The simple solution for sole trader & landlord clients

Cost-effective software that's built specifically for your smallest clients, ready for MakingTax Digital (MTD). Simple enough for them to engage with, but smart enough to streamline and optimise your practice's workflows.

Easily manage your clients’ finances

Ready for Making Tax Digital for Income Tax (MTD IT)

Save time on tracking and admin

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Why choose Coconut?

Coconut is purpose-built for accountants supporting sole traders, landlords, and CIS subcontractors. It’s the smarter way to serve your smallest clients without adding to your workload.

Designed for MTD for Income Tax

Coconut is HMRC-recognised and ready for the upcoming changes. Easily manage MTD for IT for clients, even those with multiple income streams, all from one platform.

Simple but powerful

Clients get an intuitive mobile app they’ll actually use. You get real-time access to categorised transactions, receipts and bookkeeping data via the Accountant Platform.

Save time, serve more clients

Streamline your workflows and reduce admin, freeing up capacity to take on more clients.

A simple app for your client

Once your client is set up on the Coconut app, they’ll be able to do all of the following in just a few taps:

Scan and save receipts in the cloud

Categorise allowable expenses

Send and track digital invoices

Unmuddle business, property & personal finances

Track cashflow month to month

Know how much tax to set aside

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An efficient workflow for you

And with easy access to all of your clients’ accounting information through the Accountant Platform, your practice will be able to gather, prepare, and file data in a fraction of the time

Review and recode transactions in seconds

Easily access relevant records and receipts

Submit quarterly obligations and EOPS for all of your MTD IT clients, including those with multiple streams of income

Ele Stevens

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Coconut Partner

The discovery of the Coconut app was a complete game-changer for our clients. It also ensures that they are ready for MTD for Income Tax well ahead of the implementation date, so everybody wins.

Nancy Brown

Therapist
Coconut Customer

I’m a sole trader and use my personal account for many of my transactions, so Coconut has been a lifesaver. You can scroll through any bank accounts you link to it and nominate which are business and what category they fall under. Don’t know what I’d do without it.

Simplicity, clarity and growth

Make managing your clients’ finances a breeze with Coconut's self-employed accounting software – sign up now and try it for free

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MTD IT: the £360 million opportunity

When Making Tax Digital for Income Tax Self Assessment comes into effect, more than four million sole traders and landlords will be affected. Coconut’s MTD IT software is specifically built to support these clients and their accountants through this transition and beyond. With our simple, cost-effective, and purpose-built tools, we’ll help you digitise your sole trader and landlord clients with ease.

And of course, with change comes opportunity: our data shows that an additional one million taxpayers who don’t currently use an accountant may be willing to pay for one to help them with MTD IT – presenting a major revenue growth opportunity to firms who ensure their software and processes are ready to meet the huge increase in demand.

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From CIS subcontractors to unincorporated landlords, our software is built specifically for the needs of your smallest clients

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Get started with Coconut – join the Partner Programme

If you’re ready to streamline the way you work with your sole trader & landlord clients, sign up to our Partner Programme today. Not only will you get full access to all of Coconut’s features – you’ll also be able to make the most of:

Discounts on headline subscription rates and other rewards

Personalised client onboarding and training support

A dedicated and experienced Partner Success Specialist

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Useful resources

A selection of our most popular articles and guides for accountants and bookkeepers working with sole traders, unincorporated landlords, and CIS subcontractors.