THE CONNECTED SUITE

Software integrations to streamline work for accountants, bureaus and businesses

Bright has built software for accounting practices, payroll bureaus, bookkeepers and businesses. Each product is purpose-built and can work on its own, with many integrated and connected within the Bright ecosystem.

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CONNECTED SUITE

Choose your suite, no matter your workflow

Multiple products with a shared foundation. Start with the one that fits how you work today, and connect the others when you’re ready.

The Accountant Suite

From the first proposal to iXBRL financial statements ready to file to ROS.

BrightProposeEnd-to-end proposal solution BrightManagerComprehensive practice management BrightPay - BureauBureau Payroll at any scale BrightAccountsProductionFully compliant financial statements BrightWorkpapersWorkpapers for every engagement BrightBooksSimple bookkeeping and invoicing

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The Bureau Suite

Multi-employer payroll built for scale, with multi-user capabilities and automatic compliance updates.

BrightPay - BureauBureau Payroll at any scale BrightManagerComprehensive practice management BrightExpensesExpense management & ERR compliance

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The Business Suite

Payroll, ERR expense reporting and bookkeeping, connected in one place.

BrightPay - BusinessCompliant Payroll at any scale TimeKeeperTime and attendance tracking BrightExpensesExpense management & ERR compliance BrightBooksSimple bookkeeping and invoicing

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WHAT MAKES IT POSSIBLE

The foundations that sit underneath every connected workflow

Some connections already run between products: bookkeeping data into accounts production, payroll expenses into ERR reporting, signed proposals into practice management. The shared foundation underneath lets those connections multiply.

BrightID, one login across the suite

A single identity that signs you in across BrightManager, BrightAccountsProduction, BrightPay and the other Bright products, with no separate credentials.

BrightHub, one place to run the practice

Subscriptions, users, permissions and billing for every product in one control centre.

HOW THE SUITE IS CONNECTED

Every product, building towards one shared client record

BrightClient is being built as the data layer every product will read from and write to, so that when a detail changes in one product, the others will already have the update.

The connective layer, BrightClient (coming)

A single shared client record synced across products, alongside BrightID single sign-on and BrightHub management.

On the record

BrightManager (practice and client management, with CRO deadlines), BrightAccountsProduction (FRS 102 and FRS 105 accounts and iXBRL for ROS), BrightBooks (cloud bookkeeping and VAT, formerly Surf Accounts), BrightPropose (proposals and letters of engagement), BrightWorkpapers (workpaper management), BrightPay (payroll under PAYE Modernisation) and BrightExpenses (ERR reporting to ROS).

IN PRACTICE

This is what a connected accounting suite looks like

Data moves between products, so bookkeeping effortlessly flows to accounts production, proposals and letters of engagement sync to practice management and payroll integrates with bookkeeping, time and attendance, payments and expense management software without being rekeyed.

Year-end accounts

A year of bookkeeping, complete

Bank feeds reconciled and VAT return figures ready for ROS leave an accurate year-end position in BrightBooks.

The books become the accounts

BrightAccountsProduction works directly on the BrightBooks data, so there is no trial balance import and nothing to rekey.

Workpapers and accounts in step

BrightWorkpapers passes the final trial balance and adjustments to BrightAccountsProduction, and postings can flow back for review.

iXBRL ready for the CT1

BrightAccountsProduction generates tagged iXBRL financial statements for your practice to file with the client’s CT1 on ROS.

The CRO deadline in view

The company’s annual return date sits in BrightManager alongside its other deadlines, so your team tracks the 56 days the CRO allows for filing the B1 annual return and financial statements on CORE.

ENHANCED REPORTING REQUIREMENTS

ERR: Expenses reported to ROS straight from your payroll software

Since the 1st of January 2024, employers must report certain tax-free payments to Revenue on or before the day they are paid. With the BrightPay and BrightExpenses integration, that reporting happens as part of payroll, not as a separate job in the manual ROS system.

What must be reported

Three categories of tax-free payment: travel and subsistence, the remote working daily allowance (up to €3.20 a day), and benefits under the small benefit exemption (up to five a year, €1,500 in total). Each is reported on or before the date it is paid.

The connected flow

Employee details, expense categories and amounts entered into BrightPay are sent directly to BrightExpenses, and from there submitted directly to ROS.

Everything in one place

Non-payroll expenses (reimbursements made outside payroll) are added manually into BrightExpenses and then submitted to ROS.

ALL PRODUCTS

The specialist products behind each stack

Each product is a specialist. Together, they run the practice, the bureau or the business. Full feature detail lives on each product’s own page.

BrightManager

Practice management: client records, deadline-driven workflow with CRO deadlines pulled in, time recording and WIP, letters of engagement, automated client comms, and a client portal.

BrightAccountsProduction

Accounts production: FRS 102, FRS 102 Section 1A and FRS 105 accounts under the Companies Act 2014, trial-balance import from BrightBooks, Sage, Xero, QuickBooks and FreeAgent, and one-click iXBRL for the CT1 on ROS.

BrightBooks

Cloud bookkeeping: invoicing, VAT return figures for ROS, direct bank feeds, SEPA supplier payments and RCT records on the Enterprise plan.

BrightPropose

Pricing and proposals: dynamic fee scaling, a service catalogue, letter of engagement templates, and client data from BrightManager.

BrightWorkpapers

Cloud-based working papers for accounting firms, covering audit, accounts and other engagements, with regulatory-aligned methodology templates, structured engagement files, and a trial balance that passes to BrightAccountsProduction.

BrightPay

Payroll for bureaus, accountants and businesses: PAYE Modernisation reporting (RPNs and PSRs), auto-enrolment functionality, an employee portal and app, and bookkeeping and payment platform integrations.

BrightExpenses

ERR reporting: tax-free expenses and benefits sent from BrightPay to BrightExpenses which are then submitted to ROS.

Dext

Automated data extraction. Pulls data from receipts and invoices and sends it to your bookkeeping software.

TimeKeeper

Time and attendance software that verifies who’s on site at all times with a clock-in app. Timesheets integrated with payroll software.

BUILT TO TRUST

One login, secure hosting, one Irish support team

The connective layer is also the trust layer: the foundation that shares your data also secures it.

One login

BrightID works across the products in the suite.

A shared client record (coming)

BrightClient will keep client details in step across connected products.

Microsoft Azure

Enterprise cloud infrastructure.

Hosted in the EU (Ireland) or the UK

Data held in ISO 27001-certified datacentres.

Irish support

From our team in Duleek, Co. Meath.

BEYOND THE ACCOUNTANT SUITE

The same connected logic, for bureaus and businesses too

The compounding advantage is not exclusive to practices. Bureaus can use BrightPay with BrightManager and BrightExpenses, while businesses can run BrightPay with BrightExpenses and BrightBooks.

Bureau stack

Clients are managed in BrightManager alongside their deadlines, payroll runs report to Revenue under PAYE Modernisation, and each client’s ERR submissions go to ROS through BrightExpenses.

BrightPay - BureauBureau Payroll at any scale BrightManagerComprehensive practice management BrightExpensesExpense management & ERR compliance

Business stack

Expenses paid through payroll are reported to ROS through BrightExpenses, payroll journals post to BrightBooks, and your accountant works on the BrightBooks data at year-end.

BrightPay - BusinessCompliant Payroll at any scale BrightExpensesExpense management & ERR compliance BrightBooksSimple bookkeeping and invoicing

GET STARTED

See the whole suite working together

Book a demo and we will map Bright’s connected suite to your individual needs, showing exactly where duplication disappears and where time can be saved.

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