How fast do I get a real quote?

Within 24 hours of telling us your monthly transaction volume. We quote in writing — scope, price and a start date — once we know what your books actually involve, not before.

Is my financial data secure?

Always. We run a zero-local-data architecture inside your own cloud accounting file via VPN-protected connections, under a multi-jurisdictional NDA agreed before access starts.

Which software do you work in for United Kingdom?

Xero, QuickBooks Online, FreeAgent. We work directly inside your existing environment — nothing new to set up before we start.

What if I'm already behind on my books?

That's catch-up work, priced separately by how many months behind you are and your transaction volume — a fixed project fee, not a monthly retainer. Tell us where things stand when you request your quote.

Is HMRC compliance included in the monthly price?

No — compliance work is a separate service line from bookkeeping, priced and delivered on its own. That keeps liability and pricing clean, and it's added when you actually need it.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · FRS 102

Bookkeeping for UK small businesses, from £150/mo.

Salt keeps Making Tax Digital-ready books in Xero for UK founders, agencies and professional-services firms — reconciled weekly, so quarterly VAT and Corporation Tax come straight off the ledger instead of a spreadsheet. Tell us your transaction volume and you get a written quote within 24 hours. No sales call required.

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Core bookkeeping

£150/mo

Growth scale

£400/mo

Virtual CFO

£900–£3,000/mo

How it works in the United Kingdom

Compliance handled, not guessed at.

Under Making Tax Digital, UK bookkeeping is no longer only about accuracy — HMRC expects an unbroken digital link from the transaction to the VAT return. We keep your Xero file MTD-compliant and reconciled weekly, so each quarterly return, due one month and seven days after the period ends, is generated from the ledger instead of typed in from a spreadsheet.

What we watch for you

Making Tax Digital (MTD)
Quarterly VAT returns
Corporation Tax (CT600)
Companies House filing

Currency: GBP (£)
Standards: FRS 102 / UK GAAP
Key forms: CT600, Self Assessment (SA100), VAT returns, Confirmation Statement
Software: Xero, QuickBooks Online, FreeAgent
Regulator: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)

Real engagement · UK professional services firm preparing for funding

One set of numbers, four audiences that each wanted them differently

A UK firm approaching equity investors and lenders needed the same accurate financials reshaped into the formats each reviewer expected.

The client could present financials in the format each investor or lending institution expected.
Less friction and fewer follow-up questions during funding and lending review.

What was hard: Different investors and lending institutions asked for different levels of detail and different disclosure formats. That meant maintaining several tailored versions of the same underlying financials rather than one standard report.

Answers

UK bookkeeping, answered

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Tell us your transaction volume and what shape the books are in. You get scope, price and a start date in writing within one business day — no obligation.

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