The Loop - Accountants

Adfin has launched card on file. A client saves their card once, and the firm can then charge it automatically on an agreed schedule, without chasing payment details each time. Ryan Pearcy explains how it works. Think of it as an alternative direct debit, with the agreement in place but the payment ...

Apron is changing its pricing from 1 December. The entry point stays at £5 a client for 100 documents a month, then steps up with document volume, while payments move onto their own tiers. Existing Gold and Platinum partners keep their cap on clients signed up before 1 December. Indi Tatla thinks th...

Glen Foster has joined Intuit to lead the mid-market and partner channel for QuickBooks in the UK, after two years helping build the accounting firm Sleek. Indi Tatla asks the question: what does Glen need to get right to show accountants that QuickBooks is a true partner? John Toon says that, in hi...

Indi Tatla, John Toon and Ryan Pearcy are back together for another OGs episode, with two lots of Apron news, a big raise in Germany and the full run-down of this year's Disruptor Awards. Xero has renamed Files to Documents and moved it into the Accounting menu, which John Toon calls the least contr...

Ryan Pearcy has a partial exemption spreadsheet so big it won't open on some clients' machines, so he was keen to introduce OneSixth. Full disclosure: it's John Toon's. It does VAT margin schemes and partial exemption, which the big ledgers don't, and posts the journals back to Xero, QuickBooks, Sag...

A Startup Coalition report, with input from Xero, Enterprise Nation and others, reckons UK businesses spend 11.2 million hours a year proving who they are to government. Each check takes about 20 minutes, which is why nobody complains, but 60 per cent of businesses have had something go wrong becaus...

Intuit and Perplexity have announced a partnership that brings QuickBooks and Mailchimp into Perplexity for US users, with Intuit expanding its MCP server so Perplexity can properly interrogate the data. Ryan Pearcy sees it as one more ledger wiring itself into one more AI platform, and it isn't slo...

AuditBot has launched AccountsBot, its answer to the financial statement review, working from a disclosure checklist written and maintained by HAT Group. Anyone who's done one knows the drill. A checklist starts at a hundred-odd questions and can run to six or seven hundred, and most people copy las...