Description: What Due, Late, In-progress, Under Revision, Completed, and Missed mean, and why an inspection moves between them.

ComplianceGo groups a site's inspections by where they are in their lifecycle. Knowing what each group means tells you what you can still act on and what's already closed.

This article explains every status you'll see on a site, on the calendar, and in reports.

Starting an inspection usually doesn't move it. A scheduled inspection stays under Due or Late after someone starts it — only its card changes: Continue Inspection if the inspection is yours, View Inspection if somebody else started it.

A half-finished inspection is therefore usually under Due or Late, and under In-progress only when it never notified.

These two are the same underlying inspection — the only difference is the date.

An inspection is Due while today is on or before the last day of its window. Once that date passes, the same inspection shows as Late.

Being Late doesn't lock anything. Your inspector can still open a late inspection and complete it.

An inspection becomes Missed when a new occurrence of the same recurring inspection opens while the previous one still hasn't been started. At that moment the older one is normally closed out.

A missed inspection isn't deleted — it stays on the record and appears in the Missed Inspections Report and on the Inspections Calendar. It does not stay on the site's inspection list.

When someone reopens a completed inspection to make a change, it moves to Under Revision rather than back to In-progress.

The version of the form that was used originally stays attached. That means the report regenerates from the correct version even if the form has been edited since — you won't get a report that mixes an old inspection with a new form layout.

Recurring inspections aren't created in advance. ComplianceGo runs a scheduling job every morning that checks each scheduled inspection and creates the next occurrence on the day its window opens.

So a Due inspection that appeared overnight wasn't added by a colleague — the schedule produced it. A notification goes out at the same moment, which is why the email often arrives before anyone has looked at the site.

The Inspections Calendar uses a color for each status. Click Legend on the calendar to see it in the app.

Q: Where do I see a missed inspection?

A: On the Inspections Calendar and in the Missed Inspections Report. It does not stay on the site page — once an occurrence is closed out it drops off the site's inspection list entirely, so there is nothing there to open. Work the current occurrence instead.

Q: The calendar says Scheduled but the site page says Upcoming. Are those different?

A: No — they're two labels for the same state: scheduled, with the window not yet open.

Q: A half-finished inspection isn't under Due or Late.

A: Look under In-progress. An inspection that never sent a due notification — typically a Non-Recurring assignment — groups there rather than staying where it was.

Q: An inspection appeared overnight that nobody created.

A: The overnight scheduling job created the next occurrence when its window opened. This is how recurring inspections work.

Q: My inspector can't start a Due inspection.

A: Their role on that site doesn't allow inspecting — Viewer is the only site role that can't. Add Inspector or Backup Inspector on the site's People & Roles page, which also lets them be assigned the work.

Q: I need to change a completed inspection.

A: Completed inspections are read-only. Reopen it and it moves to Under Revision, keeping its original form version.

Q: Can a Late inspection still be completed?

A: Yes. Late doesn't lock anything. It can be started and completed right up until the next occurrence opens, at which point it becomes Missed — unless your organization allows late inspections, in which case it stays available after that too.