday 2nd July - we know, we know, we don’t look a day over 4! Last year we celebrated by putting on a lavish breakfast spread for the team. This...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Core motivations – profit and fun
There are two things we ask of our entire team to reach for within our organisation. To generate profit and have fun. Profits provide the resources to achieve our vision of supporting millions of small businesses. From sustainable profits we...
AccountingWeb discussion group
This is one for all you accountants using Clear Books because today AccountingWeb launched the Clear Books discussion group. We're building Clear Books to be the cloud accounting software of choice for UK accountants so we're really pleased that this...
Clear Books and CheapAccounting.co.uk present Clear Books Entry
If you're a social media savvy accountant we are sure you will be very familiar with Elaine Clark and her brainchild the Cheap Accounting franchise. If you haven't yet succumbed to the whirlwind of opinions, news sharing and industry relevant...
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...
Raspberry Pi, no female developers, why?
At the BASDA Software Thought Leaders’ Summit May 2013, I had the pleasure of watching a presentation by University of Cambridge lecturer and founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Robert Mullins. The catalyst for Robert setting up the Raspberry Pi...
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...
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...
Tim Fouracre elected to BASDA General Council
Clear Books Limited, the authors of cloud accounting software Clear Books, cloud payroll software Open Payroll and cloud HR software Staff Room, today announced that its Managing Director, Tim Fouracre, has been elected to the General Council of BASDA (Business...
Re-vamped Budget tool in Labs!
We have been working on the Budget tool to make it bigger and better! You can get your hands on the shiny new Budget tool in Labs. Navigate the More drop down list in the top left hand corner of...
Clear Books is ICAEW accredited accounting software
Clear Books is pleased to announce that we have received the stamp of approval from The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Clear Books is officially ICAEW accredited accounting software. The ICAEW's accreditation process involved a rigorous independent...
A single European VAT rate to solve impending chaos of software for 28 VAT regimes
At the BASDA Software Thought Leaders’ Summit May 2013 Tarlochan Lall, a Barrister from the Monckton Chambers and a member of The VAT Expert Group, provided an insight into upcoming VAT changes. If you sell goods to other European businesses...
The 7 roles of a team leader
The 7 roles of a team leader in an inter-webbed organisation are: Foster autonomous problem solving Encourage a ship often and iterate quickly attitude Inspire and innovate Coordinate rapid team decision making Align team goals and objectives Organise resources and...
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...
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...
Electing leaders rather than appointing them
An inter-webbed organisation still requires leadership. Given that in most walks of life we elect leaders with a democratic vote it is odd that in the business world we do the opposite. A select few, usually with a self interest...
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...
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...
What do you look for in a networking event?
At the end of last month, Clear Books hosted it’s first Speed Networking event. It may have been the hottest day of the year so far but there was still a roomful of lovely Clear Books customers ready to make...
An inter-webbed organisational structure
I am not a fan of a chain of command, line managers or bosses. All these words have connotations of self importance. As a company of 20 employees perhaps this is a minor consideration given the size of our team,...
Employee and employer salary and tax table
For the tax year 2013/2014 this spreadsheet provides some interesting statistics for employees and employers. Employee Salary Table (PAYE, NIC Employees, NIC Employers) For employees you can find out what your take home pay is based on your annual salary...
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...
Online HR software for small businesses
First came Clear Books. Then came Open Payroll. Surely we couldn't bring you another fantastic app to make running your business even easier...could we? We can and we have! Staff Room is now live and ready to take on the HR tasks...
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...
Being a parent and running a business – week one
Last Monday I took the first steps to joining an inspiring group of people in the UK who are both raising a family and running their own business. I am a week and a day into being a dad! Charles...
