Check every site and period was returned
Certant lays the sites and periods you expect beside the returns you hold, links each reported figure to its page and marks every gap.
| Site | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northgate Depot | Returned | Returned | Returned | Returned |
| Southbank Office | Returned | Returned | Returned | Returned |
| Eastfield Works | Returned | Returned | No return | Returned |
| Westmere Yard | Returned | Returned | Returned | Returned |
The total hides a missing return
Forty sites each owe a return every quarter. When one is missing, the consolidated spreadsheet still adds up, so the gap tends to surface when an auditor asks for that site's figures.
By then the quarter is long closed and the person who would have filed it may have moved on.
What Certant reads
The schedule sets what you expect, and the returns show what arrived.
| Document | What it supplies |
|---|---|
| Returns | The figures each site reported for each period, from PDFs or spreadsheets. |
| Reporting schedule | The sites and periods you expect, from your own approved schedule. |
| Approved limits | Optional. Any limit written in your approved material that a reported figure should be checked against. |
Compare expected with returned
| Site | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northgate Depot | Returned | Returned | Returned | Returned |
| Southbank Office | Returned | Returned | Returned | Returned |
| Eastfield Works | Returned | Returned | No return | Returned |
| Westmere Yard | Returned | Returned | Returned | Returned |
Detail for Northgate Depot, Q2
- Waste to landfill42.6 tonnes
- SourceNorthgate Depot Q2 return · table 1 · page 3
Detail for Eastfield Works, Q3
- No return held for this site and period.
- DecisionInvestigate
- Recorded byCompliance reporting lead · 3 Nov 2026
Record what you decided to do
For each gap, a reviewer chooses what happens: investigate, request the return, or note that the site was exempt for the period. Certant drafts the request and keeps the decision, the person and the date.
- To
- Eastfield Works site manager
- Draft
- "We hold no Q3 return for Eastfield Works. Q2 and Q4 are on file. Please send the Q3 return, or confirm whether one was lodged."
What setup involves
You give us the reporting schedule and the returns you hold. Limit checks are added only where the limit is written in a document you've approved.
| Area | What to expect |
|---|---|
| Purpose | This checks completeness and keeps the evidence. It isn't a certificate of regulatory compliance. |
| Obligations | Certant works from your approved schedule. It doesn't infer a legal obligation or a deadline that isn't in your source documents. |
| Filing | It doesn't lodge a return with a regulator. |
Related use cases
Water monitoring reports
Readings from monitoring PDFs, checked against your documented limits.
See the use caseBoard reporting evidence
A board-pack figure traced to the table or export behind it.
See the use caseBring last year's returns
Send us your reporting schedule and a year of returns. We'll show you the grid, with each figure linked to its page and each gap marked.