Adelante’s Income Management Solution is designed
to make handling your income simple.

Modern income management and payment solutions
for councils

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The complete Income Management Solution

SmartPay, Adelante’s powerful Income Management Solution, is designed to handle all your council’s income streams with ease.


Our flexible system saves time by streamlining processes and giving you access to multiple payment tools. With fine-tuned exception handling, you can set unique rules to quickly resolve recurring errors and improve your operational efficiency, while our expert team works in partnership with your council to provide ongoing guidance and support for long-term success.


SmartPay also offers a wide range of APIs that integrate seamlessly with third-party systems, ensuring every income stream is managed professionally, securely, and reliably - however it's received

Discover the full-service solution for your council

At Adelante, we understand the critical role income management plays for councils. Our Income Management solution is designed with flexibility and robust integrations to support every income stream.

  • Flexible Payment Options

    Our solution is built to accept payments in multiple ways, so whether you’re being paid through operator assisted or online payment methods, via third-party solutions like PayPoint, by cash or cheque, Chip and Pin or direct debit, credit or BACs transfers via the bank, you can be confident your income will be validated and allocated to the correct amounts and GL codes before exports.

  • Recurring Payments

    Reduce manual intervention in payment processing, ensure steady cash flow and minimise missed payments by setting an automated payment frequency that works for everyone. This helps to establish stable income streams, supporting your financial planning and reducing administrative workload.


  • Paperless Direct Debit

    Allows residents to create Direct Debit instructions online without the need for physical forms or in-person visits, streamlining the process from start to finish. Once submitted, the council receives an export file to upload, helping increase payment uptake by making the process quick and accessible to ensure steady and predictable income streams and enhanced satisfaction, eliminating the need to process physical forms or chase incomplete information. 

  • Real Time Visibility Across Systems

    The Adelante Income Management Solution REST API integrates with third-party systems, web forms, and kiosks, with real-time validation and lookup, enabling accurate and consistent data across platforms to provide smoother operations and enhance compliance.   

  • Comprehensive Fund Code Management

    Guarantee that all income is tracked, validated and allocated correctly through the use of Fund Codes. Assign unique attributes to specific income streams such as VAT codes, GL and Contra codes, to ensure every transaction is correctly assigned, supporting interdepartmental coordination and reducing lost time correcting errors. 


  • Custom Import/Export Routines

    Set up bespoke import and export routines based on your current systems, helping support a seamless transition. Our intuitive UI also enables easy creation and modification of import and export routines, keeping the system flexible for your changing needs and allowing you to work to a schedule that suits your council’s requirements without relying on external support. 

  • Automated Task Scheduling

    Automate important tasks like imports, exports and reporting to reduce errors and inefficiencies within your system with our built-in scheduler. Remove the need for someone to ‘fix’ failed payments that slow down your export process, by using automated rules to resolve these errors, saving you time to focus on your business priorities. Use automations for a simple refund or reversal process, helping you cut down on manual tasks and ensure cash flow stability. 

  • Advanced Reporting Tools

    Build the reports which provide the most insight to you and your stakeholders and use automation to free up time and ensure they are delivered on your required basis. Our reporting modules are flexible to allow for autonomy in your daily activities, helping to reconcile daily incomes and exports, and include options like Global Fund Analysis, Tills End of Day, VAT Daily and VAT Monthly. 

  • Expert Implementation

    Our team includes former council project staff and professionals from competing solutions with many years of hands-on experience to support with implementation and required project expertise, acting as a consultant during the replacement of your systems and helping you manage budget constraints. 

  • Secure User Access & Hosting

    Set up user access based on roles and departments, with multi-factor authentication and optional Single Sign-On to enhance data security and minimise unauthorised access. Strengthen your system security and compliance, safeguarding sensitive data and reducing potential risks. The Income Management Solution is hosted in a PCI Level 1 accredited Tier 3 data centre, meaning your data is always protected by the highest standard of security, and our full disaster recovery (DR) capabilities enable us to seamlessly switch to an alternative site if required. 


  • Automated Bank Reconciliation

    Match bank statements with system transactions in real time, flag discrepancies such as fraudulent transactions or bank errors, and identify failed or outstanding payments automatically. Eliminate the tedious task of manually reconciling statements, enhance security to save hours of work, improve cash flow visibility, and reduce the risk of financial losses due to errors or fraud.

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Now the dust has settled we think Go-Live was a resounding success, particularly given that we were replacing complex legacy processes. 

 

Post go-live issues have been resolved very quickly. We are starting to see the system simplifying business processes and reducing manual overhead, and we will start to look at the potential for further improvements. 

 

We have received messages of thanks from the Strategic Director of Finance, Assistant Chief Executive and Director of Technology Services, which I think reflects the critical role the payment system plays in the Council’s operations.   

 

Marcus Power, London Borough of Waltham Forest

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Adelante has been named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s G-Cloud 14 framework, providing Income Management and Cash Receipting under Lot 2: Cloud software.

Get in touch with our team to discover how Adelante’s Income Management Solution can save
your council time and money by providing flexible systems and expert guidance.