If legal questions arrive most months, paying per job is the expensive way round. Three plans, one number a month, cancel any time on the first two with 30 days’ notice. Virtual HR Manager runs for twelve months.
or £490 +VAT a year, paid annually
A business with no employees and few contracts, that wants its own paperwork in order and somewhere to ask before it signs something.
The line: you do the drafting. Contract review by a person starts on Business Legal.
Rolling monthly, 30 days’ notice
Start Legal Foundationsor £2,490 +VAT a year, paid annually
A trading business signing commercial contracts somebody else wrote — agencies, consultancies and suppliers with real customers.
The line: the first plan where somebody reads the document for you.
Rolling monthly, 30 days’ notice
Start Business Legalor £4,990 +VAT a year, paid annually
A business with employees, where most of the questions are about people.
The line: the setup is included in the fee, which is why this one commits for a year.
12-month agreement
Start Virtual HR ManagerAnswer them in order. Paying per job is one of the answers, and for a business that signs one contract a year it is the cheapest.
If Foundations covers what you need, Foundations is the plan we recommend. Still unsure? Tell us how often legal questions come up and we will say which is cheaper.
Each plan carries the one before it and adds to it. The middle column is where a person starts reading your contracts.
| What you get | Legal Foundations£49 +VAT a month | Business Legal£249 +VAT a month | Virtual HR Manager£499 +VAT a month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suits | No employees, few contracts, your own paperwork in order | Signing commercial contracts somebody else wrote | Employees, and questions about people |
| Contracts read for you | Not on this plan. You draft from the template library | Up to three a month, around 20 pages each, with negotiation guidance | Everything in Business Legal |
| Questions answered | On a fair-use basis | Day-to-day, typically four to six matters a month | Plus day-to-day staff issues |
| Your documents | Core documents kept current, stored with renewal reminders | Your terms and core documents kept current | Employer Essentials built and included: contracts, handbook, core policies |
| Fixed-fee work | 10% off | 10% off | 10% off |
| Paid annually | £490 +VAT a year | £2,490 +VAT a year | £4,990 +VAT a year |
| To cancel | Rolling monthly, 30 days’ notice | Rolling monthly, 30 days’ notice | 12-month agreement |
| Start | Start Foundations | Start Business Legal | Start Virtual HR Manager |
Any plan can be paid once a year instead of monthly.
Email hello@buzzaccounting.co.uk giving 30 days’ notice, and the most you pay after that is one further month. No exit fee, no minimum term and no reason needed.
The Employer Essentials setup — contracts, handbook and core policies — is included in the monthly fee. Bought on its own it starts at £1,495 +VAT. If a year feels too long, start on Business Legal and move up later.
Documents drafted for you stay yours when you leave. Take copies of anything in your document storage before your notice period ends.
Court work and anything already contentious. That goes to AD Solicitors (SRA no. 8011228) at rates confirmed before it starts, never folded into a monthly fee. Large defined projects — a shareholders’ agreement, a full set of terms — are priced as fixed-fee work. Tax questions belong with your accountant.
One contract a year is a fixed fee — a review is £249 +VAT and you are done. A business signing somebody else’s paperwork most months pays more per job than a plan costs.
If you need a specific thing produced — a shareholders’ agreement, a set of terms, an employment pack — buy that thing. A plan is for the questions in between: too small to instruct anybody for, too consequential to guess at.
| Contracts reviewed a month | Paying per job | On Business Legal |
|---|---|---|
| One | £249 | £249 |
| Two | £498 | £249 |
| Three | £747 | £249 |
All +VAT. Business Legal includes up to three contract reviews of around 20 pages a month, day-to-day questions, and 10% off any fixed-fee job. It is rolling monthly with 30 days' notice to cancel.
Half an hour on what comes up in your business, so the plan you pick fits the work you have.
Your current terms, contracts and employment paperwork. We tell you what is fine, what is missing and what is working against you.
From then on it is one number a month and a person to ask, so the cost of asking stops being part of the decision.
The Buzz Legal team, and your plan covers the everyday work — contract reviews, drafting, employment documents, policies and day-to-day questions — from the Buzz Legal team. Reserved work, meaning litigation, court advocacy, conveyancing, probate, notarial work and administering oaths, can only be done by an authorised firm, and for Buzz Legal clients that is AD Solicitors, regulated by the SRA (no. 8011228), at agreed rates on top of your subscription. So the everyday support is fast and predictable, and a qualified solicitor is already behind it for the narrow set of things that legally require one.
Two questions settle it. Do you regularly sign commercial contracts somebody else wrote? If not, Legal Foundations at £49 +VAT a month is enough: the health check, the template library, document storage with reminders, questions on a fair-use basis and 10% off fixed-fee work. If you do, you want Business Legal at £249 +VAT, because that is the first plan where a person reads your contracts and marks them up. Do you employ anyone? Then Virtual HR Manager at £499 +VAT, which adds the employment framework and the day-to-day staff questions. Paid annually, any plan is ten months' fee for twelve — £490, £2,490 or £4,990 +VAT a year. If Foundations is enough for you, Foundations is the plan we recommend.
On Business Legal, typically four to six matters a month plus up to three contract reviews of around 20 pages each, with negotiation guidance. Legal Foundations does not include human contract review at all — it is the template library plus questions on a fair-use basis. Virtual HR Manager adds ongoing HR documentation and day-to-day staff issues on top of everything in Business Legal. These are guides, not hard cut-offs, and we will not stop the clock on you in a busy month. Where usage runs past the plan month after month, we will tell you and recommend moving up. We will not ration the service or let response times drift.
Legal Foundations and Business Legal are rolling monthly. Email hello@buzzaccounting.co.uk giving 30 days' notice and the most you will pay after that is one further month. There is no exit fee, no minimum term and no requirement to give a reason. Virtual HR Manager is different: it runs on a 12-month agreement, because the Employer Essentials setup — contracts, handbook and core policies — is included in the monthly fee. Bought as a standalone fixed-fee job, that setup starts at £1,495 +VAT. Treat it as a full-year commitment, and if you are not sure, start on Business Legal and move up later.
Disputes and litigation, including anything already in dispute on the day you join. Court work, advocacy and the other reserved activities. Property transactions and conveyancing. One-off projects such as funding rounds, acquisitions and restructures. Immigration, criminal and personal, non-business matters. Payroll, pensions auto-enrolment and PAYE, which Buzz Accounting handles, and tax advice generally. Formal valuations. None of it is a dead end: anything on that list can be quoted as fixed-fee work, or referred to AD Solicitors at agreed rates confirmed before the work starts. The one to watch is the first — a subscription is prevention, and it does not retrospectively cover an argument you were already having.
Because the setup is included inside the monthly fee and not billed separately. Virtual HR Manager includes Employer Essentials — employment contracts, a staff handbook and the core policies — built for your business at the start. Bought as a fixed-fee project, the handbook and policy set alone starts at £1,495 +VAT. At £499 +VAT a month that setup is not paid for until several months in, so the twelve-month term is what makes the pricing work. It is not a retention tactic. If you would rather not commit for a year, the alternative is straightforward: take Business Legal on a rolling monthly basis and buy the employment documents as fixed-fee work.
The documents themselves are yours and stay yours. A set of terms and conditions, an employment contract or a shareholder agreement drafted for you does not stop working because you stopped paying — they are your business's documents, not licensed access to ours. What you lose on cancellation is the service around them: the template library, the questions, the contract reviews and the renewal reminders on your stored documents. So before your notice period ends, take copies of anything held in your Buzz Legal document storage. Client files are kept for typically six years after the relationship ends, as our privacy policy sets out, and you can ask for a copy of your personal data at any point.
It leaves the subscription. Contentious matters are not covered by the monthly fee. A matter becomes contentious when the other side instructs solicitors, threatens a claim or issues proceedings, however annoyed you are before then. What the subscription does buy is the stage before that, which is where most disputes are resolved: working out what you can prove, building the chronology and drafting the letter before action. Where it has to escalate, it goes to AD Solicitors at agreed rates quoted before the work starts, with the preparation already done, so you are not paying a regulated firm to read in from the beginning.
It starts with a free legal review — a short call to work out where the gaps are and which plan fits, or whether you need one at all. From there you share your business details and the documents you currently use, and we run the legal health check, which comes back with what is missing, what is out of date and what to fix first. We do not promise a turnaround time, because it depends on how much you already have and how complicated it is. The thing that most determines the pace is you. Send the documents themselves, not descriptions of them, and answer the questions about how the business operates in one go. The first month then moves considerably faster.
Tell us what has happened and what you want to happen about it. We will come back with what the job involves, who carries it out and what it costs, in writing, before you commit to anything.
