A named accountant and a pod
One person who knows your business, with a small team behind them, so your questions go to people who already know your business.
What every Buzz client gets, whichever package
A named accountant, FreeAgent, a portal and an app we built ourselves, your deadlines tracked, and a reply within one working day.
With every package
- A named accountant who knows your business
- A reply within one working day
- FreeAgent or Xero, set up properly
- The portal and the app, included
- Every deadline tracked and filed
- One fixed monthly fee
Included in every package
FreeAgent included
FreeAgent bookkeeping software is included in your fee, worth up to £330 a year. If you already use Xero, we work in that too. About FreeAgent
The Buzz portal and app
We built the portal and app on our own software. They hold your invoices, receipts, tax, deadlines, documents and messages, on the web and on your phone.
Deadlines tracked and filed
Every filing has a date and a name against it. You see them in the portal and we make the filings.
Unlimited support
Email, phone, WhatsApp and video calls, with most queries answered within one working day. Our promise
A fixed monthly fee
The fee is quoted before you sign and collected by Direct Debit, and it includes your questions.
The Buzz portal
Sign in from any browser. The app has the same account and features.
Home screen
The home screen is a short list of the things only you can do, with how long each takes, and a set of one-press actions for the things you do most.
Underneath it: the tax building up so far, invoices owed to you, your fees, the next key dates and your team.
Invoices
Raise an invoice in the portal or the app and it goes straight into your books. Your customer gets an email with the invoice and a page to view or print it, with your logo and bank details on it.
One press sends a polite reminder showing what is still owed. Mark it paid when the money lands, or let a connected bank feed match it for you.
Expenses
Photograph a receipt and we read the supplier, date, amount and VAT off it. You can also type an expense in, or claim business miles at HMRC's rates.
Everything lands in a review queue on our side, so it is checked by a person before it goes into your accounts.
Tax estimate
The portal shows an estimate of the tax on the profit so far, when it is due, and what to put aside each month to cover the bill. It is worked out from your live books, and it says how much of the year it is based on.
Each accounting year shows where we are with it: the accounts, the return, the payment date.
Key dates: the filing calendar
Every deadline that applies to you, what each one is, and who is doing it. Past dates stay on the list as a record of what was filed and when.
A document cabinet sits alongside it for accounts, returns, letters and anything you upload, and each message raises a ticket with your team so it is tracked.
Bookkeeping status
The portal shows the date your books are written up to, so you know how current the figures are.
Snap and send a receipt from here, connect your bank so transactions arrive on their own, and see which software you are on.
Director tools
Director tools show whether the company owes you or you owe the company, what a dividend would cost, and whether salary or dividend is the better way to take the next pound out.
They also set out three rules for directors: dividends come out of profit, a director's loan is separate from salary, and an overdrawn loan account has a tax charge on it.
Fees and payments
Your fee notes, what is paid, what is due and when it will be collected. Direct Debit is protected by the Direct Debit Guarantee and you see the date before it leaves.
It also lists the services you have with us, and adding one is always your decision.
Your team
The named people looking after you, with a photograph, so you know who you are writing to. Message any of them and the right person picks it up.
It also shows the practice details you occasionally need: the company number, the professional indemnity position and who to contact if something has gone wrong.
The Buzz app
Raise invoices, photograph receipts and check your tax estimate from your phone.
Service from your accountant
- Checking your figures
- Your accountant reviews your figures through the year and rings you if something looks wrong, such as a margin that has slipped, while there is still time to act on it.
- Decisions
- Your accountant can talk through decisions such as taking a lease, making a hire or raising prices, drawing on how other owners have handled the same decision.
- Deadlines
- Every deadline has a named person responsible for it, and what happens when we get something wrong is set out on our promise page.
- Further services
- Management accounts, cashflow forecasts, coaching for the owner, legal support and financial planning are available when you need them, from the same people working from the same figures.
- Software changes
- We build the software ourselves, so when a client asks for something a screen is missing, the request goes to the people who build it.
Switching to Buzz
- Switching is free
- The letters, the records, the HMRC authorisations and the software set-up are included when you join. Catch-up bookkeeping, where the books are behind, is quoted separately before work starts.
- What you do
- You accept the quote. We write to your old accountant, ask for the handover pack and chase until it arrives. If you want to tell them yourself, a one-line email is enough.
- You see the fee first
- Four questions on the instant quote puts the monthly figure on the screen and the full proposal in your inbox.
- Questions are included
- Calls and questions are covered by the monthly fee.
- Leaving
- If you leave, you take the records, the history and the software subscription in your own name. We hand over records even when an invoice is disputed.
- Any time of year
- You can switch at any point in the year. Which firm finishes the open work is agreed in writing before anything moves, so every filing has a named person against it.
The switching page sets out how the move runs, week by week.
Questions about the portal and app
Is the portal or the app an extra cost?
No. Every client has them as part of the fee, whichever package they are on.
Can I keep using Xero?
Yes. FreeAgent is included in the fee, and we work in Xero too. The portal sits alongside either.
How do I sign in?
Press Client login at the top of this site, enter your email, and we send a six-digit code. The app has its own sign-in.
Can my bookkeeper or business partner use it too?
Yes. Each person on your record can sign in with their own email, and everything they do is logged against their name, so you can see who raised which invoice.
Can customers pay an invoice from the page?
Your bank details print on every invoice, so they pay by bank transfer straight to your account.
Where is my data held?
In the UK, on our own system, Buzz OS, with access limited to the people looking after you. Our privacy policy sets out the detail.
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