Studies have shown that up to two hours per day can be saved by eliminating paperwork and streamlining workflows, along with cutting out unproductive travel. It’s therefore no surprise that many housing providers are trying to automate the traditionally spreadsheet-intensive task of service charge processing. Typically, monitoring payment cycles, updating tenants and collecting charges are…
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HTG orchestrates Clarion Housing migration
HTG has been supporting Clarion Housing’s massive ongoing migration of around 4,200 users to its new technology infrastructure. Following a merger between Circle Housing and Affinity Sutton, Clarion Housing was formed, resulting in the UK largest housing provider with around 125,000 homes. Clarion’s objective is now to build 50,000 homes over the next decade. Clarion…
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Castleton’s Splink instant payment platform
Castleton Technology has partnered with payment specialists Splink to deliver an instant payment platform for tenants to pay their rent, chargeable repairs and set up payment plans. Castleton Collect is a simple, frictionless and instant payment management solution which removes much of the hassle associated with making one-off and recurring payments and can be integrated…
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Safepoint launches lone worker app
East Anglian technology start-up Safepoint has just launched a new web and mobile platform to safeguard lone workers and help businesses ensure the safety of their staff. Safepoint began in November 2017 after it won first prize at Norwich’s ‘Sync the City’ hackathon. Safepoint was inspired by the story of Robert Geach, an engineer at…
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Women in housing IT
Housing Technology interviewed a group of women involved in housing IT from Adra, Civica, Community Housing, Northgate Public Services, PIMSS Data Systems, Prodo Digital and Rochdale Boroughwide Housing about their various roles in IT, any challenges they’ve faced as women in a traditionally fairly male-dominated sector and how more women can be encouraged to consider…
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South Yorkshire Housing goes Microsoft-first with TSG
Award-winning Microsoft partner TSG is supporting South Yorkshire Housing in its plans to go ‘Microsoft first’ throughout its operations. Taking a Microsoft-first approach, the housing provider is using numerous modules from the Microsoft Office 365 suite including OneDrive, Teams, Power Apps, Power Automate (previously Flow) and a new enterprise-wide SharePoint EDRM platform. Office 365 and…
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