RentSense Module

Automated Arrears Prevention (AAP)

Identify which customers are most likely to fall into arrears and help prevent your current tenant arrears volumes rising with automated prevention capabilities.

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Automated predictive analytics

Our Automated Arrears Prevention (AAP) module, part of our income management solution, RentSense, helps social housing providers predict which customers are likely to fall into arrears in the next three months and automates the necessary contact to enable early intervention arrears prevention where necessary.

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Efficient caseload management

Automated Arrears Prevention (AAP) is proven to significantly reduce the future workloads of your income officers by preventing tenants from falling into arrears.

Typically, one in five tenants that receive automated messages via AAP make an immediate payment, thus helping to reduce the number of tenants that fall into arrears.

Automated Arrears Prevention helps prevent tenants from falling into debt and avoids the anxiety of arrears, whilst also reducing future income officer caseloads within RentSense.

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Reduce arrears volumes

Automated Arrears Prevention AP uses Supervised Machine Learning; a type of Artificial Intelligence. Its intelligence is based on the largest rent data set in the sector (over 2 million tenancies).

By identifying tenants’ payment patterns (all via unobtrusive data) and then matching similarities with tenancies across the UK, potential payment failures are flagged more easily, reducing the need for often repetitive manual intervention Patterns in the data can also be identified faster handled via configurable automated actions.

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Award-winning AI Tech

Automated Arrears Prevention was recently awarded ‘AI Project of The Year’ at the Real IT Awards (RITA) 2024 for its innovative tech-based approach within social housing.

To date our platform has delivered remarkable results for Warwick District Council, significantly reducing tenant arrears and improving overall financial stability.

What our customers say

Without a doubt, it (Automation) has helped us build relationships and personalise the service. It gets officers away from process and enables them to spend the right time with each customer.
Sarah Aldred
First Choice Homes Oldham

The automation helps automate the cases that need a text or letter in the background, without officer intervention. This has helped the team to have over 55,000 phone calls with tenants over the last 12 months, and these (calls) have been focused on building stronger relationships with our customers.
Sarah Aldred
First Choice Homes Oldham

The Intelligent Automation reduces their caseload so they can focus their time on the more complex cases. The software helps us to reduce the number of people in debt and those with arrears – and offer help much earlier.
Lizzie Aston-Long
Sovereign

In the last financial year (ending March 2022) our target for gross arrears was 4.5%. However, we achieved 2.59% (£7.4M debt against a debit of £283M, exceeding target by £5.4M). Without RentSense and automation we would have not been able to achieve these results.”
Lizzie Aston-Long
Sovereign

When we invested it was more about increasing capacity within the team. Intelligent Automation has increased capacity and removed between 20%-30% of an officers’ caseload.
Lizzie Aston-Long
Sovereign

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