Who we serve

For accountancy practices. The part of due diligence that isn't in the accounts.

The free Sale-Ready Check looks at each client who is selling the way the buyer's side will. Whatever it finds in the filings and the registers is work your practice already does: identity verification, late filings, old charges. The rest, who holds the web address, the email and the admin logins, we review at a trade price of £1,750, inside your engagement at your own fee.

Free check · keep £750 a review at our £2,500 list price · or £500 a referral

Become a partner Check one client free

To talk it through, ring Mal Murphy on 07830 879318, weekdays, 9am to 5pm.

The partner terms, at a glancefrom 7 November 2026

The Sale-Ready Check: FreeOn any client who's selling, up to 200 a run. By web address, never by name.
The review, at the trade price Recommended: £750 a reviewBuy our review at £1,750 and bill it at our £2,500 list price, or at your own fee.More for you: £750 a review at our list price, against £500 a referral.
Or the referral route: £500 a referralThey pay us £2,500 and we pay you £500, with their written consent.
Fixes your clients buy, on the referral route: 20%We pay you £59 on the £295 email lock-down and £99 on the £495 emergency clean-up, with the client's written consent.

No minimum and no term. Partner terms from 7 November 2026.

The review is a factual record of who holds each login, made with the owner on screen. It isn't legal or tax advice.

18 Nov 2026the identity verification transition ends. A company cannot file its confirmation statement until every director is verified.¹
78%of director appointments had a verified identity by 30 September 2026. The rest is work your practice can take on as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider.²
149 daysto Monday 5 April 2027, the last completion day under the £1 million limit. 101 of them are working days.³
13,000of roughly 51,000 claimants HMRC expects the lower limit to affect.³

What the check finds, and who sorts it

Every item names who fixes it, and the filings are yours.

Identity checks, late filings and old charges are jobs practices already do for clients, so whatever the check finds in the first column is paid work for you, on top of what you earn on each review.

Your practice's own work

Identity verification of directors and people with significant control (as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider, or guiding them through gov.uk)
Late or missing accounts and confirmation statements
Old charges still registered that were repaid years ago: satisfy them at Companies House
A register of people with significant control, and director records, that do not match reality
Dormant or wrongly filed accounts while the business trades
The management accounts and tax computations the buyer will ask for

If your practice is registered as an Authorised Corporate Service Provider, you can verify a client's directors and file the code, and charge a fee for it.¹ A charge repaid years ago and never satisfied still holds a sale up; an MR04 filed now takes it off the table before the buyer asks.⁴

The seller's solicitor

Trade mark assignment, where the brand is registered in a person's name
Written assignment of the website's copyright from the agency that built it
The landlord's consent on an asset sale, or a change-of-control clause in the lease on a share sale
The lender's release and the MR04 at completion
Regulator approval where the sector needs it
The sale agreement itself

Bondstone, in the review

Who actually controls the web address, and moving it into the company's name
Email and hosting: who holds the admin logins
Admin accounts in a former supplier's or employee's name
Payment and software accounts held outside the company
The handover report for the data room

Your client's IT provider

The email lock-down that tells inboxes to refuse email faked in the company's name, set with the DNS login. Or we set it up for £295.

Regulator deadlines

FCA, CQC or Ofsted. Rarely applies to your clients.

How you earn

Two routes, the trade price first

Pick one when you sign up, and change it by ringing Mal. On either route, the identity checks and register tidy-ups the check turns up are your work, at your fee.

	Trade price Recommended	Referral
The review	You buy it at £1,750.	The client books it with us at £2,500.
What you make	Your own fee. At our £2,500 list price, £750.	£500 a review, 20% of the £2,500.
The client	Stays yours. Your name heads their page, with no price of ours on it.	Stays yours. Their page says Bondstone prepared it for your clients.
Consent	None needed. It's your own engagement.	Their order prints your £500 and how it's worked out, and they tick to agree, as your professional body asks. You get a dated copy for your file.
How money moves	You pay us by card, or on invoice at 14 days, and bill your client.	We pay you £500 at the end of the month their payment clears. Or they can ask for the £500 to come off their price.

Fixes your clients buy. On the referral route only, we pay you 20% (£59 on the £295 email lock-down, £99 on the £495 emergency clean-up), with the client's written consent on their order. On the trade route you arrange any fix through Mal and bill your own fee.

The ICAEW Code asks for “explicit written consent to retain the commission”, a requirement that “exists regardless of the amount”.⁵ On the referral route the client's order prints the fee, what it is for, how it is worked out and who pays whom, and the client ticks before paying. You get a dated copy for your file.

No minimum, no term and no tie: you are free to refer elsewhere. No share of tax saved, and we never approach your clients.

How it works

Three steps, nothing to log in to

Become a partner See a client's page

Check a client by their web address
Sign up on one page, then paste a client's web address, or a column of them from a spreadsheet. Never their names. One takes about a minute; a long list up to 20 minutes.
Send them their page, or the client note
On the trade route their page is headed with your practice's name; on a referral it's prepared for your clients by Bondstone. Each comes with a PDF the client and the buyer's solicitor can keep. Or send the note with your link to your whole client list: each client runs the check themselves, and every check is credited to you.
Order the review, or refer them
At the trade price you include it in your engagement. On the referral route the client books and pays us directly. Either way Mal books the call.

What we keep

What we never ask for, and what we keep

No client names: the check takes web addresses only.
No logins. The check uses public records; in the review the owner logs in to their own accounts on a shared screen, and we never take passwords.
Nothing to install.
A run's results stay on screen for 30 minutes and aren't stored. We keep how many checks were run, never the addresses.
A client page exists only once it is forwarded, or the business runs the check itself. It keeps that business's name, number and report for 120 days.
We treat every web address you give us as confidential. A run keeps none of them; a client page you forward keeps that business's name, number and report for 120 days.

For your file

What you keep on file about us

Before you refer a client to anyone, your firm weighs whether they are fit for the work. This is what we give a practice for its file.

Company: Bondstone Global, registered in Australia (ABN 46 950 504 862), a data intelligence and cyber security firm
UK office: Hollywell House, Hollywell Lane, Leeds LS12 3HP
Direct line: Mal Murphy, partnerships, 07830 879318
Correspondence: [email protected]
Partner terms: From 7 November 2026, on one page when you sign up
A sample client page: The page a client sees, with the business's identity removed
Confidentiality: We treat every web address you give us as confidential. A run keeps none of them; a client page you forward keeps that business's name, number and report for 120 days.

Questions

Do we need to be registered as an ACSP?

Not to use the check or to partner with us. If you are an Authorised Corporate Service Provider you can also verify your clients' directors and file the code yourself; if not, a director verifies at gov.uk with GOV.UK One Login.

Does a client's name ever reach you?

Not from you: the check takes web addresses only, and we keep how many checks you run, never the addresses. A client page you forward, or one a client makes through your link, keeps that business's name, number and report from Companies House for 120 days. A client who books the review gives us their own name.

Who runs the review call?

We do, on a shared screen with the business owner, who logs in to their own accounts. We never take passwords. On the trade route the handover report is headed with your practice's name.

What if a client would rather the referral fee came off their price?

They ring Mal before they book, and we set that up. The order says so beside the tick.

Can we change route later?

Yes. Ring Mal and he changes it. Fees already earned are still paid.

Is there a minimum, or a contract term?

Neither. Either side can end the partnership by email, and fees already earned are still paid.

When are we paid?

On the referral route we pay you £500 at the end of the month the client's payment clears. On the trade route you bill your client yourself.

Sources

Companies House, Verifying your identity for Companies House. 1 June 2026, gov.uk
Companies House, Management information, identity verification, July to September 2026. accessed 5 November 2026, gov.uk
HMRC, Capital Gains Tax: new Business Asset Disposal Relief lifetime limit, policy paper. 29 October 2026, gov.uk
Companies House, Register a statement of satisfaction (MR04). accessed 6 November 2026, gov.uk
ICAEW, Code of Ethics 2026, R330.5B, commission and referral fees. 2026, icaew.com

Every figure on this page is from the source beside it, with its date. Where we give a date to start by, it is counted back from Monday 5 April 2027: the FCA's in UK working days, the others in calendar days.

How many of your clients will complete a sale before 6 April?

If it is even one, ring Mal on 07830 879318 and he will show you how it works on that client in ten minutes. Or set up the partnership now: one page, and nothing to log in to.

Become a partner Ring Mal on 07830 879318