: Is there a FOSS web app suitable for homeowners assocations? I'm not quite sure where this question belongs, here or in SO, so please migrate this if appropriate. Overview The large homeowners
I'm not quite sure where this question belongs, here or in SO, so please migrate this if appropriate.
Overview
The large homeowners association (HOA) that I live in could really benefit from entering the 21st century in terms of management and communication with residents. There are quite a few commercial desktop and web apps for this, but I have been unable to find anything in the open source world, especially something that's targeted at HOAs or condo associations.
Functionality
There's a lot that could go into this kind of software, but what I'm most interested in implementing is:
Allowing residents to submit:
Maintenance requests (work orders) with form + OpenLayers map
Architectural violations + map
Architectural change applications
Allowing staff, board members, and other authorized users to:
Review and track items from 1.
Provide calendar of events
Provide communications including:
Notification of events
Notification of work orders/violations/etc
Assessment notice
Document repository for agenda, meeting minutes, newsletters, policy documents, etc.
There could also be an accounting portion, but I think it's best to leave that out for now. Perhaps this system could be designed modularly to later allow either interfacing with existing accounting systems or to have a full blown online accounting system.
I know this touches on a lot of areas, like Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS), Content Management Systems (CMS), and others.
The Question
Are there existing FOSS web apps for HOAs? Are there other web apps which can be suitably modified? If it's a no to both of these, what framework would be suitable to use? My guess is that Django, Ruby on Rails, etc would all be suitable.
Related commercial software
You can take a look at these to see what kinds of functionality is offered by the commercial apps:
SenEarthCo
TOPS Professional
Buildium
association-management.buildium.com
List of other HOA software
capterra.com/association-management-software
Another list of HOA software
softwareadvice.com/property-management/community-hoa-software-comparison
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The featured you explained could be easily achieved keeping drupal as base. It will just 2-3 days work.
Follow these steps.
Install Drupal.
Create content types for Maintenance requests, Architectural violations, Architectural change applications.
Use CCK to create all custom fields that you may require for each.
Use this module or this one for mapping in any content type as required.
Use User->Roles and create user roles like admin, boardmember, authorized etc...
Use User->Permission to set permissions for each roles.
Event Related features can be achieved using enter link description herethis module.
For notification you can use this module or this.
Use this for document repository or if its just to store you can make a content type and create an attachment field so use can upload. That would keep it simple.
Enable books in core modules and you can use that for things like policy documents.
Use this for Newsletter.
For accounts you can use this module.
That will be it. Additionally you can use the views module and then create a theme for, and do few codes to integrate all this, so that it work in one piece. It would take maximum of 7 days maybe to have this thing functional. I have seen some friends at Tridz doing something similar in drupal.
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