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Accupe vs TaxDome

TaxDome is a popular all-in-one platform for US-focused tax and accounting practices, with strong client portal, billing, and CRM features. For UK and UAE firms, its mature US-centric workflows are less aligned with HMRC, Companies House, and FTA realities. Accupe is built UK-first and UAE-first, with native Companies House integration, MTD VAT job tracking and UAE corporate tax workflows from day one. Accupe does not file to HMRC; it manages the work around the return.

Feature comparison.

A direct, like-for-like look at what each platform ships out of the box.

FeatureAccupeTaxDome
Practice management Yes Yes
Identity verification built-in Yes Limited
E-signatures included Yes Yes
Client portal Yes Yes
AI document analysis Yes Limited
Companies House integration Yes No
MTD VAT job tracking Yes Limited
UAE compliance Yes No
Per-firm pricing (not per-user) Yes No
Starting price£20/mo (whole firm)~£45/user/mo
Custom domain white-label Yes Limited
Smart Boards (kanban governance) Yes Limited
Time tracking Yes Yes
Xero + Zoho Books integration Yes Limited
14-day free trial, no card Yes Limited

Why firms switch to Accupe.

Four reasons we hear most often from firms moving off TaxDome.

UK and UAE native

TaxDome is built around the US tax calendar. Accupe is built for UK and UAE compliance from day one.

Companies House integration

Accupe pulls live UK company data via the official Companies House API. TaxDome does not.

Per-firm pricing

TaxDome is per user. Accupe is per firm, a 5-person firm pays £55/month total on Accupe Growth.

Source-cited AI

Accupe answers document questions with citations to the source PDF, designed for regulator-friendly audit trails.

Who each option actually suits.

The deciding factor here is usually geography rather than feature count. Both are all-in-one platforms, and they are built around different tax calendars and different registers. Work out which side of that line your firm sits on before you compare anything else.

TaxDome is the better fit when

  • Your practice is US focused, or your client base is largely US filers, so a platform built around the US tax calendar matches how your year actually runs.
  • Client portal, billing and CRM depth are the core requirement, and register integrations for other jurisdictions are not part of the brief.
  • Your team is small and stable enough that per-user pricing stays comfortable as you grow.
  • You are already trained on it and the workflows fit, in which case the burden of proof sits with the alternative rather than with you.

Accupe is the better fit when

  • Your deadlines are HMRC, Companies House or the UAE Federal Tax Authority, and you want the product to know those dates without you configuring them.
  • You need UK register data pulled automatically, including officers, persons with significant control, SIC codes and both statutory filing dates.
  • You bill in GBP or AED and want the invoice currency, the compliance templates and the working week to follow your region.
  • You would rather the licence cost stopped moving every time you hire somebody.

If your firm files US returns and UK returns in meaningful volume, be sceptical of any single platform claiming to be native to both. In that situation the pragmatic answer is usually one system per jurisdiction with a shared document policy, and the question to test is not which product wins but which one owns each client record, so nobody is ever unsure where to look.

What those rows mean in practice.

Here is what sits behind each of those rows, with the jurisdiction question addressed head on rather than buried in a footnote.

Companies House integrationThe register a UK firm actually files to

TaxDome does not integrate with Companies House. That is not a criticism of a US-focused product; it is a statement about which register it was built around.

For a UK practice the register is the spine of the compliance year. Accupe runs on a central Companies House API key with nothing for your firm to connect. Search by name or number, add the company, and the client record arrives with registered office, incorporation date, status, SIC codes and the current officer list, plus two tasks created automatically: Accounts on the Accounts Next Due date at High priority and Confirmation Statement on its own date at Medium. Sync All CH refreshes every register-sourced client in one action. A daily check logs officer appointments and resignations, address changes and SIC code changes into an activity feed, and anything touching a director or a person with significant control raises a Refresh CDD task, so your ongoing monitoring leaves a paper trail without anyone maintaining it.

UAE complianceThe other jurisdiction, and what region-awareness means

Accupe supports UAE firms as a first-class region rather than as a currency setting. TaxDome does not cover UAE compliance.

At signup a firm chooses United Kingdom or United Arab Emirates, and that choice drives more than a currency symbol. A UAE client record gains licence category (mainland, free zone or offshore), emirate, TRN and licence expiry, with a free zone authority field covering DMCC, JAFZA, DIFC, ADGM and others. Invoices push to Xero or Zoho Books in AED rather than GBP. Workflow templates are tagged by region. The deadline calendar applies the UAE public holiday list, though it is currently loaded for 2026 only and the Hijri-based dates are marked approximate, so treat those as guidance rather than legal confirmation. A suspicious activity pack defaults to goAML and an STR rather than the NCA and a SAR. One thing to know before signup rather than after: region is written at onboarding and then locked, and changing it later goes through support@accupe.com.

MTD VAT job trackingWhat Accupe does and does not do about a VAT return

This deserves a straight answer rather than a tick. Accupe does not connect to HMRC and does not submit a VAT return. The submission stays with whatever bridging or filing software you already use.

What Accupe manages is everything around it: a quarterly recurring job that respawns automatically, a due date shifted onto the next working day for the England and Wales bank holiday calendar, a workflow template laying out the records request, the preparation and the review as tasks with day offsets, the client chase through the portal, and the engagement letter signed and stored against the client. If your complaint about your current system is that the return itself is hard to file, Accupe does not fix that. If it is that work slips and clients get chased inconsistently, that is precisely the gap it closes.

Starting pricePer user, in which currency, at what headcount

TaxDome is priced per user, from around £45 per user per month. Accupe is priced per firm: £20 on Solo, £55 on Growth for up to five people, £185 on Elite for unlimited seats, with roughly 17 percent off annually and AED pricing for UAE firms.

Two things are worth checking with any per-user vendor beyond the headline. First, which currency you will actually be billed in, because a price quoted in one currency and charged in another puts your software cost on the exchange rate. Second, what a seat means for the people who are not fee earners: the administrator who books documents in, the part-time bookkeeper, the person who only opens the system in your busiest quarter. Under per-seat pricing those people tend not to get accounts, and the work they do gets recorded under somebody else's name, which is exactly the record you did not want blurred.

Identity verification built-inOnboarding a UK or UAE client to your own standard

Customer due diligence obligations are set by your regulator and your own risk assessment, not by your software, so the practical test is whether the evidence ends up somewhere a reviewer can find it two years later.

Accupe includes KYC Smart Capture: an emailed link or a QR code, an ID document scan and a live selfie taken on the client's own phone with nothing to install, EXIF and GPS metadata stripped before storage, and a trust score built from document metadata, passport MRZ checksum validation and image quality. Face matching is disabled server-side, which caps the score at 70 and means every submission is reviewed by a person before approval. Approving one writes the client's compliance status to green across the app. Alongside that, you file your own verification documents against a named director with a re-check date, and Accupe badges them Valid to that date or Re-check overdue and reports the gap on Compliance Radar.

Stated plainly: Accupe does not screen against sanctions, PEP or watchlist data and does not run adverse media checks. Use a specialist provider for that, and store the result here.

Client portalBoth strong, and they solve the login problem differently

TaxDome has a well-regarded client portal, so this row is about approach rather than presence.

Accupe drops the email and password entirely. Clients sign in with a Client Code such as CLI-465 and a numeric PIN of four to ten digits at your branded address, accupe.com/p/your-slug/login, with a QR code you can print for the office wall. Your firm sets the initial PIN and the client is prompted to choose their own. There is deliberately no self-service reset: a locked-out client presses a button that notifies your admins and managers in-app, with a link straight to their record. You switch documents, messaging and eSign history on or off per client, and disabled messaging is enforced on the server rather than merely hidden. For anyone who will not log in at all, the Secure Deposit Box at /documentupload accepts files against a client code alone, up to 25MB each. Elite puts the whole portal on your own domain through a CNAME and white-labels the emails.

AI document analysisCitations, and what happens when they fail

For a firm that has to justify its file, an AI answer without a source is a liability rather than a shortcut.

Accupe AI Chat is available on Growth and Elite. Docs Only mode restricts the model strictly to your uploaded documents and requires a citation on every factual sentence, and two automated checks run before you see the reply: it is blocked outright if more than 40 percent of the factual sentences arrive uncited, and blocked again if the names and figures it cites cannot be verified against your documents, in which case you are told which specific terms could not be confirmed. Citations render as superscript numbers with a Sources line naming the document behind each one. The limits are stated rather than hidden: OCR runs on the first three pages of a scanned PDF and recognises English only, PowerPoint and legacy .doc and .xls files are accepted but never read, a single file is rejected above 500,000 extracted characters, and one message can draw on at most ten documents.

Pricing, side by side.

We charge per firm, not per user. That is where most of the savings come from.

Accupe

Per-firm pricing

One flat price, add as many team members as you need.

Solo
Sole practitioners
£20/mo
Growth
Up to 5 team members
£55/mo
Elite
Unlimited team, white-label and SSO
£185/mo

14-day free trial. No credit card required.

TaxDome

Typical pricing

Most competitors bill per user, costs grow with your team.

Starting price
~£45/user/mo
5-user team cost (approx)
Scales linearly with users
Add-ons typically required
E-signatures, verification tools and AI integrations are usually separate subscriptions.

What switching actually involves.

A cross-jurisdiction move has one extra step a like-for-like move does not: you have to decide what your compliance year actually looks like in the new system before you import anything at all.

What comes across

  1. Clients and contacts

    Import by CSV, or connect Xero or Zoho Books and pull the contacts across from your ledger. Matching runs exact email, then exact business name, then a looser partial match, with partial matches written to the compliance audit log for a person to confirm rather than applied silently.

  2. UK company data

    Do not import this from your old system. Attach each limited company through Add from CH and take the registered office, officers, SIC codes and both statutory deadlines from the register itself, which is more accurate and faster than mapping columns.

  3. Tasks and jobs

    CSV import for open items. Then rebuild your repeating work as recurrence patterns or workflow templates, so new deadlines are generated against UK or UAE dates rather than carried over from a calendar built around a different filing year.

  4. Invoices

    The .xlsx import template covers invoice number, client name, amount, issue date, due date, status, paid date and notes, and blank invoice numbers are auto-assigned in an INV-0001 sequence. Alternatively, pull invoices from a connected Xero or Zoho Books organisation.

What does not come across cleanly

  1. Anything keyed to a different tax calendar

    Recurring work built around another jurisdiction's filing year will not translate by mapping. Rebuild it against the dates you actually file to: quarterly VAT, the 12-month corporation tax return window, the 31 January self assessment date, or in the UAE a VAT return due 28 days after the tax period ends and a corporate tax return due 9 months after the tax period ends.

  2. Portal accounts

    Client logins do not migrate from any platform. Each client needs a Client Code and a PIN issued from their record in Accupe, and sends are rate limited to 30 an hour per user, so a large client base is a scheduled task across a few sittings rather than one action.

  3. E-signature history

    Completed agreements come across as documents, not as verifiable signatures, because a signed PDF stops being cryptographically attested the moment it leaves the platform that issued it. Accupe's SHA-256 hashes and Certificates of Completion apply to documents signed in Accupe. Keep read access to the old platform's trail for your retention period.

  4. Region is a one-way door

    Accupe writes your region during onboarding and locks it. If your firm has both a UK and a UAE arm, work out which entity is the subscriber before you start the trial rather than after, and talk to support@accupe.com about the right shape rather than guessing at signup.

When to do it

Anchor the cutover to the calendar you are moving to, not the one you are leaving. In the UK, start a new VAT quarter on the new system so your first recurring jobs cover a whole period, and stay away from January entirely. In the UAE, avoid the fortnight before the 28th of the month following a VAT quarter end, and avoid the run-in to a corporate tax return due nine months after the tax period ends. If your firm serves both, pick the jurisdiction carrying the heavier compliance load and protect that one.

How to run a parallel period

Run a full cycle in both, then reconcile deliberately. Expect your deadline dates to differ from the old system in a specific and legitimate way: Accupe shifts a due date onto the next working day for your region's public holiday calendar, so a Saturday deadline shows on the Monday and a UK bank holiday pushes it forward. Hover the pill and it shows the original date. Reconcile three lists at the end: open jobs by owner, deadlines in the next 90 days after allowing for that shift, and clients with incomplete compliance evidence. If Accupe reports more incomplete clients than your old system did, read the itemised issue list before assuming an import fault, because the deductions are listed per client and usually explain themselves.

Questions to ask any practice management vendor.

If you are evaluating across jurisdictions, these are the questions that surface a mismatch early rather than in month three. Ask them of everyone, including us.

  1. Which statutory deadlines does the product understand natively for our jurisdiction, without us configuring them?

    There is a large gap between a date field you fill in and a deadline the system knows. Ask them to add a real client of yours during the demo and show you which dates appear on their own.

  2. Does the calendar respect our working week and our public holidays?

    A deadline shown on a day the office is shut is a deadline you will miss. Ask specifically what happens to a due date falling on a Saturday or a public holiday, and where the holiday list comes from and how far ahead it is loaded.

  3. Does the product read the official company register we file to, and how often?

    The answer distinguishes a manual lookup from genuine monitoring. Follow it up by asking what the system does on its own, with nobody logged in, on the day a director resigns.

  4. Which currency will we be billed in, and what happens when the exchange rate moves?

    A software cost that floats with FX is an avoidable line in your budget. Get the billing currency confirmed in writing rather than accepting the currency shown on the pricing page.

  5. Where is client data stored, and which data protection law does the contract cite?

    For a UK firm you want UK GDPR named; for a UAE firm, the applicable federal law. Accupe's DPA cites UK GDPR or UAE Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 depending on your region, and states AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit.

  6. What does support look like in our timezone, and who answers?

    Ask for the hours in your local time and what happens outside them. A four-hour first response is perfectly fine; discovering that it means the next working day in another hemisphere is not.

  7. If we operate in two countries, is that one workspace or two subscriptions?

    Get this answered before you load any data. It changes your reporting, your billing and, in some products, whether you can see both arms at once. Accupe locks one region per firm workspace, so put the same question to us directly.

Frequently asked questions.

Is Accupe a UK alternative to TaxDome?
Yes. Accupe is built for UK and UAE firms, with native Companies House integration, MTD VAT job tracking and UAE corporate tax workflows that TaxDome does not have. Accupe does not submit returns to HMRC.
Does Accupe include e-signatures like TaxDome?
Yes. Accupe e-signatures use SHA-256 hashing, OTP verification, and produce a Certificate of Completion, built in from the Growth plan upwards.
Can I move from TaxDome to Accupe?
Yes. Accupe imports clients, contacts, and tasks via CSV. We help with migration during your free trial.
Which is more affordable, Accupe or TaxDome?
For UK and UAE firms with more than one user, Accupe is significantly cheaper because of its per-firm rather than per-user pricing.
Does Accupe file anything to HMRC or the FTA?
No. Accupe does not submit VAT returns, corporation tax returns, self assessment returns or accounts to HMRC, and it does not file with the UAE Federal Tax Authority. It does not file a SAR or an STR for you either: it assembles the evidence pack, pins the filing snapshot and produces the PDF, and your MLRO submits it through their own credentials on the regulator's own portal. Everything Accupe does sits around the filing itself: the recurring job, the region-aware deadline, the client chase, the engagement letter, the documents and the audit trail.
Can one Accupe workspace serve both a UK arm and a UAE arm?
A firm workspace holds one region, and that region is written during onboarding and then locked, because it drives currency, compliance templates, AI routing and historic data. If you run both, decide which entity subscribes before you start, and email support@accupe.com to talk the shape through rather than picking a region and hoping. Changing region later is a support-assisted migration rather than a toggle, and that is deliberate: silently reinterpreting existing records under a different tax authority would be considerably worse than making you ask.
Does Accupe perform sanctions, PEP or adverse media screening?
No. Sanctions, PEP and watchlist screening and adverse media checks are not part of Accupe and should be run with a specialist provider. Identity verification is included, through KYC Smart Capture, and every submission is reviewed by a person rather than auto-approved. For the screening itself, file the provider's output against the named director on the client's KYC tab with a re-check date, and Accupe tracks that date, badges the evidence, surfaces the gap on Compliance Radar and records it in the compliance audit log.

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What firms say about Accupe

5 out of 5 from Push Digits Chartered Accountants

Really simple to use and effective. We love the customisation options available, and we particularly value that the developer listens to our feature recommendations. We look forward to future updates.

Sarfraz ChandioManaging Director, Push Digits Chartered Accountants
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