Board members are volunteers with a fiduciary duty and a day job. Porchlight Fiscal turns the monthly financial packet into something you can actually oversee: a one-minute picture of your community’s health, honest warnings when something needs attention, and the evidence one click behind every number.
A 100-page packet a month makes real oversight hard to keep hold of. Porchlight puts the board in the driver’s seat: a budget you can steer, finances you can question down to the invoice, action items held to a date. Judgment, not translation — no accounting degree required.
Cash on hand, reserve funding, collections, and net income — each with a plain-English status. If everything’s fine, it says so and you move to the next agenda item.
An unusual credit, a fund running low, a deposit above the FDIC limit — flagged with the account, the amount, and what’s being done about it. No surprises discovered by accident.
Every number opens to show its own support — the statement’s rows, the monthly trend, the invoices behind a line item. Trust, verifiable.
When the board reviews a budget line, the question is never just “is this number right?” — it’s “compared to what?” Porchlight keeps every year’s approved budget behind every line, with this year’s projection and next year’s proposal on the same picture. Judgment gets context.
Reserve funding measured against your own reserve study. Delinquencies by account number — never your neighbors’ names. What’s sensitive stays confidential.
Often through your management company’s partnership with us — or the board reaches out directly. Either door works.
Your community is onboarded from its own financial reports — typically one import. From then on it’s a simple monthly subscription, paid by the association.
Your management company remains your management company. Porchlight analyzes the reports they already produce — it doesn’t replace your accounting or your people.
Today, boards experience Porchlight through the reports and dashboards their community manager presents. Next on our roadmap is the board’s own portal: a read-only view of each published month — the health cover, the watch items, the action item list — on your laptop or your phone, whenever you want to look.
You answer for this community’s money. Understanding it shouldn’t require an accounting degree.
