Accounts
Accounts, or Vixen Financials is a modular financial accounting solution. The modules include: Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger, Nominal Ledger, Job Costing, Sub-Contractor, Cash Book, and Payroll. Furthermore, the Client module manages recording, reconciling and accounting for interim applications, client certificates, deferred VAT, discounts and retentions on contracts.
Payroll
Payroll manages hourly/salary payroll for all staff and includes multiple pay codes, additions, deductions and latest pension options. This function integrates with RTI and BACS.
Job Costing
Job costing provides continuously updated job costs on every job - reactive or routine, emergency or pre-planned - managing committed costs/outstanding orders, labour, parts and subcontract costs. This function provides a range of invoicing options including time & materials/Cost-Plus, Schedule-of-Rates, quoted work, routine/periodic, and fully comprehensive or summary application.
Stock
Stock provides multi-depot stock control with MEP industry-standard pricing service, auto-replenishment, valuation and identification of slow-moving items.
Timesheets
Timesheets collates timesheet information for automatic submission and operations approval with full integration to payroll, job costing and invoicing.
Purchase Orders
Purchase Orders raises and progresses hire, connects sub-contract and materials orders with MEP industry pricing and manages committed costs. This function integrates with stock control, purchase/nominal ledgers and Causeway Tradex.
Estimating
Estimating provides MEP estimating from enquiry through take-off to what-if modelling, tender documents and 'success' analysis with industry standard pricing service.
Plant & Asset
Plant & Asset records equipment/vehicles etc. with additions, disposals and depreciation formulae. This function integrates with Sales, Purchase and Nominal Ledgers and Job Costing.
Data Replication
Data Replication is a powerful report designer in Vision XL that provides flexible reporting formats, including the use of headers, details, subtotals, and footer sections to provide professional looking reports. Vision XL also enables the diverse range of report styles, formats, and printing options available in Excel to be applied to business data.
Analytics
Analytics displays business critical KPIs in both financial and operational real time. Each team or staff member is able to report on KPIs that related to their specific role and share data via client dashboards. Configurable, one-touch reporting reduces the need for data mining reports and spreadsheets, is more time-effective in producing monthly management reports, and provides easier cost monitoring and analysis against estimated values.
Business Process Management (BPM)
BPM provides a powerful set of components, that allow an organisation to build dynamic processes to further extend the functionality of the Vixen platform. Via the use of a visual workflow designer, you can integrate with other services and applications, drive best practice and bring this all together to gain efficiencies in your processes. Essentially, a toolkit to extend the system to meet your specific business needs.
Livestax - Organisation Zone
Livestax - Organizational Zone is a secure web interface that joins up data across all systems, allowing for seamless creation of web services for staff, customers and supply chain without having to change underlying systems.
PPM Planner
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) generates reports for clients, sends reports to the estimating system and automates generates letter templates.
Service and Maintenance
Service and Maintenance provides planned & reactive maintenance management for all companies engaged in service & maintenance work, encompassing general maintenance, electrical & mechanical repairs, and servicing and safety certification in the domestic (owner-occupied & tenanted) sectors.
Letter Production (Rules Based)
Letter Production allows for the configuration of rules based letter production. This function is particularly useful for those operating in the social housing sector in managing Access procedures.
Auto Forms Distribution
Auto Forms Distribution provides customers with the ability to automatically email engineer forms/report sheets to customers upon job completion.
Vixen System Integration
Vixen System Integration includes starter packs for integration with some 3rd-party housing management systems such as Orchard, Academy and Northgate.
Job Management
Job Management manages details of all properties maintained, contracts and agreements, service history, planned visits and managed assets. This function handles reactive calls with access to property/asset details, alerts, history, current jobs, SLAs; allocates reactive/PPM tasks to operatives with skill, location and availability validation; delivers against contracted SLAs with real-time interaction from mobile workforce; and monitors jobs through critical stages and follow-on workflow.
Site Warnings & Alerts
Site Warnings & Alerts provides pre-warning to job schedulers and engineers of issues they need to be aware of, along with access information and tenant information.
Electronic Timesheets
Electronic Timesheets are designed to modernise traditional timesheet recording and minimise delayed invoicing and lost paperwork.
Van Stock
Van Stock maintains van stocks of frequently-used parts with automatic replenishment from preferred suppliers. This function manages requisitions direct to supplier or via operations approval.
Requisitions
Requisitions provide on-site engineers access to a customised database of materials via a handheld PDA, tablet or other mobile device. The engineer can submit a purchase order requisition electronically to the back office system by selecting required materials on the screen. Once approved, and the purchase order sent to the preferred supplier and the engineer receives an automatic notification. The engineer can complete an electronic ‘delivery note’ on screen once materials are received, notifying the office system.
Lone Worker
Lone Worker allows for the monitoring lone workers out in the field and provides a notification if no communication has been received in a pre-defined period of time.
Forms
Forms gives engineers the ability to complete digital forms with signatures, photos and job notes. Some industry standard forms are available as templates.
Bluetooth Printing of Forms
Bluetooth Printing of Forms gives engineers the ability to print forms on site with the use of a Bluetooth printer.
Bluetooth TELEGAN Anton Gas Analyser Forms Interface
Bluetooth TELEGAN Anton Gas Analyser Forms Interface allows the integration of TELEGAN gas analysers to the Vixen mobile device. This auto loads gas analyser readings into gas safety forms.
Remote Job Create
Remote Job Create gives engineers the ability to create their own jobs in the field if they are on call outside of regular office hours.
Dynamic Scheduling – Engineer
Dynamic Scheduling – Engineer allows for continuous re-calculation and allocation of jobs based on skills, route-optimisation and latest data on availability, job duration, travel time and priorities from diary mobiles and tracking.