Sign inEvery statutory deadline, in one place, in order of urgency
Oblix derives every client's accounts, Corporation Tax, VAT, CIS, PAYE and CS01 dates automatically and sorts the deadline dashboard by urgency — Overdue and Critical first. The same dates become tracked jobs on the board, so a due date is never just a note someone meant to action.
Deadline tracking in Oblix is a UK statutory deadline engine. It derives every client's accounts, Corporation Tax, VAT, CIS, PAYE/RTI, Self Assessment and confirmation statement (CS01) dates automatically — from each client's own facts and from Companies House — and classifies every one into five urgency tiers (Overdue, Critical, Urgent, Approaching, Distant) so the practice always sees what is due, in what order, and where the work is sitting.
- Derives UK statutory deadlines — annual accounts, Corporation Tax (CT600), VAT returns, CIS, PAYE/RTI, Self Assessment and CS01 confirmation statements — from each client's facts and Companies House data
- Classifies every deadline into five urgency tiers (Overdue, Critical, Urgent, Approaching, Distant) by days-to-due and colour-codes the whole dashboard
- Filters the deadline dashboard by horizon — This Week, This Month, Next 3 Months, All — so you can run the morning stand-up off one screen
- Turns statutory dates into tracked jobs on the Kanban board automatically, gated by the services each client is actually engaged for
- Flags which jobs have the records they need with an AI Data Readiness Agent, so you know what is blocked on the client before it becomes urgent
The deadline tracker is a spreadsheet, and the spreadsheet is always slightly wrong
Most practices run statutory deadlines off a workbook that one person owns. A year end changes, a client takes on payroll, a confirmation statement date moves at Companies House — and the sheet doesn't know until someone remembers to update it. So the real questions stay open: what is actually due this week, who is working it, and is anything already late? The honest answer is usually "let me check", and "let me check" is how a CS01 or a set of accounts quietly slips past its date.
One dashboard that's always current and sorts itself by what's urgent
Oblix holds every client's statutory dates in one place and keeps them current from the client's own facts and from Companies House — no one maintains a tracker. Every deadline is classified by days-to-due into Overdue, Critical, Urgent, Approaching or Distant, and the whole board is colour-coded and filterable by horizon. You open one screen and immediately see what is late, what is due in the next seven days, and what is coming — and because each date is also a job on the board, you see who has it and where it is stuck.
How deadline tracking works
Oblix builds the deadline picture from data you already hold, keeps it in step automatically, and makes every date actionable.
Derives the dates from each client's facts
From the year end, VAT stagger, payroll frequency, CIS flag and entity type, Oblix works out the accounts, CT600, VAT, PAYE/RTI, CIS and Self Assessment dates — only for the services the firm is actually engaged to provide that client.
Pulls accounts and CS01 straight from Companies House
A nightly Companies House sync reads each company's next accounts due date and confirmation-statement date and turns them into tracked deadlines, so those dates come from the source rather than a manual note.
Classifies everything into five urgency tiers
Each deadline is stamped by days-to-due — Overdue (past), Critical (within 7 days), Urgent (within 30), Approaching (within 90) and Distant (beyond) — and colour-coded so the dashboard triages itself.
Turns each date into a job on the board
Statutory dates become jobs on the Kanban board automatically, so a deadline carries an owner, a status and a place in someone's queue — not just a date on a list.
Flags what's blocked on the client
An AI Data Readiness Agent reviews each job's documents on a nightly sweep and marks it Ready or Needs info, so you can chase the missing records early instead of discovering the gap in the final week.
Built for the way a UK practice actually files
This isn't a generic task tracker with due dates bolted on. It knows that accounts file nine months after the period end, that the CT600 follows three months later, that VAT runs on a one-month-and-seven-days cycle by stagger, that RTI is monthly and CIS lands on the 19th — and it only raises a deadline for work the client is engaged for. Oblix reads Companies House and derives the dates; it does not file at Companies House or HMRC on your behalf, and it does not pull live HMRC obligation feeds — the filing stays in your hands, the tracking stops being your problem.
What it gives the practice.
Five urgency tiers (Overdue, Critical, Urgent, Approaching, Distant) computed from days-to-due and colour-coded across the deadline dashboard
You triage by glancing, not by reading — the late work and the next-seven-days work sit at the top, in red, before anything distant.
UK statutory deadline types derived automatically — accounts, CT600, VAT, CIS, PAYE/RTI, Self Assessment and CS01 — from client facts plus Companies House sync
No one keys in a due date or maintains a tracker; the dates appear from the client's own year end, VAT stagger, payroll frequency and Companies House record.
Companies House sync reads each client's next accounts and confirmation-statement dates and turns them into deadlines and jobs
Your CS01 and accounts dates come straight from the source and update on the nightly sync, so they cannot drift out of step with the register.
Statutory dates become tracked jobs on the Kanban board, gated by the services the firm has enabled for that client
A deadline isn't a reminder that gets dismissed — it's a job in someone's queue, so the work and the date stay attached.
Horizon filters on the deadline dashboard (This Week / This Month / Next 3 Months / All)
The manager runs allocation and chasing from one screen instead of opening five spreadsheets and a wall planner.
AI Data Readiness Agent scores each job's documents Ready or Needs info on a nightly sweep
You can see which upcoming jobs are still waiting on the client's records and chase them now, while there is time, rather than in the final week.
Questions practices ask
Which UK statutory deadlines does Oblix track?
Oblix tracks annual accounts and confirmation statements (CS01) at Companies House, Corporation Tax (CT600), VAT returns, PAYE/RTI, CIS returns and Self Assessment. Accounts and CS01 dates come from the Companies House sync; the tax, VAT, PAYE and CIS dates are derived in code from each client's facts — year end, VAT stagger, payroll frequency and CIS status. Deadlines are only raised for the services the firm has enabled for that client.
Does Oblix file accounts or tax returns for me?
No — Oblix tracks and surfaces deadlines but does not file at Companies House or HMRC on your behalf. It reads each client's record from Companies House and derives the statutory dates from their facts, then turns those dates into tracked deadlines and jobs on the board. The filing itself stays with your team; Oblix makes sure the date and the work never get lost.
How does the urgency colour-coding decide what's most urgent?
Every deadline is automatically placed in one of five tiers by days-to-due: Overdue (already past), Critical (within 7 days), Urgent (within 30 days), Approaching (within 90 days) and Distant (beyond 90 days). The dashboard is colour-coded by tier and sorts the late and near-term work to the top, so you triage by glancing rather than reading. The tiers are fixed thresholds applied consistently to every client.
Will I be able to see which deadlines are blocked because the client hasn't sent records?
Yes, at job level — an AI Data Readiness Agent reviews each job's documents on a nightly sweep and marks it Ready or Needs info, and that signal feeds the chase queue so you can pursue missing records early. This works on the job attached to a deadline rather than as a separate per-deadline traffic light. It means you can spot what is waiting on the client weeks out, not in the final filing week.
Do I have to keep a deadline spreadsheet up to date?
No — that is the point of it. Oblix derives the dates from facts you already hold and refreshes the Companies House dates on a nightly sync, so the deadline dashboard stays current on its own. When a client's year end changes or they take on payroll, the deadlines follow without anyone re-keying a tracker.
Give the practice one place to see the work.
Bring every client, job, deadline, document, chargeable hour and client conversation into a single operating view for the whole firm.