Wes

Head of Product & Engineering

Announcements

Managing pages in the Admin Portal

We’re thrilled to announce that our enhanced page management experience is now officially out of beta! As part of our ongoing commitment to modernizing our front ends, we have moved the management of page content exclusively to the Admin Portal. This will now be the sole method for viewing

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Third quarter recap

Ah, fall—we're glad you're finally here! We hope you and your community are enjoying the cooler weather as much as we are. The summer heat might have been stifling last quarter, but it couldn't stifle the release of new features and improvements here

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Second quarter recap

We're off to a fast start this year! In our last recap post, we showcased just how busy we were building new features and improvements in Q1. That momentum didn't let up, and Q2 was no different. Keep reading to discover our favorite enhancements released over

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First quarter recap

We hope you and your community are enjoying wonderful spring weather wherever you're located! Our team certainly is. Yet, even the winter weather we're leaving behind couldn't slow down our pace of product enhancements last quarter. As is our tradition, each new quarter we

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Fourth quarter recap

Can you believe it's already 2024? We've entered both a new year and a new quarter—the latter of which means it's time to recap our favorite product enhancements from the past three months! And this time, we have something special to coincide with

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Third quarter recap

For many of our communities, it's finally starting to feel like fall—one of the best times of year! Our team is certainly enjoying the cooler weather, but the summer heat we experienced last quarter didn't keep us from releasing a variety of new features and

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Second quarter recap

Like clockwork, the start of each new quarter means we get to round up and showcase our favorite new features and improvements from the previous three months! We're constantly improving our platform and services, and last quarter was no different. Keep reading to discover the best of what

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First quarter recap

With winter officially behind us, we hope your community is enjoying the spring weather that is no doubt starting to set in. While the cold weather might have limited the activities your community could hold these past few months, it certainly didn't slow down the pace of enhancing

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Our new text message credits system

We’re excited to introduce two significant improvements to our text message credits system: the ability to accumulate credits from month-to-month and the option to purchase extra credits! Both of these features were highly requested by our customers and were made possible by the introduction of our new pricing. Developing

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Fourth quarter recap

Happy New Year from all of us at HOA Express! We wrapped up another exciting year with our favorite activity: releasing a host of new features and improvements for our customers. With 2022 in the rearview mirror, we’re highlighting all of those updates in this quarter’s recap blog

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Third quarter recap

Two quarters ago, we officially released the Admin Portal and pointed out how—because it's powered by all-new technologies—it would allow us to build new features and improvements even faster and with a greater degree of quality. Last quarter we proved this to be true! Over the

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Announcing new pricing

Today, we're excited to unveil new pricing that will position us as we grow and help us continue to offer our customers a world-class experience. This is our first pricing change since our company was founded nearly 13 years ago. For most communities, your subscription price will be

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Second quarter recap

Last quarter was a big one for us at HOA Express! We completed and then launched the Admin Portal, held our first webinar, added support for six new countries, and made numerous small improvements. The launch of the Admin Portal is particularly exciting for us, as we've been

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First quarter recap

This year is already off to a great start! We're constantly improving our platform, and this past quarter was no different. Since January 1st, we've already deployed improvements nearly 50 times, releasing a host of new features and bug fixes. Much of our focus has been

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Fourth quarter recap

Another year is in the books! We wrapped up the final quarter of 2021 with a focus on the online payments section in the beta Admin Portal, which is why so many of the new features and improvements listed below are related to that section. But that's certainly

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Third quarter recap

Here at HOA Express, it feels like the last quarter flew by! As hinted at in the previous recap post [https://blog.hoa-express.com/second-quarter-2021-recap/], we interviewed for, hired, and began training a new team member on our customer success team. Meanwhile, our product team continued to make progress on

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Second quarter recap

Despite a more limited number of visible changes to our platform this past quarter, our team was busier than ever. Our efforts were focused on building out some of the more complex and interdependent portions of the beta Admin Portal and—most excitingly—moving into a brand new office! Read

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First quarter recap

We kicked off 2021 with a bang, publishing 17 changelog entries [https://feedback.hoa-express.com/changelog] covering new features and improvements over the past three months. This effort was fueled in part by our growing product team, who deployed dozens of updates to our production environment composed of changes to

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Fourth quarter recap

Last quarter was a busy one for our team, working on many behind-the-scenes projects. While continuing to work from home, we maintained an unrelenting focus on modernizing the back end code + technologies that power our platform, interviewed dozens of candidates to expand our engineering team, and overhauled the authentication platform

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Third quarter recap

With a focus on building out the beta Admin Portal [https://admin.hoa-express.com/], this last quarter was a productive one for us at HOA Express. We expanded the featureset available in the beta Admin Portal, started modernizing our back end code, and made a handful of other improvements and

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Second quarter recap

Even though many things in the world are different right now, one thing has remained unchanged: day after day our team works diligently to improve our software in big ways and small! With another quarter behind us, it's time to highlight our favorite improvements from the past three

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First quarter recap

What a crazy start to a decade this has been. With the COVID-19 pandemic in full swing, our team has been working from home for many weeks now. We've seen a significant spike in the number of blast emails and text messages being sent through our platform, and

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Fourth quarter recap

The 2010s are officially a wrap! Can you believe we're now equally close to 2050 as we are to 1990? During Q4 of 2019, our product team kept busy. From adding a new engineer to regular bug fixes to solidifying the foundation of our next gen front ends,

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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. The highlight of which was the release of the beta Admin Portal—the future replacement to the

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 [https://blog.hoa-express.com/march-2019-recap/]. Dubbed as "next generation," these new interfaces will be total rewrites of our existing front ends (e.g. the Admin Control Panel,