A volunteer treasurer should not be matching checks to a spreadsheet on a Sunday. Invoices go out, residents pay by card or set up autopay, and balances update themselves. Late fees apply on the schedule your board approved — the same way for every homeowner, which is the part that keeps it defensible.
Raise and send assessments per community, take payment online, and watch balances and payment status across the portfolio without opening a ledger per association. Fine schedules follow each board's own resolution rather than one global rule.
Delinquency is rarely about homeowners refusing to pay. It is about how hard the association makes it, and how inconsistently the rules get applied.
A coupon book, a check and a stamp loses people who would happily pay. When the only route is mail to a PO box, late is the default rather than a decision.
One homeowner is waived because they called and a board member knew them. Another is not. Nothing invites a challenge faster, and nothing is harder to defend than a fee that depends on who answered the phone.
Assessments in one sheet, fines in another, payments in a bank statement. Asked what a property owes today, the honest answer is "let me work it out", which is not an answer at a closing.
Assessments, fines and fees land in the same account, so there is one number to ask about.
Create the assessment, send it, and it appears in the resident's portal and app as well as their inbox — branded in the association's name, with its own reply address.
Card payment through Stripe from the app or the portal. No portal account to hunt for at the end of the quarter, because it is the same login they use to file a complaint or submit an architectural request.
A fine schedule and start date are set once, per association, and applied the same way to everybody. Fines carry an approval step, so a charge exists because somebody with authority agreed to it.
A fine raised on a violation invoices to that property's account, so the enforcement record and the balance tell the same story — and the homeowner can see why they owe it.
The homeowners who set it up stop being a collections problem. That is the cheapest delinquency reduction available to a board.
Due-date and overdue notices go out on a cadence, by email and push. No volunteer has to be the person who chases neighbors.
Who is paid, who is late, and by how long — on the dashboard, not in a reconciliation.
Every invoice, fee and payment is logged with its date. When a balance is disputed, the history is the answer.
Your association does. Payments run through Stripe into the account you connect, so HOAware is the system of record for what is owed and paid, not a holder of funds.
Yes, and most communities do for a while. A check is recorded against the invoice like any other payment, so the balance stays right whether somebody paid by card, by autopay or by mail.
Yes — and the waiver is recorded, which is the point. A fee waived on the record is a decision the board can stand behind; one waived in a phone call is the selective-enforcement argument you will hear next year.
That is your attorney's work, and the law varies by state. What HOAware gives them is the documented history — what was invoiced, when notice went out, what was paid, what remains — which is usually the part that takes longest to assemble.
A special assessment is raised and sent like any other invoice, so it appears on the same account and the same balance rather than living in a separate spreadsheet for two years.
Bring your home count and your current late list. We will show you the collection flow against your own numbers.
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