Most people who contact us have never registered a company before. We do not expect you to know the difference between a director and a person with significant control before you call, and we will not bury you in jargon once you do.

We ask a short set of questions about your business, your ownership plans and your income needs. From there, we prepare your application and submit it to Companies House on your behalf, and we keep you updated the whole way through, so the whole company formation process feels calm rather than chaotic.

Every UK limited company starts life with the same handful of documents, and we prepare them all for you. From the moment you decide to register your company with us, you get a single point of contact rather than a call centre queue.

What Our Company Formation Service Includes

Our company formation packages cover the parts most founders find confusing on their own:

• Checking your preferred company name against the Companies House public register and reserving it once it is confirmed as available
• Preparing your Memorandum and Articles of Association
• Setting your share structure, including your share classes and company officers
• Submitting your application to Companies House and monitoring it until approval
• Providing a registered office address and a service address if you do not want to use your home address
• A short call to plan your corporation tax, VAT and PAYE registrations for once your limited company is registered with Companies House and trading has begun

Some clients want the most basic company registration package available. Others want a fuller company formation package with an address service and banking support bundled in. We offer both, and we will tell you honestly which one suits your situation rather than upselling you into the bigger option.

Why We Work As An Authorised Corporate Service Provider

Vexo Accounting is registered with Companies House as an authorised corporate service provider. This means we carry out identity verification on your behalf as part of your company formation application, rather than leaving you to complete separate checks yourself.

Identity verification for directors and people with significant control became a legal obligation in November 2025. Getting it right the first time avoids delays, so we build it into every company registration process rather than treating it as an afterthought.

A good company formation agent simplifies the admin so you do not have to learn it yourself, and that is really the whole point of using one. You are paying for our experience of the Companies House rules, not just for someone to click a few buttons on your behalf.

Companies House can usually register a straightforward application within 24 hours. Around 99% of company incorporation applications are now submitted digitally, which is part of why the process has become so quick compared with a decade ago.

That speed only helps you if the application is right the first time. A rejected name or a missing consent form can cost you days, so we check everything before it goes anywhere near Companies House.

Choosing Your Preferred Company Name And Checking It Is Available

The first real decision when you register a company is your preferred company name. We run it through a company name search tool and check it against existing company names and trademarks, because Companies House rejects names that are too close to an existing registration.

In 2024 alone, Companies House rejected 560 proposed company names for legal or public interest reasons. We would rather catch a problem with your company name before submission than after, when changing it becomes far more expensive and involves updating every one of your company documents.

Appointing Company Directors, Shareholders And People With Significant Control

Every private limited company needs at least one director, at least one shareholder, and one person can hold both roles at once. We help you settle your structure, including whether you want a company limited by shares with one shareholder or several company directors and shareholders together.

We also help you work out who counts as a person with significant control. Broadly, anyone who holds more than 25% of a company's shares or voting rights needs to be identified as part of your company registration, and Companies House expects that information to be accurate and kept current.

Registering A UK Company Formation For Non-UK Residents

You do not need to live in the UK to register a limited company here, subject to the usual identity checks. We regularly handle UK company formation for founders based overseas who want a UK company to sell to overseas customers or trade with UK clients directly.

The registration process is the same whether you live in Manchester or Melbourne, but non-resident directors often need a UK registered office and service address from day one, since they cannot use a home address here. We arrange both as part of the same company registration package.

You do not need to visit an office or post anything to register a limited company with us. Everything happens through our secure formation service, from uploading your identification documents to signing off your final application.

How Registering Your Limited Company Online Actually Works

Most company registration agents now work almost entirely online, and we are no different, though we still pick up the phone when something needs a proper conversation rather than a form. You can register a limited company online with us in a single sitting once you have your company details ready, usually inside twenty minutes.

We ask for the same company documents every time. That means proof of identity for each director and person with significant control, your registered office address, and your preferred company name, ideally checked against a company name search tool before you send it over so you already have a backup ready. Once we have those documents, we prepare your Memorandum and Articles of Association and submit everything to Companies House the same day wherever possible.

Choosing Between Different Limited Company Structures

Not every limited company looks the same on paper. Most of our clients register a private company limited by shares, which suits anyone running a normal trading business with one or more shareholders. A small number of clients, usually charities or membership bodies, need a company limited by guarantee instead, one of the less common limited company structures we still handle from time to time.

Whichever structure fits, your company gets registered against a proper business address rather than a PO box, since Companies House does not accept PO boxes as a registered office or service address. If you do not have a suitable business address of your own to use, our registered office and service address give you a real business address without publishing your home on the public register.

A new company set up this way is ready to trade from the moment Companies House confirms formation. There is no separate step where you wait for a paper certificate before you can open a business bank account or sign your first contract, since digital confirmation is normally accepted everywhere that matters, and once you are trading we can introduce you to partners offering free business banking so your set up costs stay low.

Once your company online records are updated with Companies House, we send you copies of every company document for your own files, along with a short explanation of what each one actually means. A lot of company formation agents hand founders a certificate and little else. We think choosing the right company formation agent should mean more support than that, not less.

Once Companies House confirms your company formation, opening a business bank account should be one of your first jobs. A limited company is a separate legal entity from you personally, and your business bank account needs to reflect that from day one. Once you register your company, opening a business bank account is normally the very next task on the list, and a new company account can usually be opened within a few days of incorporation.

Keeping Personal And Business Finances Separate From Day One

Mixing personal and business finances is one of the most common mistakes we see among new company directors. It makes your bookkeeping harder, it makes your accounts more expensive to prepare, and it can undermine the limited liability protection that was the whole point of forming a company in the first place.

Keeping your business finances separate from your own does not need to be complicated. Open the business account before you begin trading, run every business cost and every invoice through it, and pay yourself out of it deliberately rather than dipping in and out.

Our Business Banking Partners And Free Business Bank Account Options

We work with a small panel of business banking partners so you are not left to research every provider from scratch. Several of our partners offer a free business bank account for the first year, with no monthly fee once your account is open, and some support overseas customers who need to hold money in more than one currency.

If you plan to trade internationally, a Wise business account is worth considering alongside a traditional business account, since it lets you hold and receive several currencies without opening separate accounts in each country. That is one business banking solution among several, and which one suits you depends on how and where you trade. Some providers also let newer companies accept digital wallet payments from day one, which is worth asking about if you plan to sell directly to consumers.

Whichever business account you choose, we can introduce you once your certificate of incorporation comes through, so there is no gap between forming the company and being able to bank as one.