PACchecker - Orchard ArcHouse data checker

What is PACchecker

PACchecker is a series of data checking reports for users of ArcHouse. It is not uncommon in any computer system for various assumptions to be made about the data used that are not enforced. For example many ArcHouse customers code the number of bedrooms or occupancy of a property into its property type. Over time, it is inevitable that changes to the dwelling screens are not reflected in the property type leaving some properties with a mismatch between the different parts of the system.  It is then common for people to run reports based on property type and others on the number of bedrooms and for the summarised information to be different.  This may seem trivial at first, but small errors creep up over time and cost many man-hours in explaining differences and potentially lost income as data slips through the cracks.

PickSoft have had a lot of experience analysing data from many housing association systems and have seen how such small errors can lead to much larger issues. As a result, we have developed PACchecker as an add-on set of reports for PACextract to enable issues to be detected and corrected early.

Click here for a list of some of the exceptions PACchecker searches for.