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Inform Direct
Leamington Spa, United Kingdom; trading address in Ipswich, Suffolk
What it is
Inform Direct is online company secretarial software for UK organisations that need to manage statutory records and compliance. It can file confirmation statements and many company changes electronically with Companies House, maintain statutory registers, and remind users about filing deadlines. Share tools record shareholders, issue and transfer shares, and support share reorganisations. The service generates more than 400 documents, including minutes, resolutions, forms, and certificates. It can prepare dormant company and audit-exempt micro-entity accounts; subscribers with their own presenter code can also submit iXBRL accounts files. An API supports adding or removing companies and retrieving lists and high-level company details for external systems. Browser access is available 24/7 without a download, and multi-user accounts can assign permissions by company and function. Two-step verification is available to subscribers. Inform Direct supports UK-incorporated limited companies, public companies, LLPs, and certain other company types, but not overseas-incorporated companies or registered overseas entities. Free standard functionality covers up to 10 companies, with chargeable transactions paid separately. Pay as You Go is £15, paid once per chargeable transaction; prices exclude VAT and some transactions also incur Companies House fees.
For and against
For
- Files confirmation statements and many changes electronically.
- Maintains statutory registers and deadline reminders.
- Generates more than 400 company secretarial documents.
- Includes an API for linking external systems.
Against
- Does not support overseas-incorporated companies or registered overseas entities.
- Free functionality is limited to 10 companies.
- Pay as You Go transactions are £15, paid once, excluding VAT.
- Some transactions also incur Companies House fees.
The verdict
Inform Direct combines filing, register maintenance, share administration, and document generation in one browser-based service. Check its entity coverage and transaction costs against the companies and filings you need to manage.
Who it suits
It suits UK-incorporated organisations that need online statutory recordkeeping, filing support, and share administration. Its company and function permissions may also suit teams sharing secretarial work.
Plans and prices
Pay as You Go
up to 10 companies · standard features free
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Subscription companies 1001+
companies 1001 and above
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Subscription companies 501–1000
companies 501–1000
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Subscription companies 251–500
companies 251–500
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Subscription companies 51–250
companies 51–250
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Subscription companies 2–50
companies 2–50
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Pay as You Go company formation
form one new company
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Subscription first company
first company in portfolio
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Pay as You Go confirmation statement
file one confirmation statement
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On the record
- Access controls
- Multi-user accounts can set user permissions for individual companies and functions; two-step verification is available to subscribers.informdirect.co.uk · read 28 Sep 2026
- Accounts
- Users can prepare compliant micro-entity and dormant accounts, create drafts for approval and save approved filings to the document library.informdirect.co.uk · read 15 Oct 2026
- API
- A public integration API supports authentication, refresh and logout plus listing, retrieving, adding and deleting companies; deletion can preserve registers and documents.api.informdirect.co.uk · read 15 Oct 2026
- API scope
- The maker describes the API as supporting company add/remove operations and retrieval of high-level company details for linking external systems.informdirect.co.uk · read 15 Oct 2026
- Availability claim
- Inform Direct claims 99.99% uptime for its Companies House connectivity.informdirect.co.uk · read 15 Oct 2026
- Companies House authorisation
- Inform Direct says it is a Companies House authorised service that exchanges data directly with Companies House.informdirect.co.uk · read 28 Sep 2026
- Companies House filings
- The service can submit confirmation statements and many company changes electronically to Companies House.informdirect.co.uk · read 28 Sep 2026
- Company formation
- A step-by-step wizard supports online formation, including more complex shareholder arrangements, with setup typically completed within hours.informdirect.co.uk · read 15 Oct 2026
- Company profile
- LinkedIn lists Inform Direct as a privately held technology company with 11–50 employees, headquartered in Ipswich, Suffolk, and founded in 2012.uk.linkedin.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Confirmation statements
- It reminds users about deadlines, compiles confirmation statements and submits them electronically to Companies House.informdirect.co.uk · read 15 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- It is browser-based, available from multiple computers and requires no software download or installation.informdirect.co.uk · read 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- The resource center provides FAQs, blog guidance, downloadable templates, research and more than 200 step-by-step user guides.informdirect.co.uk · read 15 Oct 2026
- Documents
- The platform creates compliant branded documents and gives subscribers an uploadable, searchable document library.informdirect.co.uk · read 15 Oct 2026
- Identity verification
- Authorised Corporate Service Providers can launch client identity checks, review results and register successful verification with Companies House.informdirect.co.uk · read 15 Oct 2026
- Integration API
- Its API supports adding and removing companies and retrieving company lists and high-level company details for linking external systems.informdirect.co.uk · read 28 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- The product is integrated with Companies House, compares data with it daily and reports more than 2,000,000 successful electronic submissions.informdirect.co.uk · read 15 Oct 2026
- Legal maker
- Inform Direct states that it trades as Anglia Registrars Ltd.informdirect.co.uk · read 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- The terms describe paid online company-register, formation, filing and documentation services; no open-source licence is stated on the cited pages.informdirect.co.uk · read 15 Oct 2026
