Case study
A rent platform for a new shared-ownership housing provider
Zen Housing, a newly formed affordable housing provider, needed to administer and account for rent on its first shared-ownership homes. We designed a hosted rent platform covering units, rent calculations, manual charges and statements: a stop-gap for today that can expand as new homes are built.
2023
What we built
- Unit records for each home
- Rent calculations
- Manual charges
- Statements
- Hosted by Gigabyte
The challenge
Zen Housing had its first handful of shared-ownership homes and needed to administer rental charges and account for receipts from the start. It wanted a stop-gap that would do this properly for its first homes and could be extended as new ones were built.
What we did
- March 2023 — wireframes first, so Zen Housing could see what the platform would do before development
- Development in short agile releases, with Gigabyte hosting the platform
What we built
A hosted rent platform that holds each shared-ownership unit, calculates rent, takes manual charges and produces statements.
The result
Zen Housing gets one place to raise rent and account for it on its first homes, on a platform designed to grow with the portfolio rather than be replaced.