You can make unlimited submissions to Companies House and only pay any applicable Companies House fees.
Produce great looking documents for your clients, professionally branded with their logo, without paying us a penny.
You can form standard private companies limited by shares and only pay the Companies House fees.
Yes - If you are wanting to form a company via Inform Direct you will be able to add address services, there are different options available:
The addresses are prestigious London and Edinburgh addresses. This service is currently available for companies registered in England and Wales, and Scotland.
To be able to offer the online service that we do for company formations, we require the checks to be run ‘in-process’ and electronically. Our anti-money laundering check provider is currently only able to provide a sufficient enough reliability of checks for residents of the UK.
If we opened the checks up to residents of other countries, the percentage of persons verifiable electronically (on average) is sufficiently low (largely less than 40%) that the service would be ineffective for those customers, whom would still be charged for the checks, which more often than not, would fail.
From July 2017 to form a UK company through an agent, an anti-money laundering check must be completed on the person/entity forming the company.
The checks that must be completed by a company will vary as they are risk based, but mostly they consist of verifying the identity of the person(s) or directors of an entity and confirming if they are at a high risk of money laundering or terrorist financing i.e. they are a Politically Exposed Person (PEP) or from a high-risk country.
For more information please see our blog – What checks must be done to set up a company?
Unlimited companies are private companies that do not have any limit of liability, i.e. those behind the business accept complete liability for the company’s debts.
An unlimited company is, in many other ways, similar to a standard private limited company, for example it must be registered at Companies House.
There are 2 types of unlimited companies, those with shares, and those without shares which are very rare. Inform Direct supports company secretarial functions for unlimited companies with shares, these can be uploaded in the usual way to your portfolio.
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:
Inform Direct supports each of the following forms for LLPs:
Inform Direct automatically creates your statutory registers based on the data it imports from Companies House. It will then automatically update the registers as you make changes to your company data.
The following company registers can be produced at any time for a private company limited by shares or unlisted plc:
Inform Direct supports all the registers required by a company limited by guarantee:
All of the following statutory registers for LLPs are fully supported:
* Companies House to not provide information relating to members of a company limited by guarantee so this will need to be entered manually into Inform Direct.
Our intelligent software has been designed to ask you straightforward questions, turning your answers into the correct format before electronically filing your submission with Companies House. Features designed to help you easily manage changes to your company details include:
Using Inform Direct to manage your company details, including changes to your registered office address; implementation of a SAIL address; change of accounting reference date; filing of dormant accounts and changes of company name, will enable you to process any update swiftly.
Companies are required to report PSC changes to Companies House as and when they happen. Our intelligent software makes this easy for you.
By clicking on the PSC tab you can view a summary of the company's current PSCs or swiftly process any updates required. Using Inform Direct you can:
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:
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.
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.
Yes. Inform Direct offers each account a sophisticated and secure online document storage area - that we call your Document Library. It is easy to upload and store all your company's documents in your Document Library, and if you tag your files, using either the tag lists we have created for you or or your own bespoke tags, it will be simplicity itself to retrieve any document.
For subscribers, all of the features of the Document Library are available free of charge, and the total data storage allowance available is calculated by applying an allocation of 250MB for each company included in your Inform Direct account.
PAYG users also have free access to the Document Library, but to a more narrow offering. Documents that have been generated using Inform Direct will be automatically stored in your Document Library, and you can tag and manage these files as you require.