Porchlight Fiscal analyzes the financial packets your company already produces. It doesn’t replace your accounting — it makes the community manager presenting your numbers look prepared, precise, and ahead of the board’s questions.
Every community manager knows the moment: a board member finds the one odd number in a 100-page packet and asks about it live. Porchlight Fiscal finds that number first — the miscoded invoice, the unusual credit, the fund running low — and hands the manager the explanation before the meeting. When the question comes, the answer is already on the table.
Watch items surface with names and amounts — “flagged for accounting’s review” — so corrections happen quietly, in the normal course of business.
Monthly financial prep collapses from a half-day of retyping to an import and a read-through. Across a manager’s portfolio, that’s days returned every month.
Every community gets the same board-ready report and the same watchfulness — whether the manager is in year one or year twenty.
A one-page board cover with plain-English statuses, then tabs of detail. Every number opens to its evidence; the PDF prints meeting-ready.
The daily view between meetings: cash, reserves, collections, and a needs-attention feed that names accounts and amounts.
Next year’s budget built line by line on real actuals, with the reserve study’s funding plan imported directly — and board remarks carried on every line.
Every open issue with a time-stamped note history — who has it, what’s next, and how long it’s been open. Board-shareable as a read-only snapshot.
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Your first-year manager presents like a twenty-year veteran. Your twenty-year veteran gets their evenings back.
Management companies already partner with banks and service providers to bring boards better options. Porchlight works the same way: your community managers introduce the Porchlight Suite to the boards they serve, boards subscribe directly — a simple monthly subscription per community with a one-time setup — and your company is compensated as a partner for each community that comes aboard.
The community pays for its own tool; your company’s partnership is recognized with one-time partner compensation per onboarded community.
Partner compensation is structured so it can be disclosed to boards plainly and completely — the way a trusted advisor’s relationships should be.
The lasting benefit isn’t the fee — it’s managers who walk into board night prepared, with hours back in their week.
Program details — terms, compensation, and onboarding — are discussed directly. Start that conversation →
Board night comes every month. Your managers walk in ready.
Onboard as many communities as you like — each one takes a single import. Run a month end to end, take the report to board night, and let the results make the argument for the rest of the portfolio.
Any from a manager’s portfolio — one with a reserve study cycle underway makes a great showcase.
The manager imports the packet, reviews the dashboard, and takes the report to their next board meeting.
Hours spent, questions fielded, issues caught. Then roll it out as wide as you want.
