SmartScanit MTD keeps your digital records from a photo, works out your quarterly figures, and sends them straight to HMRC from your phone through your own Government Gateway. Built for hair, beauty and barbering — salon owner, chair or room renter, or mobile stylist. Four screens. No spreadsheets, no bridging software.
It depends on your turnover. Once you're in, you keep digital records and send HMRC four updates a year plus a final declaration — through recognised software.
Every sale, cost and journey kept digitally — not in a drawer.
Four a year, cumulative, on HMRC's dates: 7 Aug · 7 Nov · 7 Feb · 7 May.
Sent through software HMRC has recognised for MTD — not a form, not a spreadsheet.
Year-end confirmation of the figures, by 31 January.
SmartScanit records what HMRC actually expects from hair & beauty — takings kept gross, chair or room rent tracked as its own cost, stock and product spend split from equipment, mobile mileage worked out client to client.
Photograph the product receipt, the chair rent invoice, the weekly takings summary. SmartScanit reads it, categorises it and saves the record. Bank exports match and categorise themselves. Mobile mileage worked out client to client.
Four screens. That's the whole app — and every one of them in your language.
Records, live totals.
The next deadline, in plain words.
Check, connect, submit.
HMRC's in-year estimate.
A text ten days before each deadline. Your cumulative figures, worked out from your records. One tap to send — from the app, through your own Government Gateway. No spreadsheets, no bridging software.
After every quarter, HMRC's in-year estimate of what you owe, worked out from your takings, chair rent and stock.
We'll text and email you the moment it's live, in your language.
Recognition is in progress. Until it's confirmed we won't take payment, and the "send to HMRC" step isn't switched on. Registering now just puts you first in line.
No — and that's the point. Your figures are built from your records, you check them, and you send them from the app through your own Government Gateway. Nobody else touches your HMRC account.
The four quarterly updates come first. The end-of-year final declaration follows in a later release, before the 31 January deadline.
If you turn over £30,000+ you're in from April 2027; £20,000+ from April 2028. Keeping digital records now means no scramble later, and you'll have a full year of history when you join.
Yes — chair or room rent is a normal business cost. SmartScanit records it separately from your takings automatically, whether you're on a fixed weekly rent or a percentage arrangement.
Not yet. This release is self-employment income only. If you also have UK or foreign property income you'll need software that supports it.