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FRONTSTEPS

Modular CAM ecosystem — Caliber fund accounting, resident apps, payments, and gated-community Dwelling security under one vendor.

Boards and CAMs Custom quote 50+ units Fund accounting / true books

FRONTSTEPS is an integrated community association software ecosystem aimed first at management companies, with a secondary pitch to boards and self-managed associations. The product story is breadth under one contract: back-office books and ops (Caliber / Manager), resident engagement (Community), online assessments (Payments), gated-community visitor and access control (Dwelling), and an AI assistant layer (ALLi). That is the differentiator versus ledger-first peers like Enumerate or CINC Systems and versus resident-ops tools like Condo Control that still leave the general ledger elsewhere.

On money, Caliber’s official pages describe fund-based accounting, automated payment posting, budgeting, collections, AP invoice work, AR posting, special assessments, violations, architectural requests, and work orders. Manager (formerly Suite Manager) is positioned as the day-to-day command center — violations, work orders, budgets, inspections, communications, approvals — with a Community Manager mobile app for field work and ALLi for search, repetitive tasks, and workflow guidance. Community covers messaging, documents, portals, ARC/maintenance intake, amenity-style workflows, and a Resident Engagement program the vendor markets as helping portal adoption and online payments. Payments routes assessment collection through a PCI DSS–compliant processor. Dwelling is the gated/secured-community security and visitor stack — a capability most general HOA vendors simply do not ship.

Pricing is not published as a self-serve menu. The site routes buyers to Request a demo / sales contact; treat the model as custom quote and insist on a written breakdown by module (Caliber, Manager, Community, Payments, Dwelling, ALLi), setup/migration, recurring fees (per community and/or per unit), payment-processing rates, and contract length. A vendor blog (updated mid-2026) promotes a Starter Pack for self-managed HOAs and small management companies managing about one to ten communities, described as a flat monthly fee with room to expand — still no dollar amounts on the pages checked for this listing. Unofficial r/HOA anecdotes (older posts citing figures like tens to low hundreds of dollars per month for portal-style use) are not official pricing and should not drive a board vote.

Company history matters for diligence: FRONTSTEPS consolidated earlier association products (AtHomeNet, AssociationVoice, Caliber, Capsure, DwellingLive, later Evercondo) under one brand (rebrand ~2017; Caliber acquired 2019). FAQ and support materials still reference AssociationVoice / AtHomeNet homeowner portals alongside Caliber and Dwelling. On our-software, the vendor claims average go-live around 60 days versus competitors taking much longer — validate that against your data migration and training plan, not a homepage sentence.

Who it is for: a CAM firm (or a large/gated self-managed association with staff) that wants one vendor spanning fund accounting, resident apps, payments, and optionally physical access — especially portfolios that already know AssociationVoice-class portals. Who should keep looking: a small volunteer board that needs published tier pricing and a 15-minute signup (PayHOA, KindHOA, HOA Start, HomeHerald aisle), or a firm whose only buy criterion is a best-of-breed GL with no interest in Dwelling/Community coupling. Compare accounting depth and conversion pain against Vantaca, CINC Systems, Enumerate, AppFolio, and Buildium; treat Dwelling as the unique shortlist reason when gates and visitors are real daily work.

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Best for

Growing management companies (and larger or gated self-managed communities) that want association books, resident engagement, payments, and optionally access control from one vendor — not a weekend volunteer signup.

Pricing notes

No public rate card or self-serve plan menu on the official site (researched Sep 17, 2026). Sales is demo-and-quote; modular products (Caliber, Manager, Community, Payments, Dwelling, ALLi) typically mean the quote depends on which pieces you turn on. Vendor blog describes a Starter Pack for small/self-managed and 1–10-community shops as a flat monthly fee, but no dollar amounts are published — verify current terms, setup, migration, payment-processing rates, and any minimums with sales. Unofficial Reddit anecdotes exist and should not be treated as official pricing.