Quarter is purpose built for building accounts.

Xero and QuickBooks keep a ledger honestly, and they are built for a business with customers and a chart of accounts. Quarter is built for a building: lots with entitlements against them, levies raised across all of them at once, and a capital works fund that is money the building is not allowed to spend. The parts you keep in a spreadsheet beside the ledger are simply the product here.

What a general ledger can't do, and you are doing by hand.

Not a criticism of Xero or QuickBooks. It is the list of jobs that fall to somebody on the committee because the ledger has nowhere to put them.

Levies, not invoices: One levy, split by entitlement across every lot, for a period. In a ledger that is a batch of invoices built by hand each quarter and re-checked every time an ownership changes.
Two funds that cannot be mixed: Operating money and the capital works fund are separate, and in most jurisdictions that is not optional. A ledger will let you pay a roof from the wrong one and still balance.
Arrears against a lot, not a customer: Who is behind, by how much and for how long, held against the home rather than a contact. The debt follows the lot.
A fund projected against a plan: Whether the money is there in year eleven is a question about the maintenance plan, not the ledger. No accounting package models it, so it becomes a spreadsheet nobody owns.
Owners who can see it: Every owner gets their own balance, their own invoices and the budget, with nobody exporting a PDF. A ledger has one login and a bookkeeper behind it.
The rest of the building attached: The budget line, the proposal that approved it, the meeting that carried it and the contractor doing the work are one record. In a ledger only the money exists.

Bring us the invoice

Show us what you're paying for your existing accounting software and we'll beat it by 50% on our Finance module for the first contract term.

Your Xero or QuickBooks subscription for the building, off the receipt. Community stays free alongside it either way, and we will put the number in writing before you move anything.

Send us the invoice Find your home, free to start

What to go and look for.

We are not going to print somebody else's price list. You have the real number on a receipt, and two more beside it that nobody has ever costed.

The subscription itself, including the extra user the treasurer needed.
Anything a bookkeeper charges for the levy run and the reconciliation.
The hours somebody spends in the spreadsheet beside the ledger, doing the parts it cannot.

Quarter keeps the owners corporation's books on a trust basis and produces the statements a general meeting needs. It is not a general ledger for anything else and it does not file your tax. If your accountant wants accounts out of it at year end, have that conversation before you switch.

Need more than software? Ask.

Most years a building needs the software and nothing else. Some years it needs a return filed or somebody to chair a difficult meeting. You don't need a management contract for that. Tell us what you need and we'll quote it.

Building review: An independent look over the records, the finances, the maintenance plan, the insurance and what the law expects.
Tax filing: Returns prepared and filed from the records already in Quarter.
Legal document review: Your by-laws or a management agreement, read by somebody who does this for a living.
AGM hosting: Somebody independent to chair, hold the agenda and put the resolutions properly.
Major works proposals: Scoping, quotes and the funding case for a big job, put to owners as a vote.
Account management: A named person who knows your building, for when the committee needs somebody to hand things to.

Talk to us about what you need

Or ask the Manager in the app, it will put you in touch with the right person.

You might be wondering...

Is there a minimum number of lots?

No. Quarter works for Owners Corporations of any size, from a 3-lot townhouse to a 200-lot block. The per-lot price scales with the building rather than a contract.

Can we start with Community and add the rest later?

The usual path, and why the parts are priced separately. Community is free and every owner touches it, so it goes first.

What are Governance and Finance?

The two paid parts, $6 per lot per month each, added when the committee wants them. Nothing about Community depends on either.

Does it cost more if we already have a strata manager?

No. Same software either way, and we're not paid differently for sitting alongside somebody else's contract.

Are there any lock-in contracts?

No. Month to month. Cancel any time and your records hand over at no charge, which is not true of every contract you'll compare this against.