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Self Assessment Season Chaser
Chases every Self Assessment client for their records from October to January, and tells you which returns are still to file
£25.00
How you’ll receive this product
Available to download as soon as your payment is confirmed
This is delivered digitally. As soon as your payment is confirmed you will get a private link to your files on your order page. Keep the link to that page — it is where your purchase lives.
You receive
- Self Assessment Season Chaser — self-assessment-chaser.zip
- Secure Stripe checkout — we never see your card details
- Your files appear on your order page the moment payment clears
About this product
Self Assessment season is the same every year: most clients send their records in January, and the returns pile up behind them. This starts the asking early and keeps at it, so the pile arrives sooner.
You keep one row per client. From 120 days before 31 January - early October - it asks each client for their records for the tax year just ended, then reminds them at 90, 60 and 30 days, and sends a final message at 14 days that mentions HMRC's automatic £100 penalty. The moment you put a date in 'Records received', the chasing stops for that client.
Separately, you hear from it at 30, 14 and 7 days about every return not yet filed, in one email. On 1 February it lists anyone still outstanding. An Upcoming tab shows every client and whether their records are in.
It knows which tax year it is working on, and a date from last season does not count for this one - so when 6 April comes round, the sheet rolls over to the new year without being cleared out.
It is a reminder system, not advice: it works out dates from what you put in the sheet, using the rules as they stood in September 2026. You remain responsible for your filings. When a rule or rate changes, the setting that holds it is on the Settings tab.
Features
- Asks for records at 120, 90, 60, 30 and 14 days before 31 January - all yours to change
- Stops chasing a client the moment their records arrive
- The final reminder mentions HMRC's automatic £100 late filing penalty
- One email to you about returns still to file at 30, 14 and 7 days, and on 1 February
- Rolls over to the next tax year on its own - last season's dates never count for this one
- Warns you that 31 January 2027 is a Sunday
- Every message is recorded against the client, the deadline and its date, so nothing is sent twice and next quarter's reminders are new ones
- Starts in test mode - everything comes to you until you say otherwise
- Warns you when a deadline lands on a weekend or bank holiday, and names the working day before
- The wording lives on a tab in the sheet, so you change it without touching code
- Runs inside your own Google account. No client data is sent to us or to anyone else
Product questions
No. It works out the deadlines and sends reminders. It does not submit anything to HMRC or Companies House - you or your clients still do that.
A Google account - a free Gmail account works, and so does Google Workspace - and Google Sheets in your web browser. Nothing is installed on your computer.
Open a new Google Sheet, go to Extensions > Apps Script, paste in the script from your download and run install once. It builds the tabs, the settings and the daily schedule for you. The setup guide shows every click.
No. Test mode is on when you install it: every message comes to you first, marked [TEST], with a line saying who it would have gone to. You switch test mode off in the Settings tab when you are happy with it.
Google asks you to approve any script that reads your sheet or sends email from your account. Because the script runs in your own account rather than as a published app, Google shows its standard warning screen. The setup guide explains each button.
No. Everything stays inside your own Google account. The script cannot contact any other website, and we never see your sheet or your emails.
It stops at 50 a day unless you change that in Settings. Google's own limit is about 100 recipients a day on a free Gmail account and 1,500 on Google Workspace.
No. You pay once. It runs on Google's free Apps Script service in your own account, so there is nothing to renew.
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