Instead of Centrim Life
Stop renting Centrim Life. Own your retirement village system.
We build your version around your contracts, fee rules and villages, bring your Centrim Life resident records across, and run it for you.
Centrim Life does not publish a price; its seller books a demo and quotes, and the contract and exit money usually sit in a second system. Here the code is free and the records are yours.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
What the subscription covers
Most of a village system is a list of units and the people in them
Centrim Life covers resident and property records, maintenance and assets, communications, dining, feedback and visitor management. Underneath each screen is a record you already keep.
A price you only get after a demo
No price list on the seller’s site. You book a demo and get a quote, and the finance side of each contract is a separate system with its own quote.
Resident and property records
Who lives in which unit, their contacts and next of kin. Underneath, a unit, a contract and one or two names.
Maintenance and assets
Requests logged, assigned and closed. A list with a priority, a target date and a cost.
Communications
Messages to residents by app, text and email. Your version drafts the notes; your own email and text tools send them.
CRM for enquiries
Prospective residents and where each is up to. A name, a stage, a last contact and a next step.
The dashboard
The reports the vendor chose to build. Your own database answers those questions and the ones about money the dashboard never sees.
Your version
What the village office gets instead
Exits
Every exit entitlement worked out and dated
The ingoing, the deferred management fee, the capital gain share, refurbishment and unpaid fees, line by line, with the date it is due.
- check The New South Wales order date: 6 or 12 months, counted from 40 days after advertising or keys back
- check The Queensland 18-month buy-back date for every unsold unit
- check A written exit statement for each departure, in your brand
- check What every village owes former residents and estates, and when the first payment falls due
Fees
Fees billed by the rules
Each month’s weekly fees billed for every contract, with former residents charged only the share the law allows.
- check New South Wales: 42 days in full, then the resident’s capital gain share or nothing
- check Queensland: 90 days in full, the shared proportion to 9 months, then the operator pays
- check Residents behind on fees, with a kind reminder drafted for you to check
- check A fee statement for every resident
Resales
Empty units back to residents faster
Every unit between residents, with the stage it is at and what it is costing in fees nobody pays.
- check Valuations, refurbishment, advertising and the next resident on one record
- check Units ready to list that nobody has advertised
- check How long each village takes to relicense, from keys back to settlement
- check An update to the family or executor drafted from the facts
Village
Maintenance, enquiries and meetings in hand
Requests against target times, prospects with their next step, and the meetings the rules require.
- check Urgent, high and normal requests against their targets
- check Enquiries gone quiet, and which sources turn into residents
- check The New Zealand AGM within six months of year end, with the notice drafted
- check An AGM pack for each village: occupancy, the maintenance report, fees billed and collected
Make it yours
Design your own Centrim Life replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Centrim Life. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your Centrim Life data across and run it for you.
What it looks like
Ask it like you would ask a colleague
Real answers from the demo data that ships with Retirement Village for Claude Code. It runs in Claude Code inside the Claude app, so it feels like any chat you already use.
Retirement Village for Claude Code
Connected to your own database
What needs someone in the village office today?
RULE NSW-AGREED-VALUATION
- Village
- BR
- Record
- BR-0301
- Who
- Joan Whitfield
- Due date
- 2026-09-09
- Detail
- No agreed valuation recorded; one must be made at least 30 days bef...
RULE QLD-EXIT-STATEMENT
- Village
- PP
- Record
- PP-0701
- Who
- Thelma Grant
- Due date
- 2026-09-15
- Detail
- Exit entitlement paid 2026-09-15 with no written exit statement rec...
RULE NSW-CHARGE-CAP
- Village
- BR
- Record
- BR-0301-2026-09
- Who
- Joan Whitfield
- Due date
- 2026-09-15
- Detail
- Billed 737.14 for 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-30; the most the former res...
RULE QLD-SHARED-CHARGES
- Village
- PP
- Record
- PP-0401-2026-09
- Who
- Noel Fraser
- Due date
- 2026-09-15
- Detail
- Billed 638.57 for 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-30; the most the former res...
RULE NZ-AGM
- Village
- KG
- Record
- AGM for year ended 2026-03-31
- Due date
- 2026-09-30
- Detail
- No AGM recorded since 2026-03-31; it was due by 2026-09-30
RULE QLD-RESALE-VALUE
- Village
- PP
- Record
- PP-0501
- Who
- Elaine Ward
- Due date
- 2026-10-06
- Detail
- No agreed resale value or valuation recorded; agree it within 30 da...
EXIT DUE
- Village
- BR
- Record
- BR-0301
- Who
- Joan Whitfield
- Due date
- 2026-10-09
- Detail
- Owed AUD 442,003 (on the market)
RULE QLD-SHARED-CHARGES
- Village
- PP
- Record
- PP-0401-2026-10
- Who
- Noel Fraser
- Due date
- 2026-10-15
- Detail
- Billed 659.86 for 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-31; the most the former res...
RULE NSW-CHARGE-CAP
- Village
- BR
- Record
- BR-0301-2026-10
- Who
- Joan Whitfield
- Due date
- 2026-10-15
- Detail
- Billed 761.71 for 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-31; the most the former res...
EXIT DUE
- Village
- PP
- Record
- PP-0201
- Who
- Dulcie Hart
- Due date
- 2026-11-14
- Detail
- Owed AUD 326,730 (on the market)
MAINTENANCE OVERDUE
- Village
- PP
- Record
- MR-3002
- Who
- PP-06
- Due date
- 2026-09-29
- Detail
- normal: Water stain on the lounge ceiling after the storm
MAINTENANCE OVERDUE
- Village
- BR
- Record
- MR-2001
- Who
- BR-02
- Due date
- 2026-10-09
- Detail
- normal: Gutter overflowing at the back door when it rains
MAINTENANCE OVERDUE
- Village
- KG
- Record
- MR-1002
- Who
- KG-01
- Due date
- 2026-10-11
- Detail
- high: Bathroom heater not switching on
MAINTENANCE OVERDUE
- Village
- KG
- Record
- MR-1001
- Who
- KG-04
- Due date
- 2026-10-14
- Detail
- urgent: Hot water cylinder leaking into the hallway cupboard
| Item | Village | Record | Who | Due date | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RULE NSW-AGREED-VALUATION | BR | BR-0301 | Joan Whitfield | 2026-09-09 | No agreed valuation recorded; one must be made at least 30 days bef... |
| RULE QLD-EXIT-STATEMENT | PP | PP-0701 | Thelma Grant | 2026-09-15 | Exit entitlement paid 2026-09-15 with no written exit statement rec... |
| RULE NSW-CHARGE-CAP | BR | BR-0301-2026-09 | Joan Whitfield | 2026-09-15 | Billed 737.14 for 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-30; the most the former res... |
| RULE QLD-SHARED-CHARGES | PP | PP-0401-2026-09 | Noel Fraser | 2026-09-15 | Billed 638.57 for 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-30; the most the former res... |
| RULE NZ-AGM | KG | AGM for year ended 2026-03-31 | 2026-09-30 | No AGM recorded since 2026-03-31; it was due by 2026-09-30 | |
| RULE QLD-RESALE-VALUE | PP | PP-0501 | Elaine Ward | 2026-10-06 | No agreed resale value or valuation recorded; agree it within 30 da... |
| EXIT DUE | BR | BR-0301 | Joan Whitfield | 2026-10-09 | Owed AUD 442,003 (on the market) |
| RULE QLD-SHARED-CHARGES | PP | PP-0401-2026-10 | Noel Fraser | 2026-10-15 | Billed 659.86 for 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-31; the most the former res... |
| RULE NSW-CHARGE-CAP | BR | BR-0301-2026-10 | Joan Whitfield | 2026-10-15 | Billed 761.71 for 2026-10-01 to 2026-10-31; the most the former res... |
| EXIT DUE | PP | PP-0201 | Dulcie Hart | 2026-11-14 | Owed AUD 326,730 (on the market) |
| MAINTENANCE OVERDUE | PP | MR-3002 | PP-06 | 2026-09-29 | normal: Water stain on the lounge ceiling after the storm |
| MAINTENANCE OVERDUE | BR | MR-2001 | BR-02 | 2026-10-09 | normal: Gutter overflowing at the back door when it rains |
| MAINTENANCE OVERDUE | KG | MR-1002 | KG-01 | 2026-10-11 | high: Bathroom heater not switching on |
| MAINTENANCE OVERDUE | KG | MR-1001 | KG-04 | 2026-10-14 | urgent: Hot water cylinder leaking into the hallway cupboard |
Ask it anything
Ten questions your version answers today
Centrim Life offers a dashboard and reports. Here these questions are built into the free version, and you can ask your own in plain English.
Switching
How to switch from Centrim Life
A move usually involves getting the resident list out, matching your contract terms and deciding how much history to bring across.
- 1
Get your records out
Centrim Life does not publish an export guide, so ask your account contact for the resident list. Export what your account allows, usually CSV or Excel, and check the available format with Centrim Life. Include villages, units, residents, contact details, move in dates and next of kin, with one row per resident.
- 2
Gather terms and choose history
Get contract terms from your finance system or contract register, including ingoing amounts, deferred management fee terms and weekly fees. Decide which history to bring. Maintenance history and messages can stay in Centrim Life for reference or come across as part of the version Enterprise DNA builds. Dining orders do not come across in this version.
- 3
Test the import first
Add your villages to the new system before loading records. Run a test import of the resident list first, then review the results before loading the records for real. Import your contract terms from the finance system or contract register as well. Units are created as they appear in the resident list, and two residents in one unit are recorded under one contract.
- 4
Check the imported records
Review the import results and correct any records that did not map as expected. Check that each resident is matched to the right unit and name. Then run the record checks and follow up on anything they flag, such as an exit entitlement date or a charge that needs attention. Resolve gaps before you rely on the new system for day to day work.
- 5
Run both, then switch
Keep Centrim Life and the new system running side by side for a short period. Compare the records and the work your team does in each, and resolve any differences before you switch. When you are satisfied that the records and processes you need are in place, move your team to the new system and switch off Centrim Life.
Where the real effort goes
The real work is usually matching your own fields and contract rules, then deciding how much history to bring across. The resident list is only part of the move, since contract terms come from your finance system or contract register. If Enterprise DNA installs and runs the system for you, Enterprise DNA does the mapping and test import as part of that work.
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Rather talk it through? Book a call arrow_forwardThree ways to own it
Start with the free version or have your version built
Open source
Do it yourself
Free code; hosting and agent costs are yours
- 1 Clone the repo and run npm install, then npm run demo
- 2 Open it in Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Cursor
- 3 Add your villages, then import your Centrim Life resident list
- 4 Import your contract terms from the finance spreadsheet, with a dry run first
Built around your business
We customise it
One setup fee, then a retainer
- check Your contract types, exit fee formulas and fee rules
- check Your Centrim Life records and contract register mapped and brought across
- check A resident page, visitor sign-in or staff maintenance form, if you want them
- check Your accounting system fed from the fee runs and exit payments
Omni by Enterprise DNA
We run it for you
One setup fee, then a retainer
- check Installed, hosted and operated through Omni by Enterprise DNA
- check Fee runs checked and exit statements prepared each month
- check A Monday review of exits, rule dates, empty units and maintenance for the village managers
- check Changes as your contracts, villages and the law change
Questions
Instead of Centrim Life, answered
Can we bring our Centrim Life records across? expand_more
Centrim Life does not publish an export guide, so we start from the resident list as a spreadsheet: villages, units, residents, contacts, move-in dates and next of kin. Contract terms come from your finance system or contract register. We map your columns and do a test run before you switch. Maintenance history and messages can stay in Centrim Life for the record, or come across as part of the version we build.
Do residents still get an app? expand_more
The free version has no resident app, kiosk or dining tablet. It runs the office: exits, fees, resales, maintenance and enquiries. If your residents rely on an app, we build the screens they need onto the same database, or connect the one you keep.
Does it work out exit entitlements for our contracts? expand_more
It works out each one from the contract terms: the deferred management fee by the year and its cap, on the ingoing or the resale value, the resident’s capital gain share, their share of refurbishment and any unpaid fees. If your contracts use another formula, building it in is part of the version we customise.
Does it keep us right with the Retirement Villages Acts? expand_more
It checks the records against the New South Wales order and 42-day rules, the Queensland 18-month buy-back, shared charges, resale value and exit statement rules, and the New Zealand AGM deadline, and cites each source. A clean result means the records show no gap. It is not legal advice, and your lawyer still signs off your contracts.
What do we pay Enterprise DNA? expand_more
One setup fee, then a retainer for the agreed customisation and operation. We go through your villages, contracts and the records you hold today before setting the scope. The free code has no licence fee; hosting and your chosen assistant have their own costs.
Build it around how your villages run
Spend 30 minutes with Sam. Bring your Centrim Life quote, one departure you are paying out and the exit statement you wish you could send. We will map the version you need and the records to bring across.
Retirement Village for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
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