Ashport brings your CIS payments, documents and compliance checks into one place. It keeps an eye on each engagement as it develops, flags anything that needs attention and keeps the evidence organised, so you can sort out problems before they become costly.
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CIS is more than the payment.
Ashport runs the payment, keeps the paperwork together and monitors each engagement as it develops.
01Compliance
Actively monitored, not just recorded.
Most systems only store the information you enter. Ashport looks at how each engagement is actually developing, including who works only for you, whether substitution is ever used, how often materials are invoiced and whether pay stays unusually consistent.
When something starts to change, it flags it while there is still time to review the engagement and put it right.
Watches the working pattern, not just the paperwork
Knows what evidence each engagement should have
Turns every finding into a clear action with a deadline
Keeps a full record for HMRC or a main contractor
02Payments
From verification to filing.
Verify each subcontractor with HMRC, prepare the run, check the figures, fund it and release the payments. Deduction statements are issued automatically, and the CIS300 is prepared from what was actually paid.
Applies the correct deduction rate before payment
Prevents duplicate payments
Handles corrections by moving only the difference
Files with HMRC and keeps the receipt
03Documents
Issued, signed and stored.
Create a contract, safety briefing or other document once, then send it to everyone who needs it. Ashport fills in each person’s details, lets them sign on their phone and stores the completed copy against their record.
Legally valid electronic signatures
Automatic reminders for anyone who has not signed
Warnings before cards, checks or documents expire
Every worker’s paperwork kept in one place
Compliance goes wrong slowly.
A subcontractor does not suddenly become an employee overnight. The risk builds over time through the ordinary way the work is carried out. By the time it becomes obvious, the exposure may already have been growing for months.
They start working almost entirely for you. The right to send a substitute is never used. Materials disappear from their invoices. Their pay stays almost the same every week.
None of those things decides employment status on its own. Together, they can show that the engagement no longer looks the way it did when it was first assessed.
Ashport monitors the areas HMRC expects contractors to consider, from employment status and working practices to labour supply chain risk. Its checks are informed by HMRC’s Employment Status Manual, CEST guidance, CIS requirements and GfC12, which promotes ongoing, proportionate assurance rather than relying on a check carried out once at the start.
When Ashport finds something that needs attention, it raises it against the relevant engagement, explains why it matters and tells you what needs to happen next. Not at year end. Not when an inspector asks. While there is still time to review it.
Working patterns
How much of the subcontractor’s work comes from you
Whether substitution rights are reflected in what happens in practice
Long periods of labour-only work with no materials invoiced
Pay that remains unusually consistent from week to week
Assessments and evidence
Status assessments that are missing or out of date
Reviews that are overdue
Right-to-work evidence, cards and certificates approaching expiry
Gaps between the written agreement and the way the work is actually carried out
The labour supply chain
Agencies, umbrella companies and other businesses in the chain
Checks that need to be repeated as circumstances change
Evidence supporting decisions about responsibility and control
Risks that could affect your own tax compliance or gross payment status
CIS deadlines
Monthly CIS returns and nil returns
Deduction statements owed to subcontractors
Reviews, responses and actions with a deadline
Checks due when an engagement changes or renews
So compliance becomes something you manage as it happens, not something you explain afterwards.
The evidence, in one file.
When someone asks about an engagement, you should not have to dig through payment reports, folders and old emails.
AshportEvidence package
One engagement. Every record behind it.
Generated from the live engagement record when you need it.
Engagement file · generated when requested
Included in every engagement package
The file is ready when it matters.
01
The engagement itself
The subcontractor, agreed terms and working arrangement, all against the same engagement.
02
Payments and verification
HMRC verification results, payment history, CIS deductions and statements from each run.
03
The evidence behind it
Contracts, signed briefings, cards, certificates and other documents held against the engagement.
04
What changed, and what you did
What changed during the job, the checks raised and the action taken.
Every package includes a manifest showing exactly what has been included.
When the question is bigger than one engagement.
Generate a firm-wide package across active engagements. The inspection-readiness view shows the evidence held, the gaps remaining and what needs attention next.
Built for everyone involved.
Construction firms, accountants and operatives each get a view built around the work they need to do.
01
Construction firms
You pay your own operatives.
Pay everybody from one place
Compliance watched all month
Contracts and certificates in one folder
Returns filed straight to HMRC
02
Accountants
You run CIS for a book of clients.
Every client under one login
Switch between them without logging out
Every deadline in the book on one screen
Priced for practices, not per seat
03
Operatives
You are the one on the tools.
Your own login and full pay history
Payslips and statements whenever you want
Sign what you need to, from your phone
Everything ready for your tax return
01
Construction firms
Everything needed to run CIS and manage the engagements behind it.
Run CIS payments from one place
Monitor compliance throughout the engagement
Keep contracts, checks and certificates together
Prepare, review and submit CIS returns
02
Accountants
A practice-wide view of every client you manage.
Keep every CIS client under one login
Move between clients without signing out
See upcoming deadlines across the whole practice
Give each client access to their own records
03
Operatives
A simple account for the people being paid.
View payment history at any time
Download payslips and CIS deduction statements
Sign contracts and documents from a phone
Keep records ready for a tax return
Operative accounts are provided through the contractor, so there is nothing separate for them to set up or pay for.
News and guides.
CIS changes, employment status and construction compliance, explained clearly for firms that have to deal with them.
Soon. The platform is built and is now going through final testing. People on the waitlist will get the launch date first, along with early demo invitations.
02Can we move over during the tax year?
Yes. You can import your operatives from Sage or Xero, review everything before it is added, then continue from your next payment run.
03Can our accountant use Ashport for us?
Yes. Your accountant can manage Ashport on your behalf, or you can run it in-house. Accountants can manage all of their clients from one login.
04Do our operatives need to use Ashport?
No. They receive an account so they can view payslips, deduction statements and documents, but your process does not depend on them logging in.
05What happens if we enter the wrong amount?
Correct the figure and Ashport updates the records. It reissues the payslip, moves only the difference and prepares any HMRC amendment that is needed.
