Why Choose Affinity?

There are already scores of housing associations across the Irish Republic using our software. Here are some of the reasons why they choose to work with us...

AFFINITY IS THE ONLY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION THAT ACTIVELY SUPPORTS YOU IN YOUR JOURNEY TO REGULATORY COMPLIANCE IN THE IRISH AHB SECTOR

All associations have a duty to make sure that they tick all of the right boxes for the regulator, but if you’re using software that’s not industry-specific then it’s often impossible.

Affinity really is the only platform that enables you to ensure that you’re legally and regulatory compliant, and the associations that work with us love the fact that when regulations change, Affinity changes with them, keeping you firmly on the right side of the law at all times.

AFFINITY SAVES YOUR WHOLE TEAM TIME

Time is the one thing that all housing associations wish they had more of, and by implementing Affinity in your organisation you can make that wish come true.

Property maintenance is one area that traditionally eats a lot of time, but Affinity makes it easy. Imagine a streamlined process where you could easily get quotes from multiple suppliers and track your costs – all in the same place. Your metrics and KPIs available to you at the click of a button so you can see what’s happened and what’s happening.

Rent assessments is another time-gobbler. One association we work with was able to do 40 rent assessments each week using their ‘old’ solution, with Affinity now in place they’re easily able to do 60 assessments PER DAY.

Residential Tenancy Board Registrations is another example of an Affinity time-saver, our system can do all of your registrations at the push of a button, generating you a simple export that you can present to the RTB.

AFFINITY SIMPLIFIES TENANT MANAGEMENT

Our platform gives you the tools to easily manage every aspect of your tenant relationships, from keeping on top of rent arrears with our one-click arrears analysis reports through to streamlining your tenant communication, including sending statements and bulk SMS messages to all tenants. All quickly and simply.

Affinity has a built-in mechanism to track both complaints from tenants AND complaints about tenants, and it’ll really help you to control and minimise voids much more effectively - which is exactly what the regulator wants you to do.

CREATE REPORTS AT THE CLICK OF A BUTTON

Because we’ve designed Affinity specifically for the Irish social housing sector, we know exactly what data you’re going to be working with, how you’re going to want to look at that data and which reports you’re going to want to run.

That’s why our customers find Affinity so simple
to use – it’s doing what it was meant to do.

Once you’re using Affinity you’ll be able to generate ‘one-click’ reports for your board, or for the regulator, just by clicking on a piece of data. No more time wasted cross-referencing across 20 different spreadsheets.

AFFINITY SECURES AND CONTROLS YOUR DATA

Every housing association holds a huge amount of data, it’s part of the job, but at a time when people are more and more concerned about who’s storing their data and who’s got access to it, it’s an increasing responsibility.

Affinity has been developed to protect the data you hold, and ensure that the people who need to see it can always access it when they need to, and nobody else can get their hands on it. Your IT team will love Affinity – everything is based in the cloud, so there’s no server for them to look after, and no backups for them to worry about either, it all happens automatically.

Everyone has their own logins to the system, so you can control who has access to which data, and every action is recorded, so there’s a complete audit trail of who did what when, not like with spreadsheets.

With all of your information stored in the same place, you create what we call an ‘organisational memory’, you’ll never need to get urgent access to someone’s computer because the file you need is saved on their desktop.

Affinity makes the management of data so much easier, and secure.

SUPER SIMPLE IMPLEMENTATION

It couldn’t be easier to move your organisation over to Affinity.

Our team will work with you to get all of your data moved over from whatever systems you’re using right now, into Affinity, so you won’t spend weeks using multiple systems.

We’ll train your team, so they’ve got the confidence and knowledge they’ll need to start using Affinity straight away, and we’ll continue to support them as they need us.

There’s no big start up cost, and no contract either. You could be up and running within a few weeks.