Software for the part of property nobody photographs.
Not the granite counters. The ledger, the dues run, the violation notice, the reconciliation — the work that decides whether a building is run well.
A studio that kept building the same thing.
Villagely is a product by The Web Design Hub, a studio that spent years building sites and software for landlords, management companies and community associations.
The same conversation happened every time. Rent lived in one tool, the books in a spreadsheet, the association’s documents in a shared drive, and the community website nowhere at all. At tax time nobody could give an owner a straight answer, and residents had no reasonable way to pay or report a problem.
So we stopped assembling the same stack out of other people’s products and built one where a signed lease flows into rent collection, the ledger and the resident’s portal without anybody re-entering it — and where an association can run its dues, its notices and its elections in the same place.
Villagely is early. We would rather tell you that than pretend otherwise, and we document exactly what ships on the pricing page.
Four rules we hold ourselves to.
Say what it does, not what it will do
Every capability on this site works today, with one exception we name in plain words on the pricing page. A roadmap presented as a product is a lie with a launch date.
The record has to be defensible
Entries are reversed, never deleted. Notices are dated and kept. A board election seals its results until voting closes. When something is disputed a year later, the answer is in the system.
Refuse rather than warn
A disbursement that would overdraw one owner’s trust balance is rejected, not flagged. A resident’s private document cannot be made public. The controls that matter are enforced, not advised.
One system, one truth
The rent ledger, the owner statement and the trial balance are three views of the same records. There is no sync, no nightly job, and no second place for the numbers to drift.
Three doors or three hundred.
A landlord with a handful of units needs the same ledger discipline as a company with five hundred — they just need less of the apparatus around it. Villagely is priced by how much you manage rather than which capabilities you are allowed, so a small operator gets the whole product.
Community associations are the part most rental software ignores. Dues are not rent, a violation notice is not an invoice, and a board election is not a survey. We built those properly rather than approximating them with the rental tools.
If you hold other people’s money, the trust accounting is the reason to look at this seriously: a sub-ledger per beneficiary and a three-way reconciliation that will not close unless the bank, the books and the beneficiaries all agree.
Have a look at the real thing.
Fourteen days of the whole product, no card. Or tell us how you run things now and we will tell you honestly whether this fits.