Dues, reminders, late fees, pool house bookings, gate codes and key cards, announcements and every record — handled automatically, so your board can go back to being neighbors.
Type your neighborhood's name. Homeowners get a one-tap sign-in link by email or text — no passwords, ever.
Porchlight replaces the spreadsheet, the group text, the shoebox of checks and the volunteer who "handles the pool house."
Invoices go out on your date. Reminders, past-due notices, late fees and interest post themselves. Payment plans and mid-year proration built in. Cards and bank payments straight to the association's account.
Board elections, budget votes and amendments — one vote per lot, secret ballot, digital proxies, a live quorum meter, and certified results filed for the minutes. Quick polls for everything else. No more paper proxies.
One message reaches every household by text, email and the app. Schedule it, pin it, see exactly who got it.
Homeowners book the pool house from their phone. Fees and deposits collected, approvals in one tap, and it lands on the shared neighborhood calendar automatically.
Pool gate on a keypad? The code lives in the app, shows only to households in good standing, and changes each season with one tap. Key cards get the same treatment — lost-card reports, replacements, and access that pauses on unpaid dues and restores the moment they pay.
Broken gate reader, trash cans, a neighbor's boat — homeowners report it in the app (anonymously if they want). The board replies in a thread, nothing gets lost in a text.
A neighbors-only place to sell, give away and find things — photos, private messages, no strangers. The feature homeowners open every day.
Fifteen scheduled automations — invoices, reminders, late fees, card suspensions, welcome packets, vote reminders — each previewed on the dashboard the day before it runs. Nothing surprises the board.
One vetted business per trade with a neighbors-only deal, funded by the sponsors themselves — a directory homeowners actually use, at no cost to the association.
CC&Rs, bylaws, handbook, minutes, budgets and architectural requests in one place, always the current version, available 24/7.
Connect QuickBooks Online once and every expense, bill, deposit and bank balance flows into the live P&L automatically — read-only, no double entry. Budget vs. actual, vendor approvals, exports for the CPA.
A home sells: the buyer gets a welcome packet, cards move over, dues prorate, the seller's access ends. Records stay right automatically.
A command center that does the work before you log in.
One link. No passwords. Works on any phone.
You don't have to be on the board to bring Porchlight to your community — and you don't have to put your name on it. Enter your board's email and we'll send them a short overview, once, from us. Anonymous. No follow-ups unless they reach out.
One business per trade, chosen for your community, each with a neighbors-only deal. Local companies sponsor the directory, so the association gets a benefit homeowners actually use at no cost — and business ads stay out of the marketplace.
For local businesses: sponsor a neighborhoodAbout 12 minutes: dues rules, board contacts, amenities, your homeowner list and documents. It saves as you go.
Your roster, documents, logo and dues schedule are imported and checked. Your board gets sign-in links the same day.
A single announcement by text and email. Each household taps once and they're in — no accounts to create.
Invoices, reminders, late fees, bookings and access run on schedule. The board sees a preview the day before anything posts.
Every feature, every automation, unlimited board members, the homeowner app, the marketplace, the sponsor directory — all of it, on one plan. The price simply scales with the size of your community, and it's paid by the association, not the homeowners.
Month to month · cancel anytime · no per-user seats · no long contracts
Online dues payments carry a small processing fee paid by the homeowner who chooses to pay online — mailing a check is always free. One-time setup fee waived for founding communities.
“Board members are unpaid volunteers. The software should do the work — not create more of it.”
The idea Porchlight was built onOne plan with everything included, from $149 a month for the whole community. Founding communities skip the setup fee and get a direct line to the people who built it.
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