Balance

“Triple the number of households are now in arrears, equivalent to a third of all low-income households.” Dragged Down by Debt

Balance introduces a new generation of digital financial inclusion tools in the field of collections and income generation. Balance enables people to change and adapt their payment schedules, establishing unique touchpoints to improve and streamline collections whilst overcoming both short and long-term incidences of debt and arrears; ensuring that people are more effectively engaged in the process of collections.

Introducing user-led collections and flexible payments

New methods of digitalising and automating the collections process is essential if we are to alleviate the pressure and workloads on staff and employees involved in income generation and collections. 3.8m households in the UK are in arrears for their household bills, including rent; arrears that total approximately £5.2bn. These numbers are set to increase as households face the highest increase in the cost of living in the last three decades with soaring energy prices and inflation.

Balance is designed to be easy and simple to implement alongside existing escalation and accounts receivable (AR) services and software. Balance brings intelligence, specialised design, and systems of automation to the housing and real estate sector, enriching and enhancing the roles of income officers, collections teams and companies of all scales.

Intelligent design for creating and amending payment schedules

Balance accelerates the administrative processes involved in arrears acknowledgement and payment schedule approval, saving officers considerable time spent administering arrears.

Some of the features and functionality that Balance provides include:

View, change and adapt payment schedules
For users Balance works by providing the digital tools to view, change and adapt their payment schedule.

Within acceptable risk parameters
Balance provides the user with options and flexibility within their permissible limits of risk, enabling them to request alternative dates of payment and alternative payment figures.

Automatic creation of new schedules and associated notifications
Balance presents automatically recalculated payment schedules in relation to user requests, together with automated notifications of their request approval, reminders for subsequent payments and alerts concerning missed payments.

Intelligent officer dashboards
For the income officer, Balance provides an intelligent dashboard and single screen through which to respond to schedule requests, assess fringe cases, and see flagged cases.

Machine learning for assessing risk and optimising parameters
Balance uses machine learning to improve and adjust user permissions, assess overall risk status and adjust organisational parameters. Using data to support teams in creating improvements in their collections scheduling and optimising their collections success.