House arrest & home detention management software
Keep every home detention participant, program fee, payment, and note in one system your staff and your court partners can rely on.
House arrest and home detention programs are usually the most paperwork-heavy thing a monitoring agency runs. Each participant arrives with a court order that dictates the term, the conditions, and sometimes the fee. Schedules get amended for work, medical appointments, and treatment. Participants leave the program early, get extended, or violate and come back. Underneath all of it there is a program fee that has to be invoiced and collected on a strict schedule, whether or not anyone had time to build the statement.
Tether Pay gives home detention programs a single place for both halves of that job. Participant profiles hold the case details, contacts, program dates, and staff notes; the billing engine handles the recurring fee, the reminders, and the online payment; and the payment ledger produces the documentation you need when a court, a probation officer, or the participant's attorney asks what has been paid.
What home detention programs get
Everything below exists because house arrest caseloads change constantly — and the billing has to keep up without a rebuild every time.
Participant records with case context
Court, case number, order date, term length, conditions, and household contacts sit on one profile, next to the balance and payment history.
Program fees on a set schedule
Weekly, biweekly, or monthly home detention fees generate automatically from enrollment until discharge, at whatever rate the order or your fee schedule sets.
Term extensions and early releases handled
Extend or discharge a participant and billing follows immediately — no over-billing after release and no gaps after an extension.
Online payments from any household member
Send the payment link to whoever pays. Card, Cash App, and bank transfer all credit the participant's invoice automatically.
Reminders that respect preferences
Automatic email and SMS reminders before each due date, with per-participant opt-in settings so contact stays appropriate and compliant.
Staff notes and an audit trail
Log contacts, schedule changes, and compliance issues on the profile. Every payment carries its own timestamped record for later reference.
How the program runs day to day
Intake
Create the participant from the court order — term dates, conditions, fee, and contacts in one form.
Supervise
Log notes, schedule changes, and contacts on the profile so any staff member can pick up the case.
Bill and collect
Program fees invoice on schedule, reminders go out, and participants pay online without a trip to the office.
Discharge
Close the term with a complete record of what was owed, what was paid, and when.
Records that hold up when someone asks
Home detention sits closer to the court than most monitoring programs, which means the questions your agency gets asked are more formal. A probation officer wants to know whether a participant is current on fees before a review hearing. A defense attorney wants a payment history. A judge wants to know whether a participant's claim that they cannot afford the program is supported by what they have actually paid. If the answer lives in a spreadsheet and a bank app, producing it takes an afternoon.
Because Tether Pay recomputes balances from the payment ledger and stores every transaction with its exact timestamp and method, those answers take a minute. The participant profile shows the invoice history, the payment history, the current balance, and every note staff have logged. Nothing has to be reconstructed, and two staff members looking at the same case see the same numbers.
That same discipline pays off internally. Because pausing a participant halts both billing and automated messages, a participant who is temporarily in custody does not get a text demanding payment. Because discharge stops billing on the day the term ends, you never have to refund a fee you should not have charged. Small things — but they are exactly the things that generate complaints and eat a supervisor's week.
House arrest software questions
Bring your home detention program into one system
Create your agency and manage participants, program fees, and payments without a spreadsheet in sight.