Accountancy and bookkeeping practice · custom project
The same missing paperwork every month. The chasing can follow rules.
Missing receipts and statements come back every month — and every January — and chasing them takes your team’s time. In a project we plan the requests for documents, the list of what’s missing and the handover of exceptions to the right accountant. Channels, integrations and timings are agreed once we know how your practice works.

- Client
- Hughes & Co
- Missing
- 2 purchase invoices
- Reminder
- sent 3 Oct · 09:05
- Next
- personal call 8 Oct
stops once they reply only when the document has arrived
A week before the deadline.
Each request has a clear reason and a next step. The process has an end, but it doesn’t assume every client will send everything back on their own.
The first request goes out.
The message says which documents are missing and where to send them. You approve the wording before launch.

- To
- Hughes & Co
- Missing
- 2 purchase invoices
- Where
- practice inbox or portal
The client sends one of the two documents.
The status updates in the agreed place. Stopping automatically needs reliable information that the document has arrived.

- Received
- 1 of 2
- Missing
- fuel receipt
Different wording for a different group.
Different timings and tone for chosen groups — sole traders, limited companies, landlords — if the split makes sense and is in your data.

- Group
- sole traders
- When
- 5th of the month
- Tone
- short
The client replies with a question, not a document.
The question needs judgement. It goes to the accountant instead of looping through more reminders.

- Message
- “will a card statement do?”
- To
- Priya · accountant
waiting for you
No reply after a week.
The team knows when to pick up the phone. Automated requests don’t go out for ever.

- Clients
- 3
- Reason
- no reply for 7 days
automation paused
A fictional day. The script, the questions and the handover points are agreed with you.
The same afternoon, two ways.
Without agreed rules
- You check what’s missing in several places.
- You decide by hand who to chase and when.
- After a reply, someone has to remember not to send the request again.
Once the rules are agreed
- A schedule tells you when to send a request.
- Document status is in one agreed place.
- Exceptions reach the accountant with the context.
First we check access to the data, permissions and what a connection can do. Only then do we agree which reminders can safely be automated. Phone calls about documents are a separate scope.
How we plan the reminders.
- 01
We agree where the gaps come from
How the practice knows what’s missing and who updates the status. Based on that: a simple list of cases or a connection to the tool you already use.
- 02
We agree the wording and the schedule
Channel, tone and frequency. Every reminder says what’s missing and where to send it. We check the wording on real examples.
- 03
We check replies and exceptions
After sending we update the status and handle exceptions. If a client doesn’t reply, the team knows when to call personally.
We set the limits before anyone calls.
The system can
- send a request on schedule
- show what’s missing and who has been chased
- update the status after a reliable reply
- stop the reminders at an agreed point
A person decides
- clients’ technical questions
- personal calls after no reply
- changing the rules and wording
- judging an unusual document
First we look at your system. Then the price.
Custom project
from £1,450 per process · no VAT added
The first conversation is free. Then a £395 process map — and only then a fixed price for the build.
This isn’t the £79 package.
Questions: accountants
Won’t clients be put off by automated messages?
That depends on tone, frequency and your relationship with the client. Before anything is sent we approve sample messages and the channel together. Every request names a specific gap and how to reply.
Do I need to adopt a complicated new system?
Not necessarily. It depends on where you keep the list of gaps today and whether your software lets us read and update document status safely.
What happens when a client sends the missing documents?
The case status has to be updated so no more requests go out. That happens automatically only when the system can reliably match the reply to the list of gaps.
Can different clients get different reminders?
Yes, if the split makes sense in your practice and is available in the data. We agree the rules before launch.
Tell us where cases get lost today.
We’ll work out a sensible scope for the assistant and the integrations. If it isn’t worth it, we’ll say so.
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