Who it is for
The receipt goes in the folder, not the footwell
Electricians, plumbers, joiners, roofers, groundworkers. You are on your fourth job of the day and holding a docket for £68 of copper pipe. Sending it to Docket takes four seconds and is the entire filing job.
Where the money actually goes missing
Not in the return. In the six months before it, one receipt at a time.
- The carrier bag in the footwell, the glovebox, and the one in the kitchen you were going to sort out.
- Two hundred photographs of receipts in a camera roll that also has consumer units, van damage and the school play.
- Materials bought on three different accounts, paid three different ways, on days you can no longer name.
- Allowable expenses that never get claimed because finding them costs more than they are worth.
What it looks like instead
- Photograph the docket at the counter. It is filed before you are back in the van.
- A wholesaler receipt from November photographed in March files under November — the date printed on it, not the day you got to it.
- Fuel, parking, materials, tools and subcontractor invoices each land in their own category folder.
report marchtells you what the month cost.exporthands the quarter to your accountant as a CSV.- It is your Google Drive. Change van, change accountant, change your mind — the files do not move.
About Making Tax Digital
Docket is not tax software and does not file anything with HMRC
If you are self-employed and turning over more than £50,000, Making Tax Digital for Income Tax applies to you from April 2026. The threshold drops to £30,000 in 2027 and £20,000 in 2028.
HMRC wants a digital record of each transaction's date, amount and category. It does not require you to scan the receipt, although it accepts images. Docket captures exactly that record, off the document, at the moment you are holding it.
The digital record itself has to be kept in MTD-compatible software, and the quarterly update is filed from there or by your accountant. Docket is the step before that: it makes sure a complete, dated set of records exists at all, which is the part that actually goes wrong.
The part that matters most
The documents are written into your Google Drive, in a folder you named. Not our storage with an export button — your account, your folders, your files.
- We never keep a copy. The file is read in memory, written to your Drive, and dropped.
- Your documents are never used to train an AI model.
- Send
logoutto disconnect at any time and keep everything already filed.
Questions
Does this do my tax return?
No. Docket is not tax software and does not file anything with HMRC. What it does is capture the digital record HMRC wants — the date, amount and category of each transaction — at the moment the receipt exists, and put the document in your own Drive. Then `export` hands the period over as a CSV for whoever files the return.
Will my accountant accept this?
It is the format they already ask for: dated folders of the original documents, plus a CSV with the date, vendor, total, currency and category of each one. Send `link march` for a single month's folder, or `export` for the spreadsheet. The files live in your Drive, so you can share a folder rather than email an attachment.
Do I have to keep the paper?
HMRC's digital record requirement is about the transaction data, not the scan — it accepts images but does not demand them. Keeping the photograph is still the easiest way to prove a figure years later, which is why Docket files the document itself rather than only the numbers off it. Whether you also keep the paper is between you and your accountant.
Try it with today's receipts
Whatever is in your pocket right now. That is a fair test of whether it survives a working week.
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