Filing your Companies House information online
Source: gov.uk (2025-04-01)

How to send your information to Companies House using our online services.

Every company must send information to Companies House. This includes annual accounts and confirmation statements, and any changes to your company details.

You can use our online services to:
- file your accounts (https://www.gov.uk/file-your-company-annual-accounts)
- file your confirmation statement (https://www.gov.uk/file-your-confirmation-statement-with-companies-house)
- make changes to your company (https://www.gov.uk/file-changes-to-a-company-with-companies-house)
- close your company (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/close-a-company/)
Watch our ‘How to’ videos (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmQfMXVVhmXyUeVqB7Nw6Po2X4BjdS2Hg) for online filing guidance.

Benefits of online filing

By filing online, you’ll:
- save your company time and money
- get confirmation that we’ve received your submission
- avoid rejects and be less likely to get late filing penalties
- get access to additional online services
Save your company time and money

It costs less to file most information online compared with paper. For example, it costs £34 to file a confirmation statement online, but £62 to file a paper form.

We aim to process most online filings within 24 hours. Paper documents sent by post might take a week or more to process - so it’ll be a while before you find out if they’ve been accepted or rejected.

If you choose to file accounts on paper, you must send them to us in plenty of time before your filing deadline. You will not get any extra time to file if they are rejected. If your filing deadline has passed, the company’s record will show the accounts as overdue until they have been examined and accepted.

Avoid rejects and late filing penalties

Our online filing service has built-in checks to help you avoid errors and rejection. When we receive your online filing, we’ll send you an acknowledgement almost immediately.

We’ll also send a confirmation once we’ve accepted your filing. If your filing is rejected, you can quickly correct it and resend to us.

Use other online services

Online users also get access to additional services, including:

protected online filing (PROOF) (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/protect-your-company-from-corporate-identity-theft) - helping to protect your company from unauthorised changes to your records by preventing the filing of certain paper forms (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/protect-your-company-from-corporate-identity-theft#PROOF-forms)

email reminders (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/register-for-email-reminders-from-companies-house) - our free service that tells you when your company’s accounts and confirmation statement are due

How to file online

You’ll need to ‘Create an account’ for the Companies House WebFiling service (https://idam-ui.company-information.service.gov.uk/). We’ll send you an authentication code (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/company-authentication-codes-for-online-filing) when you register - you’ll need this code to file your company’s information online.

You can also file some company information using our Find and update company information service (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/). You’ll need to register for this service separately.

Software filing

You can also use third party software to file most of your Companies House information online.

You can:
- use software to file accounts (https://www.gov.uk/software-company-accounts)
- use software to register or file changes to a company (https://www.gov.uk/software-company-changes)
In the future, you’ll only be able to file accounts with Companies House using software. Read about changes to accounts (https://changestoukcompanylaw.campaign.gov.uk/changes-to-accounts/).

What you can file online

This is a list of information you can file with Companies House using our GOV.UK web services.

Limited companies

You can only file ‘full audited accounts’ using software (https://www.gov.uk/software-company-accounts).

Charitable companies must prepare full accounts that comply with both company law and charity law. You must file your accounts with Companies House and (if required by charity law) the relevant charity regulator:
- Charity Commission for England and Wales (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/charity-commission)
- Charity Commission for Northern Ireland (https://www.charitycommissionni.org.uk/)
- Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (https://www.oscr.org.uk/)
Limited liability partnerships (LLPs)

Upload a document to Companies House

We’ve introduced a service to Upload a document to Companies House (https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/efs-submission/start).

Previously, you could only deliver our paper forms by post or in person at one of our offices. This service allows you to upload certain forms digitally and send them to us instantly.