Every meaningful change to BadassHOA, dated and categorized.
Invite emails now send as full HTML with the association's logo, an orange CTA button, a portal bookmark link, and a 7-item feature list explaining what members can do once logged in. The sign-off shows the name, email, and phone of whoever sent the invite. The footer links both the association name and BadassHOA back to their respective portals.
Board admins and managers can now see when each member last logged in directly from the directory. Members who have never logged in but have a real email on file show a red "Never" label alongside the invite button, making it easy to spot who still needs onboarding.
A new 'Free (gifted)' plan is available in the association plan dropdown. Super admins can set any association to gifted status, giving them full access at no cost for as long as the designation is active — intended for charitable or sponsored associations, not discounted billing.
The directory nav label is now 'Owners / Renters' and the dashboard tile shows owner and renter counts as two separate numbers. The add/edit member form now has a 3-way Owner / Renter / Staff radio group instead of a checkbox. Media uploads now generate thumbnails (400×400 max) for faster grid loading. The audit log is now visible to board admins on the Settings page.
37 renters across 29 units imported from the Bellair tenant list. All accounts are active in the directory with phone numbers on file. Tenants without an email address on record have placeholder emails and can set their own via the password-reset flow when they're ready to log in.
The lobby TV display now scrolls smoothly on Samsung Smart TVs and other lower-powered browsers. The previous JavaScript requestAnimationFrame loop ran on the main thread and caused choppy, jumpy motion on Tizen WebKit. The new approach uses CSS @keyframes animation, which the browser hands off to the GPU compositor thread — resulting in smooth, continuous scrolling. Also: weather data is now fetched server-side in PHP (no client-side fetch calls, no layout pop when the page loads), Google Fonts removed in favor of the system font stack, and all clamp() values have rem fallbacks for older Tizen versions that don't support clamp().
When you submit a concern, complaint, or compliment, the form now displays your contact details — name, unit, email, and phone — so you know exactly what the board will use to follow up. If your phone isn't on file, a link takes you straight to profile to add it. The anonymous toggle hides your contact block and shows a clear warning: the board won't be able to follow up or give you updates if they don't know who you are. The member name typeahead also now respects your directory privacy setting — if the board has restricted the full directory, the picker is hidden entirely.
Three small improvements to the dashboard tiles. (1) The Members tile now shows a breakdown under the total count: how many owners, how many renters, and how many team/staff members. (2) The Rules tile label is now 'Rules & bylaws' to more accurately reflect what it links to. (3) The Board & mgmt and Contacts tiles no longer act as links for users who don't have contacts access — previously clicking them would hit a 'you don't have access' wall; now they render as plain non-clickable tiles for those users.
Associations can now set their local timezone in Settings > Association profile. Events are stored in UTC and displayed in the association's local time everywhere — the Events page, the event editor (so 6 PM means 6 PM, not 6 PM UTC), and the Lobby TV. Previously all times were stored and displayed as UTC, so a 6 PM event showed as 2 PM on the TV for Eastern associations. Times entered in the event form are now treated as local time and converted to UTC on save.
Board admins can now view expired announcements without digging through settings. A new 'Archived' tab on the Announcements page lists everything past its expiry date. Switching back to the live view shows only current announcements as before. Useful for referencing what was communicated in past months or reposting a seasonal reminder.
Announcement type badges are now color-coded by type: Beautification is green, Emergency is red, Event is blue, Maintenance is amber, and General is orange. Board admins can now customize any of these colors in Settings > Announcement tag colors. Pick a color with the color picker, preview the badge live, and save. The chosen color applies on the announcements dashboard, the public community landing page, and the lobby TV. Colors reset to the app defaults at any time via the Reset to defaults button.
Board admins now see an 'All' tab on the Events page alongside Upcoming and Past. The All tab shows every event regardless of date with full Edit and Delete buttons. This fixes a real problem: if you save an event with the wrong date it would immediately fall off the Upcoming view and show up buried in Past with no obvious way to fix it. Now it's always reachable.
The Lobby TV display got a full rework. Three columns — Announcements, Upcoming Events, and Marketplace — each with a colored header, item count, and its own independent scroll that loops when it runs out of content. Text is sized for distance viewing using fluid clamp() values (event dates read as large as 2.6rem). A weather widget centered in the header shows current conditions (WMO emoji + temperature + wind + precipitation) from Open-Meteo (free, no API key), refreshing every 30 minutes. The association's logo is now larger (up to 110px tall). Recurring events are now properly expanded — previously a weekly meeting series only showed one row; now all upcoming occurrences appear. Fixed a bug where trial-status associations were excluded from the TV query.
Board admins can now attach an optional image to any announcement — a flyer, a photo from last month's social, a map of the work zone, anything. The image appears inline below the announcement body on the dashboard and on the public community landing. Images are served through the same secure file gatekeeper as documents, respecting the announcement's audience setting.
The resident role has been renamed to 'Owner' throughout the app and database. This better reflects what the role actually represents — a unit owner, not just any resident. Existing accounts are migrated automatically; nothing changes for current users except the label. The 'Renter' role remains separate (renters have narrower access than owners — they can't file ARC requests, join committees, or access settings). If you were filtering by 'Resident' anywhere, you'll now see 'Owner' in its place.
The 'Assigned to' dropdown on work orders now includes all active employees (contractors, vendors, maintenance staff) alongside board and management roles. If an employee has a title on file (e.g., 'HVAC Technician', 'Pool Service'), that title shows in the dropdown. This means you no longer need to create a board-role account just to route a work order to your plumber or landscaper.
The insurance record edit view now includes an attached documents section. Board admins can upload PDFs, Word docs, or images (up to 25 MB each) directly from the insurance page and they're stored with the policy record — no more uploading to the documents library and hunting for them later. Attached files are board-only and pull from the same storage quota. You can also delete individual attachments from the same view.
Board admins can now attach documents directly to an employee record — W-9s, signed contracts, background-check reports, certifications, anything relevant to that person. The upload section appears in the employee edit form (board admin only). Attached files are board-only access, stored in the same upload quota, and can be individually deleted from the same view.
Pay type, pay rate, and salary information on employee records is now visible and editable only by board admins and super admins. Board members and property managers can still view and update everything else on an employee record (name, title, contact, status, notes) but pay details are hidden. This separates the operational view from the financial one without splitting the page into two separate access tiers.
The Rules page search bar gained a Category dropdown alongside the existing Source filter. Categories come from your curated list plus any legacy categories still in use on existing rules (so old imports stay filterable). Live search now also honors source + category so typing 'noise' with Category=Pets returns only pet-related noise rules. The Print button passes the category filter through, and the printed cover meta line shows it ('159 rules · matching "pet" · category: Pets').
Renters no longer see the Settings or Committees links in the sidebar, and the pages themselves redirect renters back to the dashboard if they hit the URLs directly. Settings exposes association admin info that's not useful to tenants; Committees are an owner/board space and renters already can't join. Owners and board members are unaffected.
Two owner-only privileges are now properly enforced. Renters can still view what their building is up to but can't file Architectural Review requests (an exterior change is the owner's call, not the tenant's) and can't self-join committees (membership is for unit owners). The 'New request' / 'Join' buttons hide for renters; the empty state shows a friendly note pointing them at the unit owner. Owners and board members are unaffected.
Replaced the giant member dropdown on the employees form with a type-ahead search box. Start typing a name or a unit number and the matches filter live (up to 10 results). Arrow keys + Enter to pick, click to pick, Escape to dismiss. Form refuses to submit unless an actual member is selected (no more 'I typed the name but the dropdown didn't match'). Also flipped all 189 imported pending Bellair residents to active so they show up properly in counts and visibility checks.
Long committee descriptions now collapse to about three lines on the listing with a 'Show more ▾' / 'Show less ▴' toggle, so multiple committees fit on the screen at once. Short descriptions render in full with no button (auto-detected). Per-member rows in the manage table now have ⭐ Make chair (promotes them and demotes the current chair) and Step down (demotes the current chair to a regular member) buttons next to Remove, so admins can rearrange the roster without removing and re-adding people.
The 3-column parking print used to render each spot as a 3-line card (kind on top, big number, then unit + owner). For 80+ spots that filled multiple pages. Reworked to a one-line-per-spot layout — number first in bold, then a small kind tag, then the unit + owner inline. Tighter page margins (0.35in) and smaller type let a full Bellair lot fit on one or two pages.
Print-all-rules now renders in two columns with tighter margins (0.4in) and slightly smaller type, so a full ruleset fits in roughly half the pages it used to. Each rule still breaks cleanly without splitting mid-block. Separately, the dashboard greeting (Good morning / afternoon / evening) was wrong for anyone not on UTC — the server clock is pinned to UTC and PHP was always computing the time of day from that. A tiny JS now overwrites the greeting using the browser's local time, so 3:30 PM EDT correctly reads 'Good afternoon'.
Documents in the listing now have an Edit button (board/PM only) for changing title, description, category, access level, or unit assignment without re-uploading. Long descriptions clamp to two lines with a Show More toggle so the table stays scannable.
User profiles now have an optional mailing address that's used when an owner lives somewhere other than the unit they own (typical when they're renting their property). Communications gained a Beautification category alongside General, Event, Maintenance, Emergency. Long rule bodies on the Rules page now collapse to four lines with a Show More toggle. The dashboard's Quick Actions side panel was removed — every action it surfaced is one click away in the sidebar.
The dashboard home now shows seven counts you can click into instead of five — Members (every active user), Units, Rules, Documents, Photos (image media), Posts, and Committees. The grid auto-fits so it stays tidy on narrow screens.
Privacy update: renter accounts now see only the Board section of the Directory page — no full resident roster, no other unit owners' contact details. Owners and managers see everything as before.
Property managers can now add, edit, and delete content across the dashboard alongside board members and board admins (residents and renters remain view-only). Board users also get a new View-as toggle in the sidebar — preview the dashboard exactly as a homeowner or renter sees it (manage controls hidden, board-only documents suppressed) and one click to return to your normal view.
Settings page is association-level (name, address, branding) — password changes are person-level. Users who want to change their password use /forgot.php; super admins or board admins can change any user's password via /admin/users.php or the add-member flow.
The login page used to show local-dev demo logins. Removed for cleaner production-grade UX.
Every stat card on /admin/ and /dashboard/ is now an anchor that navigates to the relevant management page. Hover gives a subtle lift, an arrow slides in, and the value goes orange.