Creating Direct Debit mandates in Clear Books is changing
Our GoCardless integration automates the process of setting up direct debit mandates with your customers. This feature simplifies the process of getting your customers to pay on time, and from 2nd November 2016 we will be making the process even...
5 Bookkeeping myths from the IAB
Running a business of any size it bound to have its difficult points. Be it that you’re struggling to get to grips with employment law, or that you’re spending a lot of your time looking for more spacious office spaces....
Future Product Development
Although it may seem as though not much has changed with the product over the last year or so, the development team have been busy optimising the product performance and responsiveness, moving the entire system to a new hosted environment...
Clear Books customer feedback – the results!
Over the last 8 weeks we’ve been working with Enquir3 who’ve been interviewing our accounting partners and getting feedback on what we do well and what we don’t do so well. The positive feedback has been hugely encouraging for the...
Introducing the new Clear Books theme
As part of an ongoing plan to improve our product, Clear Books is pleased to announce that its New Theme will go live on 31 October 2016. This has been available in Preview, to all users for several months and...
Certified Partner Spotlight – Midford Accountancy
Clear Books interviews Bashir Salat of Midford Accountancy to discuss how he manages his practice now, and in the future. Introduce yourself and what it is you do? I’m Bashir I’m an accountant, ACCA qualified. Membership with AAT, IFA and IPA. Mainly cater...
Certified Partner Spotlight – Pebbles Projects HR & Accounts Ltd
Clear Books interviews Sean Huxley, Director of Pebbles Projects HR & Accounts Ltd to talk all things from accounting to entrepreneurship. Introduce yourself and what it is you do? Sean Huxley, Director of Pebbles Projects HR & Accounts Ltd. I oversee the...
Get on your bike! It’s National Cycle to Work Day!
Happy National Cycle to Work Day! Today is a national event aiming to encourage everyone to get on their bike and pedal to work! For the last month employers and employees all around the UK have been pledging their miles...
We have decided to remove the Account Code Template feature… but don’t panic!
If you are familiar with the account codes template feature you will know that it allows you to create a snapshot of your current account codes list and then apply that snapshot to different organisation in Clear Books. This feature...
Impressions of a Clear Books “Newbie”
It’s now six weeks since I joined the Clear Books team so it’s a good time to reflect on what’s happened during that time, where we are and where we’re heading. What was most noticeable from day one was just how...
Server Migration Update
On the 3rd September we successfully migrated our infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS provides best in class web hosting services which will improve our ability to grow and to provide a fast, reliable service to all our customers....
Upcoming events for Accountants and Bookkeepers
There's a lot going on at Clear Books in September and October for accountants and bookkeepers, so make sure book your places sooner rather than later, to avoid disappointment as places are limited! Introduction to Clear Books and Cloud Accounting...
Clear Books Final Accounts Will Be Withdrawn
Following an extended beta programme, the decision has been taken to withdraw the Clear Books Final Accounts product for the foreseeable future whilst we concentrate on some major upgrades and enhancements to our core Accounting and Payroll products. We are...
Scheduled Maintenance – Server Migration Saturday 3rd September 2016
Over the last few months, as part of our goal to increase the speed and reliability of Clear Books and improve our ability to grow to meet the demands of our customers, we’ve been working on migrating our infrastructure to...
Clear Books Takes Gold in the SaaS Summer Games
As the Olympic games in Rio this summer come to a close, we can reflect on a brilliant summer of sport, especially for team GB. But it isn’t just athletes competing for medals this summer. Clear Books is delighted to...
The Official Clear Books Partner Badge
If you're a Clear Books Partner, we are delighted to provide you with our new official partner badge to to display on your website. The badge will show your clients that you are an official Clear Books partner and build confidence...
Making Tax Digital (MTD) and what it means for your business
HMRC announced Making Tax Digital (MTD) initiative in the March 2015 Budget and has released on 15 August 2016, 6 consultation papers on various aspects of this proposal. The consultation period runs until 7 November 2016. Here is a quick summary...
Clear Books Scheduled Maintenance
The Clear Books servers will be undergoing scheduled maintenance later this week. This means Clear Books will be unavailable between 23.30 on Wednesday 20th July and 01.00 BST on Thursday 21st July 2016. We hope that the time slot chosen minimises...
Simple Accounting Software
Clear Books has always had 1 mission. That mission is to create simple accounting software that business owners and accountants alike can use to lighten their load, and save time. Whether you’re an existing user and need a refresh, or...
Changes to the subscription area – part 2
A shiny new look for Subscriptions Our product team are passionate about making Clear Books clear & simple for you and have been hard at work changing the way you manage your subscriptions. Previously we released the first set of...
Welcome to a faster Clear Books
Clear Books just got faster Here at Clear Books, we are passionate about creating the best accounting experience for you. We want using Clear Books to be a simple process for you so that you can get on with running...
New Clear Books feature releases – June
Each month, we release a set of new features into Clear Books Preview - an area of your account where you can start using the latest Clear Books updates before they are available on general release. All Clear Books customers can...
Scheduled maintenance this week
We want to make you aware that there will be scheduled maintenance taking place during this week (Wednesday 1st June - Friday 3rd June). This essential maintenance will allow us to maintain security and increase speeds across the application. Please...
Product Roadmap May 2016
Back in March we mentioned that our Product Roadmap was under new ownership and today we are delighted to share this with you. The team put a great deal of thought into which projects should take priority. Having listened to...
Changes to our subscription area – part 1
A shiny new look for Subscriptions Our product team have been hard at work transforming the subscription area to make it clear and simple for you to manage your subscriptions with Clear Books. Today, we’re releasing ‘Part 1’ of our...
Our product roadmap is under new ownership – find out what this means for you
Clear Books has set itself a clear & simple vision. We are focusing on accounting and payroll in the UK market. We want a clear & simple product that is fast and works for all our customers. Having listened to...
New improvements to our account code features
From tomorrow (Wednesday 2nd March), you'll notice some changes we've made to several of our account codes features which will have a positive effect on your overall user experience when using these tools. In case you've not used them before,...
How to turn your hobby into a career
How to turn your hobby into a career So you have a hobby that you think might make a good business. You’re good at it, you enjoy doing it, and you can think of nothing better than getting paid for...
Clear Books auto enrolment – all features now released!
We’ve now released the 7th and final stage of our auto enrolment features for Clear Books Payroll! Below you can see what’s included in the stage 7 release, and at the bottom of the page we’ve linked to details of...
Scheduled maintenance tonight (Thursday 18th February)
We will be performing necessary maintenance for 2 hours tonight, between the following times: Start time: 23:00 GMT Thursday 18th February End time: 01:00 GMT Friday 19th February This will involve downtime for users, so Clear Books will be unavailable during this period. We’ve chosen...