The power of real-life feedback!
Yesterday, we invited eight of our accountant partners from across the UK to a half-day forum to discuss ideas and improvements for Clear Books software. Ensuring that our software continues to provide what our users really want and need is...
Clear Books Clinic Roundup
Our first Clear Books Clinic last Wednesday 8th April was an undoubted success! Eleven customers dropped by throughout the day to chat to Suzy, our CFO, and Paul, our resident accounting consultant, about making the most of their Clear Books...
Meet the Clear Books team: Developer Tom Verran
Who are you? I’m Tom, a developer at Clear Books. I joined the company in June 2011 on a years industrial placement with the University of Kent and then returned in 2013 after finishing my degree. What does your role...
POLL: Vote for your favourite feature idea
There are several factors that influence our product roadmap, including changes in industry regulation and innovation from the Clear Books team. A major source of feature ideas though is our Community forum. Hundreds of ideas have been submitted by Clear...
Small Business Infographic: Working with your accountant
Earlier this year, we surveyed the business owners in our community to find out more about their relationship with accountants. In the latest of our series of 3 infographics using the survey data, we’ve looked at how business owners prefer...
Small Business Advice: How Google Works
Several of us at Clear Books have recently been reading ‘How Google Works’ - a book by Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg about the lessons they learned as they helped build the company. It’s a great resource for...
Q&A with Clear Books CFO Suzy Kerton
Clear Books CFO Suzy Kerton has been featured in the latest edition of The CA magazine - the official magazine of ICAS (Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland)! In the article, Suzy discusses her role at Clear Books and her...
Infographic: 22 ways to improve productivity in the workplace
The onus is no longer just on employees to maintain high levels of productivity. Employers must also share the responsibility to keep their workforce inspired, motivated and engaged. Read our latest article for tips on how you can keep morale...
Free Clear Books Clinic – 8th April
After the popularity and success of our Clear Books Clinic at CBCE last month, we’re holding another one at our office in Hammersmith on 8th April. Come along and talk to one of our friendly and experienced support and finance...
How to make your final RTI payroll submission of the year
At the end of each tax year, HMRC need to know that the RTI (Real Time Information) payroll being submitted is the last submission of the year. A number of declarations need to be answered before submitting to HMRC. Our support...
Small Business Advice: An easy guide to auto-enrolment
Auto-enrolment can be confusing, and the deadline to enrol your employees in a compulsory pension scheme is coming ever closer for many small businesses. We’ve collaborated with one of our accounting partners to put together a quick introduction to get...
Scheduled Clear Books maintenance in early hours of 21st March
Clear Books will be unavailable for up to 2 hours between 00:00 GMT and 02:00 GMT on Saturday 21st March 2015, while scheduled maintenance is carried out. Any customers who are logged in before the scheduled maintenance starts will have...
Free accounting software for students!
Are you a student in need of accounting software? Whether you’re an accounting student or running your own start-up while at university, then we have a great deal for you! All you need is a valid ‘ac.uk’ email address and...
Small Business Advice: 21 ways to prevent disastrous meetings
At Clear Books, we’re determined to avoid unnecessary meetings. Experience has shown that too often they’re easily hijacked by other issues, waste time and are ultimately not productive. However there are some meetings that can’t be avoided— such as performance...
Clear Books at The Cloud Conference 2015
Clear Books will be at AVN’s Cloud Conference in Birmingham this Thursday 12th March. We’ll be speaking about the cloud and how it can impact accountants’ practices, featuring live case studies from accountants and insights from our recent survey on...
Clear Books Clinic – free face-to-face help with your Clear Books account!
Want to find out how you can make the most of your Clear Books account? On Wednesday 8th April we're holding our first Clear Books Clinic event, where users can drop in to the Clear Books office in London and talk...
Small Business Advice: Time Management – ‘Its about time’
Glen Goldsmith, PR consultant and writer, looks at why time management is important and provides some advice on how to manage it more effectively. As a PR consultant and writer, and as a husband with two children, my time...
Recipe of the month: March
Many Clear Books users are business owners, and whether you’re working by yourself from home or as part of a team in an office, time can be tight when it comes to having a lunch break. That’s why each month...
Meet the Clear Books team: Lead developer Adrian Clay
Who are you? Hi, I’m Adrian Clay the developer team leader. What does your role at Clear Books entail? The developers perform a number of roles within the company. Our time is split between working on improvements to the existing...
New feature update – February 2015
Last month we asked you to vote on 5 feature ideas suggested by Clear Books customers on our online Community forum. Thank you for all who voted and left feedback - there are hundreds of small projects or tasks that...
Small Business Advice: Resources for writing a business plan
Have you had a ‘eureka’ moment for a business idea? One of the first steps any budding entrepreneur should take when starting out is to write a great business plan. Even if your business is already established, it’s important to...
Scheduled HMRC maintenance affecting RTI returns
Due to a scheduled upgrade at HMRC, you will be unable to submit Open Payroll RTI returns between 22:00 on Thursday 26 February and 01:59 on Friday 27 February. If you were planning on submitting returns during this time period, please...
Business Advice: 5 cheap ways to market your small business
Once you’ve created a solid strategy for your brilliant business idea that covers the big picture, the small picture and everything in between, then you can get to the fun part — promoting it. Here are our top 5 (inexpensive)...
Small Business Infographic: Finding and choosing an accountant
For business owners, choosing an accountant is an important decision and one that can take a lot of research. We surveyed our community of small business owners to discover what they found important when making their decision, and also what...
Free Business Podcast Series: Meet UK Speechwriter’s Guild
The first in our brand new series of business podcasts is now available on the Clear Books website. Entrepreneurs from the Clear Books community will be offering unique business insight and advice, and we have some fascinating and varied subjects...
Final Accounts is here!
Today we’re launching Final Accounts, a new online accounting solution enabling businesses’ final accounts to be prepared using information directly from Clear Books’ cloud accounting software. Final Accounts has been built in consultation with accountants and user experience designers and...
Accountant Advice: Strategies for winning new clients
The way accountants win new clients is changing. As cloud accounting software becomes more prevalent, new and creative strategies for gaining business are rising to the fore. Read our new white paper, which contains case studies from a range of...
Recipe of the month: February
In our second ‘recipe of the month’, our onboarding team leader Mike shares his favourite meal, a hearty three bean stew which will definitely keep you going until spring finally comes! Three Bean Stew Ingredients: 1 x leek sliced 2...
New feature ideas and updates
Our active online community forum is a great place to keep up to date with Clear Books features that have recently been released. In this blog we’ll be rounding up the key new features that have been released recently. We’ve...
Share the love this Valentine’s Day!
Would you like to win a hamper of goodies and feature your business in a podcast on our website? Well, to be in with a chance, all you have to do is tell us in under 100 characters why you...