CommunityPay provides payment and accounting infrastructure for community associations, with systems that record transactions and the decisions governing them. Its accounting tools include double-entry bookkeeping, fund tracking, period locks, and board-ready reports. Payment controls send journal entries through a dispatcher that evaluates guards and records decisions. Vendor payments use Stripe Connect, support batches, and create journal entries automatically; residents can pay online by ACH or card. The API can request resale certificates generated from live ledger data and return them through HMAC-signed callbacks. Its Legal Corpus API covers statutes, thresholds, and compliance profiles for 50 states plus D.C. QuickBooks and Xero sync are listed platform features. A token-gated CPA audit portal provides read-only access to restricted sections and logs events. The platform costs $1 per unit per month, with a $100 community minimum and $500 cap; processing fees are passed through at cost. The public API is free, with anonymous calls limited to 50 requests per hour per IP.
Who it is for
CommunityPay is aimed at HOAs, condominiums, and planned communities, as well as lenders, insurers, title companies, CPAs, and management companies. Its APIs may suit organizations needing statute or resale-certificate access.
What is good
- Accounting includes double-entry books and fund tracking.
- Residents can pay by ACH or card.
- Vendor payments can create journal entries automatically.
- QuickBooks and Xero sync are listed.
- Public API is free.
What to know first
- Platform has a $100 community minimum.
- Processing fees are passed through at cost.
- Anonymous Legal Corpus API use is limited to 50 requests per hour per IP.
Verdict
CommunityPay combines association accounting and payments with APIs for legal and resale-certificate workflows. The per-unit charge has both a community minimum and cap, and processing fees are additional pass-through costs.
Get started with CommunityPay
- Visit https://www.communitypay.us/.
- Use the free Public API without signing up, subject to its hourly request limit.
- Choose the CommunityPay platform at $1 per unit per month, with a $100 community minimum.
- Choose the Professional API for 1,000 requests per day and its listed API features.
- Contact CommunityPay about the custom Enterprise API plan.
What the free plan stops at
The free Public API allows 50 requests per hour and covers statute lookup, thresholds, compliance profiles, and topics. CommunityPay platform charges have a $100 minimum and a $500 cap per community, with processing fees passed through at cost. The Professional API plan allows 1,000 requests per day; the Enterprise API lists 10,000 or more requests per day.
Questions about CommunityPay
Is there a free plan?
Yes. The Public API is free forever, allows 50 requests per hour, and requires no signup.
How much does the community platform cost?
It costs $1 per unit per month, with a $100 minimum and $500 cap per community. Processing fees are passed through at cost.
Which platforms does CommunityPay support?
The listed platforms are API and web.
What does the Professional API include?
For $99 per month, it allows 1,000 requests per day and includes citation extraction, a law change feed, and CARI score access.
Which accounting integrations are included?
The pricing page lists QuickBooks and Xero sync as included platform features.
Who founded CommunityPay?
The company says it was founded by Scott Vuilleumier in Seattle, Washington.
CommunityPay plans and pricing
All plansCompared on HOA accounting software
- Free plan
- No
- Paid from
- $100/mo
- Assessment billing
- Yes
- Owner ledgers
- Yes
- Vendor payments
- Yes
- Financial statements
- Yes
- Bank reconciliation
- Yes
- Budget tracking
- Yes
