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For small associations

HOA software that doesn’t punish you for being small

Most HOA platforms are priced for management companies and sold by the door. For a small association that maths stops working: you pay real money for software your board uses a few hours a month, out of dues collected from a few dozen households. There is no size limit here — the flat price simply bites hardest when there are fewest doors to spread it over.

$14.99/month for the whole community · 30 days free · No credit card

$14.99

per month, whole community

Unlimited

homes, members and admins

30 days

free, no credit card required

$0

setup, onboarding and support fees

What a small board is actually up against

Not a lack of features. A lack of hours, and a budget that has to be defended to neighbours at an annual meeting.

The whole board is three people

A treasurer, a secretary, a president — all volunteers with jobs. Nobody has a week to learn a platform, and nobody is going to run an implementation project.

Every dollar is visible

At 40 homes, a $99/month platform is roughly $30 per household per year, and somebody will ask about it. At $14.99 flat it is under $5 and the question does not come up.

The board turns over

Records live in one volunteer’s inbox until they rotate off, and then they don’t. What a small association needs most is somewhere shared for the history to sit.

The per-door maths

What a typical per-unit platform costs a small association each year, against a flat price.

Annual cost of per-unit pricing compared with a flat price
Homes Per-unit platform HOA Grove You keep
25$588/yr$180/yr$408
50$708/yr$180/yr$528
100$1,188/yr$180/yr$1,008
150$1,548/yr$180/yr$1,368
300$2,388/yr$180/yr$2,208
500$2,988/yr$180/yr$2,808

Per-unit figures are PayHOA’s published billed-yearly tiers as of 30 August 2026, used as the best-known example of per-door pricing. See the full comparison, including where PayHOA is the better fit.

Questions small boards ask

Is there a minimum community size?

No. A twelve-home association pays the same $14.99 as a twelve-hundred-home one, and nothing is switched off at the bottom end.

We only need dues collection. Is this overkill?

Use the parts you need. Plenty of communities start with dues and documents and never touch work orders. You are not paying extra for the rest, so there is nothing to switch off.

How long does setup take for a small community?

An afternoon. Under a hundred homes you can type the addresses in directly; send us the list if you would rather not. See how switching works.

We are not small. Is this page telling us to go away?

Not at all — this page exists because small associations are the ones most obviously overcharged by per-unit pricing, not because there is a size limit. There is no cap on homes, residents or admins, and the flat price saves a 500-home association considerably more than it saves a 50-home one. What decides fit is what you need rather than how many doors you have: if your board wants a general ledger and full financial statements in the same system, see what HOA Grove does not do.

What if we grow?

The price does not move. That is rather the point of charging per community instead of per door.

Give your board its evenings back

Set up your community in an afternoon. Thirty days, commitment free — no credit card, no onboarding call, no contract.

Questions first? Email support@hoagrove.com — a person answers.