Everything a UK Director Needs to Stay Companies Act Compliant

CompanyMinder is company secretarial software for UK directors who manage their own Companies House filings. It maintains your register of members, generates share certificates, dividend vouchers with automatic tax calculations, and board minutes, and reminds you before your confirmation statement, accounts, and other deadlines you track — everything you need to stay Companies Act compliant without paying an accountant or a professional company secretary. Read our company secretarial software guide for self-filing directors.

They do different jobs. WebFiling is where you submit filings to Companies House, such as a confirmation statement or annual accounts. It doesn't issue share certificates, keep your register of members, produce board minutes or dividend vouchers, or estimate dividend tax. CompanyMinder does those and keeps your filing deadlines in front of you, but it doesn't file anything: you still submit your filings to Companies House yourself.

Free to start: single-company register viewing, one document generation, and basic deadline reminders. The Director plan is £9/month for your first company and £5/month for each additional company — one predictable subscription covering full document generation, the multi-company dashboard, full reminders, and IDV tracking. Less than a single late filing penalty. See full pricing.

Late filing penalties for annual accounts start at £150 for up to 1 month late and increase to £1,500 for over 6 months late. If you file late two years running, penalties double (£300 to £3,000). Companies House issued around 318,000 late filing penalties in the year to April 2025. See our complete Companies House late filing penalties guide.

Yes — the register of members is now the ONLY mandatory local register after the ECCTA 2025 reforms abolished local registers of directors, secretaries, and PSCs (November 2025). You must maintain a record of every shareholder, their share class, number of shares held, and dates of acquisition. CompanyMinder maintains this register and keeps it Companies Act compliant.

Not from CompanyMinder. You file your confirmation statement yourself, through Companies House's own online service. CompanyMinder doesn't prepare or submit Companies House filings. What it does is set up your confirmation statement and accounts deadlines from the due dates on the Companies House register when you add your company by its number, email you before they fall due, and keep your register of members up to date so your shareholder details are in order when you file. Filing directly from CompanyMinder through the Companies House API is on the roadmap but isn't available today. Read our full guide to Companies House software filing.

Yes. The Director plan supports a multi-company dashboard — see every company's filing deadlines and registers in one view. Ideal for portfolio landlords with SPV structures, contractors with multiple PSCs, or anyone managing several companies. You pay £9/month for the first company and £5/month for each additional — one subscription, not a per-filing meter.

Yes. The Director plan is a monthly or annual subscription you can cancel at any time from your account settings. If you cancel, your statutory records stay accessible and exportable — you are never locked out of your own register or generated documents.

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