Compliance task management software to assign, track and prove every SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR and PCI DSS task

Compliance task management software assigns recurring compliance tasks to named owners, reminds them before due dates, and records each completion with the date, the person and the evidence. It differs from a general project tool because it knows which framework each task serves and keeps a per-task history an auditor can sample. Complies does this from $47 a month billed yearly.

A compliance task is a unit of work you must perform to keep a control or obligation in place, such as a quarterly user access review, an annual policy approval, a vendor security review or a backup restore test. Each one needs an owner, a frequency, a due date and proof it was done, because the proof is what an auditor tests.

Yes, for a small program. They handle owners, dates and recurring items well and cost from about $9 a seat a month. What you give up is framework content, cadence logic tied to the actual completion date, and a single history per task. You build and maintain those yourself, which gets harder once an auditor samples a full year.

List every recurring task from your frameworks and contracts, give each one a named owner, a frequency and a first due date, and decide where proof of completion is stored. Then review overdue items weekly. Software that seeds tasks from the framework, sends reminders and stores the evidence link on each completion removes most of that manual work.

Look for named owners with reassignment, recurring cadences, reminders before and after the due date, a completion record with date, person and evidence, tasks seeded from your frameworks, custom tasks for your own obligations, roles for who can edit and who can only view, and an export your auditor can read. Published pricing saves a sales cycle.

Complies publishes $47, $119 and $299 a month billed yearly. General work tools such as monday.com and Smartsheet start around $9 a seat a month. VComply lists Pro GRC Suite modules from $1,000 a month, and automation platforms such as Vanta and Drata are quote-only, with Vendr medians near $20,000 to $25,000 a year.

In Complies you reassign the task to a new owner in one step, and the completion history stays with the task. If the old owner is deactivated before anyone reassigns it, reminders go to the workspace admin, so the due date is never silently orphaned. That is the most common failure in small compliance programs.

Yes. Complies emails each task owner one week and one day before the due date, adds a two-week warning once a task has completed its first cycle, and sends one notice when it goes overdue. Every workspace calendar also publishes as a private iCalendar feed, so due dates appear in Google Calendar or Outlook next to everything else.

Frameworks rarely set exact intervals, so you choose one you can defend. Common defaults are quarterly user access reviews, annual policy review, an annual risk assessment and yearly security training. PCI DSS 4.0.1 requirement 7.2.4 is an exception with a hard minimum of every six months for access reviews. Complies supports monthly through every two years.

Compliance tracking is the register: every obligation, its status and who owns it. Task management is the execution layer on top: reminding owners, recording each completion and scheduling the next cycle. In Complies they are the same record, so the register never drifts from the work that was actually done.