Notice Board in Turia: Firm-Wide Announcements That Don't Get Lost

This article was last reviewed in July 2026 based on Turia's publicly available product information.

The announcement that three people never saw

Every CA firm has some version of this story. A partner learns about a change to a filing deadline or an internal policy update, and posts it to the office WhatsApp group. The article clerk who was on client-site that day doesn't see it until the group has moved on to five other topics. A new hire, added to the group two weeks late, has no way to find it at all. By the time the miss surfaces, it's usually because someone missed a deadline or repeated a mistake the announcement was meant to prevent.

This is the specific problem the Notice Board is built to solve. Notice Board is a shared board for firm announcements, recognition, birthdays, and updates — a single, permanent, firm-wide place that everyone can see, regardless of which WhatsApp groups they're in or when they joined. It's a standard part of Turia's CA office management software, available on both the Starter and Growth plans, and it exists precisely because chat threads are good for conversation but bad for record-keeping.

What a notice board actually is, and why chat isn't enough

A chat group is optimised for back-and-forth conversation happening right now. A notice board is optimised for the opposite: something posted once that stays findable weeks or months later. Those are different jobs, and trying to make a WhatsApp group do both is where firms run into trouble. Turia keeps them separate on purpose — announcements go on the Notice Board, day-to-day discussion happens in Turia's Chat, and both are visible from the same dashboard your team already checks for tasks.

Methodology: This article reflects Turia's publicly documented office management and Chat features as of July 2026. Product screens and feature names can change over time; verify current functionality directly with Turia or during a trial before making assumptions about your specific workflow.

What the Notice Board is used for in a CA firm

In practice, firms tend to use a notice board for a handful of recurring announcement types rather than every message they send:

Announcement type	Why it belongs on a notice board, not chat
Regulatory and deadline changes (GST, TDS, ROC, ITR)	Needs to stay visible until the deadline passes, not scroll out of view in a day
Internal policy updates	Staff need to be able to look it up later, not just see it once when it's posted
Office logistics (holidays, working hours, systems downtime)	Affects everyone, including people who weren't online when it was first posted
Team recognition and milestones	Works better as a visible, standing post than a message that gets buried by the next client query
Birthdays	A standing, shared spot for the whole firm to see, rather than a one-off message a few people happen to catch
New hire onboarding notices	New staff can catch up on what they missed instead of starting with zero context

The common thread is permanence. A notice board earns its place in a firm's toolkit specifically for the announcements that need to still be readable a month from now, not the ones that are only relevant for the next ten minutes.

A realistic use case: rolling out a new leave policy

Take a fairly ordinary scenario: a mid-sized firm updates its leave approval process partway through the year. Under the old approach, the partner would announce it once in the office WhatsApp group, and it would be up to each team member to remember the change, or to ask a colleague when they forgot. Anyone on leave that week, or hired the following month, would simply never encounter the update unless someone happened to mention it.

Posted to a notice board instead, the update stays put. A staff member unsure about the new process can open the notice board and re-read it rather than interrupting a manager to ask. New hires reviewing onboarding material later can see the same notice their colleagues saw on day one. And because Turia's task management lives in the same dashboard, a policy notice sits alongside the actual work it affects, instead of in a separate app the team has to remember to check.

How the Notice Board fits with Turia's other modules

A notice board that exists in isolation from everything else your team does is only marginally better than a pinned WhatsApp message. Turia's is built to sit alongside the tools your firm already uses to get work done:

• Chat: Announcements and conversation are kept deliberately separate. Notice Board is for posting an update once, in a persistent place; Chat is for the back-and-forth discussion that follows. Note that Chat is available on Turia's Growth plan, while the Notice Board itself is included on both Starter and Growth.
• Task management: When a notice implies action — a new compliance requirement, a revised internal process — it can be followed up with an assigned, deadline-tracked task, so the announcement doesn't stop at "informed" and actually becomes tracked work.
• Compliance management: When your firm posts an internal announcement about a regulatory or deadline change, it pairs naturally with Turia's compliance calendar, which maps recurring GST, TDS, and ROC deadlines automatically. This is separate from Turia's Notice Management add-on, a paid tool for fetching and tracking actual government notices (GST, TDS, Income Tax) sent to your clients — the Notice Board is about your firm's own internal announcements, not government correspondence.
• Email and WhatsApp automation: For client-facing communication rather than internal announcements, Turia's email and WhatsApp tools handle the same "turn a message into tracked work" idea, just aimed outward instead of at your own team.

Setting it up in your firm

In onboarding conversations with CA firms moving off WhatsApp-only communication, the pattern that tends to work best is fairly simple: reserve the notice board for anything that needs to outlive a single day's conversation — regulatory changes, policy updates, office logistics — and let chat handle the back-and-forth. Firms that try to post everything to the board end up recreating the same noise problem they were trying to escape; firms that use chat for everything end up back where they started, with important updates buried in scroll history. The split matters more than either tool on its own.

Turia's onboarding team walks new firms through setting this up as part of the standard implementation, included at no extra cost on every plan, so it isn't something your team has to figure out unassisted.

Final thoughts

Most CA firms don't lose track of announcements because nobody cares enough to read them — they lose track because the tool carrying the message wasn't built to hold onto it. A notice board isn't a dramatic feature, but it closes a specific, everyday gap: the difference between something being said once and something being genuinely knowable by everyone on the team, including the people who weren't in the room, or the WhatsApp group, when it was first posted.

See how the Notice Board sits alongside Chat and task management on the full features page, check pricing, or read what other CA firms say about switching to Turia. When you're ready, start a 7-day free trial — no credit card required — or get in touch if you'd like a walkthrough first.