Company data from the register, not from a copy.
FigsFlow is Companies House integration for UK accountancy practices. Search a company once and the registered details, appointed directors and persons with significant control land on the client record — then carry through due diligence, the proposal, the engagement letter and the job. Nobody types a company number into a second system.
Partner or practice manager, start with the live tour below. MLRO or compliance, the PSC data and the change history are what you want.
The tour runs in your browser. No form until you want one.
- Company no.09 471 220
- Registered officeUnit 4, Cedar Grove, Bromley BR1
- SourceThe register · live lookup
- Directors2 appointed · current
- PSC1 individual · 75%+ shares
nothing typed by hand
Everything selected is written to the client record once. Deselect a block and the record is rebuilt from the same lookup — no second search.
Three people, three versions of the same registered office
The engagement letter goes out on Monday. It carries the address someone copied from an old proposal, which came from a spreadsheet, which came from the register two years ago — before the client moved. Nobody was careless. The data simply entered the firm four separate times.
Still doing it this way?
Four entries, four chances for the address to drift.
- 01Key the company into the onboarding form
- 02Key it again into the AML check
- 03Key it again into the engagement letter
- 04Key it again into the practice system
Then the registered office changes at the register, and only one of those four copies is ever corrected.
Two steps between you and a live client record
The searching, the keying and the reconciling are already done.
- 01Search the company number or name
- 02Accept the match
The entity, officers, PSC data and filing dates are already attached, and every module downstream reads the same record.
What happens the moment you accept the match?
Nothing on your side. Accepting the match is an event in FigsFlow, not a status someone has to remember to set.
The client record is created.
Entity name, company number, registered office, officers and PSC information are written from register data, without anyone opening a second screen.
Due diligence has something to check against.
The CDD file opens on the entity and the people the register named, so identity verification and screening run against the register rather than a typed name.
Documents inherit the legal entity.
The proposal and the engagement letter are issued in the name and registered office held at the register, so what the client receives matches what is filed.
Nothing is reconciled by hand.
No spreadsheet to update, no second system to keep in step, and no copy of the address to go stale in a template.
The search is the last time anyone in your firm types the company details.
Whose version of the company goes on the record?
The register's. FigsFlow runs a live lookup against Companies House and returns the entity as held there — not as remembered from the last engagement letter. Irish companies are covered through the Companies Registration Office. Imported details stay editable where the engagement and the register legitimately differ, such as a trading address.
Does an LLP come back the same as a private limited company?
No. What the register holds varies by entity type, so the fields on the client record change without anyone reconfiguring anything. The LLP set swaps in where it applies and the rest of the record is untouched.
Swapped fields are marked. Everything else on the record is untouched.
What is live today, and what is not
Registry work attracts a lot of vague claims. Here is the plain version, so nothing on a demo call comes as a surprise. Companies House identity verification sits inside the same session as client ID verification, face match and liveness, PEP and sanctions screening, Amberhill and address verification.
Ask on a demo call about anything not listed here. Regulatory and capability statements should be re-verified and date-stamped before release.
What happens when the client moves office in April?
The client record reflects the register, and the compliance file records when it changed. The position that applied in March is still readable in three years — which is what a supervision visit asks for under the Money Laundering Regulations 2017.
What this looks like at your size
Take on a company client without keeping a spreadsheet of registered details in step with the register.
Everyone onboards from the same lookup, so the entity name does not depend on who typed it.
Standardise onboarding before headcount turns four copies of an address into a supervisory finding.
Register data and the compliance file held inside your own Microsoft tenant, under your IT policy.
Where the register data goes next
Companies House is the front door. These are the parts of FigsFlow that read what comes through it.
AML and client due diligence
Identity verification, screening and the CDD file, built on the matched entity.
See AML and CDD →Risk assessment
Client risk scoring, using the ownership picture the PSC register gives you.
See risk assessment →Proposals and engagement letters
Documents issued in the legal entity name held at the register.
See the platform →Plans and pricing
Where lookups and identity verification sit across the plans.
See pricing →What practices ask before they switch
Yes. FigsFlow runs a live lookup against the Companies House register, so the company details you import are the ones held at the register rather than a copy from a spreadsheet or an old engagement letter.
The entity and its company number, registered office, company status, incorporation and filing dates, appointed directors and persons with significant control. These populate the client record and feed the due diligence file.
Yes. Alongside Companies House, FigsFlow integrates with the Irish Companies Registration Office for firms acting for Republic of Ireland companies.
Companies House identity verification is part of FigsFlow's AML and ID verification plans, alongside client ID verification, face match and liveness, PEP and sanctions screening, Amberhill and address verification. Check the pricing page for what each plan covers.
Yes. Imported details are a starting point, not a lock. Your team can amend the client record where the register and the engagement differ — for example a trading address that is not the registered office.
No. FigsFlow reads the register to build the client record and support due diligence. Statutory filing is still done through Companies House or your filing software.
The company search, the checks that followed and the signed engagement letter sit on one client record with dates against them. That is the documented trail supervision visits ask for under the Money Laundering Regulations 2017.
Bring your messiest company client to the demo
Thirty minutes, a real company number, and the whole sequence — search, due diligence, proposal, engagement letter — run once in front of you by a practice specialist who has done it.
Once the entity is on the record, the check that runs against it is client due diligence. AML and client due diligence