Leave your family a folder that tells them exactly what to do.
A will says who inherits. It doesn't tell your family who to ring first, where the accounts are, which bills to stop or what probate will ask for. Left Tidy does. It's the step-by-step plan for the first 5 days, 28 days and 6 months after a death, built on answers you write down once, so the people you love are never left guessing.
- Covers the three windows after a death: the first 5 days, 28 days and 6 months (8 days in Scotland).
- A step-by-step plan plus the records that feed it, in plain English, with no legal jargon.
- Twelve letters already written for the bank, the pension, the insurer and everyone else the government's Tell Us Once service doesn't tell.
- Every UK edition included: England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
- About twenty minutes to start: the three sheets your family would need first.
Left Tidy · The Complete Folder · every UK edition
- Download immediately after purchase
- Fill in on screen or print at home
- 60-day money-back guarantee
- One-off payment, no subscription
When you're gone, the admin doesn't stop. It lands on the people you love.
Between the day someone dies and the day the estate is settled, there's a run of deadlines, phone calls and forms that nobody prepares for. In England and Wales it's called probate, in Scotland it's Confirmation, and most families meet it for the first time in the hardest week of their lives. This is what it looks like from the kitchen table.
The search through the drawers
Your children go through old statements, a bureau full of paper and a phone they can't unlock, trying to work out which banks, pensions and policies even exist.
With the folder: every account is already listed, with what to do about it.
Tell Us Once doesn't tell your bank
The government's service tells HMRC, the DWP, the DVLA and the council. It doesn't tell your bank, your mortgage lender, your insurers, your energy supplier or a private pension, and in Northern Ireland it isn't available at all.
With the folder: twelve letters already written, and the order to send them in.
Money frozen, bills still coming
Once the bank is told, an account in one name is frozen, and above a certain amount most banks won't release the money until probate is granted. Meanwhile the bills keep coming through the door.
With the folder: your family knows what exists, and which account keeps the household bills paid.
of accounts are only discovered during probate, and a third of the people sorting out an estate knew nothing about the process when they started (Exizent Bereavement Index, 2021).
None of that is a legal problem. It happens because nobody left a plan to follow.
"Surely they'll work it out?"
They would, in the end: after months of phone calls, a frozen account, a pension overpayment to pay back and a policy found too late. What spares them those months is a plan they can follow, what to do first, who to contact next, and where everything is kept.
One simple plan, in three stages: 5, 28 and 6.
It follows the real UK deadlines: 5 days to register a death in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (8 in Scotland), 28 days to use Tell Us Once, and 6 months before any Inheritance Tax is due. At every stage the folder tells your family exactly what to do next, so nobody has to improvise.
Secure the urgent things
The first actions, in order: register the death, order 10 to 15 certificates, find the original will, tell the executor and arrange the funeral the way you wanted it.
Without a planThe funeral paid from someone's own pocket, too few certificates, the will found too late.
Tell the right people, in order
Tell Us Once covers the government. The folder then takes your family through everything it doesn't: the bank, the mortgage, the insurers, the energy supplier and the private pensions, with a list of every account and the letters ready to send.
Without a planThe death explained again on every call, accounts missed, pension overpayments to pay back.
Settle it properly
Probate (Confirmation in Scotland), the valuation and Inheritance Tax, which is due by the end of the sixth month and usually paid before probate is granted. Then the house, the debts and who gets what, with the documents a solicitor will ask for, in order.
Without a planInterest on late tax, forms sent back, arguments in the family.
Two things in one folder: the plan, and the records that feed it.
The plan tells your family what to do. The records you fill in tell them where everything is. Every part is written for the UK, so nothing important is left out:
- The step-by-step plan: the Start Here page with the first five things to do, the 5-28-6 calendar, and who to tell, in order.
- The Family Folder: fourteen guided sheets for every account, pension, policy and bill, the house, the phone, and where the will and the deeds are kept.
- Twelve letters, already written: the bank, the mortgage lender, the pension, the DWP, the life insurer, the energy supplier, the council, HMRC and more. Add the name, sign and send.
- The Executor's Brief: probate step by step, the six-month calendar and the Inheritance Tax organiser, with a sheet that hands everything over to a solicitor.
- The Homeowner's Pack: the deeds, the mortgage and the Land Registry, plus the Empty House page for the keys, the boiler, the post and the home insurance.
- The Fifty and The Test: the fifty questions your family will be asked in the first month, each pointing to its answer, and a twenty-minute test that proves the folder works.
- The Guide: 22 pages in plain English, in all three UK editions.
Download it immediately after purchase · fill it in on screen or print it at home · keep it all together in one folder.
See the real pages before you buy.
Swipe through ten pages from the folder, and tap any page to read it full size.
You do it once, calmly, over an afternoon.
Every sheet asks plain questions and tells you exactly what goes where, so there's no blank page, no jargon and no legal training needed. You go at your own pace, and you can stop whenever you like.
1Start with three sheets tonight
Who you are, where everything is kept, and your bank accounts. Those three answer most of what your family will be asked in the first month, and they take about twenty minutes, on screen or on paper.
2Test it on a Sunday
Hand the closed folder to the person who'd use it and start a timer. If they can find your will, the account the mortgage comes out of and the number to ring at your pension provider in twenty minutes, it works. Write the date on the cover.
3Leave it where they'll look
Keep it with your will and tell one person where it is. On the day it's needed, the first page tells them what to do, and ten minutes once a year keeps everything up to date.
When that day comes, there are two versions of it.
Both families love the person they've lost. The difference is whether that person left them a plan.
Without a plan
- Drawers turned out, looking for accounts nobody knew existed
- The same death explained on call after call, in no order
- A pension or Premium Bonds found years too late
- Money frozen while the bills keep coming
- A phone nobody can unlock, and the photos inside it
- An empty house, and an insurer who wasn't told
- One child carrying it all, the others second-guessing
- Grief, with the admin piled on top
With the folder
- Every account, pension and policy already listed
- A clear order of who to contact, with the letters written
- Nothing valuable quietly lost
- The right steps, taken in the right order
- The way into the phone, kept where one person can find it
- The house looked after from the first week
- Everyone working from the same pages
- Room to actually grieve
One folder, with everything in it, at one price.
There are no levels to choose between and nothing to upgrade to later. Everything your family will need is in the one folder.
Left Tidy · The Complete Folder
For anyone who wants to leave their family a plan, with or without a will.
One-off payment, no subscription
- The step-by-step plan: Start Here, the 5-28-6 calendar and who to tell
- The Family Folder: fourteen guided sheets
- Twelve notification letters, ready to send
- The Executor's Brief, the six-month calendar and the tax organiser
- The Homeowner's Pack and the empty-house page
- The Fifty, The Test and the Digital Doors page
- The Guide, 22 pages in plain English
- England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland editions
- For couples: save a copy for each of you
- Download immediately after purchase
- 60-day money-back guarantee
A probate solicitor's fees start from around £5,000 for a basic estate (Which?, 2026). The folder doesn't replace one. It gives your family, or their solicitor, everything they'll ask for on the first day.
A simple 60-day money-back guarantee
Open the folder, read the Guide, fill in the first sheets and run The Test with your family. If you don't feel it helps them know what to do, let us know within 60 days and we'll refund you in full. No forms and no questions.
Everything you might be wondering
Is it just a place to write things down?
No, and that's the important part. It's a step-by-step plan: what to do, who to contact and in what order, across the first 5 days, 28 days and 6 months. The sheets you fill in feed that plan, so your family can simply follow it.
We've already made a will. Do we still need this?
A will says who inherits. It doesn't tell your family where everything is, which pension to call, what to cancel or who to contact first. That practical plan is what the folder gives them, and the two work together, so keep the folder with your will.
Is it posted to me?
No. You download it immediately after purchase. Fill it in on screen and save it on your computer, or print it at home and keep it in a folder you already own. There's nothing to wait for and nothing to lose in the post.
Do I need a printer?
No. Every sheet can be filled in on screen and saved. If you'd like your family to have something on paper, print the seven "When the time comes" pages they'll open first, starting with Start Here and the calendar. Any home printer will do, or a library or a print shop.
Is my information safe?
Nothing you type is sent to us: the file stays on your own computer, with no account, app or cloud. A bank PIN or a full card number never goes in the folder, because an executor never needs them. Passwords go on one sheet only, written in full or as where each one is kept, and the folder belongs somewhere safe, like a locked drawer or with your will.
Doesn't Tell Us Once cover everything?
No. Tell Us Once tells government departments only, such as HMRC, the DWP, the DVLA, the Passport Office and the council. It doesn't tell your bank, your mortgage lender, your insurers, your energy supplier or a private or workplace pension, and it isn't available in Northern Ireland. The twelve letters cover those, in order.
We live in Scotland or Northern Ireland.
All three editions are included, so you can't buy the wrong one. The Scottish edition follows Scottish rules: 8 days to register, Confirmation and the C1 form. The Northern Ireland edition follows the rules there, where Tell Us Once isn't available.
Isn't it a bit morbid?
It's the opposite. It's organising, the same as keeping your insurance papers in order, and it's far kinder to do it now, calmly, than to leave it to someone in shock.
Can I buy it for Mum or Dad?
Yes. Buy it, share the file and fill in the first sheet together. "I'm doing mine, will you do yours with me?" is the easiest way to bring it up.
What if I buy it and never fill it in?
Start with the three sheets that matter most: they take about twenty minutes. Then run The Test on a Sunday. And if it isn't right for you, the 60-day guarantee means you get your money back.
Is it legal advice?
No. It isn't a will, and it isn't legal or tax advice. It's the practical plan for everything a will doesn't cover, and it tells your family when a solicitor is worth calling.
One last thing for the people you love
You've looked after them all your life. Make the last thing you leave them easy to follow.
One afternoon now spares them months of searching later. Start with three sheets tonight, test it on a Sunday, and leave it where they'll look.
Regular price €87,95 Sale price €43,95, once · 60-day money-back guarantee · every UK edition included
Left Tidy is not a will, and it is not legal or tax advice. It is a practical plan and organiser that helps your family find what they need and know where to start. Rules and fees can change, so check the current position with the official guidance for your part of the UK or with a solicitor.
Families who've used it, in their own words.
Having everything organised in one place has given me such peace of mind. I know my family will have the information they need when the time comes.
I never realised how complicated managing an estate could be. This guide makes everything much easier to understand and follow.
We sat down as a family and completed everything together. It was much easier than expected, and now we all know where important documents are kept.
What I appreciate most is the clear structure. Instead of searching through endless paperwork, everything is organised and easy to find.
I wanted to make things easier for my children in the future. This gave me the opportunity to organise everything properly and feel reassured.
A very practical and straightforward resource. It helped me understand what needs to be done and where to start.
I had been putting this off for years. Completing the documents was surprisingly simple, and I now feel much more prepared.
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