The return builder turns a workspace's expenses and donations into the candidate spending return the Electoral Commission expects. Cadrify assembles it. Your election agent still reviews, signs and submits it, and stays personally responsible for what it says.
The finance hub flags anything the return needs fixed first. Signing, downloading and marking the workspace ready are all blocked while a red flag remains, so nothing incomplete goes out the door by accident.
Open Finance, select the Returns tab, then Open return builder. The summary shows total spending, how much is paid, how much is still unpaid, donations received and the spending limit that applies, all at a glance.
Spending rolls up into the six statutory categories the Commission uses: A advertising, B unsolicited material to electors, C transport, D public meetings, E agent and other staff costs, F accommodation and administration, plus an Other row for anything that maps nowhere else.
Enter the election agent and candidate names and select Sign off and lock. Signing writes a locked, versioned copy, listed under Signed versions with who signed it and when. Nothing is ever edited silently, and the workspace moves to Return ready.
Select Download return (xlsx) and Cadrify populates the Electoral Commission's own candidate spending return workbook, so the limit and every total are the Commission's formulas, not ours. Submit the file yourself with the supporting invoices and receipts and make the statutory declaration, then select Mark submitted to close the workspace off.
Book a demo and we will walk you through it on a real ward.
Upload the file, map the columns once, and every future file from the same council imports itself.
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From a ward boundary to a printed, assignable round in a few minutes.
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Reuses the ward's existing rounds, so a drop is ready to assign the moment it is created.
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Call lists from your own filters, scripts included, every response fed straight back to the record.
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Synced stations, a live telling rota and knock-up lists that correct themselves as the day goes on.
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Enter a candidate once, generate every council form, signatures still wet ink.
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New register rows get scored automatically. Only the genuinely unclear ones ever need a person.
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Postal, proxy and elector detail updates in seconds, matched on register number, no mapping and no review queue.
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Scan, upload and choose who reads the marks, your volunteers for free or Cadrify itself for a processing fee.
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A one-time QR code opens one task for one volunteer, no account needed, active in under a minute.
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Bundle poster and posterboard requests into a round, assign it and watch delivery happen live.
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A public sign-up page and a QR check-in screen, with every attendee added to your supporter database.
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A donation page on your own Stripe account. Money goes direct, and Cadrify adds 0.5%.
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Petitions, open letters and forms on a public link, live in minutes, every response added to your supporter database.
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One representative per area, matched by GSS code, and volunteer access gated behind a data-protection tick.
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Drag and drop a condition tree once, check the count, then save it as a filter or a reusable audience.
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