What white label accounting services mean

Our own delivery business, Buzz, runs the production work behind client service, which frees your team for higher-value work. The service is white label, so work comes back in your name, to your standard, and your clients only ever see your firm's name.

White label accounting services means somebody else produces the work and you put your name on it. The client is yours, the engagement letter is yours, the fee is yours, and the review and sign-off are yours. What changes is who does the preparation, and how much of your week it takes up.

A referral is a different arrangement, because you hand the client over and lose the relationship. So is a subcontract where the other firm is visible to your client. With white label work the client's experience stays the same: they deal with your firm, hear from your people and receive documents on your letterhead.

Hiring brings a fixed cost, a recruitment process, a notice period and a training period, and the new person arrives at one skill level. White label capacity can be turned up and down as your workload changes.

What we deliver

Off your desk

White label bookkeeping, VAT returns and management accounts
White label accounts and tax: year-end accounts, corporation tax and self assessment
White label payroll and workplace pensions
White label company secretarial
White label tax services for solicitors and law firms

How we protect quality

Work delivered to your standards and in your name
Review and final sign-off stay with you
One consistent team across our UK and Pretoria offices, working to one standard

It frees capacity for advisory work, eases the load on your best people and makes the firm easier to run. Our guide sets out what every owner should know about outsourcing.

White label services

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Who this suits

It suits a practice where the owner is still doing production work. If year-end accounts, VAT returns or payroll runs are falling to the person whose time is worth most to the firm, white label work gives that time back first.

It suits a firm that has taken on work it cannot staff — a block of clients from a retiring practitioner, a busy season that turned into a busy year, a person who left in March.

It suits a firm that wants to sell in a few years. A practice whose delivery runs without the owner is worth more and is easier to hand over.

It suits a firm that wants to do more advisory work but keeps putting it back while compliance deadlines take priority.

It suits a firm that judges production on the quality of the finished file as well as the hourly rate. Our work is checked before it comes back to you, which costs more per hour and saves your team time on rework.

How the work runs

You send the job, and it goes to a named person on our team. The same people work on your clients each time, so they learn your clients and your conventions. The job comes back prepared, with any queries listed for you. You then review it, sign it and send it out.

We take most care over the handover back to you. Each job comes back with the questions written down, the workings visible, and a note of anything we could not resolve, so you can review the file without having to redo it.

How the work is bought and priced

This work is sold through Muckin, the business we own for this work, staffed by the same Buzz team. Capacity is bought as a seat, which is a fixed share of a named person's month, so you know the cost before the month starts and it stays fixed for that month. Muckin publishes its seat prices, and its capacity calculator turns your workload into the number of seats it would take.

White-label tax services for solicitors

We also provide production capacity to law firms. They come to us when tax and accounts work keeps falling to fee earners whose time should go on legal work, and when the volume does not justify an in-house accountant.

We work with solicitors in two ways. The first is client-facing work delivered in your name — the accounting and tax side of matters your team is already running, where the client stays yours throughout and the output carries your branding. The second is the law firm's own numbers — the bookkeeping, accounts and tax returns behind a partnership, LLP or incorporated practice.

Tax computations and returns supporting client matters — prepared for your review, issued under your name
Estate and trust accounts and the related returns for private client teams
Capital gains and property tax calculations alongside conveyancing and disposals
Corporate tax input on transactions, incorporations and reorganisations
The firm's own bookkeeping, management accounts, year-end accounts, VAT and payroll
Partner and member self assessment returns

The working model is the same as for accountancy firms. We produce the work, you review it, and final sign-off and the client relationship stay with you. Your clients see your firm's name. Anything that requires legal advice or a regulated legal service remains with your solicitors, and we handle the accounting and tax production behind it.

See white label tax services for solicitors for how this works for law firms, or get in touch to talk through your firm.