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QuickBooks pricing in the UK
QuickBooks sells five monthly plans in the UK, from Sole Trader Plus at £10 to Advanced at £123, excluding VAT and capped by users. Payroll is an add-on: a base fee plus a fee per employee.
Country
- Starting price
- £10/month
- Sole Trader Plus, GBP excl. VAT
- Pricing model
- Flat monthly plans capped by users
- Payroll base fee plus per employee
- Billing
- Monthly only
- No annual option
- Tax
- VAT excluded
- Prices in GBP; add 20% VAT
- YOY change
- ↑ 12%
- Average yearly rise, 5 plans
- Last updated
- 12 Oct 2026
How much does QuickBooks cost in the UK?
Plans
Five monthly plans, VAT excluded, capped by users.
| Plan | Monthly | Who it is for | Key limits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sole Trader Plus | £10 | Handle your business. For self-employed owners, single property landlords and small businesses without employees. | Key limits
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| Simple Start | £16 | Build your financial foundation. For small businesses that need core accounting and VAT. | Key limits
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| Essentials | £38 | Save time and focus on growth. Adds multi-user access and bill management. | Key limits
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| Plus | £56 | Scale with greater clarity. Adds project and stock tracking. | Key limits
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| Advanced | £123 | Boost efficiency and profitability. For larger businesses needing deeper reporting and controls. | Key limits
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Additional costs
Costs on top of the plan price.
| Cost | Price | Source |
|---|---|---|
| VAT | 20%Added to every charge | |
| Payroll Core | £5 a month plus £1.50 per employeeBase fee plus per active employee; Simple Start and above | |
| Payroll Premium or Elite | £10 plus £2 per employee, or £15 plus £3 per employee, a monthReplaces Core; includes QuickBooks Time | |
| Payroll employees left Active | £1.50 to £3 per employee a month, whether paid or notBilled on employees marked Active at the start of the billing month, since 15 June 2026 | |
| QuickBooks Time without payroll | Premium £16 plus £6 per user; Elite £30 plus £8 per userBase fee (includes 1 admin) plus per user | |
| Card payments on invoices | 1.2% + 20p, plus VAT on the feePer transaction, plus VAT | |
| Pay by Bank on invoices | 1%, capped at £4Per transaction, plus VAT | |
| Direct Debit on invoices (GoCardless) | 1% + 20p, capped at £4, plus 0.3% above £2,000Per transaction | |
| Second user on Sole Trader Plus or Simple Start | Essentials at £38, £22 more than Simple StartHard cap; no extra seats | |
| A sixth user | Advanced at £123, £67 more than PlusPlus caps at 5 | |
| VAT returns | Simple Start at £16, £6 moreNot available on Sole Trader Plus | |
| Projects, inventory or classes and locations | Plus at £56Plus and above | |
| Over 250 accounts or 40 classes and locations | Advanced at £123Advanced only | |
| End of the new customer offer | About ten times the offer price: Plus goes from £5.60 to £56Full price from month 7 | |
| Changing plan during an offer | The rest of the discountLoses any remaining discount | |
| Bill pay | Not publicly listedNo UK add-on listed | |
| Cancelling | Up to one more month of feesEnds with the billing month; no pro-rated refund |
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Plan
Estimated cost, Sole Trader Plus
£10a month
- Per year, billed monthly
- £120
- First 6 months, 90% off
- £1 a month
- First year with the offer
- £66
Line items, monthly
- Sole Trader Plus subscription
- £10
- Estimated monthly total
- £10
Estimated, GBP, excluding VAT. Offer: 90% off for 6 months for new customers.
What QuickBooks costs by company size
Estimated cost by number of employees, using the cheapest plan that fits each end of the band.
| Employees | Plans | Monthly cost | Annual cost | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 to 10 | Simple Start to Essentials | £23 to £58 | £23 | to | £58 | £270 to £696 | £270 | to | £696 | |||
| 11 to 50 | Essentials to Advanced | £60 to £203 | £60 | to | £203 | £714 to £2,436 | £714 | to | £2,436 | |||
| 51 to 200 | Advanced | £205 to £428 | £205 | to | £428 | £2,454 to £5,136 | £2,454 | to | £5,136 | |||
| 201 to 500 | Advanced | £430 to No plan | £430 | to | No plan | £5,154 to No plan | £5,154 | to | No plan | |||
QuickBooks discount codes and offers
Current QuickBooks offers in the UK, checked 12 October 2026.
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New customer offer
90% off the plan and payroll base fee for 6 months
New customers choosing Buy Now, not the trial; any plan; not on per-employee charges or with other offers
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30-day free trial
30 days free on any plan and payroll
Instead of the 90% discount
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Through an accountant (wholesale billing)
50% off for the life of the subscription
Accountant manages billing; any plan
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Payroll through an accountant
30% off the payroll base fee; £1.20 per employee instead of £1.50 to £3
Accountant-billed clients; base fee Core £3.50, Premium £7, Elite £11 a month
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QuickBooks Ledger
£3 a month, ledger only
Code Via an accountant
For clients that do not need invoices, estimates or receipt capture
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Multiple accounts
Bulk pricing; size not published
Code By phone, 0808 304 6358
More than one subscription per order
How to negotiate QuickBooks's price
Ways to lower the bill, most reliable first.
| Rank | Lever | How it works | What it can save |
|---|---|---|---|
| [01] | Buy through your accountant | Accountant billing gets 50% off for the life of the subscription and 30% off payroll, with employees at £1.20. That beats the 90% offer from month seven. | £28 a month on Plus, £62 on Advanced, for the life of the subscription |
| [02] | Take the 90% offer, not the trial | The offer takes 90% off the plan and payroll base fee for 6 months; the trial gives one month free. You get one or the other. | £302 over 6 months on Plus, £664 on Advanced |
| [03] | Size the plan to your user count | Plus costs less per user than Essentials (£11 against £13), and a sixth user forces Advanced. Accountant and time-tracking-only users do not count. | £67 a month by staying on Plus at 5 users rather than Advanced |
| [04] | Stay on Payroll Core | Core is £5 plus £1.50 per employee. Premium (£10 plus £2) and Elite (£15 plus £3) mainly add QuickBooks Time. | £10 a month at 10 employees against Premium, £25 against Elite |
| [05] | Mark leavers Not on payroll | Payroll bills every employee marked Active at the start of the billing month, paid or not. Update statuses before your billing day. | £1.50 to £3 per employee a month |
| [06] | Use Sole Trader Plus if you can | Without VAT registration or employees, Sole Trader Plus at £10 covers MTD for Income Tax. Simple Start at £16 adds VAT returns and payroll. | £6 a month |
| [07] | Pick the plan before the offer starts | Changing plan mid-offer loses the remaining discount. | Up to 6 months of 90% off |
| [08] | Ask for bulk or annual pricing | Bulk pricing for more than one subscription exists but is not published. The offer feed also lists annual prices at 10% off, such as Plus at £605 a year; ask sales. | Up to 10% on annual; bulk not published |
| [09] | Use the end of the offer as your review date | The price rises about tenfold in month seven. With no contract, that is the time to compare or move to accountant billing. | Leverage only; depends on the alternative |
QuickBooks price history
Monthly list prices over the last two years, excluding VAT. Pick a plan, or hover for each change.
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Key points
- Sole Trader Plus, the entry plan: 0% in two years, £10 to £10.
- Plus moved most: +47%, £38 to £56.
- Average across 5 plans: +35% since Oct 2024.
- Last change: 11 Apr 2026.
What people say about QuickBooks pricing
What people in the UK said in public about QuickBooks's pricing in the last six months.
80%
Mostly negative
- Positive 3 of 20
- Neutral 1 of 20
- Negative 16 of 20
16 of 20 public comments from UK QuickBooks customers in the last six months are negative, 1 neutral and 3 positive. Most object to being moved to dearer plans for Making Tax Digital and to discounts that ended early; the positive ones are accountants passing on QuickBooks' wholesale pricing.
- Trustpilot.com negative This UK QuickBooks customer who moved from Xero says a different pricing structure, a forced tier upgrade and paid data migration leave them paying about £400 a year more than Xero. Mike (opens the original on Trustpilot.com)
- Trustpilot.com negative This UK QuickBooks customer of six to seven years says they were told to upgrade to about £60 a month just to show a UTR on invoices, and is moving their own business and clients elsewhere. PM (opens the original on Trustpilot.com)
- Trustpilot.com negative This UK QuickBooks customer says a forced migration broke multi-currency, and the fix offered was moving from about £14 to about £38 a month on Essentials. Ian Langton (opens the original on Trustpilot.com)
- Trustpilot.com negative This UK QuickBooks customer says being moved from Self Employed to Sole Trader Plus meant paying an extra subscription with no partial refund, which felt like a cash grab. Lynne Wilson (opens the original on Trustpilot.com)
- Trustpilot.com negative This UK QuickBooks customer, writing for a client, says the client was told after signing up that MTD self-employment and landlord income need two licences, doubling the cost where Xero and Andica need one. customer (opens the original on Trustpilot.com)
- Trustpilot.com negative This UK QuickBooks customer says the price has doubled while the product has got worse. Daniel Eastwood (opens the original on Trustpilot.com)
- Trustpilot.com negative This UK QuickBooks customer says they were promised a half-price subscription but are being charged the full price. PhilipDyson (opens the original on Trustpilot.com)
- AccountingWEB.co.uk positive This UK QuickBooks customer, an accountant using it for about half of clients, says its pricing is much better with deals and partner discounts and that moving clients from Xero saved them about £30 a month each. johnthegood (opens the original on AccountingWEB.co.uk)
QuickBooks alternatives
Other tools in our price guides for the UK, largest first by market share.
| Vendor | Starting price | Pricing model | Key difference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xero | £7 a month (Simple) | Flat monthly plans, plus per-person payroll and usage charges | Payroll per person past each plan's allowance | Price guides |
| Sage | £20 a month (Sage Accounting Start) | Flat monthly plans with user caps (Sage Accounting), user and company bands (Sage 50), plus per-employee payroll | Two products: Sage Accounting in the cloud and Sage 50 on the desktop | Price guides |
| FreeAgent | £10 a month (Landlord) | One plan priced by business type, free with a NatWest Group business account | Priced by legal structure; free with a NatWest Group business account | Price guides |
| Zoho Books | Free plan; paid from £12 a month (Standard) | Flat price per organisation, plus extra users and add-ons | Extra users £2.50 each a month | Price guides |
| FreshBooks | £16 a month (Lite) | Flat monthly plans capped by billable clients, plus £8 per extra team member | Team members £8 each a month | Price guides |
QuickBooks pricing questions
£10 to £123 a month excluding VAT: Sole Trader Plus £10, Simple Start £16, Essentials £38, Plus £56, Advanced £123. Payroll is extra, from £5 a month plus £1.50 per employee.
No. Prices exclude 20% VAT. With VAT, Simple Start is £19 a month and Advanced £148.
Every plan is ready for MTD for Income Tax. VAT returns need Simple Start at £16 or above.
Sole Trader Plus and Simple Start 1, Essentials 3, Plus 5, Advanced 25, plus accountant access. No extra seats are sold.
Core is £5 a month plus £1.50 per employee, Premium £10 plus £2, Elite £15 plus £3, excluding VAT. Employees count if marked Active at the start of the billing month.
New customers get 90% off for 6 months without a code, instead of the 30-day trial. Accountant-billed businesses get 50% off for the life of the subscription.
No, monthly only. Cancel any time, effective at the end of the billing month, with no pro-rated refund.
Yes. From October 2024 to April 2026, Simple Start rose from £14 to £16, Essentials £28 to £38, Plus £38 to £56 and Advanced £90 to £123.
QuickBooks pricing sources and methodology
From QuickBooks's UK pricing pages on 12 October 2026. Where sources disagree, Intuit's own page wins.
Estimates from list prices, excluding VAT, before payment fees.
Archived copies of QuickBooks's pricing pages from October 2024 to October 2026, plus Intuit's announcements. Standard prices, no promotions.
Drawn from how QuickBooks charges, not from records of negotiated deals.
Ordered by Ensurva's estimate of each vendor's share of business customers in this country, from surveys, vendor customer counts, government software registers and review volume. Only tools with their own Ensurva price guide are listed.
Public comments from April to October 2026 by identifiably UK authors, marked positive, negative or neutral. Cards show confirmed customers only.
Checked monthly. The date at the top is the last check.
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- Understand your QuickBooks subscription price updates (UK) 12 Oct 2026
- QuickBooks UK home page FAQ 12 Oct 2026
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Estimates from published list prices on 12 October 2026. Check QuickBooks's own pricing page before buying. Ensurva is not affiliated with Intuit.