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Barclays Business Essentials

Barclays Business Essentials

Give your new business a strong foundation for success

Barclays Business Essentials can help put you on the right path towards building a successful business. It gives you access to more than £1,900 5 worth of essential business applications and services that will help you take control of the day-to-day running of your business.

How can Barclays Business Essentials help you?

  • Control your cashflow: Organise and manage your cash with your choice of Sage Instant Accounts or QuickBooks SimpleStart
  • Plan for success: Write your business plan, produce forecasts, analyse your market and monitor your progress with Business Plan Pro
  • Market your business: Create a marketing plan that sets out realistic targets, helping you to grow sales and attract new customers with Marketing Plan Pro
  • Get the training you need: Develop your business and technical skills with a choice of over 2,500 online training courses with Mindleaders Premier service
  • Comply with red tape and legislation: Create legal documents and send them for FREE review, helping you stay fully compliant with the legal issues your business may face, with Barclays Legal Essentials Legal Compliance service

And you’ll also get:

  • 45 days of technical support for your accounting software, regardless of whether you choose Sage Instant Accounts or QuickBooks SimpleStart
  • Annual upgrades of all the applications and services at no extra cost
  • Six extra months of free banking 3  if you’re opening your first start-up business account. You'll get a further six months free if you also take out CREDITFOCUS Pro, taking you up to a maximum of two years free banking

 

Subscribe to Barclays Business Essentials today

If you're a Barclays start-up business customer you can subscribe to Barclays Business Essentials for £17.50 a month plus VAT. Monthly discount applies if bought with CREDITFOCUS or the i-sure business online data backup service.

To find out more or subscribe call 0845 601 0106 5

If you're an existing Barclays customer, call 0845 605 2345 1

Important information
1. Lines open Monday to Friday, 8am-7pm. To maintain a quality service, we may monitor and record phone calls. Read our call charges and information
2. Lines are open Monday to Friday 8am-8pm and Saturday 9am-1pm. To maintain a quality service, we may monitor and record phone calls. Read our call charges and information
3. Available for individuals setting up their first business bank account for a business within its first 12 months of trading. There is no charge for standard transactions for 12 months (‘Initial free banking period’) with our standard Barclays Business Current Account. There is no charge for standard transactions for 18 months if you either (i) subscribe to Barclays Business Essentials , Barclays Business Essentials Plus , Barclays Business Manager or CREDITFOCUS Pro services within 3 months of opening your first Business bank account (12-month minimum subscription applies) or (ii) subscribe to MyBusinessWorks for a minimum of 9 consecutive months within 12 months of your account being opened and continue to be a subscriber in the month that your initial free banking period ends. There is no charge for standard transactions for 2 years if you subscribe to Barclays Business Essentials , Barclays Business Essentials Plus  , Barclays Business Manager or MyBusinessWorks services and also subscribe to the CREDITFOCUS Pro service within 3 months of your account being opened. Barclays Business Essentials, Barclays Business Essentials Plus, Barclays Business Manager and CREDITFOCUS Pro are subject to a 12-month minimum subscription. You must subscribe to MyBusinessWorks for a minimum of 9 consecutive months within 12 months of your account being opened, and continue to be a subscriber in the month that your initial free banking period ends. This is only available to new businesses opening their account with Barclays. This applies to everyday sterling debit and credit transactions and the maintenance fee. Please note accounts must be active.
4. To maintain a quality service, we may monitor and record phone calls. Calls to 0800 numbers are free when calling from a UK landline. Charges may apply when using a mobile phone or when calling from abroad. Read our call charges and information
5. The total worth figure quoted is a sum of the individual inclusive application prices and/or services per annum.

Barclays Bank PLC. Authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority (Financial Services Register number: 122702). Barclays Bank PLC subscribes to the Lending Code which is monitored and enforced by the Lending Standards Board and is licensed and regulated by the Office of Fair Trading for the provision of credit products to consumers and related services. Further details can be found at www.lendingstandardsboard.org.uk. Barclays Insurance Services Company Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Financial Services Register number: 312078).

Barclays Bank PLC. Registered in England. Registered no. 1026167. Barclays Insurance Services Company Limited. Registered in England. Registered no. 973765. Registered office for both: 1 Churchill Place, London E14 5HP. ‘The Woolwich’ and ‘Woolwich’ are trademarks and trading names of Barclays Bank PLC. Barclays Business is a trading name of Barclays Bank PLC.


 

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