Autopilot
Your dormant accounts, one click a year
Optional, on every paid plan — for dormant accounts, companies and LLPs alike.
A dormant company's accounts barely change from year to year — so preparing them from scratch every year is busywork. Autopilot does the preparing: when next year's accounts are due, they are already built from your Companies House record, and a single click files them. You stay in control — nothing is ever submitted without your confirmation.
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In the product
The autopilot page, with one company enrolled
The four steps of a year on autopilot sit at the top, the legal model underneath in plain words, and each enrolled company shows when it was switched on and how to switch it off.
- 1The company is enrolled, with the date autopilot was switched on.
- 2Your Companies House code is stored encrypted, and only with your permission.
- 3The legal model in plain words — your click is the signing, and the Company Tax Return is always filed by you.
The autopilot page shows the company enrolled since July, with the four steps of the year and the option to turn it off in one click.
How a year on autopilot goes
Turn autopilot on once, from the autopilot page. When your accounts deadline is 30 days out, we email you with next year's dormant accounts prepared and ready. You look them over, click once to confirm, and they're filed with Companies House. That's the whole ritual.
Your Companies House code, kept safe
Filing with Companies House needs the company's authentication code — the 6-character code Companies House posts to its registered office. With autopilot on, we store it encrypted. It is never logged and never appears in plain text anywhere in our systems.
Leave whenever you like
Turning autopilot off keeps your code saved so re-enabling is one click. Removing the code from settings deletes it immediately — no request, no waiting.
Never filed behind your back
Autopilot prepares; you confirm. The one click is yours — we never submit accounts without it, and before it goes you see the company, the period and the director signing.
What autopilot deliberately doesn't do
Autopilot covers dormant accounts only, and it doesn't catch up missed years: it files a year only once the year before it has been filed and accepted. For companies, the CT600 is always filed by you: it's your Company Tax Return, HMRC sets its dates with you, and your HMRC login (Government Gateway) is used once and never stored — so it can't be automated.
Questions, answered
- Will anything ever be filed without me?
- No. Autopilot prepares the accounts and emails you 30 days before the deadline — the filing only happens when you click to confirm. No confirmation, no filing.
- Does autopilot file my Company Tax Return (CT600) too?
- No — the CT600 is always filed by you. Your HMRC login (Government Gateway) is used once when you file and deleted straight away, so it can't be automated. Autopilot is for the Companies House dormant accounts only.
- What happens to my Companies House code if I stop?
- Turning autopilot off keeps the code stored (encrypted) so you can re-enable in one click. Removing it from settings deletes it immediately.
Keep reading
Make next year's filing a single click.
Find your company first — autopilot is one toggle once you're in.
DormantFile is an independent service, not part of Companies House, HMRC or any government body.