Why every conveyancing file should run on a pipeline

Most conveyancing delays are not hard problems. They are a search nobody chased, an LPE1 ordered a week late, a mortgage offer that expired quietly, an SDLT return left until day thirteen. Each is easy to handle on its own; the difficulty is holding forty of them in your head across a caseload.

A pipeline turns that into structure. Each type of transaction - a purchase, a sale, an auction purchase, an auction sale - has its own stages, and each stage its own steps, so a file's position is a fact rather than an opinion. Steps that depend on the property or the funding appear only where they apply. Key dates set due dates automatically, so the post-completion work is scheduled the moment completion happens.

Across the firm, the same structure becomes a board: every open file by stage, with progress, the next step due and anything overdue. That is the view a supervisor needs for file reviews, and the one a fee earner needs on a Monday morning. Every step, date change and file note is recorded on the matter's timeline, so the history of a file is there when a client, a lender or a regulator asks.

Noviqent for Conveyancers ships with all four pipelines, built around the steps UK conveyancers actually work through, and lets a firm add its own steps to any file.