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Data Entry Virtual Assistant UK: accurate records from £5 per hour

Hire a data entry virtual assistant who works for your business alone. Your VA keeps the CRM current, the spreadsheets reconciled, the invoices and receipts entered and the records clean, from our managed office in Cairo, on your working hours, with a UK team supervising quality. One named person who learns your systems and owns the work end to end, not a per-task freelancer and not an offshore data-entry shop that processes a batch and disappears. It is the data half of our virtual admin assistant service, from £5 per hour on the entry rate.

CRM updatesSpreadsheets and databasesInvoice and receipt entryData cleansing
From £5/hour UK-managed Dedicated VA, not shared No long-term contract
What They Handle

What a data entry virtual assistant handles each week

CRM and contact data entry

Enters new leads, customers and suppliers into your CRM, updates records after every call and email, and keeps ownership, stage and next-action fields filled in so the pipeline can be trusted.

Spreadsheet and database updates

Maintains the trackers your business runs on: sales logs, stock lists, project sheets, membership records. Same format every time, with a change log so you can see what moved and when.

Invoice and receipt entry

Enters supplier invoices and receipts into your accounting tool, matches them to purchase orders or card statements, and prepares the monthly summary for your accountant.

Data cleansing and de-duplication

Finds duplicate records, standardises names, addresses and phone formats, fills gaps from your source documents and flags anything that cannot be resolved without you.

Document conversion and formatting

Turns PDFs, scans, forms and handwritten notes into structured records, and formats documents so someone else could find and use them.

Order, booking and form processing

Transfers orders, bookings, survey responses and enquiry forms from wherever they arrive into the system that needs them, and confirms each one back to the sender where you want that.

Different stack? These are examples. Your VA is trained on your tools and your ways of working during onboarding and works inside your accounts, not ours.

Which model

A dedicated data entry VA compared with a per-task freelancer or an offshore data-entry shop

The cheapest way to get data entered is to send a batch to a data-entry shop and pay per record. It works for a one-off migration. It fails for the work most businesses actually have, which is continuous: records arrive every day, from several sources, in formats that change, and the person entering them needs to know which supplier is which, which customer is a duplicate and which field matters. A per-task freelancer has the same gap. Every batch is a new briefing, and the errors you find a month later are yours to fix.

A dedicated data entry VA learns your systems once and keeps the knowledge. The same person enters the records, notices when a source changes, asks when something is ambiguous and keeps a log of what they did. Accuracy comes from continuity, and continuity is what a managed, dedicated VA provides that a batch service cannot.

Who It's For

Who a data entry virtual assistant is built for

Sales teams whose CRM is behind reality

Deals close, contacts change jobs, calls happen and nobody updates the record. A data entry VA keeps the CRM current every day, so the pipeline you report on is the pipeline you have.

Finance and operations teams buried in receipts and invoices

Entry backlogs turn month-end into a week of catch-up. Your VA enters, matches and files as the documents arrive, and your accountant gets a clean summary instead of a shoebox.

Businesses with records nobody owns

Membership lists, stock sheets, supplier registers, compliance logs: every business has a few systems that only work when someone keeps them accurate. A dedicated VA becomes that someone.

Agencies and e-commerce operators with catalogues to maintain

Product data, price changes and client records need entering across several systems without drift. A VA who knows all of them keeps them consistent.

Cost Comparison

What a data entry virtual assistant costs in the UK

The entry rate is £5 per hour for the first 6 months on the Entry tier. It covers your dedicated VA's time, our office facilities in Cairo, and the supervision and management that keep quality up. After the promotion, the admin rate card applies: £6.30 per hour full time on the Entry tier (160 hours a month, £1,008) or £6.50 per hour part time (80 hours a month, £520). Mid and Expert tiers, for VAs with longer experience, are £7.25 and £7.88 per hour full time.

There are no per-record fees and no platform fees. Set that against a UK in-house admin hire once salary, employer National Insurance, pension, holiday and a desk are counted; the comparison card on this page shows the calculator's model, and the full calculator gives your exact figures for your hours.

UK In-House · Entry level
UK in-house admin hire (calculator model)
£2,488 a month gross salary, full time (the calculator's admin benchmark, ONS ASHE 2025)
Monthly salary£2,488
Benefits (5% of salary)£124
Equipment and office£442
Management time (2 hrs a week)£156
~£3,210/mo
~£38,516 / year
Ant Assist VA · Entry
Dedicated Data Entry Virtual Assistant
160 hrs a month · £5/hour for the first 6 months (£800/mo), then £6.30/hour on the admin rate card
VA hours (160h × £6.30/hour standard rate)£1,008
Management and supervisionIncluded
Recruitment and onboardingIncluded
Office infrastructureIncluded
£1,008/mo
£12,096 / year at the standard rate
You save ~£26,420 / year at the standard rate (est.)

What the £5/hour entry rate includes

  • Dedicated VA, never shared
  • UK-hour aligned support
  • Management and supervision included
  • Recruitment and onboarding included
  • Office infrastructure included
  • VA replacement available
  • No NI, pension, or holiday costs
  • No long-term contract, rolling monthly

These are typical estimates. Get your exact numbers in the full calculator. Or read how much a virtual assistant costs in the UK.

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Process

How to hire a data entry VA: from first call to clean records

1
First call
A 15-minute call about where your data comes from, which systems it goes into, how much arrives each week and where the errors are today. If a one-off migration is all you need, we say so here.
2
Matching
We select a VA from our in-house team with experience in your kind of systems, and introduce them to you.
3
Onboarding
Together we document each data flow: the source, the destination, the format rules, the exceptions and who decides them. Your VA gets access through a password manager, never through shared credentials.
4
Active support
Most clients have their VA active within 5 to 7 working days of signing up. Your VA works your hours from our managed office, with a daily or weekly log of what was entered and what was flagged.
5
Ongoing management
A UK team supervises quality, spot-checks the work with your VA, and adjusts hours and scope as your volumes change.
Why Managed

Why a managed data entry VA beats a per-task freelancer or an offshore data-entry shop

Managed, not just placed.
Your VA is recruited, trained and supervised from our own in-house office. Not a freelancer platform, not a batch queue.
One person, continuous.
The same VA enters your records every day, so the knowledge of your systems and your exceptions stays with the work.
Replaceable without restart cost.
If the fit is wrong, we replace the VA and carry the handover. No re-recruitment, no starting from zero.
No NI, pension, or holiday overhead.
One hourly rate; the employment costs sit with us.
Your data stays yours.
Every VA signs an NDA and a data-processing agreement, works through password managers, and you can revoke access at any time.
Rolling monthly.
Scale hours up or down, pause, or cancel with 30 days' notice.
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FAQ

Common questions about hiring a data entry virtual assistant

Our VAs work with Xero, QuickBooks, FreeAgent and Sage, as well as expense tools like Expensify and Dext. They categorise spending, upload receipts and prepare monthly summaries. They do not provide accountancy or tax advice; that stays with your accountant.

All Ant Assist VAs sign NDAs and data processing agreements as part of their contracts. Access to your systems is managed via password managers (we recommend 1Password or Bitwarden) so credentials are never shared in plain text. You retain control and can revoke access instantly.

Both work well. Some clients have a fixed daily workflow their VA follows. Others send tasks throughout the day via Slack or a task manager. We help you find the communication rhythm that suits you during onboarding.

Yes. Ant Assist provides real, office-based human VAs. We are not an AI product. Every VA is recruited, managed and supervised from our Cairo offices. Your VA is a real person who follows your process and works under your brand.

No long-term contract is required. We operate on a rolling monthly basis. You can scale hours up or down, pause, or cancel with 30 days' notice. Admin VAs tend to become deeply embedded in how founders work, and most clients stay long-term.

Ant Assist can replace the VA. We take responsibility for quality and will match you with a more suitable candidate rather than leaving you stuck with an underperforming arrangement.

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