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The Company Merchant™ provide you with company formation startup packages, business information, resources and services to help you get the most out of your business online.
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Having carried out tens of thousands of company formations (company registration with Companies House), we can setup a limited company in around 4 working hours - subject to Companies House. Only one person is required to form a company with only a single £1 share needing to be issued. Register your UK limited company online with us todayNew customers can check out the requirements of forming a company, regular customers can simply login and go straight to our company registration system
Company Formation in the UK. Registering as a limited company helps to protect the owners from personal financial liability if the limited company fails to make a success and many suppliers require you to be a limited company before trading with you. Using our complete online system, you can perform a Companies House name search, get a company formed on the same day and printed documentation is usually with you within 48 hours
Companies House documents. Provides you with document scans from Companies House for just £4.99+VAT so you can easily retrieve copies of annual accounts (for financial information) and annual returns (for director and shareholder information) and other business information filed at Companies House.
Check out your customers and suppliers before you trade with them. Financial accounts (annual accounts), annual returns (lists of directors, secretary and shareholders as at the end of year), director appointments and terminations,
Get financial information, ownership and director details on prospective customers or suppliers that are limited companies.
Track down companies which are linked to the same person, either as a director or secretary. Ideal for solicitors to track down the details of limited companies involving a spouse in divorce cases
We provide online anti money laundering identity checking services to businesses who need to check the identity of their customers.
Anti money laundering ID checks can confirm the home address, check sanctions lists, politically exposed persons lists, mail forwarding databases, Halo death register and others to help make your decisions.
Simply register for our online ID Checking service and you can be verifying identities of customers quickly and easily from just £5.99+VAT per check with no minimum usage and no sign up fees.
We can also supply anti money laundering policy documents to help you comply with the money laundering regulations at just £227+VAT for a one off document (less than an hour of many solicitors time)
Business articles, updates and notifications from The Company Merchant (such as new facilities or important information about the recent 2006 Companies Act in Oct 09), tutorials, fact sheets, trademarks, patents, internet services, marketing and accounting. vat registration requirements, small business advice, business formation help, bank account setup, uk company formation help in starting a business, business name registration and general business services
When developing your own website, you will need contact forms, enquiry forms, order forms etc. By providing a postcode/address lookup system, you can make the entry process quicker and more accurate and show your customers that your website is there to make life easier for them. We provide a working PHP system which with small javascript modifications will work on your website within minutes, or you can use our SOAP system and develop your own interface











