Company details

Go to Settings, then Company Details. Everyone can view the page; editing needs permission level Tax, Accounting & Users or higher - see User permission levels.

The page follows your company type. An unincorporated business is not registered at Companies House, so it is headed Business details, asks for a Business name and a Business address, and does not show the fields that only exist once a company is incorporated.

Who the business is

• Company type - limited company, sole trader, partnership, or landlord. This decides a great deal elsewhere in Kontala, including whether you get End of Year or Self Assessment. It can be set once and not changed afterwards.
• Company name (or Business name), address, Town, Region, and Postcode. For a limited company this is the address on your Companies House record; otherwise it is the address your customers and HMRC write to.
• Country and Native currency are fixed when the organisation is created and cannot be changed.
• Business phone.

Companies House and Corporation Tax

These three appear for a limited company only:

• Company registration number - the eight-character number Companies House issued. Kontala checks the shape and refuses anything else. A short number is refused rather than padded with zeros, because 12 padded to 00000012 is a real and different company.
• Company UTR - your company's Unique Taxpayer Reference, used on the CT600. An unincorporated business's UTR belongs to the person, and lives on their own record.
• Corporation Tax rate (%) - used to estimate the Corporation Tax line on the Profit & Loss report. Blank means 19%.

PAYE references

These are kept whatever your business type, because a sole trader can employ staff too:

• PAYE reference and Accounts Office reference - needed for payroll.
• Employment Allowance - choose Claim or Don't claim. When claimed, pay runs offset the employer's National Insurance up to the annual cap. Check your eligibility each payroll year - see EPS and Employment Allowance.
• Small Employers' Relief and the standard working week.

Contact details and logo

Contact email address, Contact phone number and Website are included on the invoices and estimates your contacts receive.

Add a Company logo for your documents: choose Upload (PNG or JPEG, up to 5 MB). It is applied immediately - use Replace or Remove to change it later.

About your business

Category and Description are a short record of what your business does.

Elsewhere

• Your accounting dates are on their own page - see Accounting dates and settings.
• Your VAT registration is under VAT Registration.
• If you work under CIS, your role is under CIS.