Bookkeeping software for businesses in the United Kingdom

The right system for a small business in the United Kingdom should keep its books in GBP, produce professional invoices, record expenses and supplier bills, organise cash and bank activity together, handle payroll, track stock where the business holds any, and produce a profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow an accountant can review. Braynix Books does all of these in one place, and starts with a setup shaped to the trade — a shop, a clinic, a restaurant or a haulier — rather than an empty ledger. There is a 30-day free trial and no credit card is required.

Braynix Books is global. It keeps books in any currency and at any tax rate, so a business anywhere can use it. Payroll rules are built in for 13 countries — Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda, Ethiopia, the United States, the United Kingdom, India, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia — and each has its own page. Anywhere else, payroll still runs but falls back to a generic calculation rather than that country's statutory law. The one direct tax-authority integration is Kenya's KRA eTIMS.

Yes. United Kingdom is one of the countries whose statutory deductions are implemented directly, so a payslip shows PAYE Tax and National Insurance worked out from the employee's pay, against their NI Number. Student loan repayments and pension auto-enrolment are not calculated, and the product is not connected to Making Tax Digital. The rates are maintained in the product and can be updated when the law changes.

Braynix Books keeps tax-rated invoices and purchases and produces a tax summary you can use when preparing a return for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). It does not submit returns on your behalf. It is not connected to Making Tax Digital or any HMRC filing service — the one direct tax-authority integration in the product is Kenya's KRA eTIMS. Each business stays responsible for confirming its own obligations.

Yes. It is a web application that runs on desktop, Android and iPhone, so an owner can check the day's figures from anywhere while a bookkeeper works on the same records. Two people can work at the same time and changes sync.