Know more about Flatra

Flatra is the operating system for apartment associations — maintenance billing (fixed or bill-split), water metering, expense tracking with receipts, announcements, complaints, events, polls and collections — built for Indian societies of 10–100 flats.

Install the app → log in with your mobile (OTP) → tap “Get Flatra for your society” → fill in your apartment details. We set it up — usually within a day — and you become the admin. Free to start, no payment needed.

Yes — after logging in, tap “Explore the demo”: a complete sample society where you can enter readings, add bills, generate maintenance and switch between the secretary and resident views. Nothing is saved.

First login: an OTP on your registered mobile, then you set a 6-digit PIN. From then on it’s just mobile + PIN — no SMS needed.

On the login screen tap “Forgot PIN?” — you re-verify with an OTP and set a new PIN.

Wait for the Resend timer (60 seconds) and tap Resend once. Repeated rapid attempts trigger a 5-minute lock from the SMS provider.

Flats → Add flat — flat number, block, owner name & mobile, area (optional) and water meters. The owner can log in with that mobile immediately.

Admins add owners. An owner can add their tenant from the resident app — the tenant then gets their own login on their number.

Add their mobile to their flat — that’s it, they log in with it. Track who joined via the phone icons on Flats and the App usage screen, and send ready-made WhatsApp invites from there.

Swipe right on the flat → Delete. A confirmation shows exactly what’s affected (outstanding dues, logins, history) before anything happens.

Settings → Maintenance & billing → switch “Divide bills” to “Fixed amount” → enter the default per-flat price. Different amounts for specific flats: set them from the Flats screen. The change applies from the next generation — regenerate the current month if you want it now.

Record the month’s bills; on Generate, common bills split equally (or by sq ft) across flats and water bills split by each flat’s meter usage — totals always reconcile to the actual bills.

Maintenance → Generate — per-flat invoices appear with an itemised breakdown each resident can see. Regenerating overwrites the month but preserves payments already recorded.

Tap a flat’s invoice → Mark paid — full or partial, cash/UPI/other. Filter the month by Paid / Partial / Unpaid.

Generated months are snapshots. Changing billing settings flags the month “out of date”; tap Regenerate to apply (or leave it — new settings apply from next month).

Settings → Maintenance & billing → Rounding — round each flat’s total UP to ₹10/₹50/₹100 for easier collection.

Water readings → tap a meter — the previous reading auto-fills, enter the current one. Readings lock once the month’s maintenance is generated.

In the entry sheet tap “Use average” — Flatra bills the average of that meter’s last recorded months (up to 6). No history yet? Use “Enter estimate” instead.

With water pricing enabled for your society: Settings → Maintenance & billing → Water pricing — Fixed slabs (your own ₹-per-litre bands, water-board style) or Auto slabs (the system finds the basic usage from your lightest 25% of flats; heavy users pay ×2/×3 weight while the total still matches your actual bills). Ask us to enable it for your society.

Bills → Add bill — name, amount, optional date and notes. Tick “Water-related expense” for Manjeera/tanker bills so they enter the water cost pool.

In the bill form add up to 5 photos — take them with the camera or pick from the gallery. Tap a bill’s thumbnail later to swipe through all of them. Residents can view them too (transparency).

Tick “Repeat every month” when adding, or manage templates in Bills → Recurring. They auto-appear each month; browsing future months shows faded previews you can “Mark paid” early.

On a common bill tap the settings icon → choose the flats that share it. Others can optionally see it listed at ₹0 for transparency.

Settings → Association funds → Add funds entry — each amount with a name (“Cash from previous secretary Ramesh”), Balance or Corpus, and an optional reference document (image / PDF / Excel).

The “In hand” card on the dashboard → the full statement: opening funds itemised, then month-by-month in/out with a running balance.

Reports — collections, expenses, payment methods, outstanding flats and the association balance, month by month.

A red dashboard card appears when flats are pending for over a month — open it for the list with call/WhatsApp buttons per flat, aging filters, and a share button that composes the full pending list for your society WhatsApp group (you choose what to include).

Settings → Notifications → Remind unpaid flats every 2 / 5 / 10 days — each unpaid flat’s owner gets an app notification with their exact pending amount until they pay.

On the last day of the month, admins get a nudge to share the long-pending list in their WhatsApp group — one tap opens it pre-composed.

Post to all residents or owners only; residents react and comment. Use the mic to dictate and the ✨ button to tidy the text.

Residents raise issues with photos; everyone sees them; admins move them through Open → In progress → Done (and more) with notes and comment threads. Push notifications keep both sides updated.

Events track festival expenses and donations (cash or in-kind). Polls give one vote per flat, changeable until expiry. Help Desk is your society’s contact book — plumber, electrician, security — with tap-to-call and WhatsApp.

Alerts — quick-picks like lift maintenance and water-tank cleaning, once or recurring (monthly/quarterly/yearly), with remind-me-before and an optional resident notification.

Settings → Delegated access — give a trusted resident (or even an outside helper) specific features only: water readings, bills, announcements and more. They log in with their own number and see just those features.

Their maintenance bill with the full breakdown, one-tap UPI payment (PhonePe / GPay / any UPI app) where enabled, the society’s expense register with receipts, announcements, events, polls, complaints and the help-desk directory — all after a one-time OTP + PIN login.

From the bill card: scan the association’s UPI QR or use the one-tap PhonePe/GPay buttons. Offline payments (cash) are recorded by the secretary and reflect immediately.

₹10 per flat per month with generous free months to start — no setup fee, no hardware. The society sees the platform fee transparently on its bills.