NestieMaintenance and water dues
Monthly dues for every flat, with each flat’s water charge entered from your existing meter sheet.
For small and standalone apartments
Simple apartment management for smaller apartment communities
Built for apartment communities that need clarity, not complexity. Nestie helps independent apartment associations run monthly maintenance, collections, expenses and statements, and every owner sees the same numbers.
For standalone buildingsSet up for youFirst month free
Why small apartments have a different problem
A large gated community often has a facility-management team, a clubhouse, several gates and hundreds of flats. Software for those communities is built around all of that.
A building of 10, 20, 30 or 50 flats usually runs differently. A few owners volunteer for the committee, one person looks after the money, a watchman collects maintenance, and nobody is paid to manage the building full time. The everyday questions are simpler but just as important: who has paid, what was spent, and how much is left?
Those flat counts are only examples of the kind of community we have in mind. They are not limits in the app.
For these communities, the right tool is one that a volunteer committee can understand in a demo and start using the next month, without training or a dedicated manager.
The manual way, and where it breaks
Many smaller associations run on some mix of a register, an Excel sheet, a WhatsApp group, UPI screenshots and handwritten receipts. Not every building uses all of these, but the pattern is familiar.
Each step works on its own. The trouble is that the record is split across notebooks, phones and chats, and it usually lives with one person. When owners ask who has paid or where the money went, someone has to piece the month together by hand.
A typical month before Nestie
- The watchman or coordinator collects maintenance
- Payments arrive as cash, UPI or bank transfer
- Screenshots and messages pile up in WhatsApp
- Someone updates the notebook or spreadsheet
- Expenses are noted somewhere else
- Owners ask who paid and where the money went
- Matching it all up at month end is done by hand
How Nestie simplifies the monthly cycle
With Nestie, the month follows one path, and each step leaves a record that owners can see.
Some steps are still done by people, and that is deliberate. The coordinator raises the dues, the watchman records what is collected, the coordinator confirms UPI payments against the bank account and checks cash handed over, and owners approve the monthly statement by vote. Nestie keeps the record, issues the receipts and does the adding up.
The full step-by-step cycle is on the monthly maintenance page, and how payments are recorded is on the maintenance collection page.
The same month with Nestie
- Monthly dues raised for every flat
- Each payment recorded against its flat
- A receipt for every payment
- Paid and pending visible to everyone
- Association expenses recorded with bills
- Monthly and yearly statements
- Every owner sees the same numbers
What a small apartment actually needs
These are the parts of Nestie a small association uses every month. Each one is in the app today.
Collections and receipts
Cash, UPI or bank transfer recorded against the flat, each with its own receipt number.
Paid and pending
Every flat’s status for the month: Due, Partially paid, Paid, Overdue, Disputed or Waived.
Expenses and staff salaries
Electricity, cleaning, repairs and watchman salaries, with bills and payment details.
Monthly and yearly statements
A monthly statement owners approve, and a yearly statement for each flat.
About the accountsIssues and tasks
Repairs raised with a photo and tracked until closed, with tasks for the people doing them.
Decisions and voting
Proposals with one vote per flat, cast by its owner. Results stay hidden until voting closes.
Role-based access
Owners, the coordinator and the watchman each see only what their role allows.
AI Secretary
Owners ask in plain words and Nestie answers from your records. It can read, but never change anything.
Who uses Nestie in a small building
Three everyday roles, each with its own view. A system administrator looks after flats, people and roles.
Owners
See their own dues and receipts, the apartment’s collections and fund balance, statements, open issues and votes waiting for them. Owners can also report a UPI payment for the coordinator to confirm.
Every flatThe coordinator
Raises the month’s dues, confirms cash handed over by the watchman, checks owners’ UPI payments against the bank account, records expenses and closes the month.
Usually a committee memberThe watchman
Uses a simple collection screen to record cash, UPI and bank transfer payments with receipts, and sees tasks assigned to them. The watchman does not see the accounts.
Collection and tasksFinancial transparency owners can follow
Transparency is the main reason small associations move to Nestie. Without asking anyone, an owner can see:
- Money collected: the month’s collections and how many flats have paid.
- Money spent: expenses by category, with the largest first.
- Outstanding amounts: what is still due, including earlier months.
- Monthly records: a statement with opening balance, income, spending and closing balance, approved by the owners.
- Yearly records: their own flat’s dues and payments for the year, with receipt numbers, as PDF or CSV.
Nestie is record-keeping and transparency for the association. It is not statutory accounting software, and it does not do GST, audit or tax filing. More on this in apartment accounts and statements.
What Nestie intentionally does not try to be
Many large communities rely on features that Nestie deliberately leaves out. They are useful where they are needed, but a small building can often run well without them, and leaving them out keeps Nestie simple to adopt. Nestie does not include:
- Visitor, gate and delivery management
- Parking allocation and clubhouse or amenity booking
- Vendor marketplaces, tendering and complex procurement
- Guard or biometric attendance
- A full accounting system, or automatic bank reconciliation
- Native iOS and Android apps (Nestie runs in the phone’s browser and can be added to the home screen)
- Collecting or holding money: payments go straight to the association
If your community needs these, a larger society-management platform may suit you better. For the broader picture of what Nestie covers, see the apartment management app overview and the society management app page.
Moving from manual management to Nestie
See a free demo
We walk your committee through Sunrise Residency, our sample apartment, on a call or in person.
We set you up
We add your flats, owners, watchman and the association’s UPI ID. Your current fund balance goes in once as the starting balance.
Start with next month
Raise next month’s dues in Nestie. Owners open it in their phone browser; nothing to install.
Decide after a month
The first month is free, so the committee can judge Nestie on a real month of use.
Questions from small apartment associations
Is Nestie suitable for a small apartment building?
Yes. Nestie was designed around the running of a small apartment building, with a volunteer committee, a watchman and owners who want to see the accounts.
Do we need a professional apartment manager?
No. Nestie is made for associations run by volunteers. A committee member acts as coordinator, and we set up the app for you.
Can owners see maintenance and expenses?
Yes. Owners see their own dues and receipts, the apartment’s collections and balance, and monthly statements with spending by category.
Can maintenance be paid using UPI?
Yes. The watchman can show a QR code for your association’s own UPI ID, and owners can pay by UPI from their login. Owner-reported UPI payments are confirmed by the coordinator against the bank account.
Does Nestie hold association money?
No. Payments go straight to the association’s own bank account or UPI ID, or to the watchman as cash. Nestie only records them and issues receipts.
Is Nestie accounting software?
Not in the statutory sense. It keeps the association’s money records and statements, and exports them as PDF or CSV. It does not do GST, audit or tax filing.
Can a watchman record collections?
Yes. The watchman has a simple collection screen for cash, UPI and bank transfer, and each payment gets a receipt. Corrections go through the coordinator.
Can we use Nestie for a standalone apartment?
Yes. A single standalone building is exactly the kind of community Nestie is built for. Buildings with more than one tower can group flats by tower.
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See it working in 15 minutes.
Message us on WhatsApp for a free demo with Sunrise Residency, our sample apartment. If your association likes it, we set up your flats, owners and watchman for you. You can also email [email protected].
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