GoAgencies
UK specialist matching

Operations and accounting for UK marketing agencies, from £22/mo.

Match with UK accountants who model retainer income, project margins and freelancer payroll properly. Plus the operations stack — margin reporting, freelancer payroll, growth funding.

From £22 /mo · single-founder agency
Vetted UK firms Free intro Matched in 24h Published partner rates
Your agency stack goagencies.co.uk
Agency-specialist accountantSolo founder to start
£22/mo
Project margin reportingAMS → Xero plumbing
from £45/mo
Freelancer payrollIR35-compliant
from £25/mo
Growth fundingRevenue-based / invoice
broker-paid
What we help with

Accounting is the core. The rest of the stack is the win.

A specialist accountant solves the immediate problem. The rest — software, insurance, ops — usually needs to land at the same time. We match the lot in one go.

Accountant

Agency-specialist accountant

Year-end accounts, VAT, payroll, retainer accounting, project margin tracking, R&D credit for in-house tools.

Common stack: Typical fees £22-£400/mo.

Software

Agency management + accounting

Productive, Scoro, Float, Harvest paired with Xero. Real per-client margin reporting that generalists rarely set up.

Common stack: Productive · Scoro · Float · Harvest · Xero.

Payroll

Freelancer + employee payroll

Mixed PAYE + freelancer setups. IR35 status for freelancers, contractor payroll, hiring the first employee.

Common stack: Specialist agency payroll bureaus.

Funding

Growth + cash flow finance

Invoice finance, revenue-based finance, working-capital lines. Agencies often have lumpy cash flow — these unlock growth.

Common stack: Capify · Clearco · MarketFinance · Funding Circle.

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No fees, no obligation. The specialists on our bench publish their prices — you'll see them before you commit.

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FAQ

How much does an agency accountant cost in the UK?

If your question isn't here, email info@goagencies.co.uk.

How much does an agency accountant cost in the UK?

Specialist UK accountants for marketing and digital agencies start from £22/month for solo agency founders. Established agencies (5-15 staff, £500k-£2M revenue) typically pay £150-£400/month with project margin reporting included. Larger agencies pay £400-£1,000+/month with deeper FP&A support. The accountants on the GoAgencies bench all set up per-client margin tracking — most generalist firms don't.

How is this different from a normal accountant?

A normal accountant files compliance. We run finance + operations as a managed service. We're closer to a fractional COO + Financial Controller than to an accountant, though we handle the compliance too.

Do you handle our existing freelancer payments?

Yes - we set up clean freelancer onboarding (IR35 status determination, contracts, KYC), payroll/payments, and ongoing compliance. Most agencies have IR35 risk hiding in their freelancer relationships and don't know it.

Can you white-label this for our holding company?

For multi-agency groups, we sometimes operate as the embedded shared-services team. Arrangement depends on size and structure - get in touch.

CB
About the author

Charlie Bailey · Founder, GoAgencies

Charlie Bailey runs GoAgencies after watching marketing and digital agencies grow past £500K revenue with a freelancer-payroll setup that wasn't scaling and a P&L that didn't tell them which clients were actually profitable. The accountants on GoAgencies fix that — proper project-margin reporting, retainer accounting, freelancer payroll, and the AMS-to-Xero integrations that most generalist firms can't set up.

If you can't see per-client margin month-to-month, you're flying blind. Most agency accountants don't deliver this. The ones on this bench do.