--- title: "In case you missed it: April 2023" id: "45574" type: "post" slug: "in-case-you-missed-it-april-2023" published_at: "2023-05-02T14:00:45+00:00" modified_at: "2023-05-02T16:00:45+00:00" url: "https://seedlegals.com/resources/in-case-you-missed-it-april-2023/" markdown_url: "https://seedlegals.com/resources/in-case-you-missed-it-april-2023.md" excerpt: "We onboarded our first Exit customers, updated our R&D tax credits service, made it easier to manage your option holders, and launched SeedLegals Plus in France - formidable! Here's what's new for April." taxonomy_category: - "Startup Guides" --- 3 min read # In case you missed it: April 2023 Published: May 2, 2023 Contents [What’s new?](#whats-new) [Option schemes: manage your option holders more flexibly](#option-schemes-manage-your-option-holders-more-flexibly) [R&D claims: we’ve updated our service for the new calculations](#rd-claims-weve-updated-our-service-for-the-new-calculations) [R&D claims: make sure you pre-notify HMRC](#rd-claims-make-sure-you-pre-notify-hmrc) [SeedLegals for Investors: better experience for your investors](#seedlegals-for-investors-better-experience-for-your-investors) [SeedLegals Exit: the fast and easy way to sell your startup](#seedlegals-exit-the-fast-and-easy-way-to-sell-your-startup) [Coming soon](#coming-soon) [Have your say](#have-your-say) [Suzanne Worthington](https://seedlegals.com/resources/author/suzanne/) This month, we onboarded our first Exit customers, updated our R&D tax credits service, made it easier to manage your option holders, and launched SeedLegals Plus in France – *formidable!* Read on to find out more about these exciting updates and what’s coming soon. ### Contents [What’s new?](#whats-new) - [Option schemes: manage your option holders more flexibly](#option-schemes-flexibility) - [R&D claims: we’ve updated our service for the new calculations](#rd-claims) - [R&D claims: make sure you pre-notify HMRC](#rd-claims-notify-hmrc) - [SeedLegals Plus now available in France](#plus-france) - [SeedLegals for Investors: better experience for your investors](#seedlegals-for-investors) - [SeedLegals Exit: the fast and easy way to sell your startup](#exit) [Coming soon](#coming-soon) ## What’s new? ## Option schemes: manage your option holders more flexibly When you [set up an option scheme](https://seedlegals.com/grow/share-options-scheme/) , you decide on the scheme rules. But we know that sometimes you want to do things differently from the rules you’ve set – our latest updates give you the freedom to do this. You can now award high-performing leavers with more options than they’ve accrued via their vesting schedule. You control how many of the leaver’s options return to the pool. You can also now exercise outside the exercise window on the rare occasions you may need to. Finally, we’ve levelled up the option holder page so you can toggle between active and past grants, sort your option holders by all columns (name, date granted etc), and added pagination to the table. For companies with many option holders, viewing and managing your holders is a much neater, clearer experience. ## R&D claims: we’ve updated our service for the new calculations For [R&D Tax Credits claims](https://seedlegals.com/grow/rd-tax-credit-claim/) covering accounting periods starting on or after 1 April 2023, there are changes to the SME and RDEC rates and to qualifying cost categories. You’ll also need to notify HMRC in advance that you’ll be making a claim. We’ve updated our R&D calculation to include the new rate changes and cost categories of data licences, cloud computing, payments to clinical trial participants and Externally Provided Workers (EPWs). Our expert team is fully up to speed on the changes and ready to guide you through your claim. Read more in our post: [R&D tax credits are changing from April 2023 – find out how it could affect your business](https://seedlegals.com/resources/rd-tax-credits-are-changing/) ## R&D claims: make sure you pre-notify HMRC From April 2023, companies claiming R&D tax relief that have never made a claim, or haven’t made a claim in the previous 3 years will need to let HMRC know in advance. When you make your [R&D tax credits claim](https://seedlegals.com/grow/rd-tax-credit-claim/) with us, we’ll check if you need to pre-notify HMRC and if so, we’ll generate a document for you to use as a guide when you’re filling in the [form on the HMRC website](https://www.gov.uk/guidance/tell-hmrc-that-youre-planning-to-claim-research-and-development-rd-tax-relief) . ## SeedLegals for Investors: better experience for your investors We’ve released some tweaks to [SeedLegals for Investors](https://seedlegals.com/investors/) so it functions much better for your investors. Firstly, we’ve improved the experience for people accessing SeedLegals for Investors on a mobile device, and secondly we now take investors directly to SeedLegals for Investors when you share a fundraising document with them. For example, when your investor gets a notification from you that there’s a document to review or sign, it’s now much easier for them to use SeedLegals while they’re out and about, rather than waiting to log onto their laptop. With a better mobile experience for investors, we hope this will mean you get faster responses from them. ## SeedLegals Exit: the fast and easy way to sell your startup We’ve made it as easy to sell your company on SeedLegals as it is to do an SEIS funding round. This month, we onboarded our first Exit customers who will soon complete the sale of the companies. Our Exit service includes all the documents you need to do a share sale – from the Heads of Terms and Share Purchase Agreement to the J30s and new share certificates – with unlimited support from our friendly experts. And of course, it costs just a fraction of what traditional law firms charge. Find out more: [SeedLegals Exit – Sell your company](https://seedlegals.com/grow/exit/) ## Coming soon As usual our dev teams are hard at work on many different projects. Here’s a snippet of what’s coming soon: - **SEIS/EIS Compliance** We’re improving your experience when you’re doing your compliance. - **Option schemes** We’re improving how option pools work for all regions. And if you have an EMI option scheme, we’ll send you a reminder 60 days before your EMI annual return is due. - **SeedLegals for Investors** Angel investors will be able to send proposals to companies. ## Have your say Got an idea for us? Is there something we can do better? We love to hear your feedback – good, bad and ugly. Let us know by email: [[email protected]](/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#f69e939a9a99b6859393929a9391979a85d895999bc98583949c939582cbb09393929497959dd3c4c6bf98d3c4c695978593d3c4c68f9983d3c4c69b9f85859392d3c4c69f82d3c4c6bb9784959ed3c4c6c4c6c4c5) Interested in becoming a SeedLegals member? Head over to [Pricing](https://seedlegals.com/pricing/) to find the right membership for your company. ##### SeedLegals Events ### Be first to hear about our events Learn and be inspired at our online masterclasses, webinars and in-person meet-ups. Don’t miss our weekly email listing events for founders. [Sign up now](https://seedlegals.com/events/) #### Suzanne Worthington Sooze is our Senior Writer. She's obsessed with making complicated things easy to understand. [Read more](https://seedlegals.com/resources/author/suzanne/) [https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanneworthington/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanneworthington/) ## Related posts [3 min read In case you missed it: March 2023 This month, we’re ready for changes to R&D tax credits and we’ve updated our SEIS/EIS services so they’re faster and... Suzanne Worthington](https://seedlegals.com/resources/seedlegals-updates-march-2023/) [4 min read In case you missed it: February 2023 We've launched our Exit service, added option schemes to our services in Ireland, and improved SeedLegals for investors.... Suzanne Worthington](https://seedlegals.com/resources/seedlegals-updates-february-2023/) [5 min read In case you missed it: January 2023 We’re only one month into 2023 and the new services keep on launching at SeedLegals. Here's what’s new for January 2023 ... Suzanne Worthington](https://seedlegals.com/resources/seedlegals-updates-january-2023/)