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Features

Everything your council office does, in one place

Town Desk is a complete council management system and CRM, organised into modules that share one interface, one contact book and one login. Every module is included on every plan.

★ Flagship feature

Town Desk Analytics

Our proprietary analytics system — live, animated dashboards and trends across every part of your council: tickets, finance, allotments, assets, governance and more. Filter by any period and export a branded PDF in seconds.

Customer service & enquiries

A ticketing backbone for every resident enquiry, report and request.

  • Tickets routed to the right department with a full activity timeline
  • Central contact book, including emergency out-of-hours trades (plumbers, electricians, locksmiths)
  • Public QR codes you can print and put up in parks or toilets — residents scan to report a problem straight into your queue
  • Average resolution-time analytics so you can prove your service standards

Democratic services

Run meetings, decisions and members the way the law expects.

  • Reports & papers with a draft → review → approve → publish workflow
  • Searchable decisions register linked back to the originating report
  • Meetings with auto-populated attendance grids and per-councillor attendance %
  • Councillors & register of interests — with a branded, printable Register of Members’ Interests
  • Planning consultation responses with deadline tracking

Governance & compliance

Stay on the right side of statutory duties without the spreadsheet panic.

  • FOI and Subject Access (DSAR) requests with automatic statutory deadline clocks
  • Complaints handling following the NALC model procedure
  • Risk register with likelihood × impact scoring for your AGAR
  • Append-only audit log of sign-ins, role changes, deletes and settings changes

Finance & payments

Approvals, reimbursements and online card payments — without doubling as your accounts package.

  • Spend requests with an approve / reject / paid workflow
  • Reimbursement receipts with photo capture
  • Take card payments online via Stripe for bookings, allotments and invoices
  • Toilet-locking log that feeds a payroll summary
  • Deliberately not full accounting — it works alongside your bookkeeping software

Facilities & assets

Fill your venues and keep your assets safe and inspected.

  • Venue bookings with double-booking prevention, recurring series and rate cards
  • A public "request a booking" page that drops straight into your queue
  • Asset register with inspection schedules, overdue detection and inspection history
  • A failed inspection automatically flags the asset for repair

Open spaces

Allotments and cemeteries, fully managed with live maps.

  • Allotments: plots, tenancies, public waiting-list applications and a plot map
  • Cemetery & burials: grave register, interments and a searchable cross-register
  • Exclusive Right of Burial deeds with grant, transfer, surrender and expiry
  • Colour-coded grave and plot maps by status

Analytics, reports & built-in help

Town Desk Analytics — our flagship — plus one-click statutory packs and a friendly assistant who never goes on leave.

  • ★ Town Desk Analytics: live, animated dashboards and trends across tickets, finance, allotments, assets and governance — filter by any period
  • A widget dashboard — your whole office "at a glance"
  • Branded, print-to-PDF statutory report packs and CSV exports, carrying your council’s logo, in seconds
  • “Dave”, an AI help assistant, plus step-by-step guides for every feature
  • Encrypted, passcode-protected data backups

Accessible by law

Built to WCAG 2.2 AA, the standard public bodies must meet, with an accessibility statement included.

Secure & auditable

A 5-tier access model, full audit trail and encrypted, passcode-protected backups as standard.

Always up to date

Runs in the browser with nothing to install. New features arrive automatically at no extra cost.

Want a guided tour?

Book a free demo and we’ll walk you through the modules that matter most to your council.

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