GBP invoicing, UK bank feeds reconciled by AI, MTD-ready VAT, and real-time reporting in one ledger. Free Plan, no credit card.
95%+ auto-match is an internal benchmark, not an audited figure · SOC 2 Type II is an independent attestation, not a certification
The AI accountant for UK small business. MTD-ready books, reconciled by AI. GBP invoicing, UK bank feeds reconciled by AI, MTD-ready VAT, and real-time reporting in one ledger. Free Plan, no credit card.
HelloBooks is AI accounting software for UK small businesses with Making Tax Digital-shaped VAT, Open Banking feeds reconciled by the AI agent, and FRS 102 / UK GAAP-aligned ledgers for limited companies and sole traders. The AI categorizes, reconciles, drafts GBP invoices, and closes the month in hours rather than days.
VAT-registered businesses get MTD-ready quarterly returns, partial-exemption handling, and a digital trail from source document to HMRC submission. Companies House year-end packs — abridged accounts, director’s report, and iXBRL tagging — generate straight from the ledger. CIS deductions, payroll RTI workings, and corporation tax draft computations are first-class, not bolt-ons.
The Free Plan ships the core accounting features for up to 2 users, no credit card required. UK founders, contractors, and accounting practices pick HelloBooks over Xero when they want the AI to own the close and the compliance workings — not just present a dashboard of unreconciled balances.
Each one is a feature you'd otherwise stitch together from two or three tools. Skim them here, then watch the agent work in the live demo below.
AI-Powered
AI-based accounting software that listens. Tell your AI what to do — create invoices, record bills, or snap a receipt. Our AI bookkeeping software handles the workflow from capture to categorization.
Reconciliation
95%+¹
AI matches transactions in real time. Bulk-reconcile in one click — no rules to write.
Local compliance
MTD-ready VAT records kept as you trade — every sale and purchase coded, reconciled and backed by its source document.
AI Payables
Let AI match invoices to payments and recommend approvals with confidence. Watch AI parse extracted line items, auto-match to existing inventory, and suggest mappings.
Migration
Switch without the stress. Migrate from QuickBooks, Xero, Tally, Zoho or Wave and bring your ledger across — every transaction, contact, item and opening balance — with a dry-run preview before you commit.
¹ 95%+ auto-match is an internal benchmark, not an audited figure
You stay in control
HelloBooks does the heavy lifting, but it never files or posts behind your back. The AI proposes; you and your accountant dispose — with a full audit trail and an undo on everything.
HelloBooks reads bills, categorises transactions and matches your bank feed — then hands you the result. Nothing posts to your ledger until you (or your accountant) confirm it.
A full audit trail logs what the AI suggested, what actually changed, who approved it and when — so month-end and any review start from a clean, defensible history.
Edit or unwind any AI-assisted entry, match or categorisation. Nothing is a one-way door, so an automation can never quietly corrupt your books.
Invite your CA or bookkeeper with reviewer or read-only access. Bills route through approval before payment, and returns wait for a human sign-off before they are filed.
One platform
Receivables, payables, banking, inventory, tax and reports share one ledger — so nothing is re-typed between apps and the AI agent sees the whole picture.
Create and send invoices, put retainers on recurring billing and let customers pay online. The AI agent matches every incoming payment to its invoice and chases the ones that are overdue.
Bills and receipts arrive by email or upload, OCR reads them, and the AI codes each line to the right account. Expense claims route for approval before anything is paid.
Bring in bank and card transactions and let AI reconciliation do the matching: a deposit to its invoice, a card swipe to its expense account. You review the exceptions, not every line.
Items, variants, units of measure and bills of materials live in the same ledger as your invoices and bills, so stock valuation is always current and reorder alerts fire before you run out.
Explore Inventory
MTD-ready VAT records kept as you trade — every sale and purchase coded, reconciled and backed by its source document.
Explore VAT
Profit and loss, balance sheet and cash-flow statements update as transactions post. AP and AR aging and custom report layouts are a click away, with multi-entity views on the Business plan.
Why HelloBooks in the UK
Six reasons UK small businesses move from Xero, FreeAgent, Sage and QuickBooks UK — with MTD, CIS and RTI in the base plan rather than as add-ons.
Submit Making Tax Digital VAT returns to HMRC from your posted ledger, run CIS deductions and statements for construction, and file RTI PAYE submissions — reverse-charge VAT included. No MTD bridging spreadsheet, no third-party CIS module, no separate submission credential.
Every AI action is logged against the source document it came from, and the agent categorises at 95%+ accuracy, reconciles your bank feed and drafts the month-end close. That is exactly the digital record-keeping MTD asks you to demonstrate — approve the month, and the evidence is already assembled.
The UK is a Plaid-supported open-banking market: Barclays, HSBC UK, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander UK, Halifax, Nationwide, Monzo, Starling and Revolut among thousands more, with rollout by region. Statement upload with AI parsing covers you in the meantime.
Xero and QuickBooks UK price by tier and put multi-currency in the top plan, so adding your bookkeeper, your accountant and a second director costs real money. HelloBooks includes unlimited users and full GBP/EUR/USD multi-currency on every paid plan.
HelloTime runs attendance, holiday and payroll on the web and posts payroll journals directly into HelloBooks, so wages, PAYE and pension lines reconcile without an import. RTI submission runs from HelloBooks. The HelloTime Attend mobile app for shift workers ships Q3 2026.
Core accounting and 2 users cost nothing and need no credit card. Pro is a flat £14.99/month with unlimited users, and MTD VAT submission is included rather than sold as a compliance add-on.
Tailored for you
Whether you run the business, advise it or are just getting it started, HelloBooks sets up around your workflow.
Invoicing, bank reconciliation and reports on a Free Plan — no credit card and no time limit.
Accounting software for small businessClose the month in hours, keep investor-ready financials, and grow to unlimited users on Pro.
Accounting software for startupsRun every client’s books from one dashboard, automate the routine work, and join the free partner program.
HelloBooks for accountantsSee project and client profitability, bill retainers on repeat, and know your margin on every client.
Accounting for agenciesConnect HelloBooks to your software, automation tools, and workflows. Get an API key in one click, use a safe sandbox, explore the API docs, and see every request your integration makes.
Sign in, choose your company, and get an API key.
Test with realistic Indian accounting data without touching a real ledger.
API documentation, code samples, request logs, webhooks, and OAuth support.
# No organization ID, no entity ID:
# the key already identifies your company.
curl https://<api-host>/public/v1/customers \
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Frequently Asked Questions
AI-powered accounting software built for small businesses, freelancers, and CPAs.
HelloBooks is an AI-powered accounting software that automates bookkeeping tasks like transaction categorization, bank reconciliation, and financial reporting. Unlike QuickBooks, FreshBooks, or Xero, HelloBooks uses AI agents to eliminate manual data entry — saving businesses 20+ hours per month.
HelloBooks has a Free Plan with the core accounting features and up to 2 users — no credit card. AI is recharge-based: top up with a credit pack whenever you need more. Pro is £14.99/month (£149/year) with unlimited users and 15,000 AI credits, priced per company rather than per seat.
Yes — HelloBooks offers a permanent Free Plan with 200 AI-categorized transactions a year, 1 bank connection (a bank account or a credit card), AP/AR aging reports, and the core accounting features. Up to 2 users included. No credit card required to sign up. No time limit. Upgrade to Pro when you need more AI credits or unlimited users; multi-entity is on Business.
HelloBooks connects to 11,000+ US banks and credit unions via Plaid for real-time transaction feeds. Once connected, our AI automatically categorizes transactions with 95%+ accuracy.
Yes — HelloBooks includes a guided QuickBooks USA migration that imports your company file (chart of accounts, customers, vendors, transactions, and history) in a single pass. It is a one-time data migration, not an ongoing two-way sync — once you are on HelloBooks, that is your source of truth.
HelloBooks AI automates transaction categorization, bank reconciliation, vendor/customer matching, invoice processing via OCR, expense claim approvals, anomaly detection, and financial report generation. It learns your patterns and gets smarter over time.
Yes — HelloBooks is built for both small businesses and accounting professionals. CPAs can manage multiple clients from one dashboard, automate bookkeeping workflows, and reduce manual work. We offer a partner program for accounting firms.
HelloBooks includes AI bookkeeping on every plan, Free included — not gated behind a higher tier — and prices Pro per company rather than per seat, so the whole team is covered at one price. A guided QuickBooks USA import brings your exported company file across when you are ready to switch. See our detailed comparison at hellobooks.ai/compare.
Yes. HelloBooks has per-source importers for QuickBooks (Online and Desktop), Xero, Tally, Zoho Books and Wave, plus a generic CSV import for any other tool. Your chart of accounts, contacts, transactions, items and opening balances come across, and a dry-run preview with one-click rollback means nothing is final until you commit. Start at hellobooks.ai/migrate.
Your books are available from any browser or the HelloBooks mobile app, updates reach every account automatically with nothing to install, and your accountant works in the same live ledger instead of trading files. Bank feeds and AI categorization keep the numbers current between reviews, so month-end becomes a check rather than a catch-up.
Yes, by market. In India, HelloBooks files GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B directly and generates IRN e-invoices and e-way bills. In the US it tracks multi-state sales tax and prepares 1099s, and in the UK it keeps MTD-ready VAT records. In Australia, Canada, Singapore and Kenya it prepares BAS, GST/HST, GST F5 and VAT3 returns, with e-filing on the roadmap in those markets.
HelloBooks is independently attested under SOC 2 Type II — an attestation, not a certification. Security controls, data handling and sub-processors are documented in the HelloBooks Trust Center at hellobooks.ai/trust-center.
HelloBooks connects to banks across the United Kingdom through Plaid, our open-banking partner — securely import GBP transactions for automatic AI categorisation and reconciliation. Connection rollout is by region. Supported institutions include:
…and thousands more institutions via Plaid open banking. Connections are read-only and bank-grade secure — HelloBooks never sees your login. Prefer not to connect? Upload a statement and HelloBooks’ AI reconciles it line by line.
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