FileThat vs Provestor for Landlords for Making Tax Digital

FileThat

FileThat has no subscription. Keeping digital records is free, and you buy a credit for each new quarterly update or VAT return with figures in it, at £3.99, £4.99 or £5.99 depending on your qualifying income across all your businesses. The first 500 individuals to connect to HMRC keep £3.99 for good, and until FileThat has figures to work out your band you pay the lowest price, so the price you end up paying may be higher than the cheapest one shown. We show each band as a monthly equivalent of four quarterly updates for one business. We leave out the £3.99 band from our prices because people who must use MTD have qualifying income over £50,000 now and over £30,000 from April 2027, so the bands that apply to them start at £4.99. Each trade, your UK property and any foreign property are separate businesses with their own quarterly updates, so a landlord who is also self-employed pays twice, although FileThat caps an individual's spending at £50 in a tax year, with £55 the most charged. The annual submission, final declaration and amendments are free. The 4 free credits on sign-up cover the first year of quarterly updates for one business, and FileThat's pricing page says this is why HMRC's software finder lists it with a free version. After that first year there is no lasting free plan for filing, so we do not count it as a free tier. FileThat says all your UK lets are kept apart under nicknames and filed as one property business, and that it does not split figures between joint owners, so each owner files their own share. It says a UK holiday let is filed as part of the ordinary property business now that the furnished holiday lettings rules have ended. Bank transactions come from a CSV statement you upload, as FileThat deliberately does not use Open Banking, so we do not count that as a bank feed. An accountant can sign up as an agent and file for you, and FileThat also files from a spreadsheet template if you prefer. It is a website that works in a phone's browser, and we did not find mobile apps. None of the pages we read says whether VAT is added to FileThat's own prices. We checked this on 25 October 2026.

Provestor for Landlords

Provestor is built for individuals letting UK residential property on the cash basis, with total rental income under £150,000. Its own guide says it does not file a self-employment return, so anyone with self-employment income would need separate software for that part, and HMRC's software list does not show self-employment income for Provestor either. All three plans cover the quarterly updates and the year-end final declaration. Done For You covers up to 10 properties, and the other two plans do not mention a limit. Provestor asks for each owner's share of a property once and then splits the income and expenses, including where a Form 17 election applies, so we show joint-ownership support. You can upload statements and receipts for its AI to read, so we show receipt capture. Its guide mentions connecting your bank when you set up, but its MTD pages describe uploading statements rather than an automatic bank feed, so we do not show bank feeds. Accountant review and submission are part of the Assisted and Done For You plans, so we show accountant access for Provestor as a whole. We did not find mileage tracking, a mobile app or anything about furnished holiday lets. We checked this on 25 October 2026.