Component accounting
Each home is held as its parts, each part with its own cost, useful life and depreciation, matched to your housing system.
- Roofs and kitchens
- Automatic depreciation
- Asset register
ActiveF
The finance system written for housing associations, by a family firm that has made housing software for 35 years.
Book a demoEvery pennyaccounted for
35+years writing software for social housing
Made forhousing
Generic accounts packages leave the housing parts to spreadsheets. ActiveF starts with them.
Read the modulesCIS and RCT
Deductions worked out on labour only at each subcontractor's verified rate, with submissions ready each month.
- Verification
- Monthly returns
- Reverse charge
HMS integration
Open APIs to ActiveH or any housing or asset system, so repairs, rents and property records reach the ledger without rekeying.
- ActiveH
- Any HMS
- Asset systems
Tax and compliance
Making Tax Digital, PAYE and RTI, with an audit trail behind every tax computation.
- MTD
- PAYE and RTI
- Audit trail
Board-ready reporting
Management and statutory accounts from standard reports, dashboards for every user, BI when you need it.
- Statutory accounts
- Dashboards
- BI warehouses
The modules
Purchasing, invoice to payment
- Supplier portal
- Invoice recognition
- CIS validation
- Approvals and alerts
- BACS runs
Suppliers send and track their own invoices; ActiveF reads them, checks CIS and pays on your BACS run.
Ask about PurchasingSales ledger, order to cash
- Customer portal, B2B and B2C
- Direct Debits
- Debt management
- Payment platforms
Customers pay and query online, Direct Debits run themselves, and arrears are chased by the system first.
Ask about Sales ledgerFixed assets, home by home
- Component accounting
- Depreciation and amortisation
- Legislative compliance
- Asset system APIs
A new kitchen joins the home's components with its own life, and depreciates from the day it goes in.
Ask about Fixed assetsReporting, to the board
- Dashboards and tasks
- Quick queries
- Statutory accounts
- BI integration
Everyone sees their own tasks and numbers; the board pack and the year-end accounts come from the same ledger.
Ask about ReportingThe whole ledger
- Purchasing
- Purchase-to-pay end to end, supplier lifecycle and portal, automated tasks and alerts, invoice identification, CIS validation, BACS and banking.
- Sales ledger
- Order-to-cash end to end, customer lifecycle and portal, Direct Debits, debt management automation, payment platform partnerships.
- Fixed assets
- Component accounting, automatic depreciation and amortisation, legislative compliance, APIs to asset management systems.
- General ledger
- Automatic posting to the income statement and balance sheet, intercompany automation for groups.
- Reporting and analysis
- User dashboards and tasks, quick querying, management and statutory reports, report building for named users, optional BI.
- Treasury
- Cash book management, financial instruments, asset valuations.
- Tax and MTD
- Making Tax Digital, CIS, PAYE and RTI, a full audit trail for tax computations.
- Forecasting and budgeting
- Business forecasts and budgets, project ledger forecasting, APIs to your management systems.
- HMS integration
- APIs for any housing or asset management system, designed around how finance and operations meet.
Choose a package
Pick one of the three, add what you need, and send us the result. We'll price it for your organisation.
A family firm in Cheshire
- Writing software since
- 1981
- Based in
- Northwich, Cheshire
- Owned by
- The McLaughlin family
MIS began supplying software to the emergency services and housing providers in 1981. In June 2019 twin brothers Andy and Chris McLaughlin bought the group, and ActiveF is the newest of its businesses: a finance system shaped by decades of watching how housing associations actually run.
Being a family firm means decisions get made quickly, and the people who answer the phone have been doing this a long time.
The group
Companies
- MIS Active FinanceActiveF
- MIS-AMSActiveH housing system
- MIS-ESAmbulance control
- Incline-ITAWS for housing
Standards
- ISO 9001Quality
- ISO 27001Information security
- ISO 14001Environment
- Local Living WageWest Cheshire
A letter from our managing director
We listen to our customers and their challenges, and turn what we hear into ideas we develop together.
We love a proof of concept, to make sure we're going in the right direction. Innovation is at the heart of what we do at MIS, as the breadth of our new services and software, and our progress towards cloud technologies, shows.
ActiveF follows ActiveC, our omni-channel capability, Documagix, our document classification and EDRM solution, and Reval, our valuation capability.
With ActiveF we are building a financial management system for the growing demands of our sectors, where customers want simplicity, automation and more of what their systems can do.
Andy McLaughlinManaging Director, MIS Active Finance
Contact
Ask us for a demo, a price, or how ActiveF would sit beside the housing system you run today.
Where to start?
[email protected] 0845 330 2325Charnwood House, Gadbrook Business Centre, Northwich CW9 7UG
Visiting us
By car
Use CW9 7UG for Charnwood House on Gadbrook Park.
By train
Northwich station, five minutes by taxi. Crewe, on the main line, thirty.
By air
Manchester, twenty minutes: M56 west to junction 7, then the A556.