# Account and passes walkthrough videos - DIY Accounting Submit Source: https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/videos-account.html **Status of each feature.** Sandbox and preview features file nothing real. [See the availability table](https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/mtd-calendar.html#availability). Each video is a recording of DIY Accounting Submit doing one thing, start to finish. Videos marked "(sandbox)" show features recorded against HMRC's test service. They are hosted on the [DIY Accounting Submit YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@DIYAccountingSubmit). ## Contents ## DIY Accounting Submit: sign in and take out a day pass DIY Accounting Submit sends VAT returns to HMRC under Making Tax Digital for 99p a month, with a free day pass to try it. This video shows the part every other activity starts with: signing in through Cognito's Hosted UI (Google sign-in follows the same page) and taking out a day pass so the VAT activities unlock. It's a real recording of the live product, not a mockup or a design draft. Try it yourself at [https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/](https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/). [Thumbnail of the video: DIY Accounting Submit: sign in and take out a day pass](https://youtu.be/uxqPHu36aSw) ## DIY Accounting Submit: what an activity costs and what's left DIY Accounting Submit sends VAT returns to HMRC under Making Tax Digital for 99p a month, with a free day pass to try it. This video shows the token balance every account carries: what a bundle grants, what each metered activity spends, and what happens when the balance runs out. It's a real recording of the live product, not a mockup or a design draft. Try it yourself at [https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/](https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/). [Thumbnail of the video: DIY Accounting Submit: what an activity costs and what's left](https://youtu.be/kEEZ71v0ZAE) ## DIY Accounting Submit: subscribe, see it, cancel DIY Accounting Submit sends VAT returns to HMRC under Making Tax Digital for 99p a month, with a free day pass to try it. This video shows a subscription bundle: what Subscribe starts through Stripe's own checkout, where an active subscription shows once it's running, and how Stripe's billing portal ends it. It's a real recording of the live product, not a mockup or a design draft. Try it yourself at [https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/](https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/). [Thumbnail of the video: DIY Accounting Submit: subscribe, see it, cancel](https://youtu.be/Gd4VVCrjCSk) ## DIY Accounting Submit: a tour of the site DIY Accounting Submit sends VAT returns to HMRC under Making Tax Digital for 99p a month, with a free day pass to try it. This video is an unauthenticated tour of the site: what it does, how to use it, the bundles that unlock each activity, and where to find help and accessibility information. It's a real recording of the live product, not a mockup or a design draft. Try it yourself at [https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/](https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/). 00:00 Home 00:24 About 00:45 User guide 01:11 Help 01:39 Bundles 01:59 Accessibility [Thumbnail of the video: DIY Accounting Submit: a tour of the site](https://youtu.be/tmO_EsHvvFo) ## DIY Accounting Submit: find a submission receipt again DIY Accounting Submit sends VAT returns to HMRC under Making Tax Digital for 99p a month, with a free day pass to try it. This video shows a signed-in walk through submission receipts: submitting a VAT return, then finding and opening its receipt from the account's receipt history. It's a real recording of the live product, not a mockup or a design draft. Try it yourself at [https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/](https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/). [Thumbnail of the video: DIY Accounting Submit: find a submission receipt again](https://youtu.be/keBuJD0LXQs) ## DIY Accounting Submit: generate a digital pass to give away DIY Accounting Submit sends VAT returns to HMRC under Making Tax Digital for 99p a month, with a free day pass to try it. This video shows generating a digital pass: a shareable link that gives whoever redeems it free VAT submission access for 7 days. This is a recording against a local simulator, not a live system. Try it yourself at [https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/](https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/). 00:00 Home 00:00 Sign in 00:06 Resident VAT 00:15 Generate the pass [Thumbnail of the video: DIY Accounting Submit: generate a digital pass to give away](https://youtu.be/nYATYJWMKVU) ## DIY Accounting Submit: generate a physical pass to print DIY Accounting Submit sends VAT returns to HMRC under Making Tax Digital for 99p a month, with a free day pass to try it. This video shows generating a physical pass: a code for merchandise or print that gives whoever redeems it free VAT submission access. It's a real recording of the live product, not a mockup or a design draft. Try it yourself at [https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/](https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/). [Thumbnail of the video: DIY Accounting Submit: generate a physical pass to print](https://youtu.be/-S3GF_3H090) ## DIY Accounting Submit: diya-gl's MCP server, inspected diya-gl is DIY Accounting's open-source bookkeeping engine. This video looks under the hood: an MCP Inspector session driving diya-gl's Model Context Protocol server, extracting a real example set of accounts and reading back its report, transactions and account balances. Try DIY Accounting Submit's VAT side of the product at [https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/](https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/). [Thumbnail of the video: DIY Accounting Submit: diya-gl's MCP server, inspected](https://youtu.be/6-HowTQgI2E) ## DIY Accounting Submit: the hosted MCP server, inspected DIY Accounting Submit also runs as a hosted MCP server at one web address. This video shows a developer tool, MCP Inspector, connecting to it, signing in through the same sign-in page the web app uses, and listing the 17 tools the server offers once you are in. It is a real recording. Try DIY Accounting Submit at [https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/](https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/). [Thumbnail of the video: DIY Accounting Submit: the hosted MCP server, inspected](https://youtu.be/_BU8kiIbk48) ## DIY Accounting Submit: the submission MCP in Docker, inspected The DIY Accounting Submit MCP server also runs as a Docker image, with a folder of books mounted into it. This video shows a developer tool, MCP Inspector, connecting to the container, opening an example book and working out its VAT return boxes. It is a real recording. Try DIY Accounting Submit at [https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/](https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/). [Thumbnail of the video: DIY Accounting Submit: the submission MCP in Docker, inspected](https://youtu.be/8dfs9PfeJQs) ## DIY Accounting Submit: the submission MCP from npm, inspected The DIY Accounting Submit MCP server runs from npm with one command. This video shows a developer tool, MCP Inspector, connecting to it, opening an example book and working out its VAT return boxes. It is a real recording. Try DIY Accounting Submit at [https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/](https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/). [Thumbnail of the video: DIY Accounting Submit: the submission MCP from npm, inspected](https://youtu.be/laUarnsdkNw) ## DIY Accounting Submit: view and edit your bundles DIY Accounting Submit sends VAT returns to HMRC and files with Companies House for 99p a month each, with a free day pass to try the VAT side. This video shows the Bundles page: the bundles you can add, the box where you redeem a pass from someone else, the bundle your pass added, and removing one you no longer want. It is a recording of the real product, not a mockup. Try it yourself at [https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/](https://submit.diyaccounting.co.uk/). 00:00 Home 00:01 Sign in 00:14 Open Bundles 00:29 Redeem a pass 01:09 Your current bundles 01:27 Remove a bundle [Thumbnail of the video: DIY Accounting Submit: view and edit your bundles](https://youtu.be/YssG7bRjWtc)