Wokingham Borough Council has reduced its arrears by £156,000 since deploying Mobysoft’s RentSense. The software’s ability to provide accurate workloads for the council’s rent officers has enabled earlier interventions and given the team more time to support tenants. The implementation of RentSense is part of the council’s target to reduce its arrears to below two…
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Finance Management
Finance in the cloud
The shift to home working, which began as a temporary measure during the height of the pandemic, has now been permanently adopted by many employers, alongside a hybrid home/office working balance now expected from a large percentage of employees. More than three-quarters (77 per cent) of respondents to the Advanced Annual Trends Survey said that…
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Is SaaS the ultimate win/win solution for housing?
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) could be a silver bullet for housing providers concerned about how to make digital transformation a reality. SaaS can pose a helpful solution by creating a leading IT service without the need for huge back-end modernisation or large IT budgets. For example, many housing providers are opting for chatbots as a way of…
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Housing Insight’s RentsConnect
Housing Insight has launched RentsConnect to revolutionise the way in which housing providers interact with their tenants. Part of the software provider’s PanConnect suite of products, RentsConnect replaces static weekly reports and temporary case notes with a system that lets staff communicate with housing management systems and other databases in real time and without duplication…
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Paperless tenancies
How feasible and useful is it for housing providers to move to a 100% digital tenant lifecycle, from initial application and onboarding to tenant engagement, finance and payments, and maintenance and support, through to renewals, voids and re-lettings? Housing Technology asked digital experts from Civica, Commonplace, Insite Energy, M-Files and NEC Software Solutions for their…
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Predicting arrears with AI
Social housing tenants face rent increases in April 2022 of around £200 per household per year, alongside rising energy and food costs. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 46 per cent of social housing tenants are living in poverty, equating to just under five million people across the UK. These increases in rent and costs…
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