What's included in the monthly fee?

The seat's hours on your work, a named lead, planning and status, cover for absence, UK review on Accounts-seat work, and all the tooling on our side. You provide access to your own software.

Is there a set-up fee?

Not for a standard onboarding. If you need a major clean-up or migration before the routine can start, we'll quote that as a one-off first.

Can I change seat size?

Yes, with a month's notice either way. Add a seat for year-end season, drop back afterwards.

Yes — prices shown exclude VAT.

Pricing — Production seats from £650, Accounts seats from

Q: What's the difference between a Production seat and an Accounts seat?

A Production seat is bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, onboarding, admin or content — work that runs every week. An Accounts seat is year-end accounts, CT600, self assessment and management accounts, reviewed and signed off in the UK before it reaches you. The people, and the review layer, cost different amounts, so the seats do.

Two kinds of seat

Pick the seat for the work. Pick the size for the load.

A Production seat is a bookkeeper, payroll or admin person — or a writer. An Accounts seat is a year-end preparer whose work is reviewed and signed off in the UK before it reaches you. Every seat comes as full, half or part-time.

Production seat

£1,950/month

160 hours a month of bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, onboarding, admin inbox, content or marketing.

Half seat (80h) £1,100 · Part-time (40h) £650
Named lead + dedicated team member
Work done in your software, to your standard
Monday dashboard: done, due, waiting
Cover when someone's off

Start a Production seat

Accounts seat

£2,650/month

160 hours a month of year-end accounts, CT600, self assessment and management accounts.

Half seat (80h) £1,450 · Part-time (40h) £850
Every job reviewed and signed off in the UK
Your working-papers standard embedded
One batch of queries per job, not twenty emails
Review-ready, with a notes sheet

Start an Accounts seat

Senior seat

from £3,400/month

A qualified PA(SA) / AGA(SA) accountant at reviewer level, for complex work or to lead a team of seats.

Reviews the work of your other seats
Management accounts with commentary
Group, consolidation and complex CT
Scoped on a call — not a standard seat

Talk about a Senior seat

All prices exclude VAT. Rolling monthly from the first invoice; one month's notice to change seat size or end. Later seats 10% off. Hours are productive hours on your work — planning, status and your lead's time aren't deducted. No set-up fee for a standard onboarding. Content and marketing (guides, newsletter, campaigns, ads, follow-up) are done in Production-seat hours; if you only want automated weekly guides on a hosted site, our sister product Growth Engine at practiceportal.uk does that self-serve from £99 a month.

The number that matters more

It isn't the saving. It's the 1,900 hours.

A full seat is about 1,900 hours a year of production you no longer do, review you no longer chase, and recruiting you no longer run. Priced against a UK hire it's cheaper — but priced against what an owner's hour is worth on advisory work, proposals and fee reviews, it isn't close.

Two advisory clients a month at £250 a meeting pays for a Production seat on its own
One re-priced client book typically moves fees by more than a seat costs — and you need a week free to do it
A block of fees you can absorb without hiring is the difference between buying a firm and passing on it
Your Fridays are not a rounding error

160h

Back to you, monthly

One full seat. Fill the hours with what only you can do.

Recruitment rounds

No adverts, agencies, interviews, notice periods or counter-offers.

Days to full speed

Then it's just how the practice works.

Month's notice

To scale up, scale down, or stop. Either way.

Cost per year

And yes — it's also cheaper than hiring.

UK all-in = salary plus employer NI, pension, software and desk, and a recruitment fee spread over a typical 18-month stay — roughly salary × 1.35. Ranges are 2026 practice salaries outside London. Muckin prices exclude VAT, which you reclaim.

£23,400

Production seat, a year

vs £36,000–£44,000 for a UK bookkeeper or payroll administrator on £27–32k.
Saves £12,600–£20,600 (35–47%).

£31,800

Accounts seat, a year

vs £44,000–£52,000 for a UK part-qualified preparer on £32–38k.
Saves £12,200–£20,200 (28–39%).

£40,800

Senior seat, a year

vs £58,000–£70,000 for a UK qualified accountant on £42–50k.
Saves £17,200–£29,200 (30–42%).

What the table undersells

A UK employee delivers about 1,500 productive hours a year after holidays, sickness and notice gaps; a seat delivers 1,824 attendance hours with cover built in
Cost per productive hour: £13–£22 on a seat, £24–£47 in-house
A UK bookkeeper can't drop to half pay for the summer; a seat can — half seat May–October plus full seat November–April is about £18,300 a year

What's in the seat price

The person, their desk, software on our side and their manager in Pretoria
UK review and sign-off on Accounts-seat work
A named lead, weekly status and the Monday dashboard
Cover for leave and sickness, recruitment and replacement
No recruitment fees, no notice periods, no set-up fee

Seats, priced plainly.