What's new in CompanyGuard

Registering now shows a "Check your email" page with the address the setup link went to, a way to send it again after a minute and a way to correct the address. Every address gets the same answer, so the page never reveals whether an account exists.

Portfolio lists what falls due: overdue, this week, next week and later this month. Every item in the action inbox links to its case. Cases shows how many there are, with views for all cases, your cases and unassigned ones. Marking an item reviewed says who did it and when, and it can be reopened.

A new alert destination (SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram or webhook) turns on only after you type back the six-digit code its test message carried, so alerts are never sent somewhere they do not arrive. The practice alert email follows your sign-in email when you change it, and the old address is told.

Settings has a Security section: how many of your ten recovery codes are left, and a button to make ten new ones, shown once with a download. If you lose your phone and every recovery code, email support from your sign-in address: after checking your practice name and role, we send a link to set up a new authenticator. Your account, password and practices stay as they are.

Workspace pages show "Live" while they update themselves, and "Reconnecting" if the connection drops. There is no refresh button: pages are always current. The button on each company now reads "Check Companies House now".

Settings opens straight away. Changing your sign-in email or password, and making new recovery codes, asks for your password and authenticator code if you signed in more than ten minutes ago, and then brings you back where you were, including an email-change link you had opened. Deleting the practice moved from Billing to Settings.

Pasting company numbers adds the valid ones and keeps only the entries that need fixing in the box, with the reason for each. The CSV import accepts the header in any letter case, with or without the label column, and has a template to download.

The case form says how a case closes: choose "Ready to verify", then "Verify with latest source data". Owners and admins can dismiss any case; a member can dismiss a case assigned to them. Dates and times are shown in UK time. The printed dossier keeps technical references out of the way.

Each person sees only the team controls they can use, and the only owner's row explains why it has none. Accepting an invitation while signed in opens the new practice straight away.

A company whose Companies House record could not be read says "Deadline unknown", never "No current deadline". Service status reports how current the source data is. Pages with nothing to show say so plainly, without empty tables, charts or page buttons.

The charting library now loads only in the signed-in workspace, so public pages download less.

The signed-in workspace has a Light / Dark switch in the sidebar and the mobile menu. Your choice is kept on this device. Public pages stay light.

Sign-in, registration and password pages moved under /app/auth/. Links already sent by email keep working: the old addresses redirect, with the link kept, until 11 November 2026.

Included features and included amounts, such as the number of team members, the SMS allowance and how long history is kept, now show a filled green check with dark text. Features a plan does not include keep a muted outline mark, so the two no longer look alike. The pricing and product pages now say plainly that every plan covers the whole evidence workflow and that larger plans add team members, alert channels and longer history.

Where a trial button sits next to another button, both now have the same height and line up, and the "No card required" terms sit under the row. This affects the demo, product and comparison pages and the closing sections of the pricing, product, comparison and deadline calculator pages.

Every plan still checks every company, keeps every case and dossier and exports your portfolio. The plans now also differ by team size, alert channels and history: Starter includes 3 team members, email and browser alerts and 12 months of monitoring history; Growth includes 10 team members, adds Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram and webhook alerts and keeps 24 months; Scale has no team limit, adds 100 SMS alerts a month and keeps 36 months. A trial includes everything. If a limit is reached, the page says which plan lifts it. Nothing you already have is removed.

Plans can be paid yearly at about 15% less than twelve monthly payments, through the same secure Stripe checkout. The Billing page shows how your plan is billed. Yearly payment appears on the pricing and Billing pages once it is switched on.

Deleting a practice now takes your current password and the practice name, and happens 14 days later. Until then everything stays readable, you can download the CSV export, and you can cancel the deletion from the Billing page. An active subscription is set to end with the period you have paid for, so nothing more is charged. We email you the date.

If a payment could not be collected or the subscription was cancelled, your portfolio, cases, dossiers and CSV export stay available to read. Monitoring and changes pause, and the page says why. A cancelled practice can choose a plan again from the Billing page, with everything kept.

The Cases page no longer writes anything when it opens, and the Billing, Team, Cases and dossier pages read your data once instead of twice.

A colleague you invite who does not have a CompanyGuard account can now create one straight from the invitation email. The account uses the invited email address, joins your practice with the role you chose, and goes through the usual password and two-step setup. No separate practice or trial is created for them. A colleague who already has an account logs in and accepts as before.

The invitation and account setup pages no longer offer a separate trial in the header, so a colleague joining your practice is not pointed at starting a new one.

A new free tool at /companies-house-deadline-calculator works out when a company's annual accounts and confirmation statement are due, from its year end or incorporation date. Each date shows the rule that decided it and links to the official guidance. Where GOV.UK and the Companies Act read a February date differently, the page shows the earlier date and explains the other reading. The result has its own address, so you can share it.

Two new guides explain the accounts filing deadline and the confirmation statement deadline: the rules for first, normal and shortened periods, how the date is counted, the late filing penalties, and what happens when a statement is not filed. Every figure comes from GOV.UK, with the date it was checked.

A new page at /company-status-glossary explains every company status Companies House shows and every state CompanyGuard gives a company. It is built from the same lists the product uses, so the page and the workspace always agree.

A new page at /compare sets a spreadsheet, the free Companies House email alerts and CompanyGuard side by side, with every Companies House claim linked to its source. It also says when the free options are enough.

A new /changelog page lists what changed in each release, newest first.

On narrow screens the footer links now sit in two columns, so the page content comes first and the footer stays short.

All guides now sit under one page at /guides, with breadcrumbs, links to related guides, the product page and pricing, and the date each guide was last updated. The three existing guide addresses are unchanged.

A new /about page says who builds CompanyGuard, where its data comes from and how to reach support.

The technical rules behind every result (how often companies are checked, when a deadline counts as upcoming and when source data is treated as out of date) moved from the product page to their own page at /evidence-rules. The numbers on it are read from the code that applies them.

A missing or failing page now shows a CompanyGuard page with links to the free check, the guides and pricing, instead of a bare error. It works even when the database is unavailable, and search engines are told not to index it.

The product page is now a sales page that explains what CompanyGuard does for an accounting practice. The pricing page shows the plans side by side with one recommended plan, a table of what every plan includes, how paying works, and answers to common questions. Prices and trial terms come from the same source as checkout.

Every public page uses one set of colours, type sizes and spacing, and one button style. Text and form borders meet the WCAG AA contrast level, and pages scale up cleanly on large and 4K screens. The privacy notice and service information are unchanged word for word, now with a contents list.

Every public page describes CompanyGuard the same way: one company (Elixon LTD), one product, prices taken from the plans. Each page has its own preview image when shared. The sitemap and llms.txt include the new pages.

The "reconnecting" notice no longer flashes on the first view of a page before it has connected.

The trial now lasts 30 days for up to 100 companies, with full functionality and no card. A banner on every workspace page shows how many days are left, and the billing page shows the end date, what happens next and the plan choice, so a paid plan can be chosen at any point during the trial. One 30-day extension can be taken in the last week. Reminders arrive 7, 3 and 1 days before the end, on the last day and once more 3 days later. A trial that would end between 15 December and 7 February ends on 7 February instead.

After a trial ends without payment, the workspace stays readable for 90 days: portfolio, case history, dossiers and CSV export. Monitoring and notifications stop. Choosing a plan restores everything with no new setup. Data of a practice that never paid is deleted 90 days after the trial ends, and every owner is told 14 days before.

Every page that offers a trial, and the trial start itself, now follow one rule, so a page can no longer promise a trial that sign-up does not give. When the trial is not on offer, pages invite you to create an account and choose a plan instead.

robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt are generated from the list of public pages and the product facts. Search engines and AI assistants may read every public page; the workspace is excluded for all. Sitemap dates follow real page changes.

Prices, plan limits, trial terms and our company details each live in one place, and every page, answer, legal text and email reads them from there. Page titles no longer change after a page finishes loading and no longer repeat the brand.

Website and workspace analytics share one configuration. Campaign tags such as utm_source are kept. Pages opened from private links, the second login step and the staff area are never measured. In the workspace, analytics records only an internal account identifier and never your name, email address or company data. Staff reports show "not measured" instead of zero for anything that could not be collected. The privacy notice describes this.

Switching practice, changing your password and entering your second factor now happen on the page without reloading it. Switching practice in one tab moves your other open tabs too, and changing your password signs out your other devices while keeping you signed in. If you are removed from one practice but belong to another, you move to the other practice instead of being signed out. After this release everyone starts in their first practice once.

Every public page and workspace screen was checked at every width from a small phone to a 4K screen. Charts no longer push a narrow phone screen sideways, plan names on the billing page use regular text, and page titles sit closer to their description on phones.

The marketing opt-out page works without reloading and is the same page whichever email it came from. Mail apps that offer an unsubscribe button now stop marketing emails in one click. An opt-out link that cannot be read shows a form to stop marketing emails by address instead of an error.

Browser tabs show the CompanyGuard shield on a transparent background, readable on light and dark tabs. Home-screen icons keep the full square.

A new guide explains when existing directors and people with significant control must verify their identity with Companies House, with every date linked to its GOV.UK source, the steps a practice should take and answers to common questions.

The second login step is now checked on our servers, expires after a short time and cannot be used again once you are signed in. A code from your authenticator app is still accepted when your phone's clock is slightly off.

When you set up your account, the QR code and recovery codes stay the same if you switch to your authenticator app and come back, reload the page or make a mistake in the form. A wrong six-digit code is reported before the form is sent. Setup links now work for 24 hours and only once, and requesting a new link cancels the old one.

Pages opened from setup, password reset, team invitation, email confirmation and marketing opt-out links never load analytics, are never stored by shared caches and never pass their address on to other sites. Those addresses are also kept out of our logs and error reports.

Login and recovery limits now count each visitor's own connection instead of treating everyone as one, so one person repeating attempts can no longer lock others out.

An opt-out link from any marketing email records your objection, however old the email is. If the request cannot be saved, you see a clear message with our support address instead of an error page.

The free company scan shows that it is checking Companies House while it waits, never freezes the page, and no longer shows a "Nil" status when the source is unavailable. Anonymous scans have their own share of our Companies House allowance and a short cache, so they can never slow down monitoring for customers.

Every form is now validated by the server, and the message appears next to the field that needs attention. Clearing the email in Settings no longer breaks the page, a team invitation with an invalid address says what is wrong with it, and case decisions explain the allowed reason length and date format.

Companies House numbers written with lookalike characters are no longer accepted as another company's number. Text containing control characters is refused with a form error instead of an error page, uploads in other encodings or with broken quotes get a clear message, login accepts your address in any letter case, and alert subjects and daily digests stay within delivery limits for long or multi-line company labels.

Only owners and admins load pending team invitations. A colleague promoted to admin while the Team page is open now sees every pending invitation, not only new ones.