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Strata Product Overview
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Our Strata Tech Two World-Leading Solutions Packaged As One Product
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Property Management & Accounting
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Community & Tenant Portal
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PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & ACCOUNTING – KEY FEATURES
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Portfolio Management
• Manage 1 or 10,000 buildings• Designed for big & small
businesses alike• Run processes across one
building, multiple buildings or all buildings
• Sophisticated user-based security and access controls
• Access groups can be established
• Portfolio-wide performance monitoring, assignment of tasks and the escalation of outstanding matters
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Powerful Accounting
• Sophisticated and powerful accounting system
• Audited by the industry’s leading accounting firms, including KPMG
• Applies international best practice
• Account on an accrual or cash basis
• GL, AP, AR, 3rd party and Owner’s Ledgers
• Multiple accounts and sub-accounts can be created
• Reports can be as simple or as detailed as your client’s needs require
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Cost Centres
• Easy to manage schemes with mixed-use components
• Allows a community or building to have multiple budgets
• Accurately budget, invoice and spend funds based on the individual component uses
• Run financial reports and track the performance of each component individually or in a combined high level format
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Reporting
• Beautiful financial reports which are easy to understand for owners
• Huge range of financial reports, global reports and building-specific reports
• Every report is exportable to CSV
• Reports can be easily e-mailed to owners or directors using our integrated e-mail system
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Document Management
• In-built Document Management System (DMS)
• Seamlessly integrated into almost every screen
• Ensures standardisation in document storage across managers, buildings and the entire portfolio
• Tracks all edit and sent instances
• Quick & easy publish to the Community Portal
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Word Processing & E-mail
• Powerful word processing tool for documents & emails
• Prepare letters or send e-mails to one or all buildings
• Auto-saves against the customer record and in the DMS
• Access hundreds of merge-fields
• Create building-specific and global templates
• Easily insert files & financial reports
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Budgeting
• Links to the system’s extensive Chart of Accounts, developed over a 10-year period in consultation with industry experts
• Budget across multiple cost centres (for large, mixed use schemes)
• Easily calculate proposed service charges for each unit
• Budget for Admin and Sinking fund expenditure separately as well as any additional income
• Once finalised, the budget is available in the MyCommunity portal
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Invoicing
• Most powerful yet easy to use service charge invoicing system on the market
• Invoice service charges, sundry items and utilities – to both owners & 3rd parties
• Advanced debt collection features
• Configurable e-mail templates for all types of invoices & arrears stages
• Ability to attach documents and merge with the invoice as one PDF
• All invoices & receipts automatically available via the Tenant Portal
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Task Management
• Uses both an e-mail and an internal Inbox function
• Creates reminders for close to 60 system-automated tasks
• Users can also create tasks “on-the-fly” such as reminders to call someone
• The task can be linked to any record in the software, such as a contact, financial transaction or asset
• Assign tasks to “business groups” or individual users
• Set timeframes and escalate if not carried out on time
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Management Fee & Disbursement Billing
• Create template management agreements for your company
• Set-up disbursement & services schedules
• Define standard fees and charges, disbursement rates and staff hourly rates
• Automatically track and charge for disbursement items such as printing and photocopying
• Record on-the-fly time billing or itemized additional services
• Automate the billing process for fees & charges across your entire portfolio
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Customer Management
• Manage owners, tenants, directors, suppliers, agents & developers in one simple interface
• Store e-mails, invoices, contracts etc against each customer record
• Create tasks against customers such as recording phone calls or follow-ups
• Access to the MyCommunity portal is automatically controlled via the Address Book
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Meeting Management
• Our meetings module makes management of meetings a breeze
• Setup default templates for each meeting type, add standard or custom meeting motions
• Attach multiple documents to notices and merge them as one PDF
• Electronic Minute Book records attendance, voting results and decision making
• Integrates to 3rd party mail-house solutions
• Automatically publishes all finalised notices and minutes to the Community portal
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Procurement
• The procurement module manages RFQ's and Work Orders
• Integrated to the AP, GL and budgeting modules
• Automatically email tender documents to selected contractors
• Turn RFQ's into purchase orders and finally invoices in the AP module
• Set spending limits and authorisation rules
• Get internal authorisation via the Task Management System
• Get external authorisation from directors and committee members via the portal
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E-mail Tracking
• The system handles all outgoing emails of invoices, arrears, meetings and general communication
• The “Email Box” contains a sent items folder for each property in your portfolio
• Tracks delivery receipt and other supporting information
• Email “bounce” handling
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Serious Security
• Operates over a 256 bit SSL connection. Urbanise’s SSL certificates are secured by Thawte
• Configure “Access Group” policies to restrict access at the screen (and in some cases field) level
• Multiple layers of users within your organisation
• Assign users to specific buildings
• Full audit trail of all system changes in key areas such as Address Book, financial screens etc
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Connected to the Community Portal
• The Accounting and Management system shares the same database as the Community Portal
• User management and data sharing is automated
• Customers see data, including financials, in real-time
• Get updates back from the portal such as payment and work order approvals
• Delivers managers a true “self-service” solution
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COMMUNITY PORTAL – KEY FEATURES
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Property Website
• Every property automatically gets a website with a unique domain address
• The site is CMS enabled which means you can update the content
• Fully responsive site i.e. mobile-ready
• Comes with a Photo Gallery, interactive Business Directory feature and Facilities & Services widget
• Residents and tenants can apply to join via the site – requests sent to the manager
• Forgotten password function
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Members-only Section
• Reserved for managers, committee members, owners and tenants
• Each user has different levels of access, and this can be customised on a building-by-building basis
• User management is automated via the Address Book in the management software
• Includes social networking tools, communication tools and “self-service tools” such as a Request System
• Includes financial data and important community documents
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Access to Financial Data
• All financial data is in real-time as the portal shares the same database as the Accounting software
• Graphical interface – easy to understand for owners
• Annual Budget, Income & Expenditure statement, Balance Sheet, GL, AP ledger and Service Charge Collections
• Paper reports are a thing of the past!
• Managers choose how much or little they want to share
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Online statements & payments
• Owners can check their financial balances online
• Print previous invoices & receipts
• Pay via a secure gateway and see their statement and the accounting software reconcile in real-time
• Improve collection rates and save time in receipting income
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Maintenance & Service Requests
• Owners and tenants can lodge maintenance or service requests with their manager
• Every request is given a unique ticket number, a copy is sent to the client and the manager
• Where the requests go to can be configured on a building-by-building basis
• Integrated to the Urbanise FM solution (coming soon)
• Can be integrated to any 3rd party FM system
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Important Documents
• Publish documents from the Accounting & Management software or via the Portal
• Committee members can publish documents via the portal
• Viewing permissions can be set for every document
• Great tool for developers and projects under construction
• Important information stays with the unit - floor plans, paint schedules, oven and dishwasher manuals and more
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Directories & Listings
• Comes with a standard business directory listing
• Managers and committee members can add and edit the listings
• Can also be integrated to leading real estate CRM systems
• Show live listings of properties for sale or lease on the portal
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SMS Messaging
• Send SMS messages to your committee members, owners and tenants quickly and easily
• The mobile numbers of your clients are automatically displayed as per the details in the address book
• Keeps a register of all past SMS sent, including why they may have failed
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Bespoke property sites
• Choose from one of our awesome templates or engage us to develop something completely bespoke
• Use existing project web sites
• Put the login script on your own site, including your corporate site
• Our sites can also act as a project marketing web site for property developers
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Your look. Your feel.
• Make the system look and feel like your own solution
• Add your branding and change the colour scheme or “skin” for the product
• Insert a customised header and footer on the inner pages of the portal
• Advertising opportunities
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The Lobby Screen
• Automated messaging system directly connected to the portal platform
• Great for screens and tablets in foyers and lifts
• Events, Community Notices and Special Promotions all displayed via the Lobby Screen
• Local weather and news feeds
• Advertising opportunities