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HatchSolo

For solo entrepreneurs and freelancers running a UK business

You didn't start a business to do admin.

HatchSolo takes your VAT and your deadlines off your plate, then stops loudly, before you file, the moment a figure could turn into a fine. No team, no handover: just you, and a tool that has your back.

We check your accounts, confirmation statement, identity checks, corporation tax and VAT, tell you what needs doing, and help you close it. It takes seconds, uses what Companies House has on record, and nothing is sent anywhere. No company number needed.

See how it works

We are letting in a small number of companies at a time while we are in early access.

“An HMRC repayment had been counted as a sale.”

That is a real mistake we found in a real filed return. The bookkeeping software's maths was fine; a repayment had simply been coded the wrong way, and the figures still looked plausible. HatchSolo exists to catch exactly this kind of thing every time, not just when someone happens to notice.

What it does today

VAT you can trust

Reads your records from QuickBooks Online (and, once it is built, straight from your business bank account), works out every box of the VAT return, and shows where each figure came from. If something does not add up it stops and tells you exactly why, in plain words, with the real transactions in front of you. It never shows a guess as a number.

Decisions, not jargon

When a transaction needs a decision (a supplier that needs reverse charge, a VAT code it does not recognise) you decide on the same screen, with the real examples next to the question. Your answer is remembered for next time.

Every deadline, watched

VAT return and payment dates worked out from your own company's periods, shown in order of what needs you first. It never says all clear when it could not check.

A record you can show

Every approval, figure and receipt is kept in an append-only record, so you can show what was filed, when, and on what evidence. Download everything at any time.

What is live, and what is not yet

  • Sending the return to HMRC from HatchSolo is built and tested against HMRC's test service. It is not switched on for customers: HMRC has to approve it first. Until then HatchSolo prepares and checks the return and you file it with the tool you use today.
  • Corporation tax, annual accounts and the confirmation statement are watched as deadlines only. HatchSolo does not prepare or file them.
  • Your records come from QuickBooks Online today, for UK limited companies. Connecting your business bank account directly, so you do not need accounting software at all, is being built and is not available yet.

The trade-offs we made on purpose

Never guess

If a figure cannot be confirmed from your records, it is blocked with the reason. A wrong number never slips through quietly.

Never keep your HMRC sign-in

When filing is available you sign in at HMRC, on HMRC's own page. HatchSolo never sees your Government Gateway password, and does not keep HMRC access beyond the one submission you approve.

Never file without you

Nothing goes to HMRC until you have reviewed the figures and confirmed a declaration yourself.

What HatchSolo is not

Not an accountant and not tax advice: you review and approve every return, and you are responsible for it. Not a full bookkeeping suite: your records come from QuickBooks Online today, and from your bank account once direct connection is built. Built and run by a UK solo director, and used on our own companies first.

Questions, or want in? Email contact@hatchsolo.com.