Localtech Core
Localtech Core runs a council's finance, rates, assets and works in one system, and builds the annual financial statements straight from the ledger. It is in council testing now, with release planned for early 2027.
What is in it
Ledger, creditors, debtors, purchasing, bank reconciliation, GST and budgets, with a second officer on every posting.
Read more: FinanceFrom the trial balance to the annual financial statements, with drill-down from every line.
Read more: Financial reportingLevies, notices, water billing, receipting and debt recovery, beside the property and ownership records.
Read more: Rates and propertyContacts and HR records in Core. Pay runs are calculated in Employment Hero and posted back to the ledger.
Read more: PeopleAsset register, plant, stores, work orders and project costing, with costs charged to the right job.
Read more: Assets and worksCustomer requests, animal registrations, grants, records and development applications.
Read more: Community and complianceYour data brought across in a set order, with every figure proved against your own reports.
Read more: Moving inIntegrations
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Available nowA free app for residents. They take a photo, drop a pin and send the report to your council, with the photos, the exact place and the resident's contact details. Reports arrive in Localtech Core's Customer Requests inbox, and progress updates and the outcome go back to the resident.
About Localtech Eye
Localtech Core reads the Queensland Government's lot, address, aerial photo and planning overlay data, the same data Queensland Globe shows, and puts it beside the council's own property records. Officers check a lot without opening Queensland Globe in a second window, and Core marks where the state's record differs from the council's.
Staff photograph card receipts in the Receipt Reader AI app. The receipts arrive in Localtech Core's Corporate Cards module and are paired with the lines on the card statement. A finance officer confirms all the exact matches in one click, and Core posts one journal per statement.
Financial reporting
Core builds the four primary statements and the notes from the trial balance. Each statement line shows where its figure came from and whether its note agrees. Open a line to reach the note, then the accounts, then the transactions.
In daily testing with a council accountant.
Controls
A journal is approved by a second officer within their delegation. A posted journal is never edited. It is corrected by a reversal.
A bank reconciliation locks its month once a second person approves it. Year end closes through a batch that a second officer approves.
Core checks the budget when a purchase order is approved and records the commitment.
Every line in the financial statements opens to its note, its accounts and the transactions behind them.
Moving in
We bring your data across in a set order: finance first, then rates and property, then assets and the registers. A reconciliation pack proves each figure against your council's own reports. A proposed match is accepted only when its totals agree to the cent with your trial balance and subledger reports.
Status
Localtech Core is in testing with councils now. Finance, rates and property, assets and works are built. The annual financial statements are being proved with a council accountant on real figures, and a first council trial is under way.
Release is planned for early 2027.
Read the roadmapFounders
Founder / Co-CEO
25 years in Queensland local government across finance, management and executive leadership, including acting CEO responsibilities.
Founder / Co-CEO
Two decades in finance and accounting for local government, with deep experience in budgeting, audits and public-sector financial integrity.
Founder / CTO
25 years building custom software and financial systems, combining technical depth with leadership across complex product delivery.
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