Accounting Software Support · South East London
Accounting software setup & support in Lewisham
Accounting software setup, migration, cleanup and training for businesses in Lewisham. A new file set up with the chart of accounts, bank feeds and VAT configured is £99; a migration with history is from £199; repairing a messy file is from £149. Fixed fees, published, the same in Lewisham as across England.
from £99 · fixed, one-off
Next deadlines
- VAT return and payment for the quarter that ended last month
- MTD quarterly update deadline (7 August, 7 November, 7 February, 7 May)
- VAT return and payment for the quarter that ended last month
- VAT return and payment for the quarter that ended last month
Who this is for
Accounting Software Support for Lewisham
Sole traders and small companies in Lewisham starting with cloud accounting for the first time, businesses moving between platforms or off spreadsheets for Making Tax Digital, owners whose software file has become unreliable after years of unreconciled entries, and teams who need to be taught to use the system they already have.
What is included
Everything inside the fixed fee
- Platform recommendation based on your business, VAT position, MTD obligations and budget, not on commission
- Chart of accounts tailored to your trade, with VAT codes, bank feeds and opening balances configured
- Migration from another platform or spreadsheets with historical transactions, customers, suppliers and balances carried over
- File cleanup: duplicates removed, bank reconciled, suspense cleared, VAT returns reconciled to what was filed
- Automations configured: receipt capture, recurring invoices, payment reminders, bank rules
- Recorded 90-minute training session for you or your team, with a written quick-reference afterwards
How it works
Accounting Software Support from Lewisham, step by step
Tell us your situation
A short message or call about what you do and what needs filing. We ask the questions that determine the right package and nothing more.
Fixed fee in writing
You receive one price for the work, confirmed by email before anything starts. It does not change if the job takes longer than we expected.
Send records, review the draft
Records come by WhatsApp or email. We prepare the draft, explain the figures in plain English and answer your questions.
We file, you get the receipts
Once you approve and the fee is settled, we submit electronically and forward the HMRC or Companies House acknowledgement the same day.
Why IGI
Why Lewisham businesses file with IGI
One fixed fee for accounting software support in Lewisham, agreed in writing before any work starts and never changed part-way through the job, however long it takes us.
Nothing for Lewisham is left to the last week. Each deadline relevant to accounting software support is tracked from the day you join, with the next four shown on every page we send you.
We serve Lewisham remotely by design: records by WhatsApp or email, drafts back for approval, filing electronic. The saving on premises is passed to you in the fee for accounting software support.
A named person handles your accounting software support from Lewisham and knows the file, so you are not re-explaining your business to a different helpdesk each time.
We explain accounting software support in the words Lewisham business owners use, not in accountant's shorthand, and we show our working so you can check it.
Nothing is filed for Lewisham until you have reviewed and approved it. You see the draft, you ask questions, you sign off, then we submit and send you the receipt.
Local facts
About Lewisham
Lewisham is in South East London, in the SE13 postcode district, England. Income tax in England follows the UK rates: 20% basic to £50,270, 40% higher to £125,140 and 45% additional, with the personal allowance of £12,570 tapered away above £100,000. National Insurance, VAT and Corporation Tax are UK-wide, and Stamp Duty Land Tax applies to property purchases.
| Place | Distance | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Lewisham Central | 0.4 mi | S |
| Ladywell | 0.6 mi | SW |
| Hither Green | 0.9 mi | S |
| Blackheath, Lewisham | 0.9 mi | NE |
| Lee Green, Lewisham | 1 mi | SE |
| Lee, Greenwich | 1 mi | SE |
| Deptford, Greenwich | 1 mi | NW |
| Greenwich West | 1 mi | N |
Worth knowing
Rules that come up in this work
Switching accountants
The main reasons people switch accountant are surprise invoices, missed deadlines and not understanding what they are being told. Switching involves a clearance letter between the firms, a transfer of records and agent authorisations, and a short handover of the current position. It takes about two weeks and should cost nothing extra.
Closing a company
Striking off a company is cheap but must be done in order: stop trading, file the final accounts and CT600, pay the tax, close VAT and PAYE, distribute the remaining assets, close the bank account, then apply. Anything left in the company at dissolution passes to the Crown. Distributions up to £25,000 are taxed as capital gains; above that a formal liquidation is usually needed to keep capital treatment.
Dormant companies
Companies formed to protect a name or hold a future business are dormant but not exempt: Companies House still expects dormant accounts within nine months of the year end and a confirmation statement annually with its £50 fee, and HMRC must be told the company is dormant or it will demand Corporation Tax returns. The filings are short, but the penalties for missing them are the same as for a trading company.
The trading and property allowances
Not every small income needs a tax return. The trading allowance exempts the first £1,000 of self-employment or casual income and the property allowance does the same for rental income, each measured on gross receipts. They cannot be combined with rent-a-room relief on the same income, and claiming the allowance means giving up the expense deduction for that source.
Employer National Insurance
Since April 2025 employer National Insurance has been 15% on earnings above a £5,000 secondary threshold, a substantial increase for small employers. The Employment Allowance rose to £10,500 at the same time to soften it for the smallest businesses. Directors deciding their own salary weigh this cost against the Corporation Tax deduction a salary provides.
Workplace pensions and auto-enrolment
Every employer must assess its workers for automatic enrolment from the first employee's start date. Those aged 22 to State Pension age earning over £10,000 a year must be enrolled into a qualifying pension with minimum contributions of 8% of qualifying earnings, at least 3% from the employer, and a declaration of compliance made to the Pensions Regulator within five months.
Record keeping
Good records are the difference between a quick enquiry and a long one. For the self-employed, five years after the filing deadline; for companies, six years from the year end; for VAT, six years. Photographs of receipts, PDF statements and software exports all count. The requirement is to keep records, not paper, and a well-organised cloud folder satisfies it.
Questions
Accounting Software Support questions from Lewisham
Can you fix VAT returns that were filed from the software wrongly?
Yes. We reconcile each filed return to the transactions, identify the errors, and correct them in the software and, where required, with HMRC through the next return or a formal error correction. The cleanup fee covers the software work; any HMRC correction is quoted separately before we start.
What if I want to do my own bookkeeping after setup?
That is exactly what the setup and training are for. Many clients keep their own books in the software we set up and come to us only for the year-end accounts and tax return, which is cheaper for them. We configure bank rules and automations so the routine work is mostly matching, not typing.
Who pays for the software subscription?
You do, directly to the software company, so that the data is yours and you can change accountant without losing it. Subscriptions range from a few pounds a month for basic sole trader tools to around £35 for the fuller platforms. We will tell you if a cheaper tier is sufficient.
Do you provide training?
Yes. The £89 session is 90 minutes by video call, recorded for you to replay, covering the tasks you actually do: raising invoices, capturing receipts, matching bank transactions, running the VAT return, reading the reports. A written quick-reference follows. Several staff can attend the same session.
Will the setup make my year-end cheaper?
Usually, yes. Our own limited company and sole trader accounts fees assume reconciled records, and a properly set up file produces them. Accounts prepared from a tidy software file take days; accounts rebuilt from a broken one take weeks and cost more. The setup fee is typically recovered in the first year-end.
Can you connect my online shop or payment processor?
Yes. Marketplace and e-commerce platforms, card processors and payment gateways can be integrated so that sales, fees and payouts post automatically and reconcile to the bank. Getting the fee and VAT treatment right on these integrations is where most e-commerce files go wrong, and we configure it as part of the setup.
Is accounting software support in Lewisham really the same price as elsewhere?
Yes. The fee published on this page is what a client in Lewisham pays and what a client in any other part of England pays. It is confirmed in writing before work starts and the invoice matches the quote. Where a higher package applies because your situation is more complex, we say so at the quote stage, never afterwards.
Which deadlines matter most for accounting software support?
The next four dates that apply to accounting software support are shown at the top of this page, calculated from today. For Lewisham clients we diarise every one of them from the day you join and send reminders before each, so the work is done in good time rather than in the last week before a penalty.
One message from Lewisham, one fixed price
Tell us what you need. You get one fixed fee in writing, and nothing is filed until you approve it.