Care Leaver and Through Care Payments module has been designed as a comprehensive solution to the payment of allowances to Care Leavers and Through Care Clients. Detailed information on clients includes:

·         Full personal details
·         Bank Account details for direct payments
·         Creditor reference details for linking to corporate creditors
·         Detailed payment schedule for all regular payments

This client group in particular, needs a payments module that can be flexible. The Softbox Care Leavers and Through Care solution provides just such flexibility. Any payment made though the application can be paid:

·         Direct to the Client
·         To any Third Party
·         Payable by BACS, Cheque or Cash

In addition to the regular weekly payments the Care Leaver and Through Care Payments module handles all single or one-off payments, including those payments which form part of a Leaving Care or Setting Up Home Grant. Each client can have a designated ‘budget’ and the application will monitor expenditure against that figure.

Throughout the application all expenditure has Budget Codes recorded against it, so that at the beginning of each week, when the weekly payments are made, this information is transferred to the corporate general ledger and service budgets are updated with the expenditure. This weekly process includes:

·         Checking individual payment amounts
·         Authorising payments
·         Producing information for creditors system
·         Remittance advice letters
·         Summary reports