The smarter way to manage company secretarial tasks

Inform Direct automatically recognises which changes you make need to be submitted to Companies House. With your approval, wherever possible it will electronically submit these changes to Companies House using the Companies House electronic interchange system. For forms where Companies House does not allow electronic filing, Inform Direct will fully pre-populate a paper form that you can post to Companies House.

Inform Direct supports each of the following forms for limited companies:

• CS01 - Confirmation Statement
• AR01 - Annual Return
• IN01 - Application to Register a Company
• NM01 - Notice of Change of Name by Resolution
• NM04 - Notice of Change of Name by means provided for in the Articles
• AA01 - Change of Accounting Reference Date
• AA02 - Dormant Company Accounts (DCA)
• AP01 - Appointment of Director
• AP02 - Appointment of Corporate Director
• AP03 - Appointment of Secretary
• AP04 - Appointment of Corporate Secretary
• CH01 - Change of Director's details
• CH02 - Change of Corporate Director's details
• CH03 - Change of Secretary's details
• CH04 - Change of Corporate Secretary's details
• TM01 - Termination of appointment of Director
• TM02 - Termination of appointment of Secretary
• AD01 - Change of Registered Office address
• AD02 - Notification of single alternative inspection location (SAIL)
• AD03 - Change of location of the company records to the SAIL
• AD04 - Change of location of the company records to the Registered Office
• SH01 - Return of Allotment of Shares
• SH02 - Notice of consolidation, sub-division, redemption of shares or re-conversion of stock into shares
• SH03 - Return of purchase of own shares
• SH04 - Notice of sale or transfer of treasury shares
• SH05 - Notice of cancellation of treasury shares
• SH06 - Notice of cancellation of shares
• SH07 - Notice of cancellation of shares held by or for a public company
• SH08 - Notice of name or other designation of class of shares
• SH10 - Notice of particulars of variation of rights attached to shares
• SH11 - Give notice of a new class of members
• SH12 - Give notice of particulars of variation of class rights
• SH13 - Give notice of name or other designation of class of members
• SH19 - Statement of capital when reducing capital in a company
• PSC01 - Give notice of individual person with significant control
• PSC02 - Give notice of relevant legal entity with significant control
• PSC03 - Give notice of other registrable person with significant control
• PSC04 - Give notice of change of details for person with significant control
• PSC05 - Give notice of change of details for relevant legal entity with significant control
• PSC06 - Give notice of change of details of other registrable person with significant control
• PSC07 - Give notice ceasing to be an individual person with significant control
• PSC08 - Give notice of PSC statements
• PSC09 - Give notice of update to PSC statements
• MR01 - Particulars of a charge (register a newly created charge)
• MR02 - Particulars of a charge subject to which property or undertaking has been acquired
• MR04 - Statement of satisfaction in full or in part of a charge
• MR05 - Statement that part or the whole of the property charged (a) has been released from the charge (b) no longer forms part of the company's property or undertaking
• DS01 - Striking off application by a company
• DS02 - Withdraw a striking off application by a company

You can also prepare and file audit-exempt micro-entity accounts using Inform Direct. Subscribers using their own presenter code can upload an iXBRL file, and use Inform Direct to submit a wide range of company accounts - including small, medium and full accounts, abridged accounts and group accounts.

Inform Direct supports each of the following forms for LLPs:

• LL AA01 - Change of accounting reference date of an LLP
• LL AR01 - Annual Return of an LLP
• LL AD01 - Change of registered office address of an LLP
• LL NM01 - Notice of change of name of an LLP
• LL DE01 - Notice of change of status of an LLP
• LL AD02 - Notification of Single Alternative Inspection Location (SAIL) of an LLP
• LL AD03 - Change of location of the records to the SAIL of an LLP
• LL AD04 - Change of location of the records to the registered office of an LLP
• LL AP01 - Appointment of member of an LLP
• LL AP02 - Appointment of corporate member of an LLP
• LL CH01 - Change of details of a member of an LLP
• LL CH02 - Change of details of a corporate member of an LLP
• LL TM01 - Termination of appointment of member of an LLP
• LL MR01 - Particulars of a charge created by an LLP
• LL MR02 - Particulars of a charge subject to which property or undertaking has been acquired by an LLP
• LL MR04 - Statement of satisfaction in full or in part of a charge of an LLP
• LL MR05 - Statement that part or the whole of the property charged (a) has been released from the charge (b) no longer forms part of the LLP's property
• LL DS01 - Striking off application by an LLP
• LL DS02 - Withdrawal of striking off application by an LLP

Simple 5 step process

The Inform Direct company formation process is highly automated and has been designed as a series of very simple steps. There is clear guidance at each step so you will always understand what details you need to provide. You will find that the information required for your new company can be entered very quickly and you will not be asked to re-enter the same information again and again. So if someone is going to be a director, a secretary, a shareholder and a PSC you will only have to enter their details once. Similarly if the same address is being used for the registered office and the service address you will only need to provide it once.

Customise your formation package

It is very easy to tailor your formation package to include all the elements that you want, but without paying for items that you don't need.

Immediate confirmation of your application

At the end of the process you will be able to review and check all the details you have entered are correct before submitting your company registration application electronically. You will receive immediate confirmation that your application has been safely delivered to Companies House.

Incorporation documents

As soon as your company has been successfully registered we will alert you by email as well as sending you all your incorporation documents.

Access to Inform Direct

Once your company has been registered by Companies House you will also have FREE access to our company secretarial software. This will enable you to print any share or member certificates that have been automatically produced for you during the incorporation process. Similarly, your company statutory registers will have been completed for you and these will also be available to view and print.

Companies are required to report PSC changes to Companies House as and when they happen. Our intelligent software makes this easy for you.

Easy to process PSC changes

By clicking on the PSC tab you can view a summary of the company's current PSCs and swiftly process any changes you want to make from here. Alternatively you can select 'Review PSCs' on the PSC tab which allows you to view the current PSCs and current shareholders or members on a single screen. From this you can easily review and identify any changes to the PSC information.  You can then swiftly process any updates required from this screen. Using Inform Direct you can:

• Add the details of individual PSCs, even if you have not yet confirmed their details.
• Add the details of any registrable relevant legal entities (RLEs) that must be included in the register.
• Record updates on the progress of your investigations.
• Make ongoing updates as you get further in the process of identifying PSCs.
• Remove persons or entities that are no longer registrable for PSC reporting.

Our software asks you straightforward questions and converts your answers into the correct form. Any changes you record are automatically submitted to Companies House, as required by legislation, and we also provide you with a suite of professional looking and compliant templates, including:

• Notices and proforma reply letters.
• Board minutes that evidence the reasonable steps taken by the company to obtain the details of every PSC or registrable RLE.
• Board minutes that document any PSC changes and authorise the reporting of these to Companies House.

Inform Direct makes it easy for companies with straightforward PSC requirements to be compliant. However, our software also supports all the different possibilities prescribed by law and is suitable for the most complex PSC arrangements.

Compliant PSC register

When you add the details of any PSCs, Inform Direct automatically produces a PSC register that contains statements compliant with the prescribed wording required by legislation. Similarly, when you use Inform Direct to process any changes, your PSC register will be automatically updated for the changes ensuring that it is always fully compliant. You can view and print your PSC register at any time.

Yes. Using Inform Direct it is simple for you to brand statutory registers and other documents. If chosen, your client's company logo can appear in the top left corner of both statutory registers and template documents, including minutes and resolutions.

Subscribers to Inform Direct can also choose to insert their own branding, with their company name and logo appearing at the bottom of each page of the registers. This functionality is not available to PAYG users, for whom the Inform Direct logo will appear discreetly at the bottom of each page. You can read more about the advantages of a subscription account here.