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Statutory Deadline Compliance

See every filing risk before it becomes a penalty.

CoveringVAT Returnsand more

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.

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HMRC Statutory Guidance
Database hosted in UK

Compliance Command Center

Your entire practice compliance, live at a glance

Calculates statutory deadlines automatically from client accounting reference dates, monitors document request blockers, and estimates late filing penalties in real time.

Illustrative data

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.

By the numbers

Built to take the guesswork out of every deadline.

What you get from the first client you add. No setup project, and no credentials handed over.

  • 8

    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.

  • 0

    HMRC logins stored

    Names, dates and filing flags only, in a UK database.

The stakes

One missed date is one client too many.

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.

Spreadsheets are fragile

Free to start, but no reminders, no audit trail, and one sorted column can silently break every formula.

Memory does not scale

What one senior partner holds in their head is a single point of failure the whole practice quietly carries.

Suites are overkill

TaxDome and Karbon charge per seat for CRM, invoicing and portals your practice never asked for.

Nothing sat in between

No calm, focused middle ground between a brittle workbook and an enterprise suite. Until now.

What it does

Synchronised HMRC & Companies House Deadlines for Every Client

Not a bloated practice-management suite. Just every client, every deadline, and the proof you filed, organised so your team can file with confidence.

01

Every deadline, one screen

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.

02

Actionable Risk Center

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.

03

Automated client document chasing

Send passwordless magic upload links with automated chase cadences (polite → firm → urgent). Clients upload records securely without logging in.

04

Reminders before it hurts

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.

05

Status your team can trust

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.

06

Proof kept with the deadline

Attach the confirmation or receipt to the deadline it belongs to. When a client questions a filing, the evidence is one click away.

07

Built for a team

Assign work to staff, filter by teammate or client, and see the whole practice at a glance, not one senior person's memory.

08

Practice referral rewards

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.

09

Narrow, and safer for it

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

Every UK filing your clients face.

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.

HMRC

VAT return & payment

By stagger group, monthly, or the Annual Accounting Scheme

Companies House

Confirmation statement

Review period end + 14 days

Companies House

Annual accounts

ARD + 9 months, or 6 for a plc

HMRC

Corporation Tax

9 months and 1 day, or quarterly instalments

HMRC

CT600 return

Period end + 12 months

HMRC

Self Assessment

Register, paper, online and payments on account

HMRC

PAYE & payroll

The 22nd, monthly or quarterly

HMRC

P60 & P11D

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

From spreadsheet to every deadline in three steps.

No migration project and no onboarding call. Add your clients and automated filing reminders start working straight away.

  1. Step 01

    Add the client

    Record the entity type, year-end and which filings apply. About a minute per client.

    About a minute each
  2. Step 02

    Deadlines appear

    The engine builds a rolling 12-month schedule for that client, on the dates the statutes set.

    Worked out for you
  3. Step 03

    Assign, file, record

    Move work through the team, file it yourself, and mark it submitted with proof attached.

    Proof kept on file

Where it fits

Purpose-Built for Small UK Accounting & Bookkeeping Teams (1–8 Staff)

 SpreadsheetFilingKeeperPractice 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

Less data to hold. Less to worry about.

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.

Database hosted in the UK

Client records are stored in London (eu-west-2) and handled under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Reached through the app only

Business data is never queried from the browser.

Kept isolated per firm

Every query is scoped to your practice, with database-level isolation behind it.

Every change is traceable

Submission timestamps and an audit trail stay with the work.

Pricing

One missed penalty costs more than a year of this.

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.

Starter

Sole practitioners · 2 users · up to 40 clients

£39/ month

Billed monthly · cancel any time

What's included:

  • Up to 40 clients
  • Up to 2 team members
  • Automatic deadline generation
  • Email reminders at 30 / 14 / 7 / 1 days
  • Proof-of-filing attachments

Professional

Most popular

Small practices · 5 users · up to 120 clients

£79/ month

Billed monthly · cancel any time

Everything in Starter, plus:

  • Up to 120 clients
  • Up to 5 team members
  • Assign work & filter by teammate
  • Weekly partner digest
  • Audit trail & activity log

Business

Established firms · Unlimited users & clients

£149/ month

Billed monthly · cancel any time

Everything in Professional, plus:

  • Unlimited clients
  • Unlimited team members
  • CSV bulk client import
  • Advanced roles & permissions
  • Priority support

30-day free trial on every plan · no card to start

Practice Referral Rewards

Know another practice? Give 1 month free, get 1 month free.

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

Built for the practices the big suites forgot.

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

The things practices ask first.

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.

Ready when you are

Bring every client deadline into
one calm view.

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.

  • 30-day trial
  • No card to start
  • Cancel any time