Purchases

Expense management made easy.

Clear Books makes it quick to track bills, expenses and receipts, so you know how much you've spent and you're ready for the taxman.

01 · Track

Easy expense tracking.

Keep count of business bills and employee expenses with confidence. Simply enter each receipt or bill using Clear Books on the web or app to know where you've spent your money. You, your employees and your accountant can all enter bills, receipts or expense claims, just invite them into your account.

  • Track bills and employee expenses on web or mobile
  • Invite your team and your accountant
  • Always know where your money's gone
A supplier bill tracked in the Clear Books mobile app
Receipt saved
02 · Auto Bills

The easiest data entry you've ever tried.

The Clear Books app makes purchase tracking quick. Upload or snap a photo of any receipt or bill and our Auto Bills feature reads the text to extract the supplier, date, invoice number, VAT and total, so you do less data entry. In seconds, we pre-populate a record you can check, edit and save, with the original receipt image attached automatically.

  • Snap or upload receipts on your phone
  • Auto-extract supplier, date, invoice number, VAT and total
  • Original receipt image attached to every record
Snapping a receipt with Auto Bills in the Clear Books mobile app
03 · Organise

Automatic organisation.

When you use Clear Books, purchases are automatically organised as soon as you enter them. That means you can quickly search, sort and filter your expenses to find a particular entry, keeping control of your purchases and employee expenses without having to file or tag records.

  • Purchases organised the moment you enter them
  • Search, sort and filter in seconds
  • No manual filing or tagging
The bills list in Clear Books showing suppliers, amounts and payment status
04 · Tax ready

Make tax time a breeze.

You'll be certain you've made every tax claim you can. Simply track expenses as you incur them so you don't lose your receipts, and our easy-to-use system tracks allowable expenses and VAT claims for HMRC in the correct format. You'll be ready for the taxman all year round.

  • Capture every receipt as you go
  • Allowable expenses and VAT claims tracked for HMRC
  • Stay tax-ready all year round
See VAT & MTD
An MTD VAT return in Clear Books ready to submit to HMRC
05 · Clever automation

Expense tracking is even easier with these tools.

Bank feeds

Import transactions automatically and match them to bills as you go.

Recurring bills

Set regular costs up once and Clear Books creates the bill on schedule.

Projects

Assign purchases to projects to see what each one really costs.

Employee expenses

Let your team submit expense claims straight into your account.

Purchase orders

Raise and track purchase orders through to the final bill.

Complete reporting

Turn your spending into clear reports whenever you need them.

Less admin, more time

Sort your expenses. Free for 30 days.

Snap a receipt and watch the data entry disappear.