Accountants and bookkeepers

TaskMyJob for accountants and bookkeepers

For the practices and bookkeepers doing the books for trade businesses — and for the question you get asked every week: what should I actually put my client on? Your own scoped login, their receipts caught on site rather than in a carrier bag next March, and a closed period that stays closed.

What it changes for you

Your own login, scoped to the money

An Accountant role sees invoices, payments and the reports. Not customers' addresses, not job photos, not the diary. You get what you need to work and the client keeps their business to themselves.

Access that ends on a date

Set when it runs out. When it does, the page explains that the access ended rather than looking like a broken login — and the owner sees it counting down before it happens.

Receipts caught at the door

Photographed on site against the job, with the supplier and what it was for, at the moment the client is handed it. Not in March, in a carrier bag, with half of them faded.

A period you approve stays approved

The figures are written down as they stood. A late invoice dated back into a closed month does not move the report — the page says what landed instead, and you decide what to do about it.

An uncosted line is unknown, not free

A bill nobody has keyed in is excluded from the VAT figure and counted out loud. The margin prints the percentage of work it actually speaks for. Nothing here reports a confident number it cannot stand behind.

And it files nothing

No returns, no submissions, no implication of either. These are your client's own figures, tidied up. Said on every page that touches tax, and enforced by a check that fails the build if it ever stops being true.

What it does not do

No bank feed and no reconciliation — that is your software's job. Nothing is filed with HMRC and no page implies otherwise. Applications for payment and valuations are not a document type of their own; a staged invoice is the nearest thing. And the Sage allocation and refund legs have not been exercised against a live Sage account yet.

This list is here on purpose. An accountant who finds a gap after recommending something never recommends it again, and a recommendation is the only thing this page is asking for.

Free tools you can use without an account

The arithmetic on these pages is the same code the invoices run on, so what you work out here is what the software would do.

Questions, answered

Can I have my own login to a client's account?

Yes, and it is a role of its own rather than a password shared with you. An Accountant sees invoices, payments and the reports — and none of the day-to-day: no customer addresses or phone numbers, no job photos, no quotes, no scheduling, no settings. The customer's NAME still appears, because it is on the invoice and a ledger without it is unusable.

Can access be time-limited?

Yes. Access can be set to end on a date, so a one-off piece of work does not leave a door open for ever. When it lapses you land on a page that says the ACCESS ended, names the business, says when and says who can renew it — rather than a sign-in screen that reads like a forgotten password. The owner's team page shows it counting down before it happens.

Does a closed period stay closed?

Yes, and it is the thing most software gets wrong. Approve a month and the figures are written down as they stood, with the caveat they were approved under. If an invoice is later dated back into that month the approved report does not move — and the page tells you what landed since, so you can decide rather than discover.

How do I get receipts out of a trade client?

They photograph it on site, against the job, at the moment they are handed it. It carries the supplier, what it was for and what it cost, and it is in the records before the van has moved. That is the difference between a shoebox in March and a month that is already done.

Does it connect to Xero, QuickBooks or Sage?

Yes — invoices, payments, credit notes and refunds reach the books without anybody re-typing them. One honest note: the Sage allocation and refund legs have not been exercised against a live Sage account yet, and where a connection refuses something it is reported rather than quietly dropped.

Does it file anything with HMRC?

No, and every page that touches tax says so plainly. The figures are your client's own, worked out from their own records, so they can see where they stand and you can work from something tidy. It is not a return and it does not pretend to be. There is a check that fails the build if any page ever claims otherwise.

Does it handle CIS properly?

Yes. The deduction is on labour only and before VAT, an unanswered line is refused by name rather than guessed at, HMRC tax months run 6th to 5th, and a deduction counts when the contractor pays rather than when the invoice was raised. Statements and the tax-year reclaim are there, and where a received statement disagrees with the invoices, the statement is what can be proved.

What about retention?

Recorded, so money being held does not make an invoice look overdue and get chased. Held retention is never chased; past its release date it is ordinary money owed and named as retention, because 'your invoice is overdue' is the wrong call to make about money a quantity surveyor is sitting on. A retention with no date yet is never late.

What happens at year end?

One download: a records pack of the schedules, with what it contains and what it does not stated on the page before anybody sends it anywhere.

Does it do bank reconciliation?

No. There is no bank feed and no reconciliation — that is your software's job and this does not pretend to replace it. What it does is make sure what reaches you is complete and already coded.

What does it cost my client?

£29.99 a month for the whole business — every feature, every engineer, no add-ons. 60 days free and no card to start, so they can put a month through it before deciding.

See it being done

Step-by-step guides with a short recording of each one, free to read without an account.

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Also worth a look

Plenty of businesses are two of these at once. It is the same product and the same price either way.

Try it on your own work

60 days free with everything switched on, and no card to start. If you would rather ask something first, there is a person on the other end.

£29.99 a month for the whole business after the free 60 days.

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