Quarterly Summaries: Property Dropdown — v1.0.15 Release
Quarterly Summaries: Property Dropdown (v1.0.15)
Released in v1.0.15. This post covers a targeted usability improvement to the Quarterly Summaries page — the core workflow for UK landlords submitting quarterly updates to HMRC under Making Tax Digital.
The Problem
Preparing a quarterly tax summary should be the smoothest part of your MTD workflow. Until v1.0.15, it wasn't.
The Quarterly Summaries page greeted landlords with an empty text box and the instruction to "Paste a property ID". Alongside it, a note: "Property management is in a separate section."
In practice, this meant:
- Arriving at the Quarterly Summaries page ready to submit
- Realising you need a UUID you've never seen before
- Navigating away to find it somewhere in the properties section
- Copying the raw UUID string
- Coming back and pasting it in
For a workflow that landlords will repeat four times a year, this was an unacceptable friction point — especially for landlords managing a single property who simply want to get their submission done.
The Fix
Starting in v1.0.15, the text input is gone. In its place is a property dropdown populated automatically from your account's property list.
What you'll see now
- A
<select>control listing all properties on your account - Each option is labelled with the property's full address and postcode — no UUIDs in sight
- If you only have one property registered, it is automatically selected when the page loads — you can proceed straight to your summary without touching the selector at all
How it works
The dropdown is powered by the same trpc.properties.list query used throughout the dashboard. When the Quarterly Summaries page loads, it fetches your property list in the background and renders the selector. There is no additional setup, no copy-pasting, and no need to leave the page.
Who Is Affected
Every landlord using the Quarterly Summaries feature will see this change immediately after the v1.0.15 update. No action is required on your part — your properties will appear in the dropdown automatically, sourced from the records already in your account (including any imported via the AgentOS integration).
Why This Matters for MTD Compliance
Making Tax Digital for Income Tax requires landlords to submit four quarterly updates per tax year for each property rental business. Removing unnecessary friction from this page directly reduces the chance of a missed or delayed submission. A submission that takes seconds is one that actually gets done on time.
Technical Detail
| Before (≤ v1.0.14) | After (v1.0.15+) | |
|---|---|---|
| Input type | <input type="text"> | <select> dropdown |
| Data source | Manual user input | trpc.properties.list |
| Label shown | Raw UUID string | Address + postcode |
| Single property | Still required manual paste | Auto-selected |
| Navigation required | Yes (to find UUID) | No |
Affected file: src/app/dashboard/quarterly/quarterly-summary-dashboard.tsx