Having used Orchard software for over a decade, Watford Community Housing is now also using Orchard Income Analytics to manage its tenants’ rent arrears. WCH’s previous BI platform for managing arrears didn’t integrate with Orchard Housing so that income officers had to constantly switch between different applications to get the data they needed to manage…
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Finance Management
Rotherham Council collects £1m arrears with RentSense
Faced with a rental income collection rate of 96 per cent, Rotherham Council is now using Mobysoft’s RentSense software to prioritise its arrears case. Paul Elliot, business and commercial manager, Rotherham Council, said, “Before choosing RentSense, we completed a thorough review of our income collection processes. We benchmarked our performance against 72 other organisations and…
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Technology procurement – Cheaper isn’t always better
Housing Technology asked a panel of finance and procurement experts from Aareon, Ark Consultancy, CJC Procurement and Itica for their views around the idea that ‘cheaper isn’t always best’ when it comes to IT procurement and the subtleties of balancing quality versus price. The risks of low cost Commenting on the key risk factors associated…
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Thirteen selects Trace Solutions for rent and service charges
Thirteen Group has signed a three-year contract with Trace Solutions for its BlueBox software to automate the service charges and rent calculations for its 34,000 properties. Rob Thompson, senior finance manager for income services, Thirteen Group, said, “BlueBox will massively improve the way we set our rents and service charges. The team are very excited…
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Housing Technology & Castleton Technology’s exclusive webinar on arrears forecasting
With Universal Credit changing the way that many tenants pay their rent, typically resulting in substantial increases in rent arrears, how can you help your tenants? Housing Technology, in conjunction with Castleton Technology, is hosting a webinar on ‘Rent Arrears Forecasting – Effective Management, Forecasting and Recovery’ at 2pm on 09 October 2019. This exclusive…
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One size can never fit all
Planned maintenance and asset management systems have been used by many of the largest housing providers in the UK for decades, but smaller providers have often been excluded due to the high cost of those systems. Suited to your needs Although cost has been the main barrier in the past for these smaller housing providers,…
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