For care home groups
Care home accounting software for growing groups
Your homes deliver care locally. Your finance team needs to see the whole group. Light brings home-level costs, supplier bills and entity reporting onto one ledger, with agents handling routine work and your team in control.
How do you compare homes and consolidate the group?
Care home accounting software connects the income, operating costs and financial records of individual homes with consolidated group reporting.
For finance teams managing residential and nursing care homes across multiple sites, legal entities and ownership structures.
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Home-level reporting
Organise financial entries by home, entity and cost centre. Compare income and costs across locations, then drill into the transactions behind a difference.
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Staffing costs
Bring payroll postings and agency invoices into the same reporting structure. See how staffing costs affect each home's financial performance alongside property, food and other operating costs.
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Supplier bills
Let agents capture and code invoices for catering, utilities, equipment and maintenance. Route them to the right home or budget owner for review before payment.
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Local approvals
Set approval routes by amount, supplier, cost centre or entity. Give home managers a part in the process while finance keeps oversight and a record of each decision.
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Group consolidation
Consolidate operating companies, property entities and the holding company on one platform. Keep local books and group reporting connected as the structure grows.
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Cash visibility
Bring bank activity, payables and receivables into the finance team's view. Follow outstanding balances and upcoming supplier payments across the group.
How do you bring the next care home into group reporting?
Whether you open a new site or acquire a group, build a repeatable way to bring its finances into view.
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Map the finances
Agree the entity structure, chart of accounts and home-level reporting dimensions. Identify how billing, payroll and supplier data will reach the ledger.
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Bring homes together
Work through opening balances, outstanding bills and reporting mappings with the implementation team. Apply common approval rules with permissions for local teams.
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Report consistently
Use a shared financial structure to compare homes and prepare group reporting. Follow a group balance back to the entity, home and source transaction behind it.
Connected finance
How does Light connect with care and resident billing systems?
Keep resident records, care planning and rostering in the specialist systems your teams use. Light's open API provides a way to connect financial data from the systems around your ledger.
We'll work through your billing, payroll and banking setup with you, including the data each connection needs and how it maps to homes and entities.
Explore the APIA record behind every number
Keep financial permissions, approval history and source documents alongside the books. Give your finance team and reviewers a clear trail from the group report to the underlying entry.
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What should your finance team know?
Can we report by care home, entity or department?
Light supports custom properties for homes, locations and departments. Make the required dimensions mandatory, then use them in reports. Occupancy and other operational metrics need the relevant source data and an agreed integration.
How does Light work with resident billing and care systems?
Keep resident records, care planning and specialist fee calculations in the systems built for them. Light handles the ledger, supplier bills, financial receivables and reporting, with financial connections scoped around the data required.
What happens when we acquire another care home?
Configure the entity, currency, bank connections and reporting dimensions. Work through opening balances, outstanding items, migration and reconciliation with the implementation team before the first group close.
How do supplier bills reach the right home manager?
Light reads invoices into draft bills. Home and department properties provide the reporting context, while approval rules route each bill by entity, amount or property. Approved bills post to the ledger for reconciliation and reporting.
Explore the finance behind your industry
See the whole care group.
Walk through your homes, entities and reporting needs with our team.
