Enterprise DNA

Instead of TowerDesk

Leaving TowerDesk? Keep every scheme in a system you own.

We build a version around how your office runs its schemes, your levy calendar and your state's rules, move your TowerDesk roll across, and keep it running for you.

TowerDesk charges each building a $59 monthly base fee plus $3.40 per lot up to 20 lots, stepping down to $1.70 above 61, billed annually ex GST. Levies and trust accounts are an extra $5 per lot a month.

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How the invoice is built

TowerDesk prices the building, then the lots, then the money

The published price is clear, which is to its credit. It is also stacked: one fee for the building existing, one for each lot in it, another for the levy side, all paid a year at a time and charged to the strata scheme.

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A base fee per building

$59 a month for every building before a single lot is counted. Take on twenty small schemes and that is twenty base fees, $708 a year each.

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Then a charge for every lot

$3.40 per lot a month up to 20 lots, $2.80 to 40, $2.00 to 60, $1.70 above 61. Small schemes pay the top rate.

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Levies cost extra

Trust accounts, levies and budgets are the one module priced separately, at $5 per lot a month.

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Staff counted per building

Five staff accounts come with each building. Every one after that is $5 a month, so a growing team pays again on top of the lot count.

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A year paid up front, no refunds

Billed annually, ex GST, and the terms say fees are non-refundable except where the law requires it. Prices can change at each renewal.

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Getting out is your job

The terms make the customer solely responsible for exporting its data before access ends. Help with the export is at TowerDesk's discretion and can carry a charge.

What your office gets instead

One system across the whole portfolio, answering the manager

Portfolio

Every scheme in one place, not one portal each

Questions that cross buildings get one answer instead of twenty logins: who owes, which meeting is next, which certificate lapses this month.

  • check Each manager's schemes, lots and open items on one page, worst first
  • check Which committees are slowest to decide, across every building you run
  • check Base fee income per manager against the schemes and meetings each one carries
  • check Which management agreements end inside six months, and the fee at stake

Levies

Levy runs and the overdue list without a per-lot add-on

A levy run splits by unit entitlement to the cent. Late payers move through steps your office sets, with every step dated, so the file holds up if it goes to recovery.

  • check A levy run for one scheme or the whole book in one request
  • check Reminder, formal notice and recovery on your own timings, with the missing step shown
  • check The next letter drafted from the record for a person to check and send
  • check Bank receipting and trust money stay in the trust accounting system you already audit

Meetings and compliance

The calendar a strata office cannot miss

Each rule the free version checks names the section of the law it comes from. Your state's rules are set up as part of the build.

  • check Every scheme's AGM date against its deadline, and whether notice went out in time
  • check Insurance renewals and how old the valuation behind each sum insured is
  • check Capital works and maintenance plans, with the next review date
  • check Fire safety statements, audits and contractor certificates, oldest first

Ownership

Records that stay with your agency

The roll, the history and the paperwork live in a database you control. Nothing is deleted because a renewal lapsed.

  • check No base fee per building, no charge per lot or per staff member
  • check Levy notices, meeting notices and owner letters in your agency's branding
  • check A new field, report or rule added by describing it
  • check Open source, so your office is never tied to one supplier

Make it yours

Design your own TowerDesk replacement

Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from TowerDesk. Try it here, and we build the real one.

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Answered from your own database

Build my version

We build it from the open-source base, bring your TowerDesk data across and run it for you.

Switching

How to switch from TowerDesk

The move involves exporting your records, mapping TowerDesk’s columns, and checking the import before you rely on the new database.

  1. 1

    Export your records

    Start before your renewal date. TowerDesk makes you responsible for exporting your data before access ends, and says it may delete data when an account ends. Export the strata roll and anything else your account allows. If TowerDesk’s financial management add-on holds your ledger, take a full copy of that too. Check with TowerDesk about what your account can export.

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    Map and test the records

    The free version imports a standard strata roll, but TowerDesk uses its own column names. Match those columns to the new records before loading the full portfolio. Run a test import first if the import offers one, then review the result. Enterprise DNA handles the column matching as part of setup if you have them run it, or you can ask Claude Code to match them.

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    Review the import results

    Check every warning, unmatched field, or missing value the import reports. Compare the imported schemes, lots, and owners with your TowerDesk export, and confirm that the records you need are present. Each imported scheme gets seven compliance items marked as unknown. Review those against your records rather than treating them as compliant just because TowerDesk did not flag an issue.

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    Run both systems together

    Keep TowerDesk available while you check that the new records are usable in day-to-day work. Compare key scheme and lot information, levy records, and open work between the systems. Body Corporate does not include TowerDesk’s resident app, facility bookings, or access control, and it does not hold or reconcile trust money. Keep the systems that handle those jobs in place while you decide how they will continue.

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    Switch off TowerDesk

    End TowerDesk access only after you have checked the imported records and decided where any remaining work will happen. Keep the full export somewhere you control, including a copy of the ledger if TowerDesk held it. Continue using a separate trust accounting system for trust money. Confirm the timing and account end date with TowerDesk so your export is complete before access ends.

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Where the real effort goes

The main work is usually matching TowerDesk’s column names to the new records, deciding which of your own fields and rules to carry over, and choosing how much history to bring. You also need to review missing or uncertain records rather than assume the import resolved them. Enterprise DNA handles the field matching and setup when you have them run the move.

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Two ways to switch

Try the free version, or have Enterprise DNA build yours

Open source

Run it yourself

Free

  1. 1 Download the free version from GitHub
  2. 2 Run npm run demo and open the folder in Claude Code
  3. 3 Ask which lots are behind on levies
  4. 4 Map your TowerDesk strata roll export into the import
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Have Enterprise DNA build it

One setup fee, then a monthly retainer

  • check We move your TowerDesk schemes, lots, entitlements and owners across
  • check We set the rules for your state: NSW, Victoria, Queensland or WA
  • check We connect it to your mail and the trust accounting system that holds the money
  • check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Center, alongside the rest of your business
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Questions

Instead of TowerDesk, answered

We use TowerDesk for levies and trust accounts. Does this replace that? expand_more

No, and that is deliberate. The free version never banks a levy, pays a creditor or reconciles a trust account. It keeps a record of what each levy run struck, what was paid and what is owed, so the overdue list and the letters are right. Trust money belongs in a trust accounting system your auditor already signs off. If TowerDesk's $5 per lot add-on holds your ledger today, take a full copy before you leave, and we connect your new records to whichever system takes the ledger over.

Residents book the lift and log defects in the TowerDesk app. What happens to that? expand_more

The free version has no resident app, no bookings and no access control. It is the strata office's system, not the building's front desk. If residents raising requests and booking facilities matters to your buildings, keep the product that gives you that and run this behind it.

How do we get our data out of TowerDesk? expand_more

Start before your renewal date. TowerDesk's terms make the customer responsible for exporting its own data before access ends, and say data may be deleted once an account ends. Export the strata roll and anything else your account allows as spreadsheet files. The free version imports a standard strata roll, and a TowerDesk export has its own column names, so matching them is part of what Enterprise DNA does in the setup, or you ask Claude Code to match them. Do a test import first.

TowerDesk publishes a fair price. Why would we move? expand_more

Because the price is set per building and per lot, so it rises with every scheme you win, and it is paid a year ahead. Your own version has no per-building or per-lot charge and is built around how your office actually works. The bigger reason is the record: years of levies, meetings and maintenance sit in a database you own and can question across the whole portfolio, rather than one building at a time.

The shipped rules are for New Zealand. We are in New South Wales. expand_more

The free version's compliance checks cite the New Zealand Unit Titles Act 2010. Australian states run on their own acts, so when Enterprise DNA builds your version we set the meeting notice periods, AGM timing, levy steps and certificate rules for your state, and the checks run against those instead. It is a record of your obligations, not legal advice.

Own the portfolio, not a fee for every building in it

30 minutes with Sam. We look at what your agency pays TowerDesk across all its buildings, what your managers use each week, and what your own version would look like. If it fits, we build it and run it. If it does not, take the free version and try it yourself.

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