Friday, February 17, 2012

E-Commerce India - Community Portals


With the community-living gaining ground in India in the last decade (thanks to home-buyers hunger and home loan incentives), high-rise buildings and vast-expanse villas have sprouted across the country. Each of these communities provide ample facilities to residents. The association for a given community oversees the operations, encourages communication between residents and also manages accounts for the entire year. Traditionally, all this was accomplished with a manager in person working full-time and few residents donning the roles like president and treasurer. In spite of so many people looking into it, the operations and accounts are no mean tasks to manage.

Today, there all the above tasks to be handled by association are simplified with the help of websites like http://apartmentadda.com and http://commonfloor.com. The communication, management and accounting modules in these sites have evolved in the last five years to assist in every activity in a community - manage staff, handle payments, track maintenance and other receivables, allocate resources like club-house and above all foster communication between the residents through discussion forums.

I think these portals should tie-up with the shops, hospitals, theatres and the like to provide value-added services.

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