Recap Third quarter recap The second-to-last quarter of the decade is now in the books and it brought with it the start of football season, new iPhones, and of course, many updates to our website building platform.
Community Tips Selecting vendors for your community Communities hire vendors regularly to provide a wide range of services on an as-needed or contract basis. Since who you do business with can have a major impact on property values, resident satisfaction,
Community Tips Starting a YOTM program from the ground up Want to increase resident engagement while enhancing community property values? If so, consider implementing a Yard of the Month (YOTM) program in your neighborhood! Yard of the Month is a community-driven program that
Community Tips Inviting guest speakers to community meetings Community meetings are beneficial in that they provide important information about what’s happening in the community, and are an opportune time for members to engage with leadership. However, if attendance at these
Website Tips Stand out from the crowd by personalizing your member profile After registering on the website, many members are quick to explore the various pages, submit survey responses, and make online payments. However, they may be overlooking a valuable feature of the website—their
Community Tips 3 ways to keep your community kids entertained this summer Summer is officially in full swing, and that means kids are out of school and likely looking for something to do. While they could be left to their own devices, that isn’t
Announcements Hello, next gen front ends! We first teased the fact that we had embarked on completely redesigning our front end interfaces back in our March recap. Dubbed as "next generation," these new interfaces will be total rewrites of
Recap June recap Summer has officially arrived (for our customers in the Northern Hemisphere), and we hope you and your community are enjoying the warmer weather together! Collectively, our team members enjoyed several refreshing vacations last
Meet the Team Meet the team: Jennifer At HOA Express, we’re comprised of a group of closely-knit people who love to create and support amazing software. There are two major teams within our company—the customer success team and
Recap May recap In the month of May, our team was busy refining our software, hiring new team members, and developing new features. While our public changelog was a bit quieter, our product team was still
Community Tips A beginner’s guide to creating an emergency preparedness plan With natural disasters of all variations occurring at a more frequent rate, it's a wise decision to take the time before one hits to create an emergency preparedness plan for your community. An
Community Tips 3 ways to create a more eco-conscious community In recent years, buzzwords like sustainability, environmentally friendly, and eco-conscious are being used by an increasing number of people and businesses in an effort to encourage others to go green. If you're unfamiliar
Recap April recap Our product team was busy pouring a tremendous amount of effort into our next generation front end interfaces, yet still found the time to release some great improvements this past month. We've chosen
Feature Spotlight Creating an effective community documents archive Most communities have a variety of documents to keep up with from bylaws and regulations to financials, meeting minutes, and more. As these documents accumulate over time, it can be overwhelming if they’
Recap March recap In March alone, our product team deployed 26 releases to our production infrastructure. These deployments contained hundreds of individual improvements that touched 7,000+ lines of code and 400+ files. Many of those
Community Tips Fostering community through social events Whether your community is new or established, there are benefits to both the community and its members to hosting social events and gatherings regularly. Social events provide communities with ample opportunities for building
Recap February recap We expanded our product team in February and leveraged this fact to release improvements at an even faster pace! With nine entries to our changelog last month, it was more difficult than usual
Community Tips Swap meet: your community's new way to spring clean Decluttering and organizing our homes is “on trend” right now and this is one fad you’ll likely want to join in on. Most everyone has unwanted and unused items cluttering their homes,
Recap January recap January was another busy month for us at HOA Express! New team members joined our customer success team, our product team rethought many of the design principles for a segment of our backend,
Recap December recap December marked our first full month up-and-running with HOA Express 3.0, a big leap forward for our platform. Among many changes, 3.0 brought an enhanced ability for our team to release
Announcements Upgrading to 3.0: What to expect Our exciting upgrade to HOA Express 3.0 is just around the corner! We’ll be making the transition on November 14th, about two weeks from now. The process should be relatively effortless
Feature Spotlight Your guide to account types on 3.0 With our upcoming update, HOA Express 3.0, we’ll be introducing the ability to create custom account types. This will make it easier than ever to store non-resident members and to customize
Feature Spotlight Creating accounts on 3.0 Now that you have a better idea of how members and accounts will be structured on the upcoming HOA Express 3.0 update, it’s time to take a closer look at how
Feature Spotlight Members and accounts on 3.0 We’re excited to take a closer peek at what’s new with members and accounts in the upcoming HOA Express 3.0 update. You spoke, we listened, and these new improvements address
Announcements Introducing HOA Express 3.0! Today marks a little over two and a half years since we released our last major update. In the meantime, our team has been improving upon the world’s greatest community website builder—
