Porchlight Fiscal
The suite

Five tools. One story. Zero retyping. One goal.

The goal: a board as tuned in to its community’s fiscal health as the manager who works with it every day. Everything starts from the monthly financial packet, imported once and understood everywhere. Each tool below reads from the same record, so the report, the dashboard, and the budget can never disagree.

The financial report

A report the board actually reads.

It opens on a one-page cover: the health verdict, the four numbers that matter, board attention items, and watch items — written in the voice of a manager briefing a board, not an accountant filing paperwork. Behind the cover, tabs hold the full detail: delinquencies, operating, reserves, and investment accounts. Every claim clicks through to its evidence. Print it and it paginates cleanly with real page numbers, ready for the meeting packet.

STABLE
Demonstration Community
Financial Report — March 2026
CoverDelinquenciesOperatingReservesInvestments
Operating liquidity
$412.8K
5.1 months of expenses
HEALTHY
Reserve position
$2.94M
71% funded per study
ON PLAN
Collections
97.2%
$11.4K remains past due
HEALTHY
YTD net income
$186.3K
ahead of budget pace
VALIDATE
Board attention
One CD matured, awaiting reinvestment — $150K at First Federal.
Deposits at one bank above the FDIC limit — coverage unconfirmed.
Watching
Fire Sprinkler Testing ran $13K over its annual budget — one-time item, explained.

One-minute cover

Liquidity, reserve position, collections, and net income — each with a plain-English status, not just a number.

Evidence on click

Every figure opens a detail view: monthly trends, the statement’s own rows, and the invoices behind a line item.

Honest anomalies

An unusual credit or a spike is named — the GL, the amount, the month — and marked on the chart itself.

The command dashboard

The whole community at a glance, every day.

Between board meetings, the dashboard is the manager’s home: cash on hand, reserve funding against the study, budget variance, delinquency counts, maturing CDs, and open action items — each tile opening into the same detail views the report uses. When something needs attention, it says so by name.

  • Needs-attention feed — deposits over the FDIC limit, matured CDs awaiting reinvestment, spending running ahead of plan.
  • Spending by section — each budget section’s pace against the year, with one-time payments treated fairly.
  • Bank accounts — every account across operating, reserve, and other funds, with rates and maturities.
  • Board notes — the month’s talking points, drafted from the data and edited in the manager’s own voice.
Budget & reserves

Next year’s budget, built on this year’s truth.

The budget tool starts from actuals — every GL’s real history — and carries board remarks line by line. Reserve studies import directly: the funding plan lands against the right components, and the fully-funded target drives the dashboard’s percent-funded gauge. Approvals and fiscal-year close-outs are guided, with backups taken automatically.

Trends you can only see with memory

Every import adds a month to the community’s history, and every line item carries it — utilities creeping, landscaping seasonality, insurance renewals. Click any GL and its whole story is there, months side by side. Budgets stop being last year’s number plus a guess.

Delinquencies

The follow-through, tracked.

Delinquency tracking works at the account level — aging, stage history, attorney status — with a timeline per account that builds month over month. Homeowner names never appear anywhere: account numbers only, on screen and in print.

Collections with a memory

A stalled account looks exactly like a moving one on a single statement. Month over month, the tracker knows the difference — and says so, with a nudge when it’s time to ask the collections vendor what’s happening.

Action items

The tool your manager touches every day.

Financials have a monthly rhythm — action items have a daily one. The clubhouse roof, the irrigation valve, the thing a homeowner reported at last night’s meeting: every open issue lives in one list, with a priority, an owner, and a running clock. Nothing ages silently.

One glance, whole workload

Open the list and the day organizes itself: what’s urgent, what’s waiting on a vendor, what needs the board. Filters for priority and status; a counter for how long every issue has been open. Adding an issue takes ten seconds — a title, a priority, done.

One line a day builds the whole history

The daily gesture is a single sentence: what happened today. Every note is time-stamped forever, so when the board asks “what’s the story with the roof?”, the answer is fourteen dated entries — who called whom, what the vendor said, when the estimate landed. Institutional memory that survives vacations, handoffs, and board turnover. And the whole list shares to the board as a read-only snapshot, one click.

Updating the board takes one click — today

Share the list as a read-only snapshot and every board member gets the full picture on their phone — each issue with its priority, its age, and the latest note. No accounts to set up, nothing they can accidentally change, no status-report email to write. The update is the list.

Walk the property. Type one line. Done — remembered forever.

Under the hood

Boring where it should be boring.

  • Nothing to install — each community lives at its own secure web address behind a sign-in.
  • Encrypted — in transit (HTTPS) and at rest on encrypted storage.
  • Source files never kept — imported PDFs are processed and discarded; only the structured record remains.
  • Homeowner privacy by architecture — the system stores account numbers only; homeowner names, addresses, emails, and phone numbers are never kept, so there’s nothing to breach.
  • Every save backed up — automatic rotating backups beside the community record.
  • One community, one file — each association’s data is isolated by design, not by policy.
  • Nightly snapshots — the whole server, automatically, every day.

The packet arrives once a month. The watching never stops.

Porchlight Fiscal

See it on a real community’s rhythm.

A walkthrough takes twenty minutes: one import, the report, the dashboard, and the questions it answers before a board asks them.

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