Category Archives: Company Search

What can I expect from an Annual Credit Report?

What can I expect from an Annual Credit Report?

You may not always wish to have constant monitoring (as is offered by the Company Tracking services) when completing company searches with us. Instead you can choose an annual credit report quickly and whenever you like. Continue reading

Using Company Searches to fully assess the competition

One of the most important things about maintaining a company is maintaining a healthy assessment of your competition. It’s a fairly basic aspect of good business sense, however it can be a challenge to find the very best information possible in order to accurately make a judgment. Continue reading

5 ways Company Searches Made Simple can help your business

Why use Company Searches Made Simple? Here’s 5 reasons.

Why should you use Company Searches Made Simple? Well here’s five (of many) ways we can help your business:

To protect yourself if you’re looking to go into business with business partners or suppliers

Doing research on potential partners or suppliers is absolutely vital – especially for vulnerable smaller businesses where one slip-up can be damaging. A company credit report will help you pinpoint problem areas that should cause you concern.

Keep informed with your company’s credit rating

How do others see your business? Stay a step ahead and buy a company credit report to find out.

Monitor your competition

If you set up a company tracker against another company, you’ll be notified whenever said company files something with Companies House; appointments, resignations, annual returns, annual accounts and more.

Combat fraud

Similarly, set up a company tracker against your own company and you’ll be notified if someone is trying to make changes to your company, allowing you to act swiftly in notifying Companies House.

Get copies of lost company documents

Lost your Certificate of Incorporation? Misplaced your Memorandum and Articles? Accidentally shredded your recently filed Annual Return? Don’t worry, we can provide you with copies.

For more information about our services, take a look here: Products & Pricing

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Don’t worry – we won’t tell anyone when you buy a service

You’ve nothing to worry about when you buy a Company Searches Made Simple service

All the searches and purchases that you make through our system are between you and us. The companies and directors that you’re looking into will never find out that you bought a service about them. It’s completely anonymous and confidential.

It’s as simple as that.

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How do the Subscription Packages work?

Subscriptions Packages are ideal for any Company Searches Made Simple customers who purchase multiple company credit reports or director reports over a monthly / yearly period.

Here’s how it works…

We add a set number of credits to your account; these must then be used within a set period of time (monthly or yearly depending on the package).

1 credit = 1 product

This could mean:

• 1 Fully Comprehensive Company Report
• 1 Director Report
• 1 Company Document
• 1 Lifetime Company Tracker

It’s totally up you. The only thing that you can’t spend your credits on is another Subscription Package!

Pricing and Packaging:

For more information take a look at our dedicated Subscription Packages page.

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What factors affect your company’s credit ratings?

What impacts upon your company’s credit rating?

Your credit rating is an important part of maintaining and managing your company’s financial health. However, is it enough to sustain this by just knowing your credit rating? Well, it is also important to understand how it is calculated and the key factors which influence the calculation process.

There is no universal credit rating system, but rather, a system specific to each individual credit rating agency. The rating is based on a company’s overall credit history and is calculated using a complex algorithm, which takes into account a huge number of variables. Continue reading

How to save a company report to your computer

Our company reports have an expiry date for a reason. Reports are correct up to the point that they’re purchased. Any changes that occur to the company after the purchase will not be reflected in the report. Therefore, to prevent you from viewing reports that contain wholly outdated information, we remove them from your account after one year.

That’s not to say that you can’t save the reports to your computer where we can’t get our grubby little mitts on them.

Here’s how to download a company report (once signed in to Company Searches Made Simple):

After this, you simply select where you want the report to be saved.

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What they are saying about Company Searches Made Simple on Feefo (10th-17th January)

Feefo is a ‘customer review and feedback system for service and products’. After a purchase is made on any of our sites (Companies Made Simple, London Presence, Business Training Made Simple and here on Company Searches Made Simple), we ask our customers to anonymously give us a rating and review. We then have the opportunity to respond to the review. Ultimately we use these reviews to tailor our service.

At the moment all reviews are accessible directly from Feefo, and now we’re going to start publishing the most recent Company Seraches Made Simple reviews (positive and negative) here on the blog too.

First up, here’s the ratings guide:

 

 

 

And now the reviews:

Finally, our overall rating for the last 6 months:

 

 

 

 

 

We’ll publish more reviews in the coming weeks!

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Introducing our Smarter Company Search Function

We’ve now got a smarter company search

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve launched a smarter company search function. So what does this mean for you?

Previously, if you searched for a company using Ltd at the end of the name, the company would not appear as a result if it used Limited instead (and vice versa). For example, if you searched for Made Simple Group Ltd, you would not get a result as the company is actually called Made Simple Group Limited.

This has now been fixed. It doesn’t matter if you use Ltd or Limited, the company will appear in the search results.

We’ve also fixed the “spacing” issue”. Previously our search was sensitive to spaces in a company name. For example, if you searched for MadeSimpleGroup, your search would come back empty as the company is called Made Simple Group with spaces.

This has now been fixed. It doesn’t matter if you use spaces or not, the company will appear in the search results.

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