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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 for every council, whatever its size.

★ 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.

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The Town Desk dashboard — a noticeboard of live widgets showing jobs to do, open tickets, bookings, assets needing repair and pending spend.

A real screen from Town Desk: your whole office at a glance on a dashboard you arrange to suit how you work.

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The Town Desk tickets list — resident enquiries with a reference, department, assignee, priority and status.

Customer service — every enquiry in one queue, routed and tracked.

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The Town Desk estate map — assets, play equipment, reported issues and grass-cutting areas on one map, colour-coded by condition.

The estate map — everything the council owns, colour-coded by condition.

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
  • Policy register with automatic renewal reminders to the responsible officer
  • 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
  • Contract tracker for leases, SLAs and supplier contracts, with renewal and break-clause date reminders
  • Community grant tracker — a public application form, award/decline decisions and printable outcome letters on your letterhead
  • 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
  • Markets & events with pitch bookings (booked → invoiced → paid), a change-log and per-trader compliance checklists
  • An interactive estate map showing your assets and areas colour-coded by condition

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
  • Grass-cutting register with cut frequency, a season schedule and drawn map areas
  • Play areas with RoSPA-style inspections (routine, operational and annual) and overdue-action detection, plus a parks & green-spaces register

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
  • An installable mobile app, a weekly “Town Desk in Review” roundup, and guided “Show me” walkthroughs on every page

Staff & access

Your team directory and rotas, with the access controls that keep the right people in the right places.

  • A master staff directory with roles, departments, photos and emergency contacts
  • Staff rotas
  • A five-tier access model (User → Super Admin) so people only ever see what they should
  • Single sign-on through the MTC Portal — no separate password to manage

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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