Company monitoring

Companies House publishes a change the moment it is registered and tells nobody. A director resigns, a charge is registered, a registered office moves to an accountancy address, and the first anyone hears of it is when they next go looking. For a supplier extending credit, a landlord holding a lease, or a buyer part way through diligence, that gap is the whole risk.

snapdue holds the last state it read for a company and compares it against the register. Where they differ it records the change, names what moved, and shows it to everybody following that company. The record is kept, so a change six months old is still there when somebody asks when it happened.

• A director, secretary or person with significant control appointed or resigned
• A charge registered, satisfied or outstanding against the company
• Registered office moved, read as one change rather than five address fields
• Company status moved, including into liquidation or administration
• Accounts or the confirmation statement filed, or falling overdue
• A change of company name, with the previous name kept
• A statement of capital, read as a share allotment
• Identity verification status moving against a named officer

Every change carries the filing category that records it, so the entry points at the document rather than only asserting that something happened. Where no single category records a change, as with a status move, snapdue claims no filing rather than guessing at one.

Following a company is not the same as owning it. Follow is reversible and destroys nothing, so a company you stop watching keeps its history and can be picked up again.

Changes are recorded and shown inside snapdue. They do not yet reach your inbox, and the streaming connection to Companies House that would make detection immediate rather than periodic is on the plan rather than in the product. We would rather say that here than let you assume it.