Homward

Homward is record-keeping software for a residents' association. The member
register, the maintenance dues, the receipts, the expenses and the notices sit
in one place, and every resident sees their own.

WHAT YOUR SOCIETY GETS

A member register
Households by unit, with relation, occupation, blood group and a photograph.
Every field is optional except the one that matters: a household head and an
office bearer keep a contactable number. Residents can reach each other without
a spreadsheet being passed around on WhatsApp.

Maintenance dues that raise themselves
Set a fee schedule — monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or annual — and the bills
for every unit are raised from it. Correcting an amount is a separate, named
act, so a fee edited today never quietly rewrites a bill already issued.

Receipts, and an honest trail behind them
The committee records a payment and the receipt is issued with a sequential
number. Part payments are supported. A cancelled receipt stays cancelled on the
record and a refund is entered as its own document, because a receipt is
evidence that money was received and that does not stop being true later.

Expenses and the society's books
Committee members enter what was spent, with the bill attached; an
administrator approves it. A claim awaiting approval is not yet spending, and
the reports say so.

Notices that reach the right people
Post to everyone or to the committee alone. An announcement addressed to the
committee is delivered to the committee, and nobody else.

Reports the association actually needs
Collection register, receipt register, defaulters with ageing, and income and
expenditure. Every one of them exports to CSV.

Letterheaded correspondence
Build the society's letterhead once and write letters on it, in English or in
Malayalam, and print or save them as PDF from the web app.

HOMWARD DOES NOT TAKE PAYMENTS

No money passes through this app. You pay your society however it has asked —
cash, bank transfer, UPI or cheque — and a member of the committee records that
payment, which is what produces your receipt. A receipt in Homward is your
society's acknowledgement, not ours.

HOW ACCESS WORKS

You cannot sign yourself up. Your society's administrator grants you access
against your entry in the register, and your mobile number is your login. A
one-time code proves the number once, at activation; after that it is your
number and your password.

BUILT SO ONE SOCIETY CANNOT SEE ANOTHER

Every society's data is separated in the database itself, not merely hidden in
the app, so a screen you cannot see is also a record you cannot read. Within a
society, a resident sees their own household, their own dues and their own
receipts. The committee sees what its job requires.

Your contact details are yours to withhold: leave your number or email blank
and it is simply not published to other residents.

FOR THE COMMITTEE

Homward is used at homward.abibinacademy.com on a computer for the longer work
— raising a term's bills, the reports, the letterhead — and on this app for
everything else.

Operated by AbiBin Academy, contact@abibinacademy.com.

Recent changes:
A fresh new look, and a faster app.

- Opens faster and pages load quicker
- Cleaner screens that are easier to read, with one consistent style throughout
- Pages show their layout while loading instead of a spinning wheel
- New icons, so every section on Home is easy to tell apart
- Simpler sign-in and account activation
- The app now tells you when a new version is available on Play Store
- Many small fixes across dues, receipts, directory and notices