Overview
The confirmation date for your company's CS01 confirmation statement is a legally defined deadline. You might wonder whether you can choose a different date or shift the confirmation period. This guide explains how the confirmation date is determined and what options (if any) you have for adjusting it.
How Is the Confirmation Date Set?
- The confirmation date is the "made up to" date for your confirmation statement, usually occurring every 12 months after your previous confirmation statement was filed.
- You cannot freely select or manually override the confirmation date during the filing process.
Filing Early (When You Want to Change the Date)
- If you need to change the confirmation date—such as to update company details held on public record sooner—you can file your CS01 early.
- When you file early, the confirmation period is closed and the confirmation date updates to the date of your submission (or, if you file on or after the expected made up to date, it defaults to the statutory deadline).
- The next confirmation statement will be due 12 months from this new confirmation date.
Filing Restrictions
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You cannot choose any date you wish. The system sets the confirmation date automatically:
- If you file before the due date, it uses the date of your CS01 submission.
- If you file on or after the due ("made up to") date, it uses the statutory made up to date.
- You cannot override this in Inform Direct or Companies House; this is a statutory rule.
Practical Example
- Previous confirmation date: 5 July 2025
- Next due date: 5 July 2026
- If you file on 1 June 2026, the confirmation date will be 1 June 2026.
- If you file on 5 July 2026 or afterwards, the date will be 5 July 2026.
Why Might You File Early?
- To update company details (such as SIC codes, officers, PSCs, or shareholders) before the next statutory deadline.
- To correct records following an import, merger, or recent company change.
Key Points
- The confirmation date cannot be freely chosen or manually set.
- Filing early is the only method to change the confirmation date before it is due.
- Filing late or on/after the due date will default to the statutory made up to date.
Common questions
Companies House shows the next confirmation date as a later date (for example 1 November). Why can't I make the statement up to that date now?
Inform Direct won't produce a confirmation statement with a future made up to date. The statement is a snapshot of the company's information as it is today, and we won't produce a document saying what the company will look like in the future. So if you start a confirmation statement before the Companies House date, it is made up to today's date.
I want to prepare the approval document now but file on or after the Companies House date. What happens to the date?
Prepare it and save it for approval now; it will show today's date as the made up to date. If you then file it on or after the Companies House confirmation date (for example on 1 November), the date on the confirmation statement is automatically amended to that date before it is filed, so you don't need to prepare it again. If showing today's date on the approval document might confuse your client, you can remove the made up to date from the approval document in the settings — see How to edit the Approval Document Settings.
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