Set up your corporation

Registering a corporation takes about two minutes and creates the workspace everything else lives in. You become its first council administrator.

The fields

Corporation name

Enter it exactly as it appears on your registered documents — in BC that usually reads The Owners, Strata Plan NW1234. This name is printed on statutory forms, financial statements, meeting notices, and owner emails, so getting it right now saves reprinting later. You can change it afterwards in corporation settings.

Province

This is the most consequential field on the form. Your province selects a rule set that determines:

• how many days of notice a meeting needs;
• what "majority vote", "3/4 vote", "80% vote" and "unanimous vote" mean when votes are counted;
• which reserve-fund report you owe and how often;
• which statutory forms you can generate;
• whether interest may be charged on overdue fees, and the statutory cap on it.

Number of lots

How many strata lots (units) the corporation contains. This is used immediately for two things:

1. Whether certain obligations apply at all. In BC, the depreciation-report requirement applies to corporations with 5 or more lots — enter 4 and the calendar will not nag you about it.
2. Your plan. Pricing is per lot. See plans and billing.

You do not have to register the individual lots yet — that is the next step. This number is just the count.

Strata plan number (optional)

Your registered plan number, e.g. NW1234 or LMS0987. It appears on Form B and Form F, so fill it in before you generate either.

Your name (optional)

Shown beside you on the council roster. Worth filling in — an owner reading a decision wants to see a name, not an email address.

What happens when you click Create

1. Your workspace is created

   An empty corporation, with your province's rule set attached and you as its first council administrator.

2. Your compliance calendar is generated

   Deadlines are calculated from the rule set and your lot count, immediately. In BC a corporation with 5+ lots will already show a depreciation-report item counting down. See the compliance calendar.

3. You land on the dashboard

   Mostly empty — that is expected. The first week checklist is the fastest route to a useful workspace.

Settings you will want soon

These live under Settings and are worth doing in your first session:

Changing province later

You can change it, but do not do so casually. The rule set is what your existing compliance items, notice periods and vote thresholds were calculated against, and switching re-derives them. If your corporation genuinely moves jurisdiction — a rare thing — change it and then review every open item on the compliance calendar before trusting it.