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The ATTILA range of software meets the needs of Certificated Bailiffs, covering all aspects of their work (e,g, warrants, visits, levies, walking possession, repossessions etc.)

Features included in the ATTILA Bailiff System :

  • Rent Warrants
  • VAT Warrants
  • Magistrates Fixed Fines
  • Council Revenue (NNDR, Council Tax)
  • Inland Revenue
  • Arrest Warrants
  • Repossessions
  • Decriminalised Parking Fines
  • Offline Data Entry & Amendment (optional)
  • High Court/Sheriff enforcement
  • CSA Debts

 

Documents

ATTILA can be tailored to any Legal system. It produces the paperwork for each case at the correct intervals. For example:

  • First letter warning of impending action
  • Warrant
  • Reminder memos for staff
  • Final warning of seizure of goods or property
  • Van letters
  • Walking possession documentation
  • Affidavits
  • Nulla Bona certificates
  • + 300 - 400 other different documents

Each document can be customised. Additional ones can be added, or existing ones omitted.

Wording and layout of every document is customisable using ATTILA's report generator.

 

Actions On A Case

ATTILA performs a series of actions for each case. (E.g. send a letter, generate memo for telephone call, generate Warrant.)

ATTILA lets you predefine a range of different action sequences. Each client can then have their own chosen sequence; or ATTILA can select one that is appropriate to the case-type.

If a case deviates from the normal flow , ATTILA can automatically initiate a new action sequence. E.g. if a promised cheque does not arrive by the agreed date, ATTILA can switch to an "Overdue-Payment" sequence. This could send 1 warning-letter, then send a van to collect goods for auction.

When the arrears have been cleared, ATTILA will terminate the "Overdue-Payment" sequence, and switch back to the original sequence.

Other Action Sequences can handle :

  • Visits to Debtors
  • Low Debts
  • Bounced Cheques

 

Payments

ATTILA handles all payments. It monitors stage payments. Payments are allocated to fees, levies and client repayments. Different repayment schemes can be used for each client. ("take-fees-first", "take-fees-last", "pay-on-receipt", "pay-on-completion", etc.)

When payments have cleared, they are automatically forwarded to the client (less any retained levies or fees).

 

Fees, Commission and Levies

ATTILA calculates the levies and fees owing to the Bailiff, and invoices the Client if and when required. Monies can be held back from that collected from defendants , or all returned to the Client. In the latter case, ATTILA will invoice the Client, then wait for the invoice to be paid.

For commission, ATTILA supports many different charging schemes. E.g. "Bill-on-receipt", "Bill-on-completion". The commission can be flat-rate, percentage with up to 7 bands per case, percentage up to a maximum, percentage with a minimum, etc. Other schemes allow individual commission for each action or letter, administration fees etc.

Local taxes (e.g. VAT) are calculated, collected and invoiced where appropriate.

 

Interface to Legacy Systems

ATTILA's optional Import module can be customised to accept case, payment or status data from most mainframe or UNIX systems. Having imported a case, ATTILA can then pursue the action until full payment is collected, or the case written off.

 

Data Volumes

ATTILA is used by organisations ranging in size from 1-man businesses, up to Europe's largest electronics company.

ATTILA can handle millions of active cases, yet is cost-effective for users with only a handful of live cases. The only practical limit on the case-throughput is the size and speed of the computer or server.

ATTILA can run on a cheap PC, or on high-performance server. It supports from 1 to a 1000 users.

ATTILA's import and export facilities allow for large volumes to be handled with little or no manual import.

ATTILA has many housekeeping functions to handle bulk files with add or remove stops, reset cases to different sequences, write off cases from a given list of cases etc.

 

Office Management

ATTILA provides the tools to run an efficient Bailiff's office :

  • Correspondence log
  • Diary
  • Management reports
  • Visit log
  • Report generator
  • Detailed defendant history (including previous addresses, previous actions and outcomes)
  • Fast display of payment histories to answer enquiries
  • Automatic generation/printing of the day's documents
  • Import and export facilities
  • Automatic client invoicing (optional)
  • Automatic client repayments (optional)

 

Bulk handling of cases

Optionally ATTILA allows for block allocation of work to bailiffs selecting by stage of collection process, postcode, client, etc. up to a given maximum number of cases.

ATTILA's sophisticated 'Pigeonhole system' allows for micro management of the bailiffs allocation to cases.