Rocktime’s verso™ software, now widely accepted as the industry standard in public sector licensing automation, is delighted to announce that a further four councils have committed to using the verso™ platform to transform their HMO licensing process. Chiltern & South Bucks Council, Telford and Wrekin Council, Wirral Council and City of York Council will all soon be reaping the benefits of Rocktime's automated HMO application management solution..
Powering 85,000 licence application and collecting £7M+ in licence revenue, verso™ is trusted by 31 licensing schemes throughout the UK. Authorities as diverse as Ealing, Northampton, Redbridge, Hammersmith & Fulham and Haringey all benefit from Rocktime’s flexible, multi-faceted software system that provides automation and data validation across the licensing application process. Freeing up officers time to focus on prevention and enforcement, whilst reducing avoidable contact from the public with busy Environmental Health teams..
The motivation towards automation of such services lies partly in announced extension to mandatory HMO licensing legislation by the Department for Communities and local government in October 2018, in which a substantial uplift in the number of licensable properties is expected, alongside the overwhelming desire to move to a citizen self-service model that enable councils to provide better service to the public whilst reducing administration costs to protect key front line services..
verso™ provides a flexible, cost effective platform that can be rapidly deployed and used as a standalone system or via proven integration with existing legacy software providers such Civica, Northgate and Idox. verso™ is designed from the ground up to quickly sort and process applications from multiple schemes and will ensure application data is complete, validated and the appropriate charges are applied during check-out. verso’s Intelligent built-in business logic will deal with representations, licence conditions, licence documentation and offers a bespoke multi-user workflow system.
I'm delighted to be working with our new clients to deliver verso™ to their licensing function. Once again we have been able to demonstrate how verso™ can trump legacy software by honing functionality and providing class-leading assisted rollout and post-launch support.