Working out your filing dates…
It keeps the books while you're on the tools - quotes, invoices, receipts, mileage and CIS - then files it to HMRC when the quarter's up. On the phone in the van, on the laptop at the kitchen table.
Free for 30 days. No card. £99.99 a year after that.
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Kitchen refit - Mrs Jones
Rewire - 22 Elm St
Boiler service - 14 Oak Rd
Books kept while you're on the tools, filed when the quarter's up.
The shape of your year
Since 6 April 2026, sole traders turning over more than £50,000 keep digital records and send HMRC a quarterly update. £30,000+ joins in April 2027, £20,000+ in April 2028.
Scroll the year. Each update lights up as it comes round - and the one you're recording into right now is marked.
First quarter's income and expenses, by HMRC category.
Summer work, materials and mileage. Receipts already sorted.
Quiet months and Christmas. CIS tracked against every payment.
Year-end tools and van costs. Capital allowances as you go.
Confirm the year, check the tax, send it. One screen, not a weekend.
Miss one and HMRC charges points-based late-submission penalties. TradeKit reminds you before every date above - and, separately, before every CIS monthly return, including nil returns.
What's in the kit
No bloated accounting software, no per-feature add-ons. The tools that help you run a trade business, and the tax work handled underneath.
Quarterly updates, MTD VAT nine-box returns and your Final Declaration - over official HMRC OAuth, no copy-paste and no spreadsheets. Self-Employment, UK Property and Foreign Property all covered. Built and HMRC-tested; filing switches on as our HMRC recognition completes.
Deductions, nil-return reminders, Payment & Deduction Statements, and subby due diligence with UTR and Companies House checks - a timestamped record of reasonable steps.
TradeKit reads the amount, the shop and the date, then drops it in the right HMRC box. Screwfix-aware, VAT-aware. Never lose a receipt in the van again.
Import a CSV or PDF statement from any UK bank. TradeKit categorises the merchants to HMRC expense boxes and matches incoming payments to your invoices.
Send a link to the customer's phone. They read it, sign with a finger, tap accept. Binding e-signature with timestamp, IP and device. One tap turns it into an invoice.
Card, Apple Pay and Google Pay links on every invoice, straight to your bank. Overdue chasers go out at 3, 7 and 14 days so you're not the debt collector.
Every job from quote to payment, with live profit and margin on each one. Green means money, red means trouble. Drag a booking in the calendar to move it.
Scan the boiler plate to fill in make, model and GC number, sign on screen, send by WhatsApp. Gas Safety Records and Warning Notices issued from the doorstep.
Log the trip, TradeKit works the relief and handles the 10,000-mile threshold. Capital allowances too - including the blended rate where your year straddles 6 April.
Invite your accountant to look at the books read-only - they see income, expenses, mileage and the SA103F breakdown, but can't edit anything or touch your bank and HMRC logins. One tap bundles the whole year into a CSV, a summary PDF and every receipt image. No per-seat fee, no year-end shoebox.
From the guides
Short, plain-English guides on the tax and admin side of working for yourself. Written for tradespeople, not accountants, and free to read whether you use TradeKit or not.
The honest picture
No other UK app at this price puts MTD ITSA filing, MTD VAT, CIS and trade-specific tools in one subscription. Where someone else does it better, we've said so.
| Capability | TradeKit£99.99/yr | Coconut£99.99/yr‡ | FreeAgent£190/yr* | QuickBooks£120/yr | Tradify£408/yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MTD ITSA quarterly filing | Yes† | Yes | Yes | Yes | Via integration |
| MTD VAT nine-box returns | Yes† | No | Yes | Yes | Via integration |
| UK Property (landlord income) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Foreign Property | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| CIS deductions (subbie side) | Yes | No | Yes | Limited | Tracking only |
| CIS Payment & Deduction Statements | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
| Subby due diligence (UTR, Companies House) | Yes | No | Partial | No | No |
| Trade-specific jobs and quotes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Gas certificates (CP12) | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Bank transaction import | Yes§ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Via integration |
| Receipt capture and OCR | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capital allowances (AIA / FYA / WDA) | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Blended WDA rate for April 2026 change | Yes | No | Yes | Unconfirmed | No |
| Plain-English tax help in the app | Yes | No | Help docs | Help docs | No |
| One price, no CIS or property add-ons | Yes | Tiered | Yes | Tiered | No |
* FreeAgent's sole trader plan is £190/year billed annually (£19/month monthly), and free for NatWest, RBS, Ulster Bank and Mettle business account customers. ‡ Coconut's £99.99 Bookkeeping plan needs a £45 MTD Annual Submission add-on to file a year-end declaration; the £49.99 Bridging tier is for spreadsheet users. † TradeKit's MTD ITSA and VAT filing are built and HMRC-tested; they switch on when HMRC issues production credentials. TradeKit is not advertised as HMRC-recognised software. § TradeKit imports bank transactions from CSV and PDF statements. It is not a live Open Banking feed. Researched in good faith - tell us at support@tradekitapp.co.uk if anything here has gone out of date.
Price
Or £10.99 a month. Cancel any time and you keep access to the end of the period you've paid for - no clawback, and your data exports to CSV whenever you want it.
No card to start, no add-ons, no long contract.
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Put your jobs in, snap your receipts, log your miles. When the quarter's up, TradeKit's already got the numbers - and HMRC gets what it's owed without you losing a Sunday to it.
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