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Most HOA software is built for the office. Havn is built for the owner too.
Every platform lets the office post a charge and file a document. The difference is what the owner can do with their own login, how the office reaches the owners who never log in, and what happens when a closing asks for a resale certificate.
The community platform
Havn and the rest of HOA software
The right column describes common patterns across HOA and community management software. Individual products vary, so weigh any platform against your own communities.
| What You Are Comparing | Havn | Other HOA software |
|---|---|---|
| What owners can do | HavnPay dues and set autopay, read statements, open the community's documents, see and answer any notice about their home, send requests, vote, and reach the board, from one sign-in. | Other HOA softwareOften a payment page with documents attached. What else an owner can do from their own login varies widely. |
| Getting owners signed up | HavnThe roster is the invitation. One send goes out by email, text, and a mailed letter with a QR code, and the office sees who has signed in and who still needs a nudge. | Other HOA softwareCommonly a registration link or code sent by email, with owners who have no email on file left for the office to chase. |
| Reaching everyone | HavnEmail, text, a recorded call, or a mailed letter from one inbox, each kept on the person's record. Postage is billed per piece. | Other HOA softwareEmail is standard. Texting, calls, and mailed letters are often add-ons or separate vendors, and replies land somewhere else. |
| Accounting | HavnFund accounting with budgets, bank feeds that suggest the category, bills routed for approval and paid by mailed check, and monthly statements to every owner. | Other HOA softwareRanges from a payment ledger to full fund accounting. Rental-first platforms tend to fit HOA funds in after the fact. |
| Violations and requests | HavnA notice ladder that follows the state's rules, photos on the notice, the owner's reply inside the portal, and request forms the office defines. | Other HOA softwareCommon on the office side. The owner's side varies from an emailed PDF to a reply in a portal. |
| Votes and meetings | HavnBallots weighted by allocated interest, proxies, paper ballots by code, reminders, and results sealed until the vote closes. | Other HOA softwareOften a separate e-voting vendor with a fee per election. |
| Resale documents | HavnResale certificates, lender questionnaires, and demand letters draft from the same record, with each state's fee cap and deadline checked. Free to the association. | Other HOA softwareTypically a separate resale vendor with its own fees on the requester and a second copy of your records to keep current. |
| What it costs | HavnOne price per home per month, a 30-day trial, no contract, and no setup fee. Boards and management companies pay the same $1 per unit with a $59 minimum per community; a company's rate drops to $0.70 with no minimum past 1,000 doors. | Other HOA softwarePer unit per month is common, often with tiers, minimums, setup or onboarding fees, and an annual contract. |
| Getting started | HavnUpload the roster sheet, pick a chart of accounts, enter opening balances, and the setup strip shows what is left. Run one community first. | Other HOA softwareVaries from self-serve to an onboarding project measured in months at the larger platforms. |
| Getting your records out | HavnExport the whole document library as a zip and any report as a CSV at any time. | Other HOA softwareOften a support ticket. |
Sixteen platforms by name, every statement from the company's own site: the best HOA management software, compared.
See what an owner gets on the homeowner portal page, or the whole price on the pricing page.
Resale documents
Other resale platforms take the order. Havn also prepares the document.
Most resale document platforms put an order form in front of your documents and leave the hard part, producing them, on your desk. Havn drafts the document from your community's records and hands it to you to review and sign.
| What You Are Comparing | Havn | Other resale platforms |
|---|---|---|
| How documents get made | HavnDrafted from the community's records with most answers in place. You review and sign. | Other resale platformsThe order goes to the management company to complete. Drafting automation varies by platform. |
| What requesters go through | HavnOne branded link, no account, questions that fit who is ordering, payment by card. | Other resale platformsOften a separate account, login, and learning curve for each platform. |
| Who can pay | HavnThe requester, or a payment request sent to the seller or borrower, with the document released when it is paid. | Other resale platformsUsually whoever placed the order, at order time. |
| How fast it moves | HavnMost answers come from the community record, so fulfillment is minutes of review. The statutory deadline is tracked on every order. | Other resale platformsStandard tiers commonly run 5 to 10 days, with rush fees to move up the line. |
| Fees on top | HavnYour price is the whole price. Havn's share comes out of it, never on top. | Other resale platformsFrequently processing and convenience fees on top. Published examples run $18 to $29 an order, with rush surcharges of $55 and up. |
| State law | HavnFee caps, delivery deadlines, and refund rules applied to every order. | Other resale platformsGenerally the management company's job to track. |
| Whose brand it is | HavnYour name and logo on the order page, the emails, and the receipts. | Other resale platformsUsually the platform's own portal and emails. Some embed ordering inside your site. |
| What it costs the association | HavnNothing added to the subscription. The requester pays for the document; no seats, no modules. | Other resale platformsVaries, from revenue share agreements to per door or subscription pricing. |
Side by side with one platform, every claim sourced and dated: Havn vs. HomeWiseDocs, Havn vs. ReadyRESALE, and Havn vs. CondoCerts.
See how an order works on the resale certificates page, or what each state allows in the fee and deadline table.
What is different about Havn
Owners actually use it
The portal answers the questions that used to be phone calls: what do I owe, what is this notice, where is the budget. An owner who can see and do everything from one sign-in stops calling to ask.
One record, every document
The roster, the ledger, the governing documents, and every letter live on one record. Resale certificates and lender questionnaires draft from it instead of from a second system.
A price with nothing hidden
One price per home, posted on the pricing page. Texts are included, postage is billed per piece, and resale documents cost nothing extra because the requester already pays for them.
Try it on one community before you move anything.
Havn runs alongside whatever you use today. Thirty days free, no contract, and resale documents included.