--- description: Learn more about Clear Books price, benefits, and disadvantages for businesses in Australia. Read reviews from verified users and discover similar tools that fit your business needs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/capterra/og_logo-e5a8c001ed0bd1bb922639230fcea71a.png?auto=format%2Cenhance%2Ccompress title: Clear Books Cost & Reviews - Capterra Australia 2026 --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Accounting Software](/directory/1/accounting/software) > [Clear Books](/software/91374/clear-books) # Clear Books Canonical: https://www.capterra.com.au/software/91374/clear-books Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/91374/clear-books?page=2) > Get MTD for Income Tax ready for free. HMRC-recognised UK accounting made simple for sole traders, landlords and small firms. > > Verdict: Rated **4.6/5** by 34 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Overview ### Who Uses Clear Books? UK sole traders, landlords, small limited companies, contractors, and accountants and bookkeepers, especially those needing MTD compliance, CIS for construction, or multi-currency accounting. ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.6/5** | 34 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Clear Books - **Location**: London, UK - **Founded**: 2009 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: GBP 16.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: Start for free with Clear Books' free Making Tax Digital plan, built for UK sole traders and landlords who need to comply with Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD for ITSA). Keep compliant digital records and submit your quarterly updates to HMRC at no cost, with UK-based support. As your business grows, paid plans add more of the full toolkit , for example invoicing, VAT, CIS, multi-currency, payroll and reporting, with options to suit small businesses, limited companies and accountants. Every plan is HMRC-recognised and Making Tax Digital ready, and you can try any paid plan free for 30 days. Pricing stays flexible with no long-term contracts, so you can upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time with no additional or exit costs. Paid plans start from £5 per month. - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200 - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile) - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States ## Features - Accounting - Accounts Payable - Accounts Receivable - Activity Dashboard - Approval Process Control - Audit Trail - Bank Reconciliation - Billing & Invoicing - Budgeting/Forecasting - Chart of Accounts - Contact Database - Customisable Invoices - Expense Tracking - Financial Management - Financial Reporting - Fixed Asset Management - General Ledger - Invoice Processing - Multi-Currency - Payment Processing - Payroll Management - Project Accounting - Purchase Order Management - Quotes/Estimates - Reminders - Reporting & Statistics - Tax Calculation - Tax Management - Third-Party Integrations - Time & Expense Tracking - Transaction Management ## Integrations (11 total) - Capsule - ChannelGrabber - Commusoft - Dext - FreshBooks - Gmail - GoCardless - Google Workspace - Mailchimp - PayPal - Stripe ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - Chat ## Category - [Accounting Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/1/accounting/software) ## Related Categories - [Accounting Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/1/accounting/software) - [Billing and Invoicing Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/30015/billing-and-invoicing/software) - [Project Accounting Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/32657/project-accounting/software) - [General Ledger Software](https://www.capterra.com.au/directory/32520/general-ledger/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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I also appreciate the automation features, such as automatic categorization of expenses and recurring invoices, which saves me time and reduces the risk of manual errors. > > **Cons**: On the other hand, there are some cons to consider as well. The software can be slow at times, causing frustration and slowing down my work. Additionally, the support system could be improved, as I have encountered a few issues where it took a while to get a response or resolution. > > Overall, I believe that Clear Books is a good choice for small and medium-sized businesses looking for a simple and affordable solution to manage their finances. However, some improvements to the software's performance and support system would enhance the user experience even further. ----- ### "Clear Books can be easily managed our accounts transactions." — 5.0/5 > **Verna** | *25 November 2019* | Staffing & Recruiting | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: By using that accounting software, then we can sell all our sales and marketing products without any thinking about the invoices losses because the Clear Books always provide its customer with fully invoices and expenses profit. We are always get all the financial reports about our accounts activity and get the progress of invoices and expenses, So in that way we can saw our profit in sales and marketing. > > **Cons**: Sometimes, due to accounts problem we cannot easily get all our invoices and expenses with the normal process. But as we saw the Clear Books comparison software's, then we conclude that it is always best for accounts management with great customer invoices and expenses features. > > Before using this accounting software, I always worried about the accounts and invoices transactions but now a days, through the Clear Books software I always free from any tension which is related from my accounts transactions. ----- ### "Useless customer service and disonest business practices" — 1.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *22 March 2016* | Internet > > **Pros**: Product fairly easy to use > > **Cons**: Interface could be improved Customer service extremely slow and pretty much useless Don't give them your card details\! > > Did trial back in October but didn't buy the monthly subscription after This March dediced to give it another go and start the paid subscription,and this is when their incompetence started, not only they took 1 monthly payment of £24 but the days after kept taking £24 payments from my account ,3 times totalling £72 was taken (apparently the system decided to back charge on payments since the trial\!) , and a fourth payment that got declined by the bank. After complaining to customer service and ask for a refund of the payments taken by mistake on the 8th, still waiting for refund to be made\! now been two weeks waiting for a refund. Several emails sent, calls, several excuses (best one being that the CFO needs to authorise/sign off the refund( a CFO needs to authorise a refund of £72\!\!) but refund nowhere to be seen even after confirming (and me chasing again) that it had been authorised. Cancelled subscription as its obvious there are not to be trusted with one's financial details and seem incompetent to perform a basic financial task as a refund. ----- ### "Excellent solution to carry and track the accounting" — 4.0/5 > **Anderson** | *5 December 2018* | Government Administration | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: It has a panel through which you can control the most important aspects of your accounting, program reminders and automate the payments you should make, another aspect that I like is your billing module, you can customize and adapt to your needs, manage the part You only have to import the bank statements and reconcile your accounts effectively > > **Cons**: In general lines is a fairly complete software, however I have noticed that it does not allow you to repeat certain tasks, that is, once a task is completed, you must re-program it again if you require it. > > It has been very productive to have a tool like this software since it compiles the accounting information and helps you manage it so that you can have all your accounting in order and reconciled, even emits reports that are very useful when making decisions, facilitates payment of taxes and the management of payments with our suppliers ----- ### "Honestly, I think that this is the best UK online accounting app on the market" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *10 December 2014* | Internet > > **Pros**: \* Brilliant support \* UK based \* Responsive and reliable \* Does everything I need and more \* Good pace of new features and improvements > > **Cons**: \* A few feature niggles but these are in the improvements queue I believe \* It's not immediately obvious that you can try out demo data in your free trial - I had to be told about this by a support person > > Our company previously used Sage desktop for over 10 years. I am not an accountant and I never really got on with Sage but our book keeper is a big fan so we stuck with it, despite being aware of various cloud accounting applications. Over the past couple of years we have taken free trials of SageOne, Xero and Kashflow - all without success. These applications each have their good bits and bad bits but they were simply not a good fit for us. However, this year we have discovered Clear Books and I can honestly say that it has revolutionised our accounts. Our book keeper loves it and I love it too. It's so simple to use and it gives us all the data we need to run our business much more effectively than before. Perhaps the best thing about Clear Books though is the support team. From the experience I've had so far they seem to genuinely care about their users, they are knowledgable about their application and they always see an issue through to a solution. What more could you ask of support? They're also based in the same UK office as the developers which is a massive plus in my book. I can wholeheartedly recommend Clear Books. I don't take the time to write many reviews but I rate this application so highly that I felt compelled to write this one. ----- Page: 1 / 3\ Next: [Next page](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/91374/clear-books?page=2) ## Links - [View on Capterra](https://www.capterra.com.au/software/91374/clear-books) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | de-AT | | | de-CH | | | en | | | en-AE | | | en-AU | | | en-CA | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-IL | | | en-IN | | | en-NZ | | | en-SG | | | en-ZA | | | es | | | es-AR | | | es-CL | | | es-CO | | | es-CR | | | es-DO | | | es-EC | | | es-MX | | | es-PA | | | es-PE | | | fr | | | fr-BE | | | fr-CA | | | fr-LU | | | it | | | ja | | | nl | | | nl-BE | | | pt | | | pt-PT | | ----- ## Structured Data