Capita has integrated Barclays’ Pingit mobile payment app into its payment solutions, and is now offering its existing housing payments customers the option to receive payments from their tenants via the app. Tenants will be able to pay their rent using a smartphone to scan a QR code on their rent statement and make a…
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Habinteg Housing leads European IT project
Tenants at Habinteg Housing Association are in the middle of a ten-month trial of new household technologies as part of the pan-European I-stay@home programme (Housing Technology, November 2012) alongside partners and tenants from France, Germany, Holland and Belgium. Habinteg is rolling out the trials in the UK with 22 Habinteg tenants in London taking part….
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Getting involved with Rental Exchange
I have been getting several telephone calls a week recently asking me about Big Issue Invest’s Rental Exchange scheme. The calls are normally from staff working in the welfare reform, money advice or the arrears collection teams, but because I have not had many calls from IT managers, we thought it would be a good…
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CarelineUK leads £1m social isolation project
The telecare provider CarelineUK has received a grant of £320,000 from the UK innovation foundation Nesta and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to help elderly and vulnerable people in the South West connect with their local communities and services. CarelineUK has contributed an equal amount to the ‘Community Channel, South West’ project, with the balance…
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Universal credit and satellite navigation
Universal credit and satellite navigation: you might wonder what the two have in common. Generally speaking, a sat-nav gets you to where you want to go and it also gives you an estimate of your arrival time. If you stop for a coffee or get stuck in traffic, the clever little gizmo recalculates the time…
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Getting your house in order
Many housing providers are already using e-procurement technology to streamline their financial and purchasing processes to give a clear view of cash flow and organisational spend, while both purchase-to-pay (P2P) and source-to-pay (S2P) have become more accessible to housing providers as cloud computing has helped improve accessibility and lowered costs. With the introduction of universal…
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