01 · your year

The treadmill, in numbers.

Every small practice runs the same calendar. Here's where the year goes, before we take a chunk of it off your desk.

205

days until the next 31 January, and most of them go on chasing paperwork.

4

VAT quarters to file every year, on top of the year-end work.

5

filing points per MTD client now, where you used to have one January return.

MTD for Income Tax is live from April 2026: digital records, quarterly updates and a final return, per affected client. Dates and rules from gov.uk, checked July 2026.

02 · the site

What good looks like for a firm.

This is Marchmont & Pike, an accountancy concept I built to show the standard. Hover it and it walks through itself.

01Fixed monthly fees, in writing
The hourly clock is the thing owners fear. A firm that shows the number reads as one that has nothing to hide.
02A named accountant, not a ticket
People buy the person. Put a face and a name on the page, because the relationship is the product.
03The switch, made painless
Say plainly that you handle the handover from the old accountant. What stops owners moving is the hassle, so take it away.
04Deadlines you can see
A live countdown and a clear "here's what we need from you" beats another reminder email into a full inbox.

See the full concept Want one like this?

Marchmont & Pike is a concept, not a real firm. Yours gets built on your services, your team, your fees.

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03 · the other half

The jobs you still do by hand.

A site gets you found. These four run all year in the background, and every one of them is a small build. Ask anyone in the practice which they did after close last night.

1

Chasing records before the deadline

Today

An information-request letter in April, then chasers in June, July, September, November. The client portal you pay for sits empty, so someone hand-writes "here's what's still missing" emails, one inbox at a time.

What I'd build

A chase sequence in your firm's voice that names each client's outstanding items and steps up as the deadline nears, plus a one-tap branded upload page, no login, that files documents straight into the storage you already use.

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2

Onboarding a new client

Today

Every new client means ID and address checks you're legally on the hook to keep for five years, chased by email like everything else. Engagement letters get retyped and reissued by hand, usually every year.

What I'd build

One onboarding flow: an enquiry form, ID and document capture, then a templated engagement letter out for e-sign. It lands in the checklist or verification tool you already run, so nothing gets keyed twice.

Ask about this

3

Deadlines on a spreadsheet

Today

Due dates live on an Excel tab and a pile of Outlook reminders. One deleted row and a return goes in late. And clients keep emailing to ask where things are, which is a second job on top of the first.

What I'd build

A deadline dashboard that fills itself from the free Companies House feed, with a traffic-light chase status, plus an optional client-facing "your jobs" page that heads off the where-are-we emails before they land.

Ask about this

4

The MTD quarterly cycle

Today

From April 2026, affected sole-trader and landlord clients keep digital records and file quarterly, plus a final return. That's roughly five filing points a client where you had one, and the record-chase from job one, four times over.

What I'd build

An "are you caught by MTD?" checker on your site that follows HMRC's own logic, so it pulls in leads and triages clients, feeding a per-quarter countdown and upload chase split by threshold year.

Ask about this

MTD dates and rules from gov.uk, checked July 2026. Time-saved figures stay off this page until I can point at a named firm's real number. So this page names the jobs, and the figures come once they're real.

04 · moving to us

Switching is easier than you think.

Most firms stay put because moving feels like a hassle. So here's the whole of it, in four steps.

Step 01

A quick call

Twenty minutes. I look at your current site and how the admin actually runs, then tell you honestly where there's a quick win and where there isn't.

Step 02

I build the demo

You see a real, clickable version of the site and the first tool, on your firm's name and colours, not a slide deck of what it might look like.

Step 03

We wire it in

It connects to the software you already run: Xero, QuickBooks, your practice tools, Companies House. Nothing that already works gets rebuilt.

Step 04

Looked after for life

It stays quick, current and compliant as the deadlines and the rules move. That's the part other builders hand over and forget.

05 · what it costs

Priced like a fixed monthly fee.

Most firms take the subscription: nothing upfront, one monthly amount, and the website and the admin stop being your problem.

Starter

£149/mo

Nothing upfront · 12-month term

The accountancy site done properly. Fixed-fee clarity, a named-accountant page, deadline visibility, hosting, changes and care, bundled.

Start with Starter

Most practice value

Standard

from £199/mo

Nothing upfront · 12-month term

The site plus the admin killers. Record-chasing, onboarding and a deadline dashboard: the jobs above, built in. We'll agree the exact mix on the call.

Start with Standard

Rather pay once? Builds start at £595 with care plans from £49 a month. The full ladder is on the pricing page, and I'll always tell you if the smaller option fits.

The deadline's coming either way. Let's make it quieter.

Fifteen minutes on the phone and I'll tell you what I'd build, what it costs, and whether it's worth doing at all. If your current site just needs tidying, I'll say so.

Book the call → Send a message

07548 072 498 chris@midlandscodelab.co.uk