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Your plan determines which regulators you can connect, how many obligations and service requests you carry, how many people you can invite, and how much storage you have.

The plans

Prices are shown as a guide. The current price and what your plan includes are always confirmed in Settings → Plan and billing before you commit to a change.

Add-ons

These guides document Smart Invoice and Inventory in full because the features themselves are built. What is still to come is their packaging as separately priced add-ons. Check Settings → Plan and billing for what is currently available on your plan — that page is always the authority on what you can use today.

Choosing a plan

A sole trader or a very small business with straightforward obligations and one person doing everything.Three obligations covers a typical small company: PAYE, one other ZRA tax type, and a PACRA annual return. Two service requests a month is enough for occasional one-off work.Outgrow it when you need a second user, or NHIMA.
A small business with employees. Adds NHIMA, which you need the moment you employ anyone, and a second user so the bookkeeper is not sharing the owner’s login.Payroll becomes available as an add-on at this tier.
A growing business with a real team. Five users lets you separate payroll from finance, seven obligations covers a fuller compliance load, and you gain WCF and local council coverage.Right for anyone with more than a handful of staff.
Larger businesses, groups, and consultants managing many client organisations. Everything unlimited, with terms agreed individually.

What counts against your limits

When you reach a limit

Bumara tells you before you are blocked. If a limit is blocking compliance work, you receive a message about it. Do not simply wait — a blocked filing still has its deadline. See Messages and timeline.

Upgrading

1

Open Settings, then Plan and billing

Only Owners can change the plan.
2

Choose your new plan

The difference in what you get is shown before you commit.
3

Confirm

The new limits apply immediately. Billing is adjusted from the change date.
4

Use what you have gained

Connect the additional regulators, invite the additional users.

Downgrading

Before downgrading, check you are within the lower plan’s limits. If you have five users and downgrade to a two-user plan, you must remove three people first. The same applies to obligations, storage and connected regulators.
1

Bring yourself within the lower limits first

Remove users, pause obligations, reduce storage, disconnect regulators.
2

Change the plan

Settings → Plan and billing.
3

Check nothing has been lost

Particularly regulator connections. Disconnecting a regulator in Bumara does not deregister you with that regulator — your obligations to them continue.

Adding payroll

Payroll is charged per employee, on Plus and Pro.
1

Open Settings, then Plan and billing

Choose Add payroll.
2

Confirm your employee count

This is what you are billed on. It updates as your headcount changes.
3

Set payroll up

Billing

Your subscription charges are separate from regulator fees. Regulator and handling fees for filings and services are billed per item — see Paying fees.

If a payment fails

1

You are notified immediately

By email and in the app.
2

Update your payment method

Settings → Plan and billing.
3

Retry the payment

From the same page.
4

Act promptly

A prolonged failed payment can restrict your account. Compliance deadlines do not pause while your billing is unresolved.

Overages

Some items are included up to a limit and charged beyond it. Anything charged as an overage is labelled as such before you commit to it — you are never billed for something you were not shown the price of.
Related: Team and roles for user limits, and Document vault for storage.
Last modified on August 4, 2026