Housing accounts
Accounting software that speaks housing
No more re-keying rent and service-charge data into a generic finance system. CHICS Accounts is built around the way UK housing organisations actually account for tenancies, sinking funds, voids and major works.
- SORP-aligned chart of accounts out of the box
- Making Tax Digital for VAT supported
- Service charge actuals, budgets and apportionment
- Audit trail on every posting — full transparency for your auditors
What's included
Everything your team needs — nothing you don't
- Rent accounting
- Automatic rent raising, HB / UC posting, arrears actions, refunds, write-offs and write-backs — all reconciled in real time.
- Service charges
- Budget setting, recoverable / non-recoverable splits, sinking-fund tracking and end-of-year actuals with apportionment by scheme or unit.
- SORP-ready reporting
- Income & expenditure, balance sheet, cash flow and notes that line up with the Housing SORP. Export to Excel for your statutory accounts.
- Audit & controls
- Role-based posting limits, dual approval on payments and a tamper-evident audit trail. Your auditors will thank you.
- Bank reconciliation
- Open Banking feeds, rule-based matching and bulk reconciliation — close the month in hours, not days.
- Live dashboards
- Income, arrears, void losses and service-charge variances visualised for your board and management team.
The outcomes our customers see
- -60%
- Time spent on month-end
- 100%
- Audit-trail coverage
- Day 5
- Average month-end close
- MTD
- Compliant out of the box
Indicative outcomes from CHICS customers. Your numbers will depend on your starting point and how you use the product.
Frequently asked questions
- Is CHICS Accounts a replacement for our finance system?
It can be. Smaller organisations run all their finance on CHICS; larger associations often use CHICS for housing-specific accounting and integrate to Sage, Xero or Microsoft Dynamics for general ledger.
- Do you support service charge accounting?
Yes — full budget, actuals, apportionment, sinking-fund and Section 20 tracking, with statements exportable for leaseholders.
- What about Making Tax Digital?
CHICS Accounts is HMRC-recognised for MTD for VAT submissions.
- Can our auditors export the data they need?
Yes — full general ledger, transaction listings and audit-trail exports in CSV, Excel and PDF, scoped by date range and entity.
Ready to see CHICS in action?
Book a 30-minute walkthrough with our team. We'll show you exactly how CHICS would work for your portfolio — no slide deck, no jargon.