Pricing Policies
We take a simple view of pricing - we're not silly and we know that you aren't either - we know that you wouldn't expect to receive a quality service yet pay little or nothing for it. But the size of professional costs isn't the only thing that people worry about.
People just don't like surprises - particularly unpleasant ones like professional costs they weren't expecting.
And people don't like to find that they're being asked to pay for something when the cost wasn't agreed in advance.
We know that planning and budgeting are as important to you as the actual amount of the bill. After all, to plan and manage your affairs properly, you need to know where you’re going with "no surprises" about the services you're going to need. You'll also want to be sure that the service you're buying is value for money.
No surprises except good ones
"No Surprises" means that you need to know what your financial commitments are before going ahead with us.
So, getting the costs agreed (or a range of costs) right at the start helps keep everything under control and leaves both of us to concentrate on the real work...
...this means getting the best possible result for you personally and your business and that's where the real surprise comes in dealing with us means that the only surprise you'll ever receive is a pleasant one.
Payment options
We offer a number of fee-paying options that will remove the unexpected and free both of us to concentrate on those issues that are really important to you.
Paying for professional services has never been easier choose which of the following methods suits you best:
- Payment "by cheque" (or even, very rarely though, "by cash").
- Payment "by credit card".
- Payment by Fee Funding Plan (see below)
This is how the Fee Funding Plan works:
- We've agreed a special fee-paying loan facility with several banking organisations - lets call them "the bank".
- You sign a simple agreement with the bank who then pay the fees direct to us.
- You can pay the bank by instalments over 6, 9 or 12 months - it's very flexible to allow you to choose the period thats best for you.
- The interest cost is very low and certainly much less than we've had to charge in the past when we were able to provide an instalment payment option ourselves.
- The flow of paper is reduced - because Fee Funding means that in many cases, we only need to send you one bill right at the start - rather than monthly bills throughout the year.
- The Plan can cover any of our services or a group of them but the minimum balance to fund must exceed £750
- In most cases you'll gain a cashflow advantage in being able to claim back the VAT on our invoice in one amount at the beginning of the Fee Funding arrangement.
- Fee Funding helps your cash flow and leaves your other credit lines free for growth investment.
Cost options
There are two main cost options:
Paying by Fixed Fee - Often you will have a clear idea of what you're looking for. It may be straightforward advice so that together we can work out the stages to achieve what you want. In these circumstances, we will give you a quotation for a Fixed Fee project to match a fixed agreed assignment. You may even want to run several Fixed Fee projects with us at the same time. If so, we will advise you on the practicalities because it may be more advantageous to look at another alternative, especially if you are likely to need to use several of our services on a project.
Agreeing a Fee Range - Sometimes, it is simply not possible to be precise as to what the costs are going to be. But that doesn't mean that we expect you to issue a blank cheque to us! For some projects, such as the sale or purchase of a business or raising loan or share capital, we can provide an upper and lower range of estimated costs so that you have a good idea, in advance, as to what the project is likely to cost.