Every one of our packages includes an award-winning FreeAgent subscription — worth up to £330 a year — so your invoicing, expenses, bank feeds and tax picture live in one place, with us watching over it.
Most firms either charge for software on top of their fees or hand you a temporary discount that quietly expires. We do neither. FreeAgent's standard price is up to £330 a year — with us it's £0, for as long as you're a client. That's not a promotion; it's how our packages are built.
For a startup watching every pound of runway, £330 a year is a real line item — that's your domain, email and a chunk of your insurance covered, just for picking an accountant whose deal is properly built.
| What you'd pay | What you pay with us | |
|---|---|---|
| FreeAgent, limited company plan | £330 a year plus VAT | £0 |
| FreeAgent, sole trader plan | £190 a year plus VAT | £0 |
| Unlimited receipt capture add-on | £5 a month plus VAT | £5 a month plus VAT |
| Amazon marketplace connector | £6 a month plus VAT | £6 a month plus VAT |
FreeAgent is free for as long as you hold a business current account with NatWest, Royal Bank of Scotland, Ulster Bank or Mettle. That is FreeAgent’s arrangement, not a discount we negotiated, and it is the same for everybody.
The part that catches people out is the Mettle condition: the licence stays free only while you make at least one transaction a month through the Mettle account. Open it, never use it, and the licence reverts to a paid plan. If you run your money through a different bank and keep Mettle as a dormant account, that is exactly what will happen.
So we set it up the other way round — Mettle as the account your business actually runs on, with the bank feed wired into FreeAgent from day one. One live account, one live feed, one set of books that is right without anybody typing anything in.
If you would rather bank elsewhere, say so at the start. We will either put the FreeAgent licence on our own practice account or move you to Xero instead, and quote accordingly. What we will not do is set you up on an arrangement that quietly starts charging you in month three.
We are a Xero Gold Partner as well, so any of these means moving you to a different tool rather than a different firm.
Yes. FreeAgent comes as standard with every package, so you don't pay the usual monthly subscription on top — that can save up to £330 a year compared with subscribing directly.
Yes. We simply connect to your existing FreeAgent account as your accountant — nothing to re-enter, no data lost, and you stop paying the subscription because it moves onto our partner licence.
It was built for exactly this. FreeAgent started life as software for freelancers and small businesses, and it remains the highest-rated UK accounting software for startups.
Yes. FreeAgent suits most of our clients here, but if your business is more complex we're a Xero Gold Partner too — we'll recommend whichever genuinely fits.
Yes. FreeAgent is fully MTD-compatible — it files VAT returns digitally and supports MTD for Income Tax quarterly updates, which is exactly why we recommend it.
