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 eBay, Vinted, Etsy and Depop sellers who buy or make to resell. 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 an online seller — sales kept gross, platform and payment fees tracked as their own cost, stock bought for resale split from postage and packaging.
Every January, platforms hand HMRC your seller data once you pass around 30 sales or roughly £1,700 in a year. It doesn't create a new tax — it just means HMRC can already see what you sold. Selling your own used things isn't trading and isn't taxable; buying or making things to resell is, above the £1,000 trading allowance.
Forward the platform sales report, photograph the stock receipt, the postage label. SmartScanit reads it, categorises it and saves the record — across every marketplace you sell on. Bank exports match and categorise themselves.
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 across every platform you sell on.
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.
Since January 2024, platforms including eBay, Vinted, Etsy and Depop have had to report seller data to HMRC every January. It isn't a new tax — it just means HMRC can now match what you sold against what you've declared. If you're genuinely trading (buying or making things to resell) rather than clearing out your own used items, this is where digital records start to matter.
If your total trading income is under £1,000 a year, no — that's the trading allowance, and it applies with no registration needed. Selling things you already owned and used isn't trading at all. Above £1,000 from genuine reselling, you need to register for Self Assessment.
Not yet. This release is self-employment/trading income only. If you also have UK or foreign property income you'll need software that supports it.