Instead of Quarter
Moving off Quarter? Run your building on records you own.
We set up a version shaped around your committee, your levy calendar and your building's rules, carry your Quarter records over, and keep it running so no volunteer has to.
Quarter's Self-managed plan is $12 per unit a month for the first 50 units, $8 for units 51 to 100 and $5 after that, month to month. Its own example for 25 units is $3,600 a year. Extra professional help is quoted separately.
- check_circleYour data in a database you own
- check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
- check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA
Where the money goes
A Quarter subscription grows with the building, not with the work
Quarter is cheaper than a full body corporate manager, and it says so. But the fee is set by how many units are on the plan, every month, whether the committee met twice that year or twenty times.
Every unit is a line on the bill
$12 per unit a month for the first 50 units. A unit costs $144 a year on the plan whether its owner logs in or not.
The useful parts sit in the paid plan
The free Community plan includes a noticeboard, an issue tracker and a contact list. Meetings, minutes, the compliance dashboard, budgets and levy invoicing all need Self-managed.
People are priced on top
When the committee needs a person rather than the software, Quarter quotes that work separately, up front.
A subscription that never finishes
Month to month means no lock-in, and it also means the fee never stops. Ten years on, the body corporate is still renting the screens it uses for its own minutes.
Your rules, their product
Your building's operational rules, your own arrears steps or a register the committee wants added depend on what the product already offers.
A handover, not an open file
Quarter says records hand over at no charge when you cancel. Until then they sit in its system, and the pricing pages do not say what format the handover comes in.
What your committee gets instead
The body corporate's own system, answering the secretary
Meetings
AGM season without a calendar in someone's head
Each body corporate's year end, its AGM deadline under the Unit Titles Act and the date notice must go out, checked in one question.
- check The six month AGM deadline counted from your financial year end
- check A meeting set on short notice is flagged before the notice goes out
- check The agenda drafted from what the year needs: the levies and the valuation
- check Minutes followed until every owner has them
Levies
Levy runs split the way the plan says
A levy run divides across units by entitlement, and late payers move through steps the committee chose, each one dated.
- check Split by utility interest, to the cent
- check A reminder at thirty days, a demand at sixty, recovery at ninety, or your own steps
- check The letter for the next step drafted for a person to check and send
- check Interest capped at ten percent a year under the Unit Titles Regulations, if you charge it
Compliance
The obligations a volunteer committee forgets
Every rule the free version checks names the section it comes from, so a new committee member can see why it matters.
- check Principal insurance against the latest valuation, and how old that valuation is
- check The ten year long-term maintenance plan
- check The five working day disclosure clock on every unit sale
- check Building warrant of fitness and audit dates
Ownership
A system that belongs to the body corporate
The records live in a database the body corporate controls. When the committee changes, the system stays put.
- check No fee per unit, per meeting or per owner
- check Levy notices, meeting notices and summaries in the building's own name
- check Ask for a new field, register or rule in plain words
- check Open source, so the building is never tied to one supplier
Make it yours
Design your own Quarter replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from Quarter. 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 Quarter data across and run it for you.
Switching
How to switch from Quarter
In practice, the move involves exporting and matching your records, checking them, then running both systems through the next levy run before you switch.
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Request your records
Ask Quarter for a full copy before you cancel. Its pricing pages do not specify the export format, so ask Quarter what format the handover comes in. Request the owner list, units and entitlements as spreadsheet files, along with the history you need. If Quarter holds your trust ledger, take a full copy of that too.
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Load the records
Body Corporate for Claude Code imports a standard body corporate roll. A Quarter file needs its columns matched to the fields in the new system. Enterprise DNA can do that as part of setup, or you can ask Claude Code to map it. Keep in mind that the new system records levy charges, receipts and amounts owed, but does not hold or move the building's money.
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Check the test import
Do a test import before loading the records for real. Review anything it flags, especially fields that did not map or records that need your attention. Check the imported owners, units and entitlements against your Quarter records. Each scheme gets compliance items marked as unknown, so confirm their status from your records rather than treating them as compliant.
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Run both systems
Keep Quarter and the new system running side by side until the next levy run. Compare the records for the run, including what was struck, what is due and what remains outstanding. Check the arrears trail and any records your committee relies on before treating the new system as the one to use. Keep your money in the accounting system that holds it.
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Switch off Quarter
Once the next levy run and the records you rely on have checked out, move your work to the new system and cancel Quarter. Quarter says records hand over at no charge when you cancel, but confirm the handover format and timing with Quarter. Keep the full copy of your trust ledger and make sure your accounting system is ready to take over that work.
Where the real effort goes
The main work is matching Quarter's columns to the new fields, checking your own rules and deciding how much history to bring across. If Quarter holds your trust ledger, you also need to connect the new records to the accounting system that will take over. Enterprise DNA does the field mapping and record move as part of setup when you have them run it.
Not ready for a call?
Get your Quarter switch plan by email
We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off Quarter, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.
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Rather talk it through? Book a call arrow_forwardTwo ways to switch
Run the free version, or have Enterprise DNA set it up for the committee
Open source
Run it yourself
Free
- 1 Download the free version from GitHub
- 2 Run the demo building and open the folder in Claude Code
- 3 Ask which levies are overdue
- 4 Map your Quarter handover files in when you are ready
Omni by Enterprise DNA
Have Enterprise DNA set it up
One setup fee, then a monthly retainer
- check We bring your Quarter owners, units and entitlements across
- check Levy receipting and payments stay in your accounting system, connected to the records
- check We set the AGM calendar, the arrears steps and the rules for your building
- check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Center, and we keep it going between committees
Questions
Instead of Quarter, answered
Quarter does our trust accounting. Does this? expand_more
No, on purpose. Quarter's Self-managed plan includes trust accounting; the free version keeps no bank ledger and never moves money. It records what each levy run struck, what came in and what is owed, so the arrears steps work. The money itself belongs in an accounting system with an auditor behind it. If Quarter holds your ledger today, take a full copy before you leave, and we connect your new records to whichever accounting system takes it over.
Our owners each have a Quarter login. What replaces it? expand_more
The free version has no owner login. Owners get levy notices, meeting notices and minutes sent to them. If your committee relies on owners raising issues and voting on proposals online, tell us: an owner page is something Enterprise DNA builds into your own version, reading from the same records.
Quarter is already cheaper than a manager. Why move? expand_more
For many buildings it is good value, and the free version is not here to claim otherwise. The difference is ownership. On Quarter the committee rents the product per unit for as long as the building exists, and gets what the product offers. Here the body corporate owns the records and the system, changes it by asking, and pays no per-unit fee.
How do we get our records out of Quarter? expand_more
Quarter says records hand over at no charge when you cancel, but its pricing pages do not say in what format. Ask for the owner list, units and entitlements as spreadsheet files. The free version imports a standard body corporate roll, so a Quarter file needs its columns matched: Enterprise DNA does that as part of the setup, or you ask Claude Code to map it. Do a test import first and run both side by side until the next levy run.
We are a small committee with no technical people. Is this realistic? expand_more
The free version needs someone comfortable installing software. Most committees choose the other door: Enterprise DNA sets it up, moves the records and keeps it running, and the secretary just asks questions in plain English. The rules shipped with it cite the New Zealand Unit Titles Act 2010. Australian owners corporations need their state's rules set up, which we do as part of the build. It is a record of your obligations, not legal advice.
Own the building's records, not a per-unit subscription
30 minutes with Sam. We look at what your body corporate pays Quarter, what the committee actually uses, and what your own version would look like. If it is a fit, we build it and run it. If it is not, take the free version and run it yourself.
Body Corporate for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.
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