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CommunityPay
Seattle, Washington
What it is
CommunityPay provides payments and accounting systems for community associations, along with tools for recording transaction decisions. Its accounting product includes double-entry bookkeeping, fund tracking, period locks, and board-ready financial reports. Residents can pay online by ACH or card; vendor payments use Stripe Connect, support batch processing, and create journal entries automatically when paid. The platform routes journal entries through an enforcement dispatcher that evaluates guards and records immutable decisions. Its API can request resale certificates generated from live ledger data and deliver them through HMAC-signed callbacks. The Legal Corpus API covers statutes, thresholds, and compliance profiles across 50 states plus D.C. QuickBooks and Xero sync are listed as included features. A token-gated CPA audit portal offers read-only, scope-restricted sections and event logging. The community platform costs $1 per unit per month, with a $100 minimum and $500 cap per community; processing fees are passed through at cost. The public API is free, with anonymous requests limited to 50 per hour per IP.
For and against
For
- Includes double-entry bookkeeping and fund tracking.
- Residents can pay by ACH or card.
- Vendor payments support batch processing.
- QuickBooks and Xero sync are included features.
- Public API offers statute and compliance lookups.
Against
- Community platform has a $100 monthly minimum.
- Processing fees are passed through at cost.
- Anonymous public API access is limited to 50 requests hourly.
- Professional API plan is $99 per month.
The verdict
CommunityPay brings association accounting, resident and vendor payments, and compliance-related API tools together. Prospective users should weigh the community minimum and API access limits against the features they need.
Who it suits
CommunityPay is aimed at HOAs, condominiums, planned communities, and the organizations that work with them, including lenders, insurers, title companies, CPAs, and management companies. The accounting and payment tools may suit groups that need financial records alongside resident and vendor payments.
Plans and prices
Public API
50 requests/hour · statute lookup, thresholds, compliance profiles and topics · no signup
Read 21 Oct 2026 · communitypay.us
CommunityPay Platform
$250 minimum per community · over 500 units custom pricing · ACH processing fees passed through at cost · $1,500 one-time custom onboarding
Read 21 Oct 2026 · communitypay.us
Professional API
1,000 requests/day · citation extraction · law-change feed · CARI score access
Read 21 Oct 2026 · communitypay.us
Enterprise API
10,000+ requests/day · webhooks · bulk export · SLA
Read 21 Oct 2026 · communitypay.us
On the record
- Accounting
- The accounting product provides double-entry bookkeeping, fund tracking, period locks, and board-ready financial reports.communitypay.us · read 30 Sep 2026
- Accounting automation
- Successful payment webhooks create accounting receipts and post ledger entries automatically through Django signals.communitypay.us · read 21 Oct 2026
- API access limits
- Anonymous Legal Corpus API calls are limited to 50 requests per hour per IP, while CARI API access requires an API key and is metered by daily tier.communitypay.us · read 30 Sep 2026
- API authentication
- Authenticated API keys support scoped permissions, expiration, revocation and tier-based daily limits.communitypay.us · read 21 Oct 2026
- API coverage
- The Legal Corpus API covers statutes, thresholds, and compliance profiles across 50 states plus D.C., for 51 tracked jurisdictions.communitypay.us · read 30 Sep 2026
- API documentation
- The API page publishes endpoint paths, methods, authentication requirements, example curl calls and JSON response structures.communitypay.us · read 21 Oct 2026
- Audit access
- The platform includes a token-gated, read-only CPA audit portal with scope-restricted sections and event logging.communitypay.us · read 30 Sep 2026
- Audit portal
- A token-gated, read-only portal gives CPAs scoped access to audit records and logs their views.communitypay.us · read 21 Oct 2026
- CARI
- The CARI API supplies consent-gated association risk scores, institutional reports and real-time monitoring.communitypay.us · read 21 Oct 2026
- Company background
- The company says CommunityPay was founded by Scott Vuilleumier in Seattle, Washington.communitypay.us · read 30 Sep 2026
- Company legal name
- The maker identifies itself as CommunityPay, Inc.communitypay.us · read 21 Oct 2026
- Founder
- The About page says Scott Vuilleumier founded CommunityPay in Seattle and built the platform end to end.communitypay.us · read 21 Oct 2026
- Fund accounting
- The platform provides double-entry fund accounting with operating, reserve and special-fund segregation.communitypay.us · read 21 Oct 2026
- Idempotency
- Payment duplication protection operates at payment-key, webhook-event and provider-transaction layers.communitypay.us · read 21 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The pricing page lists QuickBooks and Xero sync as included platform features.communitypay.us · read 30 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- The company says it serves HOAs, condominiums, and planned communities, as well as lenders, insurers, title companies, CPAs, and management companies.communitypay.us · read 30 Sep 2026
- Legal Corpus API
- The Legal Corpus API covers statutes, thresholds and compliance profiles for 50 states plus D.C. and federal sources, totaling 51 jurisdictions.communitypay.us · read 21 Oct 2026
- Limit: API quota
- Anonymous Legal Corpus API use is limited to 50 requests per hour per IP address.communitypay.us · read 21 Oct 2026
