Question 1

How much does ForgeHOA cost?

Accepted Answer

ForgeHOA has three plans. Essentials is $39/month for communities up to 30 units and includes core HOA management , financials, voting, violations, maintenance. Essentials Plus is $89/month for communities up to 150 units and adds advanced reporting, committees, and special assessments. The Advanced Toolkit is an optional +$49/month add-on that unlocks the AI Insights Suite, mobile inspections, configurable forms, year-end close, and the public API. Enterprise (150+ units or multi-community portfolios) is custom-priced , contact sales. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial. No credit card required to try it.

Question 2

What's in the Advanced Toolkit / AI Insights Suite add-on?

Accepted Answer

The Advanced Toolkit (+$49/month) unlocks the AI Insights Suite (20+ AI tools including live board-meeting copilot, expense anomaly detection, CC&R drift detector, response drafter, institutional memory search, and document-grounded RAG over CC&Rs), mobile inspections with offline-first photo capture and GPS, configurable forms, year-end close automation, manual journal entries, and the public REST API + webhooks. It stacks on top of Essentials or Essentials Plus.

Question 3

Does ForgeHOA support condo associations or only HOAs?

Accepted Answer

Both. Templates, notice deadlines and reserve-study reminders are filed by association type, HOA or condo, for each state ForgeHOA covers. Disclosures, election windows, reserve-study cadence, and inspection requirements follow your community's own paperwork, not a generic template.

Question 4

Can inspectors capture violations from their phone with no signal?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The mobile inspections module (included in the Advanced Toolkit add-on) is offline-first. Inspectors can walk a community without cell signal, capture photos with GPS coordinates, mark violations against a route, and the queue syncs automatically when they're back online. iOS and Android both supported.

Question 5

How does ForgeHOA compare to Vantaca, AppFolio, PayHOA, and Condo Control?

Accepted Answer

ForgeHOA is the only platform in its class with 20+ AI tools built in , from live board-meeting copilot to CC&R drift detection. Side-by-side with the top competitors we match or exceed every core feature at a lower price point, and we're the only one with a free tier.

Question 6

Can property management companies (PMCs) use ForgeHOA for multiple communities?

Accepted Answer

Yes. ForgeHOA includes a dedicated PMC portal with portfolio dashboard, unified inbox across every managed community, bulk broadcast, shared vendor directory, master billing with volume pricing down to $19 per community at 201+, white-label branding, SSO via Google/Microsoft/Okta, and a guided client-acquisition wizard that takes a new HOA from signed contract to live in under 10 minutes.

Question 7

Does ForgeHOA work on mobile?

Accepted Answer

Yes. ForgeHOA has native iOS and Android apps in the App Store and Play Store, plus an installable PWA for desktop. The mobile apps include camera capture for violation evidence, push notifications, and biometric unlock.

Question 8

Is my community's data isolated from other communities on the platform?

Accepted Answer

Yes , every table enforces Row-Level Security at the PostgreSQL layer, below the application. Every community can download a signed data-isolation attestation for their board packet that enumerates every RLS policy scoped to their community and the row counts visible to them. It is architecturally impossible for another community to read or write your community's data.

Question 9

Does ForgeHOA integrate with QuickBooks?

Accepted Answer

Yes , built in, not an add-on. QuickBooks Online sync handles customers, invoices, payments, and chart-of-accounts mapping. No paid integration partner required.

Question 10

What AI tools does ForgeHOA include?

Accepted Answer

ForgeHOA includes 20+ AI tools: live board-meeting copilot with motion detection and automated minutes, morning briefings personalized per board member, institutional memory search over past decisions, response drafter for messages and violations, AI document analysis, budget generation, expense anomaly detection, community health score, proactive advisor with 7 pattern types, vendor performance scoring, smart invoice approval routing, document-grounded RAG over CC&Rs, violation photo triage, CC&R drift detector, state-statute citations, a Fair Housing language check, a drafting aid and not a legal review, and more.

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