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Payment & billing guide

How maintenance billing, resident payments, subscriptions, refunds and payment transparency actually work.

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Two kinds of money

There are exactly two things we charge for: the society subscription and optional resident or owner subscriptions. Maintenance dues, vendor payments and service bookings are society or partner money and never sit with us.

Setting up maintenance billing

  1. 1Define charge heads — maintenance, sinking fund, water, parking, festival fund — with per-flat, per-sqft or fixed rates.
  2. 2Create a billing cycle (monthly, quarterly or custom) and preview the run.
  3. 3Generate bills. Every approved member gets an in-app bill plus push and email alerts.

Collections

  • Residents pay online through the society's own connected gateway
  • Offline payments — cash, cheque, NEFT — are recorded by the treasurer against the bill
  • Partial payments reduce the balance and keep the bill open
  • Late fees apply automatically after the due date and can be waived with a reason

Approvals and controls

  • Expenses and vendor invoices above the society's threshold need finance approval
  • Refunds require ownership verification and are locked row by row so they cannot be double-issued
  • Every finance action is attributed and auditable

Subscriptions

  • Society plans are priced per flat with a 30-day free trial
  • Usage counters track flats, guards and modules against the plan; the licence banner warns before a limit bites
  • Resident and owner subscriptions are billed separately and can be cancelled any time

Read the payment policy and refund policy for the formal terms.