DataFlow lets a practice keep any number of client companies on a single installation. Post inter-company entries once, run VAT for each company to HMRC, and give every client a full audit trail — without a separate system per client.
Any number of companies on one installation
Consolidated group reporting and inter-company postings
VAT 100 to HMRC for each company under Making Tax Digital
A separate system for every client does not scale.
When each client sits in its own login, its own file and its own reconciliation, the practice carries the overhead of them all.
Juggling separate systems per client
A different login, licence and layout for every client means the team relearns the software each time it switches company, and no one has a single view across the book.
Re-keying the same figures twice
Inter-company balances, recharges and shared costs get typed into one company and then typed again into another, so the two never quite agree.
Month-end reconciled client by client
Closing the period one client at a time, in one tool after another, turns month-end into a long serial task with no shared trail to lean on.
Client deadlines all on their own clock
Every company runs its own VAT quarters, year-ends and filing dates, so the schedule lives in a spreadsheet on the side and the deadline that matters is the one that quietly slips past.
Overview
One installation, every client company.
Run the whole practice from a single place, with the controls to keep each client separate.
Any number of companies on a single installation
Any number of companies on a single installation. Per-user company lists so each person sees only their clients.
Any numberof companies on one installation
Per usercompany lists
Inter-company postings and consolidated group reporting
A transaction in one company auto-generates the matching entry in another. Consolidated group reporting draws the companies together.
Automatching inter-company entry
Groupconsolidated reporting
Nine-box VAT 100 to HMRC for each company
Nine-box VAT 100 produced for each company. Filed to HMRC under Making Tax Digital per company.
VAT 100nine boxes per company
HMRCfiled under Making Tax Digital
Read-only audit trails, user movement log and authority limits
Read-only financial, customer and supplier trails. User movement log and authority limits on who can do what.
Read-onlyfinancial and trading trails
Loggeduser movement and authority limits
In their words
Automating our finance and reporting routines saves us in the region of ten days of work every month.
JCB FinanceFinancial services
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Built for businesses like yours — the other setups we shape DataFlow around.
Any number. Each client is set up as a company on the same installation, and users see the company list they are entitled to, so a bookkeeper works across their own clients while the practice keeps everything in one system.
Does DataFlow handle inter-company transactions?
Yes. A transaction posted in one company can automatically generate the matching entry in another, and consolidated group reporting draws the companies together when you need the wider view.
Can I run VAT for each client separately?
Yes. Each company produces its own nine-box VAT 100 and files to HMRC under Making Tax Digital on its own schedule, so VAT is handled client by client from one place.
What audit trail is there for review?
DataFlow keeps read-only financial, customer and supplier trails, a user movement log and authority limits on who can do what, so who did what is already recorded when review comes round.
