What is ManageStrata?
A single place to run your strata or condominium corporation — deadlines, meetings, money, documents and repairs — built for volunteer councils, not accountants.
ManageStrata is software for running a strata corporation (called a condominium corporation outside BC). It replaces the pile of spreadsheets, shared inboxes and shoeboxes of paper that most self-managed buildings run on today.
You do not need an accounting background, a legal background, or any technical skill to use it. If you can use online banking, you can use ManageStrata.
What it actually does
A red / amber / green calendar of every statutory deadline your corporation has, with reminders before anything lapses.
Runs your meetingsNotice, agenda, quorum, electronic voting with the correct threshold, and AI-drafted minutes a human approves.
Keeps the booksOperating and contingency reserve funds kept separate, owner ledgers, strata fee billing, budgets and bank reconciliation.
Answers from your documentsAsk a plain-language question about your bylaws or minutes and get an answer that cites the exact page.
Tracks repairsWork orders from the owner's first report through to the invoice, with insured contractors suggested for you.
Talks to ownersAnnouncements, meeting notices and reminders by email, with an owner portal so people can help themselves.
Who it is for
Self-managed councils. The main audience. A volunteer council of three to seven people running a building of 3 to 100 lots without a management company.
Owners. Everyone who owns a lot gets a login with a reduced view: their own account and balance, their building's announcements and documents, votes they can cast, and repairs they can report. See the owner portal.
Property managers. Firms managing several buildings can hold all of them under one subscription and switch between them. See plans and billing.
The ideas behind it
Three principles shape almost every screen, and knowing them makes the software much easier to predict.
Nothing is ever deleted
Corrections are posted beside the original entry, never on top of it. A payment credited to the wrong lot gets moved with a reason attached; a charge raised in error gets cancelled with a reason attached. That is what keeps your ledger answerable to an owner who asks a hard question two years from now. See fixing mistakes.
AI drafts, a person approves
The AI will draft minutes, propose a budget, suggest a contractor, and answer questions from your documents. It never files anything, sends anything, or spends anything on its own. Every AI output is cited and waits for a human to approve it. See how AI works here.
The rules follow your province
Notice periods, voting thresholds, reserve-fund requirements and statutory forms all come from a rule set attached to your corporation's province. Choose British Columbia and you get BC's 18-day emailed notice, 3/4-vote votes, Form B and Form F, and the depreciation report deadline.
What it is not
Not legal or accounting advice
ManageStrata tracks your deadlines and does the arithmetic. It does not replace a lawyer, an accountant, or a qualified depreciation-report provider. When the compliance calendar tells you a report is due, you still engage a professional to produce it — ManageStrata records it and tracks the next one.
It is also not a replacement for your bylaws. The software encodes the statutory floor for your province; your corporation's own bylaws may be stricter, and where they are, your bylaws win.
Where your data lives
Your corporation's data is hosted in a Canadian region and handled under PIPA and PIPEDA, with an audit trail that records who did what and when. Some AI processing happens outside Canada under contract — the privacy page explains exactly what is sent where.
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Still stuck? Open Support in the top bar of the app, ask the Assistant, or contact us.