Chargebook helps UK residential block managing agents keep service-charge money recoverable and compliant: Section 20 consultations, Section 20B clocks, on-account and balancing demands, year-end packs, and external-accountant certification.
Service-charge recovery dies on statutory clocks and messy year-ends. Section 20B's 18-month rule and Section 20 consultation stages are easy to miss when the work lives in shared drives.
Chargebook treats recoverability as a live register, not a year-end surprise. Leaseholders and external accountants get portals; certification locks the pack.
6 capabilities, each one something you can point at during a security review.
Block & unit model
Schedules, apportionments, cost heads, and financial years.
Section 20B register
Live recoverability clocks so chargeable costs are demanded on time.
Section 20 consultations
Notices, observations, estimates, and stage tracking.
Demand PDFs
On-account and balancing demands from the budget.
Invoice coding
Upload → extract → human confirm → ledger / S20B.
Year-end packs
Reconciliation, variance, bill-shock narratives, accountant sign-off.
Chargebook, answered
Is this for commercial property?
The product is built for UK residential block managing agents, RTM companies, and leaseholder recovery — not commercial service charge.
Does it replace the managing agent's accounts package?
It is the statutory-compliance and year-end copilot. Ledgers can stay where they are; Chargebook owns clocks, consultations, and certifiable packs.
See it against your reality.
A 30-minute walkthrough with an engineer who builds it - your use case, not a script.