Source: Kick ICT At Kick ICT (formerly Castle Computer Services), we have been delivering business solutions, network infrastructure and IT support to organisations for almost 40 years. As a ‘cloud-first’ mobile business, we can operate all our systems remotely which has been important to ensure the continuity of our services to customers. One example of…
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Finance Management
Testing Coastal’s payment plan
Coastal’s head of community housing had an idea to help our community housing officers (CHOs) with arrears and came to me to help find that solution. We had some demos of current systems and we visited a few other HAs, yet we didn’t find anything that suited how we wanted to work. We sat down…
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Standardised IT integration for M&A success
Political and economic uncertainty has contributed to the UK social housing sector undergoing significant consolidation during recent years. A large number of mergers and acquisitions have taken place in an attempt to save costs and create efficiencies. A great deal has already been written about the role that IT plays in housing M&As. The main…
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Denbighshire Council gets RentSense for universal credit
Denbighshire Housing is about to implement Mobysoft’s RentSense package with a view to arranging early interventions to support tenants moving to universal credit and reducing arrears. The housing provider had been struggling to correctly identify which households needed support about their rent, with income officers often working on cases that didn’t actually require any action….
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Allpay launches real-time analytics
Payment specialist Allpay has launched Event Driven Payment Analytics to provide real-time updates on card acceptance and payment transactions. Teejay Townsend, card acceptance product manager, Allpay, said, “We are now offering this new feature to update organisations instantly on payments made over the internet, via our mobile app or over the phone. “Previously, a payment…
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Sandwell Council selects RentSense to mitigate welfare reform & arrears
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council has implemented Mobysoft’s RentSense software to help support its tenants’ transition to universal credit and mitigate growing arrears. Manjit Rai, business manager of income and money advice services, Sandwell Council, said, “We decided to implement RentSense because we’re seeing an increase in rent arrears due to the impact of welfare reform,…
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