Smart Card Software Limited
Registered name: SMART CARD SOFTWARE LIMITED
Part of Visa Inc. groupSmart Card Software Limited made £0 revenue and a £125k loss in the year to 30 Sep 2024.
Smart Card Software Limited’s revenue was £0 in the year to 30 Sep 2024, with a loss of £125k. The company is classified under “business and domestic software development” and is based in Swanley; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Swanley, London
- Age
- 22 yrs · since 2004
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently.
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Sep 2022 | 30 Sep 2023 | 30 Sep 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £0 | £0 | £0 |
| Operating profit | −£2k | £84.1k | −£87.7k |
| Profit before tax | −£1.8m | −£5.6m | −£125k |
| Profit after tax | −£1.8m | −£5.6m | −£125k |
| Profit (best available) | −£1.8m | −£5.6m | −£125k |
| Employees (average) | 2 | 2 | — |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | — | — | — |
| Revenue per employee | £0 | £0 | — |
| Profit per employee | −£923k | −£2.8m | — |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Headcount growth | — | 0% | — |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £216k | £1.6m | — |
| Net assets | — | — | — |
| Current assets | £4.9m | £1.6m | — |
| Debtors | £4.7m | £0 | — |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jun 2024 | Accounts · bulk data Jul 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- —
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- —
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- —
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- —
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- —
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- —
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- —
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- —
- Now —
- Cash at bank
- —
- Now —
- Headcount
- —
- Now —
- Deferred income
- —
- Now —
- Fixed assets
- —
- Now —
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Visa Inc. (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Smart Card Software Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from accounts for the year to 30 Sep 2024 (profit −£125k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Jul 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
Updated from Companies House on 15 Oct 2026
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