For the person who has to sign, compliance task management software is bought by a regulated small business the week the spreadsheet stops being enough: the obligations are in one tab, the evidence in a shared drive, the attestations in email, and the examiner is asking for all three at once. The software's job is to keep the obligations, the controls, the evidence, the incidents, the cases and the attestations as one record with a status, and, if it is any good, to work the figures the compliance officer otherwise estimates: how many evidence items a full attestation needs and how many reviewer hours that is, how many days an audit scope takes, how many gaps to expect and what they cost to close. This page says what compliance task management software must keep, what it should compute, and where the free sheets on this site do that computation now, from the programme's own numbers, with no account.
What compliance task management software must keep
For a regulated small business, the record is the obligations, the controls, the evidence, the incidents, the cases and the attestations, each with an owner, a date and a status, and each linked to the obligation it satisfies. Software that keeps those as separate lists has a shared drive with a login; software that links them can answer the examiner's question about any one of them as a lookup. The test in a demo is one screen for one obligation with its controls, evidence and last attestation on it. Attestvio Pro keeps exactly that record for a regulated small business, and the free sheets on this site work its arithmetic without any record at all.
What compliance task management software should compute
The evidence load a register puts on its reviewers and the months to a full attestation; the days an audit scope needs and the share the days available cover; the gaps an audit will find at the programme's own gap rate and what they cost to remediate; the incident hours and the case backlog's months to clear; the training seats outstanding. Each is a free sheet on this site, and for regulatory compliance the one to start with is the obligations register sheet, which works the figure a regulated small business is measured on first. Software that computes those from the live record has understood the job; software that offers a report builder has not.
Tasks, and what a compliance task actually is
Task management is the workflow layer: an evidence item to collect, a control to test, an attestation to sign, each with an owner and a date. A compliance task is a unit of reviewer time, and the register sheet on this site works how many such units a full attestation contains, 360 on the worked example, and how many the reviewers clear a month. Task software that does not show that ratio is a to-do list with a logo.
Judging compliance task management software for a small business
Bring the sheets' figures to the demo: the register's items and hours, the audit's days, the expected gaps and their cost. Ask the vendor to show the same numbers from its demo data, ask what it costs to run for a programme of that size rather than to license, and ask how the record exports on the day the contract ends. The guide this page supports covers choosing among regulatory compliance consulting firms, which is the other half of the same decision. Attestvio Pro keeps the record at one flat price; the sheets stay free either way.
Questions people ask about compliance task management software
What does compliance task management software do?
It keeps the obligations, the controls, the evidence, the incidents, the cases and the attestations as one linked record with a status, and works the figures the programme runs on: evidence load, audit days, expected gaps, incident hours, case backlog, training seats. The free sheets on this site work the figures; the paid plan keeps the record.
Does a small business need compliance task management software?
It needs the record and the arithmetic; whether it needs an enterprise product to get them depends on the programme's size. Work the obligations register sheet first; a programme whose reviewers can carry the load with a flat-price record does not need a platform.
What does compliance task management software cost?
Enterprise products quote after a call and this site publishes no figure for them. Attestvio Pro is $29 a month for the whole programme, and every sheet on the site is free with no account.