🧾 Built for UK sole traders

The only app a sole trader
actually needs.

Snap a receipt. It's categorised. Track your mileage, log your income, monitor your CIS deductions. We do the data entry. Your accountant still signs off — but their bill halves.

Get Started — £49/mo 🐝See how it works

14-day free trial • Cancel any time, 30 days' notice • No contracts

The shoebox problem.

You finish a job, get handed a receipt, shove it in the van. By year-end you've got a stack of paper, a stack of petrol receipts, a stack of invoices — and your accountant charges you £800 to sort it all out.

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Lost receipts

A builder's merchant receipt fades in 6 months. You can't claim the VAT.

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Hours of data entry

A sole trader spends 8-15 hours a year typing receipts into a spreadsheet.

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£500-£1,500/yr accountant bill

80% of that is data entry. We do the data entry. They sign off the year-end.

Six tools. One app.

Everything a UK sole trader needs to keep clean books. All in your pocket.

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Snap-a-Receipt

Photo a receipt on your phone the moment you get it. We OCR it, extract the amount and VAT, and file it under the right category.

  • ✓ Instant OCR (works on faded receipts)
  • ✓ Auto-extracts amount, VAT, date, supplier
  • ✓ AI suggests the expense category
  • ✓ Searchable archive — never lose one
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Mileage Tracker

Auto-track business miles at 45p/mile (HMRC rate). One-tap start/stop, or pair with Google Maps.

  • ✓ Calculates miles automatically
  • ✓ HMRC-compliant rate (45p first 10k, 25p after)
  • ✓ Export CSV for your accountant
  • ✓ Annual claim estimate shown in app
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Income Log

Mark a job paid, log the amount. We keep a clean record of who paid, when, and by what method. Year-end ready.

  • ✓ Mark a job paid in 2 taps
  • ✓ Tracks customer, amount, date, method
  • ✓ Links to a job in your app
  • ✓ Annual + quarterly summaries
UK ONLY
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CIS Tracker

For subbies: log a job with a contractor, record the CIS deduction (20% default), and track vouchers. Other apps charge £100+/year for this — it's built into Trader.

  • ✓ Log jobs with contractors
  • ✓ Auto-calculate 20% CIS deduction
  • ✓ Track vouchers from contractors
  • ✓ CIS pack export at year-end
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Year-End Pack

One-click download. A ZIP with all your receipts (PDFs), categorised expenses (CSV), income (CSV), mileage (CSV), and CIS summary.

  • ✓ One ZIP, ready for your accountant
  • ✓ Hand it on a USB stick or email
  • ✓ Cuts their data-entry time by 80%
  • ✓ Your accountant's bill halves
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Cuts Your Accountant Bill

Sole traders pay £500-£1,500/year for data-entry bookkeeping. We do the data entry. Their bill halves.

  • ✓ You save £300-£1,000/yr
  • ✓ They still sign off the year-end (qualified)
  • ✓ They still submit Self Assessment to HMRC
  • ✓ You're HMRC-compliant, no fines

Three steps. Done.

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1. Snap as you go

Receipt? Photo. Mileage? Tap. Job paid? Log it. Takes 10 seconds.

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2. We do the work

OCR, categorise, calculate, file. The app handles the boring bit.

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3. Hand the pack to your accountant

At year-end, one click. ZIP file, clean data. Their bill halves. You keep more.

Easy setup

We did the setup. You just use the app.

No file paths. No folders. No API keys. No "connect your bank" to fumble through. Snap a receipt. Track a trip. Log a job. We handle the rest.

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The first 5 minutes

  1. Tap the SMS link to install the app on your phone
  2. Open the app — 4 big buttons. That's the whole UI.
  3. Tap "Snap a Receipt", camera opens, snap your first one
  4. 2 seconds later: "Travis Perkins. £87.40. Materials. Filed."
  5. Done. You're a BizHive Trader.
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What you'll never do

  • ✗ Pick where files are stored
  • ✗ Set up folder structures
  • ✗ Type in API keys or passwords
  • ✗ Set up email forwarding rules
  • ✗ Customise expense categories (sensible defaults included)
  • ✗ Buy a scanner (your phone IS the scanner)
  • ✗ Connect your bank (not in v1)
  • ✗ Enter your UTR or VAT number (we don't ask)

The 4 buttons on the home screen

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Snap Receipt

Photo. OCR. Filed.

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Start Trip

Tap. Drive. Tap.

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Log Income

2 taps. Year-end ready.

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Year-End Pack

One click. ZIP ready.

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Your data is safe — even if your phone isn't

The moment you snap a receipt, it goes to encrypted cloud storage. If your phone is lost, stolen, or falls in the cement mixer — log in on a new one and everything's there.

  • ✓ Cloud-synced the moment you snap
  • ✓ Offline copy on your phone (for when you're on a job with no signal)
  • ✓ 7-year retention (HMRC requirement for receipts)
  • ✓ Encrypted at rest + in transit
  • ✓ UK data residency (Vercel + Supabase EU/UK regions)

£49/mo, all-in.

All six tools. The app. The website. The AI chatbot. The bookkeeping. One price.

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BizHive Trader

£49/month, all-in

+ £99 one-off setup

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Loaded cost to us: ~£12/mo. You save £300-£1,000/yr on the accountant.

What we don't do.

We're honest about it. Some things still need a qualified human.

  • ✗Self Assessment submission — needs qualified software (Xero + HMRC MTD) or a chartered accountant. We hand them the data; they submit.
  • ✗Year-end accounts — needs a qualified accountant.
  • ✗Tax advice — definitely not us. Speak to your accountant.
  • ✗VAT returns — we capture the data, accountant submits.

That said — what we do do cuts their bill by 50%. And we keep your data HMRC-compliant, audit-ready, and properly categorised.

Ready to lose the shoebox?

14-day free trial. Cancel any time, 30 days' notice. No contracts.

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Or email hello@bizhive.io · 01772 369 876