Docuware Ltd
Registered name: DOCUWARE LTD
Part of Docuware Gmbh groupDocuware Ltd made £4.3m revenue and £492k profit in the year to 31 Mar 2025. read from filing text
Docuware Ltd’s revenue grew 11% to £4.3m in the year to 31 Mar 2025, with £492k profit and 9 employees. The company is classified under “information technology consultancy activities” and is based in Birmingham; we hold 4 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Birmingham, West Midlands
- Age
- 21 yrs · since 2005
- 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. From the filing: “The Company's immediate parent is DocuWare GmbH, incorporated in Germany and the company's ultimate parent company is Ricoh Company, Ltd incorporated in Japan.”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 31 Mar 2022 | 31 Mar 2023 | 31 Mar 2024 | 31 Mar 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text | Full P&Lread from filing text |
| Profit & loss | ||||
| Revenue (turnover) | £2.6m | £3.5m | £3.9m | £4.3m |
| Cost of sales | £1.8m | £2.4m | £2.7m | £2.5m |
| Gross profit | £814k | £1.1m | £1.2m | £1.8m |
| Operating profit | −£193k | −£129k | −£45.6k | £331k |
| Profit before tax | −£193k | −£114k | −£8.3k | £364k |
| Profit after tax | −£193k | −£114k | −£8.3k | £492k |
| Profit (best available) | −£193k | −£114k | −£8.3k | £492k |
| Staff costs | £744k | £720k | £766k | £902k |
| Employees (average) | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 |
| Ratios | ||||
| Profit margin | −7.3% | −3.3% | −0.2% | 11.5% |
| Gross margin | 30.8% | 30.5% | 31.1% | 41.7% |
| Revenue per employee | £440k | £494k | £553k | £475k |
| Profit per employee | −£32.1k | −£16.3k | −£1.2k | £54.6k |
| Growth (year on year) | ||||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲30.7% | ▲12% | ▲10.5% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲16.7% | 0% | ▲28.6% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | ||||
| Cash at bank | £650k | £915k | £503k | £764k |
| Net assets | −£706k | −£820k | −£829k | −£337k |
| Fixed assets | £5.9k | £5.1k | £9.8k | £4.3k |
| Current assets | £3.6m | £4.8m | £4.4m | £4.8m |
| Debtors | £359k | £394k | £538k | £516k |
| Deferred income | £3.1m | £4.1m | £1.6m | £1.6m |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Dec 2023 | FullAccounts · bulk data Jan 2025 | FullAccounts · bulk data Feb 2026 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 11.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 41.7%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £475k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £54.6k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 0.1%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 38.1%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 12.1%
- 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 −£337k
- Cash at bank
- ▲52%
- Now £764k
- Headcount
- ▲29%
- Now 9
- Deferred income
- ▼0%
- Now £1.6m
- Fixed assets
- ▼56%
- Now £4.3k
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Docuware Gmbh (registered outside the UK register)ultimate parent75–100%
- Docuware Ltdthis 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 FullAccounts for the year to 31 Mar 2025 (profit £492k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Feb 2026. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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