Gated HOAs & condos
Communities that today run a PMS plus DwellingLIVE or GateAccess.net plus an accounting tool. DwellPort collapses the three into one.
For gated communities
Property management with the gate built in
Manage everything. Including the gate.
DwellPort is the only property-management platform that runs your leases, rent, accounting, maintenance tickets, tenant portal, and the smart entry gate on the same system. ANPR lets residents drive in. The portal lets them register a guest. The lease decides who's allowed.
Migration from Buildium, AppFolio, or Yardi included. ANPR cameras supported on day one.
Main Gate · Live
Willow Heights, NC
SR
Welcome home Sarah Reyes · Unit 204
Plate ABC-1234 · matched 0.8s
MC
Pre-registered Marcus Chen · Guest of Reyes
Pass valid until 21:00 · plate 7XYZ198
UA
Held Unknown plate · no match
Logged · gate held closed · guard notified
98.4%
ANPR match rate
142
entries today
7
guest passes
Gate · Tenant ledger · Guest pass — one record, every time.
The seam we close
Your PMS doesn't talk to your gate. Until DwellPort.
Every other property platform stops at the lease and the rent ledger. The gate allow-list, the guard's clipboard, and the visitor pass live in a separate system (or on paper). DwellPort threads them together.
The lease decides who's let in
Active lease → plate enters the allow-list. Move-out date → access expires automatically. Eviction filed → access suspended. No spreadsheet sync, no lag, no awkward conversations at the gatehouse.
Residents drive in. Guests are pre-registered.
Residents register their plates in the tenant portal — ANPR recognizes them in under a second. Guests get a time-boxed pass with a QR code and a plate. When they arrive, the gate opens. Industry-typical 95–99% match on clean plates.
Maintenance tickets that route themselves
A leak reported in the portal becomes a ticket assigned to the right vendor, with a budget approval workflow, photo evidence, automatic SLA tracking, and a guest pass for the plumber's truck — generated automatically.
Trust accounting auditors actually accept
Per-property GLs, owner statements, 1099-NEC generation (now $2,000 threshold for 2026), bank reconciliation, late fees per state law. Real accounting, not QuickBooks-with-extra-steps.
Why DwellPort exists
The legacy stack — a PMS, a gate vendor, and a spreadsheet bridging them — was never going to scale.
Most gated communities run DwellingLIVE or GateAccess.net for visitors, Buildium or AppFolio for the back office, and a property manager stitching the two together by hand. We built one platform instead.
Property managers responsible for gated communities, HOAs, condo associations, and larger multifamily buildings carry a legacy stack that wasn't designed to talk to itself. The PMS holds the ledger. The gate vendor holds the allow-list. The intercom holds the buzzer codes. The maintenance app holds the work orders. The guard holds a clipboard.
Every move-in, every move-out, every eviction, every contractor, every guest requires manual updates in three or four systems. The errors are predictable: a former tenant whose plate is still on the allow-list a month after move-out; a contractor whose pass is still active six months after the job; a guest who shows up and isn't on any list because the resident emailed the gate and not the PMS.
DwellPort is the platform that makes the lease, the ledger, and the gate the same record. One source of truth. One audit trail. One thing for the property manager to keep up to date.
| Legacy stack | DwellPort |
|---|---|
| PMS + visitor system + ANPR + intercom + accounting — five contracts | One platform, one contract, one login |
| Allow-list updated by spreadsheet sync, sometimes weekly | Lease change → allow-list change in real time |
| Guests phone the gate or write their name in a paper log | Resident pre-registers in the portal; ANPR opens the gate |
| Maintenance ticket = email + a contractor pass that nobody made | Ticket created, vendor dispatched, contractor pass issued — automatic |
| Per-user pricing on PMS plus per-door pricing on access | Per-unit/month — no extra fee to plug in the gate |
What's in the platform
The full back-office stack. Plus the gate the others ship without.
DwellPort is one product. The PMS modules cover the table-stakes everything credible PM platforms have. Smart access and visitor management are the modules nobody else has.
Leasing & rent
Listings, screening, e-sign, rent. Zillow / Apartments.com syndication, credit / criminal / eviction screening, online lease signing, ACH and card rent collection.
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Accounting
Trust accounting, owner statements, 1099s. Per-property GLs, bank rec, segregated trust accounts, ePay disbursements, year-end 1099-NEC at the new $2,000 threshold.
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Maintenance & tickets
Tickets that auto-route to the right vendor. Photo evidence, SLA timers, budget approval, auto-issued contractor gate passes, post-job inspection.
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Tenant portal
Pay rent, file tickets, register guests. Mobile-first portal where residents pay rent, file maintenance tickets, register vehicles, and pre-register visitors.
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Owner portal
Statements, reports, approvals. Real-time financial reporting, expense approval, document vault, monthly statement and 1099 generation.
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Smart access & ANPR
ANPR that reads tenant plates. Industry-typical 95–99% accuracy on clean plates. Works with HikVision, Dahua, Genetec, Plate Recognizer, and any RTSP camera.
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Visitor management
Guest passes residents create themselves. Time-boxed QR codes, plate-keyed entries, contractor passes, delivery whitelist (UPS, USPS, Amazon).
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Inspections
Move-in, move-out, periodic. Mobile checklist with photo + video evidence, side-by-side comparison across move-ins, deposit deduction worksheet.
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Built for the buildings people live in
From a 12-unit duplex to a 2,000-home master-planned community.
Around 15 million Americans live in gated communities — over 4 million in access-controlled ones. DwellPort runs the lease, the ledger, and the gate for all of them on the same platform.
Multifamily & mixed-use
One platform from leasing through gate access.
Tenant experience
Pay rent, register guests, file tickets — one app.
SFR & HOA
Single-family rentals and homeowner associations alike.
Photos via Unsplash.
At a glance
The numbers behind the platform.
95–99%
ANPR match rate on clean plates in good conditions — per industry benchmarks (DHS S&T, 2025)
1 ledger
Lease, rent, allow-list, guest pass — same record. No spreadsheet sync.
4M+
US households in access-controlled communities — DwellPort's core market
8 modules
Leasing · accounting · maintenance · tenant portal · owner portal · ANPR · visitors · inspections
Who DwellPort is built for
Property managers who already live with a gate.
Student housing
Annual leases, peak move-in weekends, parking enforcement, parent + guest registration. ANPR + guest passes built for the volume.
For student housingMultifamily & build-to-rent
Class-A apartments and BTR communities where parking is an amenity. ANPR on the garage gate, ButterflyMX-style intercom integration on the lobby door.
For multifamily"We were managing a 480-home gated community with three different vendors: Buildium for the books, DwellingLIVE for the gate, and an iPad app for inspections. DwellPort replaced all three in 90 days. The board wanted to know why we hadn't done it sooner."
— Director of Operations, Sun Belt HOA management firm · Read customer stories →
Built by Deklarative
A small, opinionated team. Same group behind SwiftCrane (construction OS), Billitron (subcontractor payments), VoxRidge (telephony), and Argitron (compliance).
Standards & integrations on day one
The forms, rails, and cameras your audit and your gate already use.
Fair Housing
FHA + state
NARPM
Code of Ethics
1099-NEC
$2k threshold 2026
SOC 2
Type II 2026
Wiegand / OSDP
Gate hardware
RTSP
Any IP camera
Plus state-by-state ALPR retention rules (CA / NH / ME / VT) and ADA / WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility. See the modules →
Get started
Open the gate. Run the building. From one platform.
Demo in 30 minutes. Migration from Buildium, AppFolio, or Yardi included.