In one sentence
Deadlines from your register now speak up three times — seven, three and one day in advance, each stage exactly once — instead of, as previously, a single time within a one-day window.
Why a single reminder is not a reminder
Until now the platform only looked, for consumers, at deadlines falling due today or tomorrow, and sent exactly one email for them. That sounds like a reminder, but it works only if you look into your inbox during precisely those 24 hours. If the message falls on a weekend, into a week of holiday or beneath twenty unread messages, there is no second chance — and, far worse, there was no advance warning at all beforehand. Anyone who takes a deadline seriously needs no alarm on the last day, but lead time in which it is still possible to act at all.
Three times instead of once
A deadline in the register now speaks up in escalating fashion: seven days in advance, three days in advance and one day in advance. Each stage is sent exactly once — the platform notes which stage has already gone out and does not repeat it. If you miss the first message, the second still comes.
Little about this is newly invented: the lawyer area of the same platform worked in exactly this way, while the consumer path had remained with the one-day window. That has now been brought into line.
The field of view has been widened
For a seven-day stage to be possible at all, the platform has to look further ahead. The query horizon has therefore been extended from “until tomorrow” to “up to 31 days ahead”. Without this change a deadline expiring in twenty days would never have reached the first stage — it would simply have remained invisible until shortly before the end.
A switch on every single deadline
Email and push reminders can now be set individually on every deadline, regardless of where it comes from. Previously this switch existed only for some of the entries.
When the email reminder is switched on, a consent dialogue opens. Its wording is logged along with it — not as a formality, but so that it remains possible to trace afterwards what exactly you agreed to and when. The reminder is therefore not something the platform switches on for you silently.
Likewise new: deadlines that belong to no document at all — for instance one you have had calculated in the chat and carried over — are now reminded in just the same way as all the others. Previously that was structurally impossible.
The deadline calculator no longer ends in nothing
Until now the deadline calculator worked out a date, and that was that — you had to note it down somewhere yourself. There are now two ways out of the result:
- Carry over into the register — the deadline is saved and taken into the chain of reminders.
- Save to calendar — as an .ics file for your own calendar.
What we expressly do not do
We remind you of what is in your register — not of what there might be. The platform searches neither your inbox nor your paper post for deadlines; what is not recorded cannot be reminded. Emails can also end up in the spam folder or be delivered late; please do not rely on the notification alone.
And the calculation itself has its limits. When a period begins to run, whether a letter has been effectively served, whether a period is suspended or whether a special rule applies — these are legal assessments of the individual case, not calendar arithmetic. Whether a calculated deadline holds in your case depends on circumstances the platform does not know; where it matters, that belongs before a lawyer. None of this replaces your own monitoring of deadlines.
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