What's New

New features & improvements in Buldium's Association Edition

July 14th, 2008

  • Improvements to the way homeowners pay their association fees online
  • Print two voucher checks with one or two signature lines
  • Print checks and deposit slips using blank or pre-printed stock
  • Adjust your printer alignment settings for checks and deposit slips
  • Specify a default expense account for your vendors
  • Reconcile bank accounts directly from the Banking area
  • View uncleared transactions on the bank reconciliation report
  • Automatically apply discounts when association fees are paid on time
  • Pay all your bills or only those for a specific vendor or association
  • Report owner occupancy information for condos and HOAs
  • New task and work order improvements
    • Create and maintain recurring tasks
    • Create a task on behalf of a homeowner
    • Add an attachment to a task
    • Maintain your own list of task categories
    • Create a work order by iteself or from a task
    • Generate a bill from a work order
    • See how long a task has been open
    • Generate a work order as a PDF

May 10th, 2008

  • Filter your activity log by activity type
  • See when vendors and other users last logged in
  • Create your own categories for vendors, documents, tasks and more
  • Create recurring payments or credits for homeowners
  • Edit paid bills or checks recorded to pay those bills
  • Add vendors more quickly when entering bills or checks
  • New late fee settings
    • Charge a one-time or daily fee as a percentage of outstanding charges
    • Charge a one-time late fee as a percentage of recurring charges
    • Charge a late fee on outstanding charges for specific accounts
    • Charge a late fee if the balance is more than a specified amount
    • Set a maximum late fee amount charged per month
    • And more

March 5th, 2008

  • Give users read-only access to your data to prevent them from making changes
  • Create recurring checks or bills to avoid having to enter them each month
  • Generate consolidated trial balance, balance sheet and general ledger reports
  • Queue refund checks for printing directly from the Issue Refund screen
  • Add vendors more quickly when entering bills or checks
  • Organize vendors using vendor categories
  • Associate documents with your vendor records

December 24th, 2007

  • Use the new Activity Log to view all the changes made to financial records and by whom
  • Upload attachments to payment records
  • Run the Budget vs Actuals report for the year, month or quarter
  • Attach notes and documents to units, homeowners, and vendors
  • Share documents with homeowners and vendors

October 15th, 2007

  • Save reports as CSV files, Excel or PDFs
  • Use your own email address when sending system generated emails
  • Search bills by reference number or filter by due date
  • View a list of recorded checks with the new check detail transaction report
  • View transactions by account via the new transaction detail by account report
  • Enter multiple notes for properties, units, and homeowners
  • Generate mailings using a library of standard form letters or create your own
  • Print mail merge documents yourself or mail them using our EZ MailerTM service
  • Compare year to date figures with the current period on all income statement reports

September 18th, 2007

  • Specify how many days in advance to automatically post recurring ledger charges
  • Print receipts when recording association owner payments
  • Delete discussion topics and posted replies

June 13th, 2007

  • Print checks on blank laser check stock straight from your computer
  • Mail checks to vendors with the new online bill pay service
  • Send owner statements through the mail automatically with the new EZ Mailer™ service
  • Automatically calculate metered charges that include a minimum charge

May 10th, 2007

  • Automatically post recurring charges each week, month, or year
  • Forecast income and expenses for your association with improved budgeting
  • Move out association owners with the new move out wizard

March 23rd, 2007

  • Keep a complete set of books with our full general ledger accounting
  • Use the standard chart of accounts or customize it to suit your needs
  • CRun dozens of new reports including the income statement, balance sheet and general ledger
  • Chose either cash or accrual accounting basis when viewing financial reports
  • Save reports using Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) or Microsoft Excel
  • Find transactions quickly and easily via the new, interactive general ledger
  • Make general journal entries to balance any general ledger account
  • Move-in association owners using the streamlined move in wizard
  • Enter banking transactions and track balances using the new bank account register
  • View balances by account on the improved owner ledgers
  • Print professional looking statements directly from the owner ledger
  • View vendor bills and payments on the improved vendor ledger

October 20th, 2006

  • Learn how to setup late fees via the new calculating late fees tutorial
  • Automatically generate late fees based on your association's procedures
  • Generate work orders from maintenance requests submitted by owners
  • View all work orders via the new work orders report
  • Email association owners directly from within Association Edition

In this section

The user interface is intuitive and easy to use, and I have gotten lots of positive feedback from customers about the design of the site.

R. Marston, MA