Buildium vs. PayHOA

I'm very happy with the service provided via phone, to me that is the absolute largest draw. I also really appreciate the integrations Buildium offers. I mostly appreciate HappyCo, Petscreening, and Hunter Warfield. None of these are seamless in their communication with Buildium but it's still a vast improvement from having to have separate accounts from Buildium so overall, it is beneficial to our company

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PayHOA may be well suited to small self-managed associations with only very basic needs. If you're looking for a association management software with proper accounting features and functionality, PayHOA will disappoint you as it has disappointed us

• It documents the date and time of all updates and communications, which are essential to the companys records.
• It allows external clients to communicate and stay in touch with our company, as well as access information.
• It serves as a large database for all of our customer and client information that is very user-friendly.

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• Handles all of the accounting
• Communication with homeowners
• Banking

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• Hello Sign has been a really rough transition and is not as user friendly as Adobe Sign.
• Customer service struggles to understand what is going on and you have to hang up and call to get someone else.
• Owner portal is lacking in my opinion.

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• Poor documentation
• Unreliable lockbox processing service
• Owners unable to access their own invoices online
• Limited accounting functionality
• No real A/P: cannot enter vendor bills separately
• Duplicate field names that don't replicate correctly across the software
• All owner payment options have additional charges

I have used three property management softwares and know of others who have used additional softwares for managing properties. Buildium seems to be the best of all of them

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Overall, the system is good and getting better; however, different roll outs have caused the system to regress. Their latest bank automation rollout was a disaster and continues to be an issue. Since the upgrade, I have not been able to sync our bank and Buildium (download transactions).

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It is simple enough for users with little to no accounting experience with enough features for seasoned accountants to be able to do more.

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I have been able to get through to support immediately and they have been awesome in quickly resolving issues. More importantly, their communication when there is an issue which might take some time to resolve surfaces. Getting updates and resolution are critical.

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I cannot rate this since I was not part of that process

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Appfolio is my favorite software, and they are constantly making improvements. Buildium is great if you don’t have a ton of property but is not as manageable for advanced accounting and resident information tracking. There are workarounds, but they do need to work on their ease of use for owners.

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We wanted to use CINC Systems (not mentioned above) but we're not yet at the scale where we can afford their higher cost. TownSq and FrontSteps were also beyond our budget due to smaller <500 unit count. We had a misperception that Buildium would be too expensive as well, but with our frustrations we reached out to Buildium and learned this was not necessarily the case. At the time, we selected PayHOA due to cost being within budget and having the appearance of being a comprehensive association management software. However the further we got into use of the software, the more issues, limitations, and frustrations we encountered. If it was not such a big effort to onboard the association already, we would have already switched to Buildium

• Buildium absolutely saves time. Having all of our management systems in one place is almost beyond a value at this point because it’s the basic requirement of running an effective property management company.

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• Good ROI as a whole
• Some of the add on services are not worth the cost (ie, sending physical mail is overpriced).

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