Balansix was conceived from first-hand experience of running an accountancy practice across disconnected systems and repeatedly rebuilding the same client information and accounting work.
Built for UK accountancy practices.
Add your photograph asassets/brand/founder.jpgThe objective was not to build another accounting application. It was to build the operating platform we wanted to use inside an accountancy practice.
Information and accounting outputs should move forward instead of being re-keyed into the next application.
Routine repeatable outcomes can be automated; incomplete and judgement-heavy items should remain visible.
Permissions, audit trail, review states, accounting locks and controlled finalisation remain part of the product architecture.
Changing software is a professional risk, not just a purchase. These are the reasons that justify taking it.
Receipt capture, a bookkeeping ledger, a final-accounts package, an engagement-letter tool, an advisory report builder and a timesheet spreadsheet become one subscription with one renewal date, one support relationship and no integrations to keep alive.
Depreciation, accruals, prepayments, accrued and deferred income, loan schedules and payroll journals post as the year runs. You open the file to check work already done properly rather than to reconstruct twelve months of it in January.
The trial balance the bookkeeping produces is the same trial balance the accounts are built from. No exports, no rounding differences between packages, no reconciling two systems that should already agree.
FRS 102 Section 1A and FRS 105 statutory accounts, iXBRL tagging, CIS, director loan accounts and multi-entity clients are handled inside the platform because the person who specified them prepares them for a living.
The numbers that produced the accounts produce the advisory report. Turning a compliance client into an advisory fee stops requiring an evening of spreadsheet work per client.
Staff time is captured as work happens against the job it belongs to, so you can see which clients are profitable and which are quietly subsidised — without asking anyone to fill in a timesheet on a Friday.
Xero and QuickBooks are established bookkeeping ecosystems and increasingly offer practice-facing tools in different combinations. Balansix takes a different starting point: it was designed around one connected UK practice workflow, from the client relationship and recurring work through bookkeeping, year end, final accounts and insight.
The six segments of the mark are the six pillars the platform is built on. Each one feeds the next rather than sitting in its own system, which is the whole argument in a single image.
Clients, jobs, statutory deadlines, engagement letters and team responsibility, held once and used everywhere.
Client records arriving through their own portal, indexed against the right client and the right period.
A controlled ledger with scored bank matching, VAT and CIS, and a suspense queue for anything that should not be guessed at.
Statutory accounts from the agreed trial balance, with notes and disclosures drafted and iXBRL tagging built in.
Plain-English advisory reporting on performance, position and tax, built from the same figures.
Individual user access, role-based permissions, audit trail and controlled cloud workflows designed around professional responsibility.
The reason most practices hesitate over new accounting software is not price. It is the professional exposure of relying on figures they did not calculate themselves.
The calculations, schedules and journals are coded logic. Depreciation, loan splits between amounts falling due within and after one year, accruals and deferred income are computed by rules that produce the same answer every time and can be explained line by line. No figure in your accounts is a model output.
Bank matching is scored into three outcomes: confident matches post, borderline items are offered for a one-click confirm, and anything genuinely unclear goes to a suspense queue for a person to decide. Software that guesses to look clever creates review work, it does not remove it.
Every posting traces back to the document it came from, with review states and controlled finalisation part of the workflow. If a figure is questioned — by a client, a lender or an inspector — you can show where it came from.
Questions are answered by an ICAEW Chartered Accountant who runs a practice and wrote the specification, not by a first-line agent following a script. Most support questions in this profession are accounting questions wearing a software costume.
Only if the joins between your systems are costing you. The test is simple: count how many times one client is set up, and how much of your year-end file is reconstruction rather than review. If those numbers are high, the saving is real. If they are low, stay where you are.
Judge it the way you would judge a new member of staff — on a live file with a year end you already know the answer to. The accounting engine is deterministic coded logic, every figure traces to its source, and the first set of accounts produced on the platform is reviewed with you before anything is filed.
Migration covers opening balances, comparatives, fixed asset registers and outstanding items, reviewed together before the practice relies on the data. Practices are onboarded in small numbers precisely so this stage is done properly rather than quickly.
Yes. Practices rarely move everything at once, and there is no requirement to. Balansix is built around the practice's workflow, so it can carry the clients where the compliance work sits while others stay where they are.
Mr H Hammad FCCA, ACA — an ICAEW Chartered Accountant, the current chief executive of a UK accountancy practice, and the founder, principal architect, designer and developer of the platform. He is subject to the same professional standards you are, and answers support himself.
It is built for UK accountancy practices from sole practitioners to multi-partner firms. It is not a bookkeeping product for business owners, and it is not an enterprise suite that needs a consultant to configure.
Bring one of your existing client journeys to the demo and compare how many handoffs Balansix can remove.