Strata Council Technology

What Strata Council Technology means in practice

Strata Council Technology gives councils and strata managers a reliable system for records, notices, voting, financial reporting and secure document sharing, built around the obligations in the Strata Property Act.

Strata councils are volunteers who inherit shared drives, personal email accounts and a filing cabinet. When the secretary moves out, the records go with them. A simple, controlled system outlasts any single council and makes the annual general meeting less painful.

Getting started without disrupting operations

We schedule the work around the calendar of the buildings: no major changes during move-in weekends, strata general meetings or month-end closing. Contractors are coordinated through one point of contact, and any interruption to residents or tenants is communicated in advance. After go-live, a short stabilisation period lets us tune settings and answer staff questions about strata council technology.

How it fits with your other systems

Strata Council Technology rarely stands alone. It touches Building Wi-Fi & Tenant Internet, vCIO for Property Companies and Tenant & Resident Portals, along with the property platform and the accounting system. We map those connections during the survey and design the work so a change in one place does not break another. The integration map is part of the documentation you keep, and it makes future vendor changes much less risky.

What we report and how often

You receive a monthly summary covering incidents, changes, open risks and upcoming renewals for strata council technology, and a quarterly review with a ranked list of recommended work. Reports are written for property managers and owners, not for engineers, and include the building, the system and the date of every significant change. Target: one authoritative records library, a documented handover for each council change and a tested restore of the full archive.

When property teams ask for strata council technology

The common triggers are an outage, an incident, an acquisition, an insurance questionnaire or a tenant complaint that cannot be answered. Owners and managers in facilities teams and strata & condo managers contact us after one of these, and commercial landlords often come to us ahead of a major project. Whatever the trigger, we begin with evidence, not assumptions.

Our method for strata council technology

We treat strata council technology as a small project with a clear start and end: survey, design, implement, test, hand over. At each step you can see what is changing, why and when. Documentation is produced as we go, so your property team is never dependent on one engineer's memory. Photographs, labelled drawings and configuration backups form part of the deliverable. Target: one authoritative records library, a documented handover for each council change and a tested restore of the full archive.

What it costs

Strata Council Technology is quoted as a fixed-scope project, from $2,500, or delivered inside a managed agreement at $89 to $199 per user each month. Portfolio advisory work starts from $1,500 per month and security assessments from $1,900. Building count, suite count and after-hours coverage move the price within those ranges. A 10% launch discount applies, GST is added at 5% and there is no lock-in.

Keeping the building and its data safe

Any system that touches doors, cameras or tenant data is a target. In strata council technology work we separate it from the office network, remove default credentials, patch on a schedule and record every administrative account. Vendors are given time-limited access with an audit trail. We also write down who is allowed to do what, because unclear authority is how most property incidents begin.