Feature · Companies House alerts
Hear about Companies House changes before HMRC does.
Pulse watches the public Companies House register for every business you care about and surfaces changes — filings, charges, officer appointments, address moves — within minutes of them appearing.
15-minute polling
Paying customers get a refresh every 15 minutes. Free accounts every hour.
Every filing type
Accounts, confirmation statements, charges, gazette notices, officer changes.
Severity ranking
Critical events (charges, strike-off) bubble to the top so you act fast.
Practice-ready
Watch dozens of clients in one place — perfect for small accounting practices.
Why it matters
Companies House holds the legal record of your UK company. Late filings can cost hundreds of pounds in penalties and trigger strike-off proceedings. Yet most directors only find out something has happened when a paper letter arrives a week later — or when a customer or supplier notices first.
Pulse closes that gap. We poll the public register on a tight cadence and push every change into your dashboard, ranked by severity, with the original payload one click away. New charge registered against your company? You know within fifteen minutes. A director appointment slipped through that you didn't authorise? You see it before the damage spreads.
For UK accounting practices, the same engine watches every client account in a single view. No more "did anyone check Companies House this week?" — Pulse already did.
What you'll be alerted to
- New accounts filed, due, or overdue
- Confirmation statement filed or coming due
- Charges registered, satisfied, or amended
- Officer appointments, resignations and changes of details
- Registered office or company name changes
- Insolvency, strike-off, and gazette notices
How it works under the hood
Pulse uses the official Companies House public data API. For each company you watch we fetch the live profile, recent filing history, charges and officers. A diff engine compares the new payload against the last seen state and emits a typed event for every meaningful change.
Polling is tier-aware: paying accounts refresh every fifteen minutes, free accounts every hour. We respect Companies House rate limits so your alerts stay reliable as your portfolio grows. Every event is stored with a timestamp so you have an auditable history of what changed and when.
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