With our recent company formation enhancements (including the ability to form CICs) now well in use we have just released our next update.
Just over a month ago we added the ability to record Authorised Corporate Service Provider (ACSP) agent numbers. This update allows you to record the Companies House personal code for company officers and PSCs within Inform Direct.
This is the second product update of many in the coming months that will help you be ready for the upcoming parts of the ECCT Act, largely focussed on the identity checking of officers and PSCs.
Would your accountancy firm like a free trial?
During your free trial you can see the confirmation statement automations in action.
Enter Companies House personal codes
You can now enter any person’s Companies House personal code by clicking to ‘Edit personal details’.
These will not be filed at Companies House yet, but once the enforcement date (TBC by Companies House) arrives these will be sent to Companies House in the company’s next confirmation statement.
What else is on the way…
More for Companies House personal codes:
- Bulk populating of Companies House personal codes for the same person in different companies
- Updates to reports to help track who has Companies House personal codes and who doesn’t, across your portfolio of companies
- Entering Companies House personal codes in other processes (i.e. officer appointments, company formations and adding PSCs)
Identity checks – We’ve partnered with Credas, a superb identity checking specialist that will be integrated into Inform Direct. You will be able to initiate biometric identity and address checks from within Inform Direct and Inform Direct will help you manage this process, helping to make sure identity checks are completed by the correct people before the deadline for each company.
Process and Companies House filing changes – later this year Companies House (date TBC) are making changes to quite a few filings (such as providing the Companies House personal code of officers and PSCs in the confirmation statement). We’ve been involved with this with Companies House for some time and are already working on these changes to filings and the processes used to generate those filings so that we will be ready for the when Companies House enforce these changes.
Please let us know your feedback
Do let us know about any other enhancements or feature recommendations that would improve Inform Direct for you, especially if related to identity checking and other upcoming ECCT act requirements.
Our commitment to improving Inform Direct can be seen on our timeline of updates, past, present and future.
Do you form companies?
Inform Direct makes it easy by producing all the documents you need as part of the process.