Trade account application

Trade account application

We ask for these details before we trade.

They let us confirm who we are dealing with and satisfy the checks our bonded warehouses and our bank require before a cask moves. We verify what you tell us rather than take it on trust.

Fields marked * are required. Everything else saves us coming back to you.

01

Company

Registered outside the UK? Give the registry and the number it holds.

Leave blank if you are not registered for VAT.

02

Authorised signatory

The person completing and signing this form.

We ask for their photo identification separately, through a secure link, rather than through this page.

03

Ownership and control

Everyone who owns or controls more than 25% of the shares or voting rights, directly or indirectly, and anyone who controls the company by other means.

We check this against the Companies House PSC register, so it is quicker for both of us if it matches. We ask each beneficial owner for photo identification by the same single-use secure link, so you may leave dates of birth blank here and give them then.

Beneficial owner 1

Beneficial owner 2

Beneficial owner 3

Beneficial owner 4

Beneficial owner 5

Beneficial owner 6

04

Excise position and storage

AWRS applies to alcohol sold at or after the duty point.

We trade in duty suspension only, so we hold no AWRS approval and none is needed to buy from us. We ask about your position because it tells us how you intend to hold and move the stock, not because the scheme bites on this sale. If you do hold approval, you can check anyone at gov.uk/check-alcohol-wholesaler-registration.

Do you hold AWRS approval?

Do you operate an excise warehouse?

Can you receive goods in duty suspension in your own name?

If you do not know your rotation reference, give the warehouse name and we will ask them.

No casks with us yet? Name the warehouse you would expect to use.

05

Purpose and funds

Which bank, which country, and which entity is named on the account.

Will payment come from an account in the applicant company’s own name? *

Are you buying on your own account, or for a client? *

Name the account holder and the relationship.

We agree third-party payment before the first invoice, never after it.

We verify the underlying buyer as well.

Give their name, or say you would rather we contacted them directly and we will send them their own link.

We invoice on order and issue the delivery order, which puts the casks in your name, once cleared funds reach us.

Payment is by bank transfer in sterling from an account in the applicant company’s own name. We ask for evidence of funds at your first order rather than now. Storage and insurance from the date on the delivery order, and anything already agreed with you, are set out in your account confirmation.

Documents (optional at this stage)

Please do not upload identity documents here.

Once we have your application we send a single-use secure link for those. For UK companies we take the certificate of incorporation from Companies House ourselves. PDF, JPG or PNG, up to 10 MB each.

06

Declaration

Is the company, any director or any beneficial owner subject to sanctions in any jurisdiction, or owned or controlled by someone who is? *

Is any director or beneficial owner a politically exposed person, a family member of one, or a known close associate of one? *

A politically exposed person holds, or has recently held, a prominent public function: a government minister, a senior official or judge, a senior military officer, or a board member of a state-owned company.

Answering yes is not a bar to an account. It means we ask a few more questions before we open one.

Disclosing something does not stop the account. Not disclosing it does.

We date the submission too.

Nothing is chargeable and no cask is reserved until the account is open.

We use these details to check who we are dealing with, to meet the requirements our bonded warehouses and our bank place on us, and to run your account.

Our lawful basis is our legitimate interests in preventing financial crime and in trading safely, and, for the commercial details, taking steps to enter a contract with you. We are not asking for your consent and you may object. We share what we must with the warehouse holding your casks, our bank, and our screening providers. We keep verification records for five years after the relationship ends and then delete them. We do not use them for marketing. Our Privacy Notice sets out your rights in full, including your right to complain to the ICO.

We reply from accounts@liquidity-partner.com within two working days, sooner if something is missing, with a decision or with the one thing still needed.

You will see your reference on screen as soon as you send this, and we quote it in everything that follows. Would you rather not use this page? Call direct line to confirm and ask for the accounts team, or write to us and we will send the same form as a signed PDF.