Companies House
Filed from your books, not retyped from them
Most bookkeeping software stops at the accounts. You export a set of figures, open the Companies House website, and type them in again. Alwen was built to close that gap.
Where this stands today, plainly
Alwen files through the Companies House XML Gateway, the same route the approved software packages use. Accounts and confirmation statements have both been built and both have been accepted by the gateway in its test environment.
It is not approved for live filing yet. Companies House require continuous testing across the filing types and scenarios a package intends to support before they will move it to live, and that is a clock they control rather than one we can shorten. Until then, file the real thing yourself and use Alwen to prepare it.
We would rather put that at the top of this page than have you find out at a deadline.
What it produces
Micro-entity accounts under FRS 105, as iXBRL, generated from posted journals rather than from a spreadsheet you maintain alongside them. The output has been validated against the FRC taxonomy and passes the joint filing checks.
Confirmation statements, dormant accounts, registered office changes and officer resignations are all built against the same gateway.
- Accounts built from the ledger, not re-entered
- iXBRL validated against the FRC taxonomy
- Confirmation statement, AD01, TM01 and dormant accounts
- Every submission and its gateway response kept
The deadlines, on the page you open every day
Your accounts date and confirmation statement date sit on the dashboard with the number of days left, coloured differently once they are close and differently again once they are late. Not in a settings page you would have to remember to visit.
A company that misses its accounts deadline is fined automatically, on a scale that doubles if it happens twice running. The date is the single most valuable thing a set of books can tell a director, and it is usually the thing software hides.
Books that prove their own arithmetic
A continuous ledger audit runs over every posted journal and checks the invariants that have to hold: that every journal balances, that no line points at another company's account, that a paid invoice matches its payment journals, and that historical entries have not changed since the last run.
The result sits on the dashboard as a badge with the time of the last run. QuickBooks Online does not do this, and neither does anything else at this price. It matters most at exactly the moment you are about to file something with your name on it.
Want to be told when filing goes live?
We will write to early-access members when Companies House approve the package, and not before.