Terms of use
What this service is
Subbielane is software. We are the vendor: you buy the subscription from Ellul Solutions Ltd directly, and there is no third party between us. We introduce you to nobody, we sell your details to nobody, and we take no commission from anyone for sending you anywhere. We aim to keep the service available at all times and to keep your data recoverable, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access. If we plan work that will take the service offline we tell subscribers first. You can export your clients, invoices, statements and expenses at any time while your subscription is active and for 90 days after it ends.
How we are paid
You pay us, and that is the whole of how this business is funded: a monthly subscription to Subbielane Pro, sold to businesses. Nothing on this site is an advertisement we are paid for, and no figure or recommendation here is influenced by a commission, because there is none. Price, renewal date and cancellation route are shown before you pay and stated again in your account. Purchase is offered to people acting for purposes related to their trade or profession. Where a consumer nonetheless buys, the statutory cancellation and digital content rights are honoured in full rather than excluded.
Online payments. When you connect your own Stripe account and take a payment through a pay link, Subbielane charges a platform fee of 1% of that payment, in addition to Stripe's own processing fee. Stripe deducts both from the payment before it is paid out to you; Subbielane never holds your customers' money. The rate that applies is the one shown in your account on the day the pay link is created, and a change to it applies only to links created afterwards.
The free worksheets
The free worksheets on this site are provided as working calculators for UK subcontractors and the small firms that pay them. Their output is arithmetic on the figures entered. They do not tell you which CIS rate applies to you, whether you must register for VAT, what you may claim as an expense, or what tax you owe, and they are not a tax return, a deduction statement or tax advice.
No warranty
Nothing on this site is tax, legal or accounting advice, and Subbielane is not an accountancy practice or a tax agent. Which CIS rate applies to you, whether you should register for VAT or gross payment status, what counts as an allowable expense and what you owe are questions for HMRC and your own accountant. The worksheets work your figures; the two statutory rates they name are entered by you and cited to GOV.UK.
Contact
Ellul Solutions Ltd. hello@subbielane.com