ERP roadmap
What we are building, and the order we are building it in.
Localtech Core is a pre-release ERP platform for Australian councils, in council testing now. This page sets out the capability groups that make up the platform and the sequence in which they are being delivered.
The platform
Six capability groups, twenty-nine modules.
Financials
The general ledger and the controls around it: what a council's finance team works in every day.
- General ledger
- Creditors (accounts payable)
- Debtors (accounts receivable)
- Purchase orders
- Bank reconciliation
- GST and tax
- Journal entries
- Recurring payments
- Financial reporting
- Invoice scanning
Revenue
Rating, receipting and the property data they depend on. This is the part of a council system with no private-sector equivalent.
- Rates
- Receipting
- Debt collection
- Property
- Water levy
People
Payroll and the employee and contact records that feed it.
- Payroll
- HR
- Contacts
Assets
The registers councils are accountable for, and the costing that attaches work to them.
- Asset register
- Plant register
- Stores and inventory
- Project costing
Operations
Field and programme work: the operational side that has to reconcile back to the ledger.
- Work orders
- RMPC claims
- QBuild workflows
- Grants
- Animal register
Settings
Configuration, chart-of-accounts structures and the Australian local-government defaults the rest of the platform reads from.
- Global setup
- Australian local government settings
Delivery sequence
Built in the order that makes each stage useful on its own.
Each phase is sequenced so that finishing it leaves councils with something they can actually use, rather than a half-built platform waiting on the next stage.
- 01
Core financial transactions
Creditors invoicing and payments, debtors invoicing, journal handling and purchase order goods receipt. Nothing else in an ERP is worth much until money moves correctly through the ledger.
- 02
Revenue engine
Rates levying, batch receipting, water billing, property transfers and debt collection. The revenue cycle is where council software differs most from generic finance systems.
- 03
Asset management
Asset depreciation and disposal, plant servicing, inventory stock control and project costing.
- 04
Operations and reporting
Work order crews, RMPC forms, QBuild workflows, grants acquittal and the remaining report set.
- 05
Integration and hardening
Cross-cutting work: search, notifications, PDF output, email, bank reconciliation and GST BAS, followed by a bug-fix sweep.
- 06
Acceptance and deployment
User acceptance testing with councils, data migration tooling, training material and deployment runbooks.
Status
Where this actually stands
Localtech Core is pre-release. Core financial transaction work and the revenue engine are the current focus, and the platform is being tested with councils now. The sequence above is the delivery plan, not a set of dates we are contractually committing to, and it will move as testing tells us what councils need first. If you want to know exactly where a specific module stands before making a decision, ask us and we will tell you straight.
Ask about a specific module