Speak it, don’t type it
Tell dough the job in plain words, like “Invoice Acme four-fifty, kitchen fit”, and it comes back as a tidy draft: client, work, total, VAT. It copes with accents, vans and a noisy site. You check it over and send.
Speak the job, and the rest keeps itself: the invoice, the tax to set aside, the miles between jobs.
No spreadsheets, no shoebox of receipts, and no nasty surprise in January. Just the day-to-day money side of a trade business, kept honest and simple.
See your tax as you earn
Every invoice and expense feeds a live tax pot. Income tax and your VAT position stay at a current figure, so there is no year-end guess.
Get paid on the spot
Add a card link to any invoice. The customer taps, pays, and the money lands before you’re off the drive.
Mileage without the maths
Postcode to postcode. dough works out the distance and the claim, so every trip between jobs counts toward your return.
The software doesn’t do your tax.
We do.
Every accounting package will keep your books. None of them file your return — that is still a job for you, or for the accountant you pay on top. That is the bit we took on.
| What you need doing | dough | The usual software |
|---|---|---|
| Raising an invoice | Say it out loud on the job — it writes itself | Type it into a form when you get home |
| Quarterly MTD updates | Included, and we file all four for you | The software prepares them. You press submit |
| Annual Self Assessment | Included — a real person files it | A paid add-on, or the accountant you pay separately |
| Knowing what you owe | A tax pot that moves the moment you get paid | A report you remember to run |
| Taking payment | Card payment built in, on the spot | Connect a separate payment account |
| Who it's built for | One-person trades, one hand, poor light, in a van | Businesses with a bookkeeper or an accountant |
Where they beat us.If you have staff on payroll, a limited company with statutory accounts to file, or a bookkeeper who already lives in their software, the big platforms do a great deal that we don’t. We are built for one person and their van, and we would rather say so than sell you the wrong thing.
Books and tax, sorted,
so you can get on with the job.
dough opens to its first traders soon. Join the waitlist and you’ll be among the first through the door.
No spam, just word when we launch.