Go Books is the simple app for UK sole traders. Send professional invoices and get paid by card, snap your receipts, connect your bank, and keep every figure tax-ready — no accountant, no spreadsheets, no panic.
Every invoice you raise and every receipt you snap becomes a proper digital record automatically. Get paid faster, claim more, and have your tax figures ready before the deadline comes round.
Branded invoices with your logo, automatic numbering, VAT support and CIS deductions for subcontractors. Know instantly who's paid and who's overdue.
Your invoice arrives with a Pay now button. The client taps, pays by card, and the invoice marks itself paid — money straight to your own account. No Go Books fees.
Know the moment your client views the invoice, with a timestamp. No more wondering whether it landed — or whether "I never got it" is true.
Polite automatic reminders before the due date, on the day, and after — switched on or off per invoice. It stops the moment they pay. Never chase again.
Photograph any receipt or bill. Our AI reads the supplier, date, amount and VAT, files it under the right HMRC category, and keeps the image as your digital record. One tap to confirm.
Send a professional quote, see when it's opened, and let the client accept or decline online with a signature. Accepted? One tap turns it into an invoice — nothing retyped.
Send any client a clear statement of account — what's paid, what's outstanding, what's overdue — with a Pay now button on every open invoice.
CIS deductions calculated on every invoice, so what you're owed after deductions is right first time — and your year-end figures already account for tax taken at source.
Already invoiced through Stripe, on paper, or another app? Upload a photo, PDF or a whole stack at once. Our AI reads each one and drops it straight into your income — no re-typing.
Your cumulative totals build themselves as you work, in HMRC's own format. Direct filing to HMRC is coming soon — your figures will be ready to send the moment it goes live.
Read-only bank feeds match incoming payments to invoices and spot business expenses you forgot to claim — the ones that quietly shrink your tax bill.
VAT registered? Your 9-box return assembles itself from your invoices and receipts, ready for submission. Not registered? You'll never see a VAT field.
Year-end in one click: a complete tax-year pack that imports straight into Xero, QuickBooks or Sage — invoices, expenses by category, bank transactions and your receipt images.
Annual mode gives you a copy-ready Self Assessment summary mapped to the actual SA103F boxes, a 31 January countdown, and a one-tap switch to quarterly when your time comes.
A live estimate of the tax you owe so far, your penalty-point balance, and deadline reminders before things become urgent. No nasty surprises in January.
A free 60-second checker tells you exactly when Making Tax Digital applies to you — April 2026, 2027, 2028 or not yet — in plain English.
Camera-first mobile design. Capture a receipt in the merchant's doorway, send an invoice from the job, check your tax position at the kitchen table.
Raise and send invoices from the app. Every invoice is already a compliant digital income record — no re-typing anything anywhere.
Coffee with a client, diesel, materials — photograph the receipt and confirm the suggestion. Ten seconds, filed forever.
Income, expenses and tax owed, totted up as you go in HMRC's format — ready for your accountant, your Self Assessment, or direct filing when it launches.
Start using Go Books in October and you're not starting from zero. Our guided catch-up brings your whole tax year up to date — so your figures are right from day one, no spreadsheet required.
Drop in a whole stack — Stripe exports, PDFs, photos, even handwritten ones. AI reads each and adds it to your income.
Snap or upload the shoebox of receipts. Each becomes a categorised expense, with the image kept as your record.
Connect your bank and import recent transactions to catch anything you missed — read-only, never any access to move money.
A simple progress tracker shows your year-to-date income and expenses filling in as you go — so you always know you're caught up before the deadline.
No cut of your card payments — ever. Unlimited invoices on the free plan, not five a month like some.
MTD for Income Tax replaces the annual Self Assessment with digital record-keeping and quarterly updates. It's being rolled out by income level — and the thresholds are based on your gross turnover, not profit.
Tax data is about as personal as data gets. We treat it that way.
Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest, always.
We can look at your transactions — never touch them. We can't move a penny.
Designed around HMRC's Making Tax Digital requirements from day one.
Export everything, any time. Leave whenever you like and take it with you.
Go Books connects to HMRC using HMRC's own secure authorisation — you log in on HMRC's website and we never see your Government Gateway password. HMRC recognition for Making Tax Digital is in progress.
Join Go Books free while it's in early access — invoice, capture and file like it's nothing.
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