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Statutory Deadline Compliance
FilingKeeper works out every statutory deadline across your whole client book, surfaces what is at risk, reminds you before anything is late, and keeps proof of every filing — one calm command center for the practice.
Compliance Command Center
Calculates statutory deadlines automatically from client accounting reference dates, monitors document request blockers, and estimates late filing penalties in real time.
The problem. Hundreds of client deadlines live in one spreadsheet, until one slips and becomes a penalty.
One view of the practice. The dashboard shows what is overdue, due this week and due this month, across every client.
Add a client once. Enter the year-end, VAT stagger and payroll. FilingKeeper works out every statutory deadline from the published UK rules.
Every deadline, straight away. The next twelve months of statutory deadlines appear at once, ready to assign to someone on the team.
See the risk. The Risk Center ranks what is blocked, overdue and due this week, with the estimated penalty. Fix Now jumps to the next step.
Chase the missing records. Request exactly what is missing and send a passwordless upload link. With the client’s email, chasing follows up automatically.
No login for your client. Your client opens the link on their phone and uploads each file. No account, no password.
Record the filing. Once you have filed in your own software, mark it submitted. FilingKeeper never files for you.
Prove compliance. Attach the receipt. Who did what, and when, stays on the audit trail, ready to print as a proof pack.
One calm view. See every filing risk before it becomes a penalty. Start the 30-day free trial, no card needed.
What you get from the first client you add. No setup project, and no credentials handed over.
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UK filing rules
VAT return and payment, accounts, confirmation statement, Corporation Tax, CT600, Self Assessment and PAYE.
< 1 min
To add a client
Enter the year-end and obligations once. Every date is worked out for you.
4
Reminder stages
Emails at 30, 14, 7 and 1 days before each deadline.
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HMRC logins stored
Names, dates and filing flags only, in a UK database.
The stakes
A practice with 60 clients tracks several hundred deadlines a year, across a spreadsheet, Outlook reminders, and one senior person's memory. It works, right up until the week it doesn't.
A single missed filing is a penalty for your client and a dent in the trust that keeps them with you. That is not a software problem. It is a reputation problem.
Free to start, but no reminders, no audit trail, and one sorted column can silently break every formula.
What one senior partner holds in their head is a single point of failure the whole practice quietly carries.
TaxDome and Karbon charge per seat for CRM, invoicing and portals your practice never asked for.
No calm, focused middle ground between a brittle workbook and an enterprise suite. Until now.
What it does
Not a bloated practice-management suite. Just every client, every deadline, and the proof you filed, organised so your team can file with confidence.
Add a client once. FilingKeeper works out every statutory date and shows what is overdue, due this week and due this month in a single calm view.
Calculate real-time Companies House fine exposure (£150 to £1,500+). Take direct action with 'Fix Now' to chase missing records, attach proof, or unblock filings.
Send passwordless magic upload links with automated chase cadences (polite → firm → urgent). Clients upload records securely without logging in.
Automatic email at 30, 14, 7 and 1 days before each deadline, in one daily digest to the whole practice. Nothing slips because someone was on leave.
Move each filing from not started to submitted, with who marked it and when. No more asking whether anyone actually filed it on the 31st.
Attach the confirmation or receipt to the deadline it belongs to. When a client questions a filing, the evidence is one click away.
Assign work to staff, filter by teammate or client, and see the whole practice at a glance, not one senior person's memory.
Give 1 month free, get 1 month free. Share your unique code with colleagues and earn a month for every practice that joins and gets started.
Names, dates and flags only. No financial figures, no HMRC logins. Less sensitive data means a smaller risk to carry for you and your clients.
Coverage
One national rule set covers every client: limited companies, sole traders and partnerships alike. The dates are derived from each client's own year-end and obligations, and kept on the statutory date even when it falls on a weekend or bank holiday.
By stagger group, monthly, or the Annual Accounting Scheme
Review period end + 14 days
ARD + 9 months, or 6 for a plc
9 months and 1 day, or quarterly instalments
Period end + 12 months
Register, paper, online and payments on account
The 22nd, monthly or quarterly
P60 by 31 May, P11D by 6 July
Rules follow published UK guidance and are verified before launch. FilingKeeper flags anything uncertain rather than showing a date it is not sure of, because a wrong date helps no one.
How it works
No migration project and no onboarding call. Add your clients and automated filing reminders start working straight away.
Record the entity type, year-end and which filings apply. About a minute per client.
About a minute eachThe engine builds a rolling 12-month schedule for that client, on the dates the statutes set.
Worked out for youMove work through the team, file it yourself, and mark it submitted with proof attached.
Proof kept on fileWhere it fits
| Spreadsheet | FilingKeeper | Practice suite | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deadlines worked out for you | |||
| Reminders before they are due | |||
| Audit trail and proof of filing | |||
| Focused, nothing to learn | |||
| Priced for a small practice |
Narrow by design
We chose to store client names, dates and filing flags, nothing more. No financial figures, no HMRC credentials, no personal tax records. It keeps your compliance burden low, and it is one less thing that can go wrong on your watch.
Client records are stored in London (eu-west-2) and handled under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Business data is never queried from the browser.
Every query is scoped to your practice, with database-level isolation behind it.
Submission timestamps and an audit trail stay with the work.
Pricing
Every plan has the same focused workflow. You only choose how many clients you track. 30 days free, no card to start, and two months free on annual billing.
Sole practitioners · 2 users · up to 40 clients
Billed monthly · cancel any time
What's included:
Small practices · 5 users · up to 120 clients
Billed monthly · cancel any time
Everything in Starter, plus:
Established firms · Unlimited users & clients
Billed monthly · cancel any time
Everything in Professional, plus:
30-day free trial on every plan · no card to start
Practice Referral Rewards
Every firm on FilingKeeper gets a unique referral code. When a fellow accounting or bookkeeping firm signs up and tracks 3 clients, both firms earn 1 full month of subscription credit automatically.
From the founder
FilingKeeper is made by a small team for small firms: the ones tracking client deadlines in a spreadsheet because the alternatives cost more and do far more than they need. It does one job, and it takes that job seriously.
The first 10 practices to come on board get 3 months free, in exchange for a short feedback call each week. You help shape it; you get the reliability without the price of a suite.
Questions
FilingKeeper is a specialised statutory deadline management software built specifically for small UK accounting and bookkeeping practices (1–8 staff, 15–150 clients). Unlike generic project management tools or bloated practice suites, FilingKeeper automates UK statutory compliance tracking—including Companies House annual accounts, confirmation statements (CS01), HMRC Corporation Tax (CT600), VAT returns, and Self Assessment—in one unified multi-client dashboard.
Small UK practices prevent late filing penalties by replacing manual spreadsheets with automated statutory deadline tracking software. Dedicated trackers calculate statutory due dates based on the client's Accounting Reference Date (ARD), monitor document request blockers, and trigger automated reminders before penalties occur (£150 to £1,500 for late accounts).
Yes. Tracking compliance in Excel leads to missed deadlines as a practice grows beyond 15 clients due to manual entry errors, lack of statutory date auto-calculation, absence of multi-user audit trails, and risk of accidental formula deletion. Cloud trackers like FilingKeeper automate statutory calendar generation and centralise client filing statuses across the entire team.
FilingKeeper tracks all core UK statutory compliance obligations: (1) Companies House Annual Accounts and Confirmation Statements (CS01); (2) HMRC Corporation Tax CT600 returns and payment deadlines; (3) HMRC Quarterly VAT returns and payments; (4) Self Assessment tax returns and payments on account; and (5) Monthly PAYE and payroll deadlines.
No, and we never will. FilingKeeper reminds you and records what you filed. You stay in control of every submission, so responsibility for a filing is never handed to a tool.
FilingKeeper is not filing software. HMRC requires MTD-compatible software — or bridging software for spreadsheets — to submit VAT returns and Making Tax Digital for Income Tax updates, and you keep filing in whichever product you already use. FilingKeeper works alongside it: it derives every client's statutory dates, shows what is at risk, reminds you before anything is late, and stores the proof once you have filed.
It is built for accounting and bookkeeping practices tracking deadlines on behalf of other people, typically 1–8 staff and 15–150 clients. A single business filing only its own returns does not need it, because its own filing software already shows those dates.
From each client's own dates and obligations: VAT stagger, accounting reference date, incorporation and confirmation statement dates, self assessment and payroll, using the published UK rules. A deadline that lands on a weekend or bank holiday stays on its statutory date, because HMRC and Companies House do not move it.
We deliberately store names, dates and flags only. No financial figures, no HMRC credentials, no personal tax data. Your client records are stored in a UK database and reached only through the application, never queried from the browser.
Move up a plan whenever you need more capacity. The workflow is identical on every plan, so you are only ever paying for how many clients you track.
No. Start the 30-day trial, add your clients, and see your real deadlines before you decide. Cancel any time.
Every firm registered on FilingKeeper gets a unique referral code. Share your code with colleagues or other UK accountancy and bookkeeping practices. The practice you refer gets an extra 30 days of trial when it signs up with your code. When it tracks 3 clients (or completes 14 days), you get a month too: added to your trial, or recorded as a month of credit if you are on a paid plan.
Missing client records are the #1 cause of overdue filings. FilingKeeper lets you send passwordless magic upload links with automated reminder sequences (polite → firm → urgent). Clients can securely upload bank statements, receipts, and payroll documents from any device without creating an account.
Add a handful of clients and see every real deadline in minutes. FilingKeeper works out the dates; your practice stays in control of every filing.