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v0.14

Added

  • Retention page in Settings: how long each kind of record is kept (six years by default), legal holds for a claim or complaint, and a list of records past their date. Nothing is deleted.
  • Configuration page in Settings: what you can change without a developer, who may change it, what a change does to existing records, and when it last changed.
  • You can choose which optional sections the board pack, the scheduled reports and the dashboard carry.
  • Self-inspection page under Reports: the questions the regulator asks in its published judgements, answered for homes and communal areas separately from the register, with a 30-day trend. It reports figures and never grades.
  • A building can now have several accountable persons, each responsible for a part of it, with one principal, and its regulator registration number and year of completion.
  • Contractors can reply to a query from the portal and send evidence that assigned work is done. The work stays open until your team closes it, and the contractor can see why it was assigned.
  • Remedial actions can be assigned to a contractor team.
  • An action that found more work to do cannot be closed until that further work is on the record.
  • A dashboard card showing how work is flowing, and a card showing any change in the number of homes that has no recorded reason.
  • The nightly digest names a visit that is still waiting for its certificate after 14 days.
  • Fire plan and emergency information on every property, with the plan's document kept and fingerprinted.
  • A property risk assessment for contractors who are visiting, controlled by an organisation setting.
  • Raise work from a property page without leaving it.
  • Each person can set their own text size, spacing and background.
  • Every certificate now records what confirmed it, and the certificates page has a quick-review lane for batches that meet the rules for it.
  • Remedial actions have a risk rating, age bands and a board limit.

Changed

  • A home's own page now states a building's issue once, and a serving building's lapsed certificate holds back a flat that has its own in the shared disciplines.
  • A home can no longer be added to or removed from your stock without a reason.
  • People are warned after ten idle minutes and signed out at fifteen, and the server now ends an idle session even if the tab is closed.

Fixed

  • Fixed the automatic sign-out cutting off some people who were still active.

v0.13

Added

  • Bulk import of homes and of certificate documents, with a review queue ordered by how sure the reading is, plus export in CSV, spreadsheet and JSON, and a reconciliation report against another list.
  • Contractor login and portal: contractors see only the visits assigned to their team, upload certificates and report a problem.
  • Resident contact and access records, visits, and certificate tracking.
  • Properties as a worklist grouped by building, with one count of homes and a first-run checklist for new organisations.
  • The board pack reads as a decision narrative, and every headline states status, trajectory and target in words. Targets can be set for each measure with dated commentary.
  • A shared reporting card with Table, Copy and Download on every chart, kept out of print.
  • Plan assessments and remedial work in work packages.
  • Pest incidents on the property page and the dashboard, with repeats named.
  • A print chronology for a hazard case.
  • Analytics only with your consent, and a privacy notice.

Changed

  • The menu is now eleven items with one Settings page, ordered by your role.
  • The dashboard opens on the answer, with the detail beneath it, and its cards are ordered by urgency.
  • One chip control for every filter and view switch, one date format per context, and accessibility and touch-target fixes across signed-in pages.

Fixed

  • Fixed the registers silently stopping at 1,000 rows on larger estates.
  • Fixed a replaced certificate still appearing as a backlog item, and communal certificates now cover the homes they serve on every surface.
  • Fixed the feedback prompt hiding navigation.

v0.12

Added

  • Awaab's Law hazard cases with statutory clocks and an audit export.
  • Fire risk assessments, asbestos reports, lift examinations and serviced fire measures (extinguishers, emergency lighting, smoke vents and detectors) captured, with review intervals you can set.
  • BS01 to BS06 export with a denominator you can reconcile.
  • A fingerprint of every stored certificate document.
  • A nightly reminder digest and a bell for items that are due, overdue or breaching.
  • Search from any page, a priority-household flag, and hazard checks per home.
  • Technical-reviewer and audit roles, referral of a certificate to a reviewer, and a record of who changed what.
  • Two-step sign-in for every account.
  • Contractor query correspondence, an approved contractor list, scheduled reports, and a worklist for planned works.
  • A property's position on any past date with a print-ready report, and a timeline showing gaps in cover.
  • Property ownership dates for homes acquired, sold or demolished.

Changed

  • One status language: the same colours for the same state everywhere.
  • Backfilling historic certificates no longer rewrites what the register knew at the time.

Fixed

  • Fixed lists silently cutting off beyond about 200 homes.
  • Fixed the authenticator QR code not showing, and an abandoned enrolment not restarting.

v0.11

Added

  • You can now filter Risk and Compliance dates by more than one certificate type at once.
  • Remedial actions can now be assigned to a colleague, who's notified by email.
  • Building safety evidence now shows directly on the property it belongs to, alongside its certificates.
  • Added a day-by-day trend of your gas cover, so you can see the direction of travel, not just today's number.
  • The properties list now shows when a certificate type genuinely doesn't apply to a property (like a lift on a bungalow), instead of marking it as missing.
  • Where you land after signing in now reflects your role.
  • New footer, with links to what's new and the roadmap.

Changed

  • Renamed "Exceptions" to "Not assured", matching the regulator's own language.

Fixed

  • Fixed the dashboard's evidence breakdown being collapsed by default.
  • Fixed a filter on the properties list not carrying through when you followed a link from an exception.

v0.10

Added

  • Added a public changelog, so you can see what's shipping without asking.
  • Added user feedback and a public roadmap you can vote on.

Fixed

  • Fixed the feedback prompt's appearance.

v0.9

Added

  • Compliance figures now show how sure we are — verified, asserted, or unverifiable.
  • Added the ability to see what your compliance position was on any past date.
  • Added an estate-wide risk ranking to prioritise the most urgent properties first.

Fixed

  • Fixed an issue where a user in more than one organisation could see blended data from both.

v0.8

Added

  • You can now search for your organisation and request to join it.
  • Adding a property now warns you if it looks like a duplicate already on the register.

v0.7

Added

  • Added EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) upload, with automatic lookup from the national register.

v0.6

Added

  • Added live analytics, three more certificate types, and demo history.

Fixed

  • Fixed sign-in links being used up by email security scanners before the recipient clicked them.

v0.5

Changed

  • The compliance countdown now covers every certificate type, not just gas.

Fixed

  • A property is no longer shown as compliant while a related repair is still open.
  • A property is no longer shown as compliant if its certificate left a required check out.

v0.4

Fixed

  • Fixed a timing issue where the sign-up bot check could be missed.
  • Fixed sign-in links being rejected if clicked twice.
  • Signing up with an email that already has an account now offers to sign in or reset the password, instead of failing.

v0.3

Added

  • Added support for reading electrical safety certificates (EICRs), end to end.

v0.2

Added

  • Certificates now record who issued them and what was actually checked.

v0.1

Added

  • Added remedial action tracking, from raised issue through to closed.
  • Property addresses can now be looked up and matched to their official UPRN.

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