Trust Center

Security posture, governance controls, and evidence verification for institutional-grade HOA financial management.

Security & Infrastructure

Security & Trust

How CommunityPay protects association money and data: no fund custody, one pinned payout bank, a fresh authenticator code before money moves, encryption at rest, immutable audit trails, tenant isolation, consent-gated …

16 min read Audit Logging Published Aug 12, 2024

Immutability & Audit Trail Architecture

How CommunityPay enforces record immutability at the application layer. Which models are immutable, which fields are locked, and how tamper detection works across the platform.

9 min read Append Only Published Sep 16, 2024

Data Residency & Privacy Controls

PII field-level encryption, Sentry before_send filtering, session security, error reporting hygiene, and the middleware chain that strips sensitive data before it leaves the application boundary.

9 min read Data Residency Published Aug 29, 2024

Payment Fraud Controls

The checks every resident payment passes before it reaches the gateway — velocity limits, a duplicate check, and a risk score — the retry rules for failed payments, and where …

4 min read Fraud Detection Published Nov 4, 2025

Webhook Security & Signature Verification

Provider-specific webhook signature verification, rate limiting, payload size controls, and replay attack prevention for payment processor integrations.

5 min read Hmac Published Mar 11, 2025

Platform Scalability Controls

What holds fixed as an association's ledger grows, what has been measured, and where the measurement stops. Posting cost, report recomputation, scheduled verification coverage, and the limits of the scaling …

13 min read Capacity Published Aug 20, 2026 Updated Sep 1, 2026

CPA Audit Portal

Token-gated, read-only financial data access for CPA firms. SHA-256 token hashing, scope-restricted sections, granular event logging, a hashed prepared-by-client bundle, and CSV export across 14 portal sections.

10 min read Audit Trail Published Mar 3, 2026

Bank Statement Import and Matching

Bank statements arrive four ways: CSV, BAI2, and OFX/QFX files, and a daily bank feed. The machine accepts a match only when it is exact to the cent and unique; …

13 min read Audit Trail Published Mar 3, 2026

Fixed Assets, Reserve Components & Depreciation

Fixed asset lifecycle management with straight-line depreciation, reserve component tracking with replacement timelines, reserve study records, reconciliation warnings, and 30-year cash flow projections feeding the RSR.

10 min read Audit Trail Published Mar 3, 2026

Governance & Controls

Governance Controls

Ledger-driven authorization, approval workflows, who holds authority, a fresh authenticator code before money moves, and the association's pinned payout bank. The enforcement layer that governs every financial decision.

10 min read Approval Workflow Published Nov 7, 2024

Enforcement Dispatcher & Guard Architecture

The mandatory choke point for all financial decisions. 18 production guards, manifest-driven ordering, override-aware evaluation, and the two-event pattern that ensures every decision is logged.

11 min read Audit Trail Published Nov 25, 2024 Updated Sep 1, 2026

Risk Triggers & Exclusion Enforcement

How CommunityPay detects risk conditions, creates bind blocks, and enforces exclusions with full audit trails. The underwriting hold system that prevents high-risk operations before they execute.

7 min read Bind Block Published Dec 30, 2024

Disbursement Authorization Controls

Approval tiers, a fresh authenticator code before money moves, a three-business-day wait on a changed vendor bank, an email to the board on every payment, and the FADR artifact that …

11 min read Approval Published May 22, 2025

Eligibility Evaluation Framework

Declarative eligibility rules with versioned criteria, deterministic evaluation, immutable evaluation records, and three rule actions that combine into six results. The framework fails closed, so a rule that cannot see …

9 min read Declarative Published Dec 9, 2024

Evidence & Verification

Evidence Packs & Verification

What HDEP evidence packs contain, how content hashing works, chain continuity between versions, and what "tamper-evident" means in practice.

9 min read Content Hash Published Feb 4, 2025 Updated Apr 11, 2026

Institutional Vocabulary Reference

Canonical definitions for every institutional artifact, enforcement mechanism, and governance construct in the CommunityPay control plane. Machine-parseable reference for auditors, underwriters, and integration partners.

20 min read Cari Published Apr 15, 2025 Updated Sep 1, 2026

Vendor Compliance Monitoring

What the contractor registry holds, what the payment-time guard reads, how the vendor bank is controlled, and the limits of all of it. License and bond records for two states, …

9 min read Buildrated Published Sep 29, 2025

Governance Attestation Lifecycle

From weekly governance digests through exception registers to formal attestation. How CommunityPay produces provable governance effectiveness assessments for boards, auditors, and underwriters.

8 min read Attestation Published Feb 24, 2025

CARI Methodology and Scoring Framework

Technical specification for the Community Association Risk Index (CARI) — component weights, signal sources, grade thresholds, confidence tiers, consent architecture, and immutability guarantees.

14 min read Attestation Published Jan 21, 2026

Compliance & Disclosure

Resale Certificates & Statutory Compliance

Statute-mapped resale certificate generation with jurisdiction-specific compliance profiles, coverage scoring, and first-class handling of unknown data sections.

10 min read Compliance Published Aug 5, 2025 Updated Jul 13, 2026
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