Four payers. One ledger.
The council is a party to the tenancy, not a note against a tenant. Rent due to the landlord and rent received from the council are held as two streams and matched every month.
Council reconciliation is standard on Growth and Pro, and available at Starter or Core as one of your chosen modules.
The council on the tenancy, and the money reconciled
Most systems record a council payment as a note. Keys2 holds the scheme, the payers and the shortfall as records.
The council on the tenancy
Council reference, guaranteed amount and scheme end date sit on the tenancy record as a party in its own right. Filter the whole book to council business in one click.
Two streams, not one
Rent due to the landlord and rent received from the council are recorded separately. You see both, side by side, for every tenancy — owed, and landed.
Reconciliation, every month
Keys2 compares what the council paid against what the scheme guarantees and flags every shortfall. Month-end stops being a spreadsheet, and the gap is a figure rather than a suspicion.
Top-ups and split rent
A benefit payment, a tenant top-up and a guarantor contribution on the same tenancy, each as its own payer. Add or remove a payer mid-tenancy, or vary the frequency, without starting again.
Nightly let
Variable nightly rates per unit, billed the way a council actually pays them. The second lot on a temporary-accommodation framework, handled without a side spreadsheet.
Paying landlords
Statements, commission and batch remittances. You pay landlords whether or not the council has, and Keys2 shows the gap before the run rather than after it.
“Rent from a council, a benefit payment, a guarantor and a tenant, on one tenancy, reconciled against what was due.”
Four things that make a council book scale
A second SPV, a second framework and two hundred receipts should not mean a second system.
Receipts in bulk
Import a bank statement or council remittance file and match it in one pass. Nobody keys two hundred payments by hand, and what does not match is flagged rather than lost.
Several SPVs, one subscription
Each company from one login, with the right role in each. No second account and no second bill for the vehicle you set up last month.
Council-only view
Filter the whole book to council business in one click — arrears, compliance and reconciliation for that contract alone.
Templates that fit the tenancy
Guaranteed-rent paperwork appears on guaranteed-rent tenancies and nowhere else, on your letterhead, so nobody sends the wrong agreement to a council.