Reduce admin costs and debt owed
Reduce manual tasks and data security risks caused by spreadsheets. Automate housing benefits and other payment received.
TA placements under control
Allocate and monitor TA placements using our real-time dashboard with alerts, widgets and urgent actions.
Enhanced communications
Benefit from a suite of letter templates which can be customised and published via the self-service portal to improve communications and transparency.
Can you effectively manage temporary accommodation placements and reduce rent arrears before they grow?
Do you spend too much time using spreadsheets to record temporary accommodation (TA) placements and are unable to keep track of the associated charges and payments?
MRI Accommodation Rent Accounting (ARA) can help you solve this problem. It is a comprehensive temporary accommodation rent accounting solution to support you in effectively managing TA placements and gives you a full picture of TA spend. With ARA, housing teams can monitor expenditure, customer movements, and their financial obligations, whilst reducing administration costs and debt owed. The ARA self-service portal provides lessees with a snapshot view of their financial obligations.
The complete temporary accommodation rent accounting solution for local authorities
Reduce arrear risks
Designed to keep track of expenditures, ARA supports tracking customers’ movements and their financial obligations, and provides transparency to officers and lessees alike.
Oversee the full picture
Imports payments from revenue and benefit systems and accounting systems, and output data to accounting systems to help reconcile accounts.
Latest technology
Mobile friendly, cloud-hosted, highly secure supports SSO/MFA. The intuitive self-service portal provides easy and flexible rent account management.
An integrated tool with comprehensive functionality for temporary accommodation rent account management
Self-service portal
Shows lessees their financial obligations, for rent and other sundry charges. Customers can generate a barcode, which they can use to make payments (either via PayPoint or AllPay).
Full case management
Full case management including an Electric Document Management Retrieval System (EDMRS). A back-office dashboard provides real-time updates with alerts, widgets and urgent actions for effective account management.
Data flow and access
Imports payments from revenue and benefit systems and accounting systems easily. Customer & accommodation database access as standard. Data output to accounting systems to help reconcile accounts.
Take better care of the people you serve with customer-first technology
The complete solution set to support local authorities and registered housing providers to better manage their frontline services
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Allocations
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Homelessness Reduction
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Accommodation Rent Accounting
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Rough Sleeper Pathways
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Alert
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Safer Communities
Allocations
Allocations
A solution to manage your housing register online, advertise the right homes to those in need, and allocate properties in accordance with your allocation policies.
Homelessness Reduction
Homelessness Reduction
A solution to help you manage and monitor your single homeless pathways, prepare and action your Severe Weather Emergency Protocol and record Counts and Estimates.
Accommodation Rent Accounting
Accommodation Rent Accounting
A solution to reduce temporary accommodation debt through monitoring, reporting and communication of financial obligations.
Rough Sleeper Pathways
Rough Sleeper Pathways
A solution to help you manage and monitor your single homeless pathways, prepare and action your Severe Weather Emergency Protocol and record Counts and Estimates.
Alert
Alert
A tool to help you meet your Duty to Refer requirements. Alert securely and from specified public bodies and agencies to local authorities.
Safer Communities
Safer Communities
A solution to report, monitor and track anti-social behaviour, domestic abuse and other tenancy breaches.
Key stats
45+
years in Social Housing
280+
local authorities supported by MRI technology
230000
Temporary Accommodation placements made
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