Case study · Real estate
From the first plot file to the latest utility bill, Lake City has run its members, land and money on a single Wizmen system since 2004.
Overview
Lake City is one of the pioneers of Pakistan’s planned housing sector. A community at that scale is not one business but several running at once — a sales operation, a land office, a utility company, a maintenance department and a finance function, all serving the same members. In 2004 the society chose Wizmen to bring them onto one system. More than two decades later, that system is still the place every file, bill and payment is recorded.
01The challenge
A housing society carries every member for years: from booking through instalments, transfers, balloting and possession, and then for as long as they live there. Each stage touches a different department, and every one of them has to agree on what a member owes.
Plot files, instalment plans and transfers had to be traceable from the first booking to final possession.
Utility and maintenance billing needed to run on fixed cycles for every resident, with dues visible the moment they fell overdue.
Land records, khewat and khasra details had to sit beside the plots they describe, not in separate registers.
Management needed a single view of receivables, cash and development spend — without waiting for month-end reconciliation.
02Our approach
We started where the money is recorded and built outward, so each new department joined a ledger that was already trusted.
General ledger, cash management and bank reconciliation went live first, giving the society one chart of accounts that every later module posts into.
Member files, bookings, instalment schedules and transfers were brought onto the same system, each linked to its plot and its ledger account.
Utility and maintenance billing were configured as scheduled cycles, with receipting, disconnection notices and dues reporting built in.
Land records, society map integration, file management and legal case tracking completed the picture, so the land office works from the same record as finance.
03The solution
The deployment is built on Wizmen’s Real Estate Management System, running on the Wizmen Oracle ERP backbone.
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Explore the platform04The outcome
The clearest measure of a system is whether an organisation outgrows it. Lake City has grown for more than twenty years, and Wizmen has grown with it.
Every booking, instalment, transfer, bill and receipt sits on the member’s file and posts to the same ledger.
Utility and maintenance cycles run as batches, and overdue dues surface on their own rather than at audit time.
Plot, khasra and map records are tied to the accounts behind them, so the land office and finance read the same numbers.
Upgrades have been delivered on the same backbone, so twenty years of member history remain in one place.
22
Years and counting
Housing societies serve their members for generations. The software behind them has to be built for the same horizon.
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