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Board Role Basics

Need a quick overview of board role responsibilities? Here you go! These can obviously vary from organization to organization. Find what’s required by law where you live and choose what works best for your association. All Positions ● Enforcement of rules defined in the bylaws President Acts as Chief Executive Officer of the organization Presides…

User Permissions

We did our best to avoid the deep hole that is configurable permissions and we think we’ve done a great job. There are only two roles: site admin and non-site admin. You control who is an admin in Manage -> Residents and click on a resident to view their details. Site admin can edit and…

Why Go Premium?

We’ve done our best to make the free versions of Community Ally’s tools as powerful as possible to help people improve their community. Unsurprisingly, there are costs associated with providing these amazing tools. Specifically, storing/accessing your data, sending emails that actually make it to your recipient’s inbox, and powerful bank integrations. Free Limits The first…

Quick Reference PDF

We were asked once to create a physical piece of reference that could be handed out at an association meeting. Hope this helps. Reach out any time if you have suggestions on how to improve it. http://help.communityally.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/HOA-Ally-quick-reference.pdf Or you have have a version that fills up an 8.5″x11″ sheet of paper: http://help.communityally.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/HOA-ALLY-quick-reference-full-sheet.pdf

How to Make an Online Payment

How to Make an Online Payment with Stripe View our new article here: https://help.communityally.org/sign-up-with-stripe-to-make-payments/ How to Make an Online Payment with Dwolla (Old/Deprecated) Community Ally has partnered with Dwolla to process online payments in a very secure and easy manner. Note, Dwolla only supports eCheck/ACH payments, not credit/debit card payments. We investigated just about every…

Discussion Threads

The discussion threads on the home page are a great way to have a conversation about a topic in way that it is tracked and allows people to engage relative to their interest. Based on user feedback we’ve found most users prefer the home page discussion, versus the “discussion” group e-mail, because it spares the…