Product Updates Archive

ADDA App gets a MASSIVE upgrade

Dear Android ADDA Users, Back in March, we had a royal launch of the ADDA Android App. And got a royal showdown from you. Because it had only 3 of ADDA’s 25+ Features. And it did not have the Pole Stars of ADDA Navigation – The Resident’s Dashboard and Admin’s Dashboard. While it worked flawlessly and had

ADDA on Android!

Dear Globe Trotters! Happy to announce the launch of the mobile version of ApartmentADDA. Currently this is available for all Android Phones and Tablets. iOS Users please hold on for a little while. In this first release you will be able to lodge and view HelpDesk Tickets. You can browse through the ADDA Classifieds. Update

Enhanced Utility Billing and Piped Gas Slabs

Dear ADDA Treasurers, Wish you a very Happy New Year. We have a new release which will make you happy.  The Utility Billing functionality has been upgraded with 2 important features. 1. Memorize Readings A long standing request of some treasurers where they had to maintain the Meter Readings offline in Excel and upload only

Facility Booking Upgrades

Dear ADDA Users, We have released a bunch of upgrades on your Facility Booking Application. 1. Introducing “Tatkal Period” For facilities with huge demand, you can now set the number of days before which a facility can be booked. This can be set by editing a facility. 2. Introducing “No Booking Period” Now the Association

Launching Apex ADDA!

Dear ADDA Users, We are happy to announce the launch of a new Feature - The Apex ADDA. Background In large Apartment Complexes made of multiple Towers/Buildings, we frequently find each Tower or Building having its own Registered Society. These Societies together form an Apex Body to manage the common facilities – like Clubhouse, Common

Introducing Refundable Deposit Workflow

Hello ADDA Treasurers, The long awaited / requested feature is now available – The Refundable Deposit Workflow. Here is the sequence of this workflow. 1. Member while booking the Party Hall gives a Refundable Deposit  say Rs.5,000. 2. After the Party is over, the Estate Manager discovers a broken light Fixture worth Rs.1,000. 3. When

Introducing Deposit Slips

Hello ADDA Treasurers, Here is an easy way to generate Deposit Slips. In all the Income Tracker Collection screens you will now see a drop down for a Deposit Slip Number. This is tied to every Bank & Cash Account you have. When you want to start on a new Deposit Slip Number, choose the

Photo Album in your ADDA!

The Festival season just got kicked off by Independence Day! Nothing brings a community together like bright and colorful festivals do. And the spirit of celebration gets captured in cameras – of yours and your neighbors’. The same moments, captured from different perspectives! Every festival season your community generates a wealth of Photos that you

Introducing Smart SubGroups!

Dear ADDA Users, We have made your SubGroup “Smarter”. When you edit a Subgroup you have a new option called “Enable Smart Subgroup”. Once you enable smart subgroup – you have the following options : 1. Add owners to this subgroup 2. Add Management Committee Members to this subgroup 3. Add Members of a particular

Payment Gateway rates GOING DOWN!

In the ApartmentADDA Payment Gateway (AAPG) setups, the Resident pays an extra Payment Gateway charge (of a maximum 2.5%, all inclusive), when they make their Association payment using the AAPG. We have an exciting news for Associations using the AAPG! There are going to be MAJOR rate reductions in the Payment Gateway Charges. While all

MC Elections in your Secret Ballot

Dear ADDA Admins, We have added new functionality to your Online Secret Ballot to support 2 types of Elections  - Executive Commitee Election and Management Committee Election. Executive Committee Election This was the existing functionality. Create the Executive Committee Designations -President / Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer etc. For each post, the Election Officer can list down

HelpDesk Ticket Notifications by Shift Timings

Dear ADDA Admins, There have been 2 enhancements to your Helpdesk Tracker. 1. Introducing Shift Timings for Level-1 Ticket Notification. This functionality is relevant for large Complexes where Maintenance staff (e.g., Plumbers, Electricians) work in shifts. When a ticket is raised, based on the time of the ticket, the ticket will get assigned to the

Announcing Meeting Tracker

Dear ADDA Admins, Face to face meetings are essential to any Society – ADDA or no ADDA.  But, your ADDA can now help you organize and record these meetings much better! The Meeting Tracker has been released as an enhancement to the Project Tracker. To reflect this added functionality this application has been re-named to

Raise-a-ticket-by-SMS!

Yes! Raise a little hell! Raise a ticket by SMS! Imagine this. You are driving into the basement after a tiring workday and you notice an exposed cable come loose from the ceiling. Would you remember to lodge this complaint after getting home and logging into you computer? Now you don’t have to! While walking

Photo Upload in HelpDesk!

See the Security Guard sleeping blissfully at the Main Gate at Midnight? Take a picture, attach it to the Ticket you raise in HelpDesk.  Let the picture speak a thousand wordzzz. Want to show your gratitude to the Electrician for reviving a long-dead Light Point? To the Helpdesk Ticket attach a picture of your child

Great News – Essential SMS Reach All

Dear ADDA Admins, In September 2011, a TRAI regulation had crippled the SMS Delivery Feature of many Web Portals. According to this regulation, SMS from most Portals could reach only to Mobile Numbers NOT listed in the Do Not Call Registry. And SMS could go only between 9AM to 9PM. Related Post: http://apartmentadda.com/blog/2011/09/26/important-announcement-on-sms/ This had

Automatic Service Tax Credits and Tax Certificate

Dear ADDA Treasurers, You need not ‘Tax’ your brain anymore to calculate Service Tax Credits or Generate Tax Certificates for Vendors. This is automated in your ADDA now! Check it out here: Admin’s Dashboard > Bank & Cash > TDS & Service Tax. You can find all the Tax Components in one place. Service Tax

Asset Tracker Enhanced to Track Inventory

Dear ADDA Admins, The Asset Tracker has been upgraded to track Inventory as well. Now you can track the inflow and outflow of any inventory that you are interested in tracking – be it Diesel, Water, CFL bulbs, Chlorine etc. A full history can now be maintained on who added, or withdrew the consumables. Apart

Enhancements to Automatic Billing

Dear ADDA Treasurers, Are you faced with Billing situation which goes strictly by the book: Maintenance Charges by square feet Corpus Fund by flat fee Parking charges & Parking Tax by actual number of Parking Slots Water charges by Number of Water Inlets Property Tax by which floor the Flat is on NOC charges depending

Move In/Out Tracker launched!

The common aim of every Gated Community: Establish a robust Move-In, Move-Out Process. Challenges in achieving this aim Arriving at a streamlined best-practice process that serves the purpose, without being an overkill. Enforcing the process uniformly in the Society Office and monitoring the same. Till date you wished this process could be online. Now it