April 2026

New Features, Improvements, and Updates 

• The work order job sheet has been redesigned to be more responsive and better adapted to long content. 
• Support added for the 2026 version of the Laois County Council differential rent policy.
• Additional fields added to the Property entity: Finance Code, Meter RM and Serial Number, WPRN.
• Tax Reference field associated with the Property entity relabelled as LPT Tax Reference. 
• Performance issue improvements with the rent assessments export. Exporting large data sets over a long date range caused the export to terminate prematurely.
• 'Check/Uncheck All' option added to Unmatched Transactions Report.
• Support added for the 2026 version of the Donegal County Council differential rent policy.
• Finance Code added to the Tenant Transactions export.
• Payment File ID added to the Tenant Transactions and Tenancy Charge receipts export, along with the Processed Payment Files Report.
• Local Authority Balances Report reworked to detail the total outstanding balance for each property funded by each local authority. The exportable version of this report lists an entry for each property where a funding agreement is in place, regardless of whether there is an outstanding balance or not.
• Redirect on login functionality was introduced to redirect users to the URL they requested after logging in.
• Management Company details are now managed via Admin -> Settings. This is to facilitate housing groups which consist of properties associated with various management companies. The management company can be specified at both the housing group and property levels. When updating the management company associated with a housing group an option is given to update the management company associated with all child properties.
• Additional columns added to the Tenant Summary Report to detail the rental period, i.e. Week or Month, along with the tenant balance at the start of the report period.
• Payment Type added to Processed Payment Files Report.
• Added a count of Overdue Tenant Letters to the Alert Summary dashlet on the dashboard.
• Payment Reference added to Tenants export.
• The Finance Code of the associated Property has been added to the Tenancies export.
• Housing Group and Housing Officer add to Property Inspections Alert Report. These fields, along with the active tenant and their phone and mobile numbers, have also been added to the exportable version of this report and also the Property Inspections export (Admin -> Export).
• The property reference field has been added to the Work Orders export (Admin -> Export).

Bug Fixes

• Incorrect value was being displayed within the Rent Calculations Workings area for rent assessments completed using the Wicklow County Council rent policy.
• The Void Report, when calculating lost revenue during the report period, was incorrectly assuming that all tenancies had a weekly rental period.
• The Property LPT Tax Reference column was not being populated in the Work Orders export.
• Tenant Summary Report - Incorrect Opening Balance reported. Affinity was reporting the balance as of end of play on the report start date, rather than that at start of play. 
• Tenant Payments (Refunds) allocated to current property even if a previous property selected.
• The Principal Contribution figure was incorrect withint the Rent Calculation Workings area when viewing details of a completed rent assessment using the Galway County Council rent policy (though the correct rental value is arrived at.)
• The Principal Contribution figure was incorrect within the Rent Calculation Workings area when viewing details of a completed rent assessment using the Cork County Council rent policy (though the correct rental value is arrived at.)
• Fixed bug with RTB exports - RTB Tenancy Registration Details & RTB Registration Details related to management companies.