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AccountinA Chivvy product

Online accounting software for small practices

Client books, VAT returns, income tax quarterly updates and year-end accounts, filed with HMRC and Companies House. For practices and bookkeepers coming from VT, BTCSoftware and other desktop packages.

£175 a year for the first user, with unlimited clients and 30 days free when Accountin opens to your practice.

Accountin deadlines screen: VAT returns, income tax updates and accounts due across a practice's clients
A client approving their VAT return from their phone
VAT return approvedMoss & Hart Plumbing
Bank lines for a café, each with a suggested code and VAT rate

Client books from the bank statement

Bank transactions come in from the bank's statement file, as CSV, OFX, QFX or QIF. Accountin suggests a code and a VAT rate for each one, and you confirm them in a batch.

Sales and purchase ledgers, with aged debtors and creditors
Journals, fixed assets, accruals and prepayments
Several people working on the same client at once

Every filing a small practice makes

One plan covers the lot, for every client on your books.

Filing
What Accountin does
Goes to
VAT returnLimited companies, partnerships, sole traders

Worked out from the books under the standard, cash or flat rate scheme, approved by the client from their phone and sent to HMRC under Making Tax Digital.

HMRC
Income tax updatesSole traders and landlords

Quarterly updates on standard or calendar quarters, then the final declaration, for self-employment and UK property income.

HMRC
Year-end accountsLimited companies

Micro-entity accounts under FRS 105 and small company accounts under FRS 102 Section 1A, from the trial balance, with the notes filled in.

Companies House
CT600 and Self AssessmentCompanies and their directors

The company tax return beside the accounts, and the personal returns for directors, sole traders and landlords.

HMRC
Payroll, P11D and CISEmployers and builders

Payroll, benefits in kind and the Construction Industry Scheme in the same plan as the books.

HMRC
Profit and loss account produced by Accountin Balance sheet produced by Accountin

Year-end accounts, checked before they are filed

Accountin checks each set of accounts the way a reviewer would, then files them with Companies House. These pages are its own output for a test company.

Kembleford Joinery LtdAll checks passed
The balance sheet balances, this year and last
The fixed asset notes agree with both balance sheets
The profit and loss reserve carries from last year to this year

Bring your clients across

Accountin sets up your clients from the package you use today. If it produces a trial balance, your clients can move.

Moving from

VT Transaction+ or VT Accounts Suite

Your VT clients in a browser, with their trial balances, customers and suppliers brought across.

Clients, balances, customers and suppliers
Moving from

BTCSoftware or Taxfiler

BTCSoftware stops tax returns after 2025/26 and accounts for periods ending after 31 March 2027. IRIS stopped supporting Taxfiler in March 2025.

Trial balances and client details
Moving from

Another package or a spreadsheet

Forbes, SA2000, Andica or your own spreadsheets, brought across from the trial balance.

Anything that produces a trial balance

One plan, every client

Priced by the number of people using it, whatever the number of clients.

Accountin
£175
a year for the first user, then £90 a year for each extra user, plus VAT
Books, bank, sales and purchases
VAT and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
Year-end accounts, CT600 and Self Assessment
Payroll, P11D and CIS, with client approval links
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Coming soon
£49
a month per practice for Accountin Plus, plus VAT, with unlimited users and clients
A CRM, proposals and engagement letters
Taking on new clients
Jobs, workflow and time recording
The client portal
Hear when it opens