A practice doesn't run on a ledger. It runs on deadlines — VAT, PAYE, CT and SA, across dozens of clients, none of which forgive a late filing. Navigare Accounting puts MTD-VAT, MTD Income Tax (ITSA), bank reconciliation, Companies House and CT600 iXBRL, payroll RTI and account schedules in one UK-focused system, so the work and the submission live in the same place and the deadline board is always honest. The submission engine is built to run against HMRC's test environment and switch to live when your practice is ready (HMRC recognition in progress).
Most small practices run a bookkeeping package, a separate tax filer, a payroll tool, a spreadsheet of deadlines and a portal for chasing client records. Every seam between them is a re-key, a missed deadline, or a submission you hope went through.
VAT here, payroll there, CT and SA somewhere else. Without one deadline board across every client, the only thing that catches a missed filing is a penalty notice.
Digital links, no copy-paste between systems, ITSA on the horizon. A toolchain held together by exported spreadsheets is exactly what Making Tax Digital was designed to outlaw.
Hours of matching feeds to ledgers, every client, every month. Without smart rules and a bank feed, it's the single biggest sink of unbillable time in the practice.
Accounts in one tool, iXBRL tagging in another, CT600 in a third, Companies House filing by hand. Each handover is a re-key and a chance to tag the wrong figure.
Every pay run is an FPS to HMRC on time, every month. A separate payroll tool that doesn't talk to the ledger means double entry and reconciliation drift.
Sage, IRIS and the AML add-on scale with headcount and client count. Win more work and your software bill rises faster than your fees.
MTD-VAT submission, smart bank reconciliation, iXBRL year-end accounts with CT600 and Companies House filing, payroll RTI and account schedules — all in one UK-focused platform, on a flat practice price rather than a per-seat tariff.
The principle: the data is entered once and flows all the way through. A reconciled transaction becomes a VAT figure, a year-end balance, an iXBRL-tagged account and a CT600 line without a single re-key — and the platform is built to submit to HMRC and Companies House from the same system, with the receipt logged against the client (HMRC recognition in progress).
The figure your client's bank produces is the figure that reconciles, becomes a VAT box, rolls into the year-end accounts and lands on the CT600 — and the same engine is built to submit it to HMRC and Companies House. Here is exactly how a transaction travels through Navigare Accounting, from a bank feed to a submission receipt logged against the client.
VAT, PAYE, Corporation Tax, Self Assessment and Companies House dates for every client roll up into a single colour-coded board. Obligations are pulled straight from HMRC, so the dates are the real dates — not a spreadsheet someone forgot to update.
One board, every obligation — each orbiting node is a filing type tracked for every client.
Open Banking and Revolut Business feeds land transactions automatically. Confidence-scored rules match them to the ledger — by amount, partner and date — and learn each client's recurring patterns, so bulk reconciliation turns a day a week into an hour.
Each feed line is scored and matched to a ledger entry — you confirm the batch, you do not key it.
Reconciled transactions roll straight into the nine VAT boxes in real time. Preview the return, check the obligation against HMRC, and submit under Making Tax Digital with digital links end-to-end — no copy-paste, no spreadsheet bridge. The submitted envelope is locked and the receipt stored.
The nine VAT boxes filling from the ledger — settled · accruing. Box 5 is the net due to HMRC.
Every step reads from the same ledger, so the figure never changes hands or gets re-keyed. Watch a transaction travel from the bank feed all the way to a logged HMRC receipt.
VAT, CT600, ITSA and Companies House all run this same rail — entered once, filed from the same ledger.
At year-end the same ledger generates iXBRL-tagged FRS 102 or FRS 105 statutory accounts and a full CT600 computation — marginal relief and R&D splits included — and is built to submit both to HMRC and the accounts to Companies House. No relay between three tools, no re-keyed figure.
One trial balance becomes the iXBRL accounts and the CT600 — built to submit to Companies House and HMRC from the same place.
Every client company is a record in the same practice — its own ledger, deadlines, documents and AML file — yet you work the whole portfolio from one dashboard. Onboard a new client with KYC and an engagement letter, and they appear on the board the same day.
The full client lifecycle — onboard to filed — runs in one practice, on one flat price, however many clients you carry.
This is the practice cockpit. Every annotation is a missed filing avoided, a penalty dodged, or an hour of reconciliation handed back to you.
The compliance board across the practice — VAT, PAYE, Corporation Tax and Self Assessment, with the next thing due on top.
Ashgrove Joinery's quarter — the nine VAT boxes computed from the ledger, ready to submit through the MTD API.
The same ledger serves the people who do the work, the people who watch the numbers, and the people whose business it is. Here is what each gets.
Practice staff live in deadlines and reconciliations. Navigare puts the entire client list, every obligation and every chase in one place — so the unbillable hours shrink and nothing slips through a seam between tools.
An in-house finance lead needs the management view live, not three weeks late. Navigare gives real-time figures off the same ledger that files the returns — with the controls and audit trail to back them up.
Owners want to know one thing: is everything filed, on time, and what does it mean for me. Navigare is built to support the obligations and tells you where you stand without the jargon.
Not a bookkeeping tool that hands off to a filer. Submission to HMRC and Companies House is part of the platform — built to run in HMRC's test environment and switch to live when your practice is ready.
Up to a hundred client companies, a handful of staff. The full deadline-to-filing cycle on a flat price, not a per-seat licence that punishes growth.
Reconciliation at volume, VAT submission and clean handover to year-end. Works alongside FreeAgent, Xero and QuickBooks where clients already use them.
One person, the whole UK compliance burden. The suite does the heavy lifting so you can take on more clients without taking on more software.
Tired of per-seat creep and a tool for every task? We migrate clients, ledgers and history, and run in parallel until you've signed off a full cycle.
"We were paying for Sage, a separate tax filer and an AML add-on, and still re-keying figures at year-end. On Navigare the bank feeds reconcile themselves, the VAT return builds itself ready to submit to HMRC, and the iXBRL accounts and CT600 come out of the same ledger. The deadline board alone stopped two near-misses in the first quarter."
— Pilot practice · two-partner accountancy firm · Slough / Windsor corridor
Software, hosting, hourly off-site backups and support — included. Up to 100 client companies, five staff, UK data residency and the full compliance suite: MTD-VAT, bank reconciliation, Companies House and CT600 iXBRL, payroll RTI and account schedules. Fourteen days free, no card. Migration from Sage or IRIS available.
Direct: [email protected] · Navigare Space Ltd · 73 Lent Green Lane, Burnham SL1 7AS · Company No. 11380511