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ITF

In the early 1990’s ITF was created as a Point of Sale (POS) app that accepted inmate balances from a Jail Management System, recorded sales transactions, and uploaded those sales for posting back into the Jail Management System. That original POS app was the first mobile POS app in the world, to use a touchscreen display to record sales transactions. In 2002, ITF transitioned to become banking software. The best way to describe ITF is to liken it to software used by a bank to manage both it’s customer accounts and the business of being a bank. ITF manages your inmate’s trust accounts much the same as a bank manages it’s customer accounts.

ITF manages the trust account itself, much the way the bank manages the business of being a bank. ITF tracks all deposits and withdrawals to accounts in a General Ledger Chart of Accounts. Monthly reconciliations to your bank statement result in a Balance Sheet appraisal of your trust account.

Features

ITF has so many features they would be too numerous to mention here. Hitting the high spots, here are a few:

  • Because you are managing a trust account, all amounts under or over the amount you owe your inmates, are always recorded as a shortage or overage respectively.
  • ITF allows 3 major types of inmate withdrawals, “Commissary Purchases”, things that must be paid for when purchased, “Jail Deductions”, things that can be paid for as funds become available, and “Indigent Disbursements”, things provided at no cost.
  • ITF interfaces with your Jail Management System so double entry of bookings, changes and releases to your trust account is unnecessary.
  • ITF provides manual entry and automated entry (internet and kiosk) of inmate deposits.
  • ITF allows disbursing funds via checks, debit cards and cash.
  • ITF provides a web service that allows vendors to post debits to inmate accounts.
  • ITF allows categorization of inmate expenses for Transitional Work Programs.
  • ITF provides batch entry functions for deposits and withdrawals for facilities with large amounts of these items.

Contact

This is a very small listing of the features available in ITF. Please review the videos on the “Training Videos” page for more information. In order to view the “Training Videos”, you must be assigned a userid and password. Please contact ITF Support at [email protected] for a userid and password.