Est. 2020 — For self-managed HOAs
Fewer surprises.
Stronger reserves.
Nestingbird is HOA software built for self-managed boards. Assessments and dues, annual budgets with 30-year reserve projections, formal meetings and votes, documents and maintenance. Free forever, or $25/mo flat.
⚡ Free plan, not a free trial · No credit card · 15-minute setup
The unpaid manager problem
You didn't sign up to be
a property manager.
You volunteered for a one-hour-a-month board seat. Then you inherited a 3-ring binder, four years of Google Drive folders, an inbox full of owner complaints, and a spreadsheet no one has understood since 2017.
Nestingbird is the platform we wish we'd had on day one.
The whole platform
Everything your HOA needs. Nothing it doesn't.
Birdie AI
Ask your documents anything.
Upload your bylaws, insurance, and meeting minutes. Birdie answers questions across all of it — with source citations.
- Document-backed answers
- Source citations
- Multilingual
- Always learning
Budgeting & Reserves
Built on your real bank data.
Drafts that adapt as spending changes. Capital project forecasting with inflation. Reserve funding goals from real history.
- Bank transaction sync
- Capital forecasting
- Inflation-adjusted
- Board-approved drafts
Collections
Billed, paid, reconciled — on autopilot.
Ownership-percentage invoicing, automatic late notices, Stripe-powered card and ACH payments.
- Ownership-% billing
- Card & ACH payments
- Real-time ledgers
- Auto late notices
New · Now mobile-friendly
Owners handle the basics right from their phone.
Nestingbird is now fully mobile-friendly — right in the browser, nothing to install. Owners can check their balance, pay dues, set up autopay, pull up a document, or report an issue from wherever they are.
- Pay dues in two taps
- Autopay & saved payment methods
- Documents & monthly statements
- Maintenance requests on the go
Trusted by boards like yours
Volunteer boards. Real outcomes.
The week I took over as president, I spent three nights just trying to figure out what we owed and to whom. Nestingbird turned that chaos into a dashboard I could actually read. Now the whole board sees the same numbers, and nobody has to dig through a Google Drive for answers.
Using Nestingbird to manage our finances and communicate with residents has freed up our board's time to get on with life while staying responsive to owner concerns. We're also saving significantly on our annual budget since we dropped our management company.
Between teaching, running my company, and constant travel, I don't have time to build financial statements in a spreadsheet. With Nestingbird, owners get their financials on the same day every month whether I'm in a classroom, a standup, or another time zone.
Pricing, in plain English
Free is a plan here, not a trial.
Most smaller HOAs run their whole community on the free plan and never pay a subscription.
Community
Permanently free. Enough to run a smaller HOA end to end.
- Assessment invoicing & online collection
- Annual budgets & reserve projections
- Meetings, minutes, elections & polls
- Documents, maintenance & violation tracking
- Building Score & member management
Pay as you go
Occasional, high-volume jobs priced one at a time.
- Extra video meeting with AI minutes — $5 each
- Extra resale / seller disclosure — $25 each
- Extra Ask Birdie answers — $10 per 50
Autopilot
Unlimited instead of à la carte, plus automation and AI analytics.
- Automated recurring invoicing & collections
- Bank sync with automated accounting & reports
- Unlimited Ask Birdie, meetings & disclosures
- Lower platform fees — 1% card / 0.8% ACH
- Pre-filled 1120-H tax return PDF
No per-unit fees and no volume tiers — the rate is the same whether you collect $50,000 or $500,000 a year. Platform fees are a percentage of what's collected online: 1.2% card / 1% ACH on Community, lower on Autopilot, so the amount scales with what you collect. Paper checks are always free.
Your HOA is the merchant of record on its own Stripe connected account. Online payments carry Nestingbird's platform fee plus Stripe's processing fee — residents cover Stripe's fee at checkout by default, or your board can switch it to the building. Assessments settle from Stripe straight to your HOA's bank account; Nestingbird never holds your funds.
Stop managing your building from scattered spreadsheets.
15 minutes to set up. The free plan stays free. Or get your free Building Health Score first.