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Renewals and due dates

Maud reads the dates on what you file — expiry dates, renewal cycles, MOT and road tax from the DVLA lookup — and turns them into one list of everything coming up across the household. You never enter a date by hand; filing the document is the data entry.

Where it shows up

  • The dashboard. With a single house, the hero card's At a glance column shows your nearest upcoming renewal next to the top document gap and the latest thing filed.
  • House and vehicle pages. Each property or vehicle shows its own Upcoming renewals — the next three, with a See all link.
  • The full calendar lives at /renewals/ — everything due, expiring or renewable, in date order.

How the dates are worked out

Three sources:

  1. Expiry dates on documents — an insurance schedule that says renews 14 November, an EPC's ten-year validity, a passport.
  2. Renewal cycles, projected. A boiler service certificate from last June with an annual cadence means the next service is due this June. Projected entries carry a quiet projected chip so an inferred date never masquerades as a stated one — file the new certificate and it takes over.
  3. Vehicle facts — MOT expiry and tax due dates pulled straight from the DVLA lookup.

Each entry is colour-banded by how close it is: coral within a month, amber within three, green beyond. A date that's already passed shows gently as looks due — most of the time it just means the newer document hasn't been filed yet, so it doubles as a reminder to file it.

If two documents describe the same obligation — an insurance policy schedule and the renewal letter for it — Maud shows one entry, not two.

Not everything is a renewal

Two quiet controls on every row:

  • Dismiss — "this isn't a thing I renew." It stops appearing.
  • Snooze — "yes, but not now." It hides for three months, then returns by itself.

Nothing is ever hidden for good: every dismissal and snooze is listed under Dismissed & snoozed (linked from the calendar page), each with an Undo.

What Maud doesn't do (yet)

Maud shows you what's coming — it doesn't yet email you about it. Reminder delivery is planned; until it ships, the calendar is a view you check, not a promise that you'll be chased.