Graft for accountants
The CIS book that turns up ready to file.
Graft's app does the bookkeeping at the kerbside: receipts read and categorised the moment they're photographed, mileage logged automatically, CIS reconciled against statements. The portal hands you the result as structured working papers, not a carrier bag in January.
Client health · Q2
The problem
MTD turns every CIS subbie into five deadlines a year
Mandation is live and the quarterly clock is running. One January shoebox a year was just about billable. Four quarterly updates plus a year-end, per client, from the same carrier bags? Without automation you're doing January five times a year. The old workflow doesn't survive that.
How it works
The client's phone does the data entry. You keep the judgement calls.
The client photographs a receipt; Graft reads the merchant, total and VAT and files it against the right category. Works offline on site and syncs later, so it actually happens the day the money left.
Opt-in background tracking records business journeys at HMRC's approved rates. The client swipes business or personal. A complete mileage log with no diary reconstruction in January.
Payments recorded with the deduction rate applied, 20%, 30% or gross, and reconciled against the statements the client photographs. Gaps between deductions suffered and statements held are flagged, not discovered.
Fewer awkward conversations
Every point of conflict, flagged before it reaches your desk
"That jacket's workwear." "The café was subsistence." Every dubious claim is a conversation that costs you goodwill or costs you risk. Graft asks the client to confirm categories as they log, flags the edge cases, and chases the missing CIS statement in the month it went missing. You arbitrate the genuinely grey, not the obviously wrong.
The portal
Fifty subbies as a dashboard, not a docket tray
Who is up to date, who is drifting, who has a statement missing: visible months before the deadline, with two-way chat threaded to each client. At the end of every period you get a complete set of working papers, ready for submission, and exports that land in the software you already run.
What it costs
Free for the practice. Paid for by the client.
The portal costs practices nothing, and stays free. Clients pay £9.99 plus VAT a month after a free week, less than a bag of fixings. Your upside is the hours: a CIS book that arrives structured, five times a year, instead of raw.
The partner pack
Everything you need to hand over, ready to forward
Accountants are not salespeople and should not have to be. These three documents do the explaining: keep the first, forward the second with your invites, and leave the third wherever your CIS clients are.
The practice pack
The portal, room by room: what you can see, what you can do, what the first quarter looks like, and how to roll it out without selling.
Forward as-isThe client pack
Written to your client, not to you. Attach it to the invite and it explains the app, the setup, the price and the habits without you writing a word.
For the vanThe two-page explainer
Graft explained blunt and quick for the subbie who has ten minutes and a brew. Print it, leave it, send it.
Questions
Straight answers
What does the portal cost the practice?
Nothing, and it stays that way. Clients pay for the app (£9.99 plus VAT a month after a free week). The practice upside is time: structured records instead of shoeboxes, five times a year.
How do clients get on it?
You invite them from the portal, they install Graft and sign up in two fields. Most traders adopt it because their accountant asked, which is exactly the direction it was designed for.
What do we actually see?
A live client-health dashboard: income, expenses, mileage, CIS deductions per contractor, missing statements, and who is drifting before it becomes a January problem. Plus two-way chat threaded to the client.
Does it replace our practice software?
No. Graft feeds it. At period end you get a complete set of working papers, and CSV or XLSX exports that land in whatever you already run. If you want the rest of the stack, AccountFlow and Footnote are next door.
Bring your CIS book in from the cold
Open the portal, invite one messy client, and watch a quarter arrive structured. It costs the practice nothing to find out.