A notification is a sentence you did not ask for.
Which is why very few are worth sending. Baslic tells you when a recurring bill did not arrive, when a period has closed, and when a contract is reaching the day you have to act on. The interesting half of this page is everything it deliberately does not say.
Four things, each with a deadline behind it.
Every one of these is something you would find out anyway, later, and at a worse moment.
A bill that did not arrive
Baslic learns your recurring suppliers from your own history: three or more repeats, a monthly, quarterly or yearly rhythm, and amounts within fifteen percent of the median rather than the mean, so one price rise does not shift the whole series. When the expected receipt does not turn up, it says so.
The period that just closed
A summary of what actually happened, the morning after your filing period ends. It follows your VAT rhythm rather than the calendar month, so a quarterly filer gets a quarter. It shows the closed period and never the one in progress, because half a story is worse than none.
A contract reaching its notice day
Not the day the lease ends. The day you have to give notice, which for a commercial lease is usually months earlier and is the one that actually costs money.
How the vault countsAn invoice nobody paid
A reminder to your customer, on the cadence the country expects, and only if you switched them on. This is the one notification that leaves your building, which is why it arrives switched off.
Invoices and quotesFive silences, every one of them on purpose.
These are the rules that took the most work. A tool that notifies you about everything trains you to ignore it, and then it is worth less than no tool at all.
A period with no receipts rings nobody
If you booked nothing, there is nothing to summarise. A cheerful message about your empty quarter is the fastest way to teach somebody to swipe the next one away.
An abandoned series stops asking
If an expected bill is more than two intervals overdue, the series is treated as ended rather than chased forever. The same rule is what stops the very first scan from flooding a new account with years of history.
Only the narrowest window speaks
Four days before a deadline, a document sits inside the ninety, thirty and seven day windows at once. Saying it three times is not three warnings, it is one warning and two annoyances.
Told once, even if the job restarts
The daily sweep looks for the notification row rather than trusting its own timing, so a job that runs twice does not ring your bell twice. The window is seven days rather than one, so a sweep that misses a day still gets the news to you instead of losing a whole quarter.
Dismissed is dismissed
Tell the radar that something is not a subscription and the scan will never resurrect it. A suggestion you have already answered is not a suggestion, it is nagging.
The bell already existed. The phone did not.
Install Baslic on your phone straight from the browser and the same notifications reach the lock screen. What was missing was never the bell; it was reaching somebody who is not looking at the app.
A notification is a push
Rather than adding a send in twenty-four places and trusting the twenty-fifth to remember, writing a notification is what sends the push. The rule lives in one place, so a dark phone next to a full bell cannot happen quietly.
Translated for the reader
The language is resolved when the push is sent, from the recipient’s own setting, because the job that wrote the row has no language at all.
Never blank
No key, a missing translation, a language we do not ship, a malformed payload: all four fall back to the stored text. A notification in the wrong language is a small annoyance; an empty one is somebody tapping to find out what happened and learning nothing.
The broadcast is excluded
The one write deliberately left off the hook is the admin broadcast. A message meant for everybody should not land on everybody’s lock screen.
The other direction: talking to your accountant.
A thread belongs to you and one accountant, and it is a professional record rather than a chat window. That is why the rules around it look strict.
Reading is permanent for both sides, even after you part ways. Your accountant loses the client; they do not lose the record of what was said.
When the relationship ends the thread freezes. Nobody can add a message afterwards, which is exactly what makes the earlier ones evidence.
Deleting hides a thread from your own view. The other side’s copy always remains, because a record both parties can destroy is not a record.
Three things we will not do to your attention.
We do not send you marketing from inside the product. The notifications on this page are about your own books and nothing else.
There is no chasing machine pointed at you. Nothing escalates, nothing repeats until you click, and the only reminders that leave your building are the invoice ones you switched on yourself.
Push needs your permission, and says so when it does not have it. If no subscription exists, or the server holds no key, the toggle tells you rather than pretending the phone is covered.
A push failure never breaks what is behind it. A sweep that cannot reach your phone still finishes its work and still writes the bell.
About the quiet parts.
Do I need the app from a store?
No. Baslic installs from the browser onto your home screen and the notifications work from there. Nothing to review, nothing to update, no store account.
Will the radar create anything?
Never. It observes and it tells you. It does not create a transaction, edit one, pay anything, or touch a single VAT figure.
Can I turn the summary off?
Notifications are per person, and the ones that leave the product are opt-in to begin with. The daily summary already stays quiet for an empty period, which is the case people usually want turned off.
What if two people own the company?
The summary is one per owner per period, found by looking for the row rather than by trusting the clock. Two people get one each, and neither gets two.
Find out on the day it still matters.
The bill that did not arrive, the period that closed, and the notice day you would otherwise meet a month late.