Features

Everything a firm needs to never file late

From the deadline engine to the client portal, LaterLess turns compliance from a habit you have to maintain into a system that maintains itself.

app.uselaterless.com/clients/harbor-main
HM
Harbor Main LLC
S-CorpEIN ••-•••4821Home: TXNexus: TX, CA, NYActive
Engagements
BookkeepingMonthly
Sales Tax — TX / CAMulti-state
Tax Prep (1120-S)Annual
Owners
J. Harbor60% · Officer
M. Reyes40% · Member
Recent activity
W-9 received2d ago
Compliance engine

Deadlines that compute themselves

Set the deadline rule for a filing once, and LaterLess fills in every date for the next 15 months — rolling weekends and federal holidays to the next business day on its own.

  • Every kind of filingMonth-end returns, fixed quarterly dates and fiscal-year filings — the real deadlines your firm handles.
  • Internal vs statutory datesA soft internal deadline sits beside the statutory one so work starts with runway to spare.
  • Never a duplicateThe same deadline is never created twice — no matter how the calendar changes.
Form 941 · Federal · Quarterlyupcoming due dates
RULELast business day after each quarter
Set once — weekends & holidays roll forward automatically
2026-Q1Apr 30, 2026
2026-Q2Jul 31, 2026
2026-Q3Nov 2, 2026
2026-Q4Feb 1, 2027
Client portal

A locked-down slice, just for them

Clients see only their own companies and due dates, and upload exactly what you requested. That separation is built into the core of LaterLess, not just hidden from view.

  • Self-serve uploadsA requested document is marked received the moment the client's file lands.
  • Only their ownA personal 1040 filer and a three-entity group each see exactly their part — nothing else.
  • Walled off at the coreBuilt into the foundation, so a mistake can never expose another client's records.
Harbor Main LLC · Client portalwhat they see
2025 bank statementsRequested 2 days agoRequested
Prior-year return (2024)Uploaded by ownerReceived
Sales & Use Tax — TXDue Apr 20, 2026Upcoming
Uploading Q1-receipts.pdf
Onboarding

The right checklist for every entity

Add a client and the matching checklist spawns automatically — an S-Corp, a partnership, a sole prop and an individual each get their own. Attach documents as items come in.

  • Entity-aware templatesPrior-year return, EIN letter, bank access, sales-tax permit — the items that actually apply.
  • Requested / received / N/AEvery item carries a clear status and an optional attached document.
  • AssignableHand an item to a teammate or back to the client without losing the thread.
Onboarding · S-Corp checklist2 of 4 outstanding
Prior year returnReceived
EIN confirmation letterReceived
Bank login / read accessRequested
Sales tax permit #Requested
Beneficial ownership infoN/A
Reminders & review

Chase-free by design

Each obligation carries its own reminder cadence with escalation. Work moves through a status flow with an optional reviewer step before anything is marked filed.

  • Configurable cadenceReminders fire on the schedule you set and escalate to the engagement lead if they're ignored.
  • Review workflowReady for review → filed, with a rejection path back to in-progress when something needs another pass.
  • Everything loggedStatus changes and notes land on the client timeline as an audit trail.
Reminder schedule · Form 941 Q2cadence
T‑7 daysFirst reminder to client
T‑3 daysInternal deadline — assignee notified
T‑1 dayEscalation to engagement lead
FiledInstance closed · logged to timeline
And the rest

Built around how firms actually work

This isn't a sales CRM with deadlines bolted on. It's shaped around the way accounting firms actually serve clients — people, companies, engagements and filings.

People, companies & ownership

One person can own several companies and be a personal client too. Separate Person, Company, Client and Ownership records keep the whole web queryable.

John Harbor
Harbor Main · 60%Vireo Studio · 40%Personal 1040
Multi-state, first-class

TX monthly and CA quarterly are two obligations with two rules — frequency can even change by volume.

TXSales & Use TaxMonthly
CASales & Use TaxQuarterly
Real search & filtering

Built for 50–500 clients — search the whole book by status, state, staff member or due date.

Texas · overdue · unassigned7
TXHarbor Main LLCOverdue
Engagements drive obligations

Add Payroll and the 941/940/W-2 set is suggested. Services decide what's owed; you don't wire it by hand.

Payroll
Form 941Form 940W-2
History-respecting changes

End an engagement or change a rule and only upcoming deadlines update. Anything you've already filed stays exactly as filed.

2025 filed instancesunchanged
2026 not-startedregenerated
Document vault

Every file is tied to the client, request or filing it belongs to — shared through private, expiring links and kept for years.

2024 tax return.pdfsecure link
Q1 bank statement.pdfkept 7 years

See it on your own book

Add a client, note the services you provide them — and watch a year of their deadlines appear.