The ERP for modern local government

The platform your city runs on.

Kestova unifies finance, utilities, payroll, permitting, and community development on a single ledger — so every department works from the same numbers, in real time.

13 modules, one login GASB-ready reporting Implementation in months, not years
city.kestova.com/dashboard
Kestova.
Overview
Dashboard
Financials
General LedgerAccounts PayableBudgeting
Utilities
Utility Billing
People
Payroll

City Operations Dashboard

Fiscal year 2026 · live across all departments
$241.6M
Total budget
On plan
21,408
Active meters
99.8% read
412
Employees paid
100% on time
Approvals waiting on youAmountAction
PO-4471 · Public Works$49,208Approve
INV-8820 · Utilities$12,400Review
Transfer · Parks & Rec$8,000Sign
Trusted by forward-thinking municipalities
City of LakemontFlorida Town of Palmetto RidgeFlorida City of FairhavenFlorida Crystal Springs UtilitiesAuthority Veranda CountyClerk & Comptroller
Why Kestova

Built for public servants. Run like a partnership.

Most ERPs were built for corporations and bent toward government. Kestova was designed from the first line of code for the way cities actually operate.

One ledger, every department

Approve a purchase order and the encumbrance posts instantly. Bill a utility cycle and revenue recognizes itself. No batch jobs, no re-keying, no month-end surprises.

Purpose-built for cities

Fund accounting, GASB reporting, utility billing, and citizen services are native — not bolted on. Your auditors will notice the difference before your staff does.

Service that stays

A named account team, answers in minutes, and the same people at go-live who were there at kickoff. We measure ourselves on your audit, not our ticket queue.

The platform

Everything a city runs, in one place

Thirteen integrated modules covering finance, revenue, people, and community — all on one secure cloud platform.

Financial management

A general ledger your auditors will love

True fund accounting across every fund, department, and project — with drill-down from the CAFR line to the source transaction in two clicks.

  • Multi-fund GL with real-time encumbrances
  • AP, AR, fixed assets & grants on the same chart
  • GASB 34/54/87 reporting out of the box
Explore financial management →
city.kestova.com/ledger

General Ledger — Fund Summary

FY26 · Period 11 · all funds balanced
31
Funds
All balanced
$241.6M
Budget under management
2 clicks
To source transaction
FundYTD actualStatus
001 · General Fund$78.4MBalanced
401 · Water & Sewer$54.1MBalanced
301 · Capital Projects$22.7MReview
Utility billing & revenue

From meter read to revenue, automatically

Import tens of thousands of radio reads, generate the cycle, and post revenue to the ledger in one run. Residents pay online; delinquency and leak alerts surface themselves.

  • One-click cycle billing at any scale
  • Resident portal with auto-pay & e-bills
  • Service orders and meter inventory built in
Explore utility billing →
city.kestova.com/utilities
Kestova.
Utilities
Utility BillingService OrdersMeters
Financials
Receivables

Cycle 6 — Billing Run

21,408 meters · 17,230 bills this cycle
99.8%
Reads imported
$1.62M
Billed this cycle
91%
Paid online
+6% YoY
AccountUsageStatus
UB-204418 · A. Lambert5,050 galAuto-pay
UB-117903 · M. Yates11,900 galPast due
UB-002841 · E. Cruz6,200 galPaid
Budgeting & transparency

Budgets your council — and residents — can see

Departments build worksheets that roll up live. Council sees scenarios side by side. Residents see exactly where every dollar goes, on a public portal that updates itself.

  • Collaborative worksheets with version history
  • Scenario modeling for millage & rate changes
  • Public transparency portal included
Explore budgeting →
city.kestova.com/budget
Kestova.
Financials
General LedgerBudgeting
Community
Transparency Portal

FY27 Budget — Department Roll-up

Scenario B · +2.4% operating
DepartmentFY27 requestChange
Public Works$14.2M+4%
Utilities$38.6M+2%
Police$21.9M+6%
Results

The numbers cities call us about

$1.4B
In municipal budgets managed on Kestova
99.99%
Platform uptime, 24/7 monitored
4 min
Median support response time
100%
Customer payrolls delivered on time
The Kestova way

A partner for the life of the system

Software is half the job. The other half is the team that configures it to your funds, migrates your history with a clean audit trail, trains your staff, and answers the phone in minutes — for years after go-live.

1
Discovery & chart designWe map your funds, departments, rates, and workflows — before any software is configured.
2
Migration with audit trailYour legacy history comes across reconciled to the penny, with documentation your auditors can follow.
3
Parallel run & go-liveWe run payroll and billing in parallel until your team signs off. Then we flip the switch together.
4
A named team, foreverNo anonymous ticket queue. Your account team knows your chart of accounts by heart.
What customers say

Trusted where it counts: at audit time

We closed our fiscal year three weeks faster than we ever had. Our auditors asked what changed. The answer was: everything is finally in one system.

DM
Finance Director
City of Lakemont, FL

Kestova ran our utility billing in parallel for two full cycles before go-live. When we switched, residents didn't notice — except that they could finally pay online.

RT
Utilities Director
Crystal Springs Utilities

I've been through two ERP implementations in my career. This is the only one where the vendor's team still answers my calls two years later — usually in minutes.

CW
City Manager
Town of Palmetto Ridge, FL
Security & compliance

Built to the standard your residents deserve

Public money demands more than a privacy policy. Kestova is engineered, audited, and operated for government-grade trust.

SOC 2 Type IIIndependently audited controls over security, availability, and confidentiality.
Encrypted end to endAES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, with keys rotated and managed for you.
Continuous backupsPoint-in-time recovery and geo-redundant storage across U.S. data centers.
Audit-ready by designImmutable logs, role-based access, and GASB-aligned reporting on every module.
Start the conversation

See Kestova configured for your city

A 45-minute walkthrough with your funds, your meter counts, and your headcount — not a canned demo.