Connecting All Your Operations
In one integrated enterprise software solution that works seamlessly with Microsoft applications, CouncilFirst provides operational efficiencies in all business process areas, enabling councils to effectively manage more with less.
Financial Management
- General ledger
- Budgetary control
- Cost accounting
- Forecast management
- Cashflow management
- Unique dimensional cost centres
- Bank management
- Bank reconciliation management
- Accounts payable management
- Accounts receivable management
- Fixed asset registers
Property & Rating
- Rating and valuations
- Property and rating certificates
- Billing
- Water, sewerage and waste management
- Bond and guarantees
- Fire abatement management
- Property lease management
Payroll
- Automatic pay processing and leave calculations
- Complex back-pay calculations generated for increases
- Automatic costing to original jobs/departments worked
- Unlimited allowances, deductions and award levels
- Flexible pay period frequencies
- Automatic switching to new award classification
- On-line payroll enquiries
- Award interpretation module
- Integrated on-line time sheets
- Employee Self-Service (ESS) portal
- SuperStream ready
Human Resource Management
- Organisational and workforce management
- Recruitment and selection
- Development, training and performance management
- Expense management
Procurement & Sourcing
- Inventory management, stores/depots
- Purchasing management
- Supplier contract management
- Direct and indirect procurement
- Purchase requisitions
- Supplier relationship management
- Item Tracking
Community Engagement
- Customer service management
- Request management
- Task management
- Outlook client integration
- Interaction/document management
- Mail logging for MS Exchange
Projects & Job Costing
- Project Management
- Capacity management
- Multiple costs
- Budgets/estimates
- Job Tasks
- Work in progress
- Project accounting and invoicing
- Project cost control
- Work breakdown structures
Business Intelligence & Reporting
- Standard, ad hoc and analytical reports with Microsoft SQL Server® reporting services
- Role tailored, predefined, multidimensional data cubes
- Dashboard views of KPIs