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What's new in early November: the register as a list, private-portion improvements, water heater plates and a setup done for you

The register can show as a list with a document preview, private-portion improvements have their own view, CondoAide reads a water heater's rating plate from a photo, and the board can hand us the syndicate's setup. Plus some twenty other improvements.

Here is the rest of what arrived between late October and early November, beyond the features announced separately.

The register, as a list, with a preview beside it

The register can now show as a list, with "View". A selected document opens in the "Document preview" panel, next to the list: you move from one document to the next without leaving the page, and "Open in a new tab" is still there.

The register as a list: minutes selected in the list show in the "Document preview" panel

An outdated document can also be marked as replaced ("Mark as replaced"), naming the document that replaces it: its due date is no longer tracked, and "Undo replacement" restores it. The maintenance log and the contingency fund study can now be imported from a document already in the register, with "Choose", without filing a second copy.

Improvements, from common portions to private portions

"Improvement works" keeps the list of improvements decided by the meeting, each tied to its decision, and converts into a work order. A finished improvement that creates a new common part is added to the maintenance log's components in one click, with "Add to components".

The "Type of work" switch adds the "Private portions" view: the board sees every unit's improvements, and each co-owner sees those of their own units. The forms now ask only for what is needed; the rest sits under "More details".

Water heaters, from a photo of the plate

A co-owner declaring their water heater can add a photo of the rating plate: CondoAide reads it with artificial intelligence and fills in the fields for them, and they check before saving. A board that already has the plate photos imports them all at once with "Import water heater plates", one photo per unit, then checks each reading.

Obligations: follow up and sign up

  • "Remind late co-owners", in "Obligation status", writes in one click to those who have not fulfilled an obligation. Each obligation also sets the first reminder before the due date and the follow-up interval.
  • Optional sign-ups join obligations: a snow-removal alert, a parking waiting list. The co-owner signs up or leaves on their own, with their consent, and responses are deleted on the chosen end date, at most two years after the form was created.
  • "Pause reminders" stops payment reminders for a single unit, for the length of an arrangement, and the list of paused units stays visible.

A setup done for you

When a syndicate is created, "Let us do the setup" opens "Assisted setup". The board drops everything it has, files or whole folders: exports from another software, spreadsheets, the declaration of co-ownership, budgets, co-owner lists, up to 1,000 files. It authorizes CondoAide to process them, and our team sets up the syndicate, in a support thread where the board follows the progress. The files are kept in Quebec and deleted 60 days after the setup ends; the board can delete them sooner.

The budget

  • The adoption steps of the budget show on its page, with the emails each one sends to co-owners.
  • A budget adopted mid-year asks how to bill the elapsed months: on each installment's usual date, or spread over the remaining installments.
  • A budget kept outside CondoAide can be declared as such, for the current or the next fiscal year.
  • The menu warns the board until a budget is adopted, since contributions depend on it.
  • Arrears also export to PDF, month by month, with the unit number only.

Insurance, building by building

A co-ownership with several buildings records one policy per building, and an insured amount per building for a policy that covers them all. The attestation uses the highest deductible among the syndicate's policies. "Re-read the filed PDF" reads again the policy already in the register; nothing is saved until the board confirms.

Also

  • Works and claims, board only: in "Syndicate settings", the board can reserve these pages to the board. The maintenance log and the improvements to their own unit stay visible to the co-owner.
  • No more "unit contact": every co-owner of a unit receives the same notices, and a tenant's request notifies them all.
  • A plan's price now counts only dwellings and commercial units; garages, parking spaces, storage units and lockers do not count.
  • A work order created by mistake can be deleted, and the window says what prevents it, if anything. Completing a work order also warns when a similar expense is already recorded, and the cost can be split across funds.
  • The maintenance log shows planned maintenance as a calendar or a list, and the component's photos in a task's panel.
  • Spaces (parking, storage) have dated leases, and their tenure shows on the unit page.
  • The Inbox says which recipients an email was not delivered to, and why. A shared email sent to many members offers to go out as a broadcast, where everyone gets their own copy. Unit groups become distribution lists.
  • A request changes status right from its header.
  • "Board" is now a tab of the syndicate settings, and "Vendors" sits under "Registries".
  • A unit's page has its own "Claims" tab, and a commercial unit carries a "Commercial" badge.
  • Recovery codes: someone using two-step verification without recovery codes is invited to create them.
  • A thin progress bar shows at the top of the page while a page changes, including with the Back and Forward buttons.

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