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Five filing points
Four quarterly updates plus a final declaration, per client, per year — where there used to be one annual return.
Built for UK accountancy practices
The outsourced quarterly filing department for small UK accountancy practices.
Making Tax Digital turned one annual return into five filing points a year. DREVLO does the operational work in between — chasing the records, sorting the transactions, preparing the quarter — and hands it back ready for your review.
You keep the client
You keep the agent account
You press file
One client. One tax year. Five filing points.
Where it used to be one.
Q1Quarterly update
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The problem
The quarterly work nobody wants to keep doing.
You hired accountants to do accounting. Not to spend Friday afternoon asking a landlord, for the third time, for a bank statement.
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The records turn up late, if at all Bank statements, receipts, the one invoice that explains the odd payment. Every quarter, the same chase, with the same handful of clients.
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Then it all needs sorting CSVs to reconcile, transactions to categorise, and for property clients, everything allocated to the right property or trade before the figures mean anything.
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Almost none of it is billable Chasing isn't work you can put on an invoice, but it still consumes the same senior hours as work you can.
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You have to keep checking what's still missing Somebody has to hold the list of who has sent what — and that somebody is usually the person you'd least like doing it.
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And then it comes round again It isn't a January problem any more. It's a quarterly one, and the number of clients in scope grows as the thresholds come down.
What it costs you
Four ways the quarter quietly eats your capacity.
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Unbilled chasing
The repeated asking. It doesn't appear on a fee note, but it appears in your team's week.
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The confirmation gap
Software saying "submitted" isn't always matched by what the client sees at their end. Somebody has to check.
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The year-end blind spot
Anything not handled cleanly during the quarter doesn't disappear. It waits for you at year-end, in bulk.
The solution
Keep the client. Lose the quarterly admin.
DREVLO isn't an accountant, an adviser, or software you have to learn. We're an operational layer that sits underneath your practice. You remain the accountant. We handle the work between your client sending their records and you pressing file.
Stays with you
Your practice
- The client relationship
- The agent services account
- Review and professional judgement
- The submission to HMRC
- The fee your client pays
WE DO
THE REST
THE REST
Handled by DREVLO
The operational layer
- Chasing records and receipts
- Organising and categorising transactions
- Allocating to the right property or trade
- Preparing the quarterly figures
- Checking the submission landed
How it works
Six steps, then it repeats — without you thinking about it.
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You send the client list
Tell us which of your clients are in scope and how you like the work returned. We fit around your process rather than asking you to change it.
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We chase the records
Bank statements, receipts, the missing invoice. We handle the repeated requests and the follow-ups, and keep a live list of what's still outstanding.
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We prepare the quarter
Transactions organised, categorised, and allocated to the right property or trade where that applies. AI does the first pass; a person checks it and queries anything that doesn't look right.
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You review
The finished figures come back in the software you already use, ready for you to look over. Queries come to you, not to your client, unless you'd rather we asked them directly.
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You file
You submit through your own agent account, exactly as you do now. Nothing about your relationship with HMRC changes.
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We confirm it landed
After submission we check the status and give you a clean confirmation you can pass straight to your client.
DREVLO
Why practices use it
What actually changes.
- Nobody in your office chases records
- Quarterly prep stops competing with billable work
- You add capacity without hiring
- The client relationship stays entirely yours
- You keep control of the agent account and the filing
- A repeating scramble becomes a predictable process
Pricing
Published, because it saves us both a phone call.
No per-hour billing and no surprises. If you're between tiers, we'll tell you which one you're in on the call.
One-off
Backlog clearance
from £599
Confirmed on the call, once we know how many clients and how far behind they are.
- We clear the quarters you're behind on
- Records chased, sorted and prepared
- No obligation to continue afterwards
Monthly
Quarterly filing support
Priced on how many of your clients are in MTD. Change tier whenever your numbers change.
| MTD clients | Per month |
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| Up to 10 | £199 |
| 11 – 30 | £349 |
| 31 – 75 | £599 |
| 76 – 150 | £999 |
| More than 150 | Let's talk |
Not sure which tier you're in? Book the fifteen minutes and we'll work it out together.
Book a callQualification
Who this is for — and who it isn't.
We'd rather tell you now than waste your fifteen minutes.
A good fit
- Small UK accountancy or bookkeeping practices with clients in MTD
- Practices where quarterly preparation has become recurring work
- Teams losing hours to chasing records
- Anyone who wants capacity without hiring yet
- Practices with property clients and multi-property allocations
Not for
- Individuals looking for personal tax advice
- Anyone wanting a replacement accountant
- Businesses wanting someone to deal with HMRC on their behalf
- Tax planning or advisory work
- General bookkeeping for businesses without an accountant
Control & boundaries
What stays yours. All of it.
Your client
We don't market to your clients, and we never suggest they work with us directly. They're yours.
Your agent account
We don't ask for it and we don't need it. Your relationship with HMRC is untouched.
Your filing
You review the figures and you submit. Nothing goes to HMRC that you haven't approved.
Your workflow
We work inside the software your practice already uses — Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, FreeAgent — rather than asking you to move.
Questions
The things practices ask first.
Do you contact my clients?
Only if you want us to, and only about records. The default is that we chase in your practice's name, using wording you've approved, purely to collect bank statements, receipts and missing information.
If you'd rather we never touched your clients directly, we'll send you the outstanding list instead and you can chase it yourself. Either way we never discuss fees, tax positions or our own services with them.
Do you replace me as the client's accountant?
No, and we're not set up to. We have no engagement with your client, no agent authorisation for them and no relationship with them beyond collecting paperwork on your behalf. You are and remain their accountant.
Who files the return?
You do, through your own agent account and your own software, after you've reviewed what we've prepared. We never submit anything to HMRC.
Who is responsible for the tax position?
You are. We prepare figures from the records supplied and flag anything that looks wrong or unclear. Professional judgement, the tax treatment and the final submission remain entirely with your practice.
Do you give tax advice?
No. If a question needs a judgement call, it comes to you rather than being answered by us. That boundary is deliberate and we don't blur it.
Where is client data stored?
Wherever possible we work directly inside your own systems, so the records stay where they already are. Where we need to hold working files, we use UK-based storage and delete them once the quarter is closed and you've confirmed you're happy.
We'll sign your data processing agreement, or provide ours, before any client data changes hands.
What software do you work with?
We work inside the software your practice already uses. In practice that most often means Xero, QuickBooks, Sage or FreeAgent, operating in your account under your permissions. If you use something else, ask on the call — we'd rather fit your workflow than sell you a new one.
How does onboarding work?
A short call to agree scope and the data processing paperwork, then you send the client list and give us the access we need in your systems. Most practices start with a backlog clearance so you can see the standard of work before committing to anything monthly.
What happens if a client doesn't send their records?
We chase on a set schedule and escalate to you if they still haven't responded, well before the deadline rather than the day before it. You'll always know who is outstanding and how long they've been outstanding — no surprises in the final week.
What happens if something doesn't look right?
It gets flagged, not guessed. Unusual transactions, gaps, duplicates and anything that doesn't reconcile come to you as a short query list with the finished work, rather than being quietly assumed one way or the other.
Can you clear an existing backlog?
Yes — that's how most practices start. We take the quarters you're behind on, work through them, and hand back finished figures for review. It's a one-off fee and there's no obligation to continue monthly afterwards.
How is pricing calculated?
On the number of your clients in MTD, not on hours or transaction volume. The tiers are published above. Backlog clearance is quoted separately because the amount of work depends entirely on how far behind things are.
Can I cancel?
Yes. Monthly, with 30 days' notice. We'll hand back everything we hold for your clients in a usable format. There's no exit fee and nothing is held hostage.
What happens at year-end?
Because the quarters are prepared properly as you go, year-end should be a shorter job rather than a reconstruction. We can prepare the year-end figures for your review as well — that's scoped separately, so ask on the call.
Do you handle multiple properties or trades?
Yes, and it's one of the reasons practices come to us. Transactions are allocated to the correct property or trade as part of preparing the quarter, rather than being lumped together and untangled later.
How does quality control work?
AI does the first pass at categorisation; a person reviews it before anything reaches you. Anything the system isn't confident about goes into an exception list that gets checked by hand. You then review everything before you file — you are the final control, and we design the process on that basis.
Who am I actually dealing with?
DREVLO is a small, UK-based operation — you'll deal with the person doing the work, not an account manager. That's deliberate: it's why queries come back the same day and why nothing gets lost in a handover.
Are you insured?
Ask on the call and we'll tell you exactly what's in place, in writing, before you send us anything.
Next step
Want the quarterly workload off your team's desk?
Book fifteen minutes. Tell me how many of your clients are in MTD and what the last quarter actually looked like. I'll show you where DREVLO fits into your workflow and what it would cost — and if it isn't worth doing, I'll say so.
- Fifteen minutes, no slide deck
- A straight answer on whether it's a fit
- A price before you leave the call
Prefer email? kai@getdrevlo.co.uk
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