# Best TOPS Software Alternatives in 2026 (Now Enumerate)

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**Description:** TOPS Software is now Enumerate, TOPS Pro and IQ are gone, and the floor is $500/month. Nine HOA and community association alternatives compared.
**Published:** 2026-09-02
**Updated:** 2026-09-02

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**Published: 13 August 2026 · Last Updated: August 2026**

If you are looking for TOPS Software alternatives, the first thing worth knowing is that TOPS Software no longer exists under that name. It is now Enumerate. The second thing is that the two legacy products most people mean when they say “TOPS,” TOPS Pro and TOPS IQ, were discontinued at the end of 2024, which is why so many boards and management companies are shopping at once. This page ranks nine platforms for the three very different reasons people land here, and it is direct about which ones replace what Enumerate does and which ones only replace part of it. If you want the wider category rather than this one vertical, browse our [alternatives to other membership and association platforms](/alternatives/).

Read the next sentence before you book any demos, because it will save you two of them. There are three buyers on this page and they need different products. A management company running books for dozens of associations needs a full community association platform with fund accounting. A single board that keeps its general ledger inside the software needs the same thing at a smaller tier. A self-managed association of 40 or 80 doors that got pushed onto a $500 a month minimum, and whose books are with a bookkeeper anyway, needs something much lighter. Raklet is on this list for that third reader only, and we say so plainly in our own card rather than at the bottom in small print.

## Key Takeaways

- TOPS Software rebranded to Enumerate in May 2023. The old domain, topssoft.com, now redirects to goenumerate.com. Enumerate has been backed by Great Hill Partners since July 2021.
- TOPS Pro and TOPS IQ were discontinued at the end of 2024. Every remaining customer was moved to Enumerate Central, which is the single biggest reason this search exists.
- Enumerate publishes exactly one number: a $500 per month stated minimum. There is no free trial and no free version, and an annual contract is required.
- Value for Money is Enumerate’s lowest-rated dimension on Capterra at 3.4 out of 5, against a 3.8 overall. Reviewers rate it usable but expensive.
- PayHOA is the honest answer for most self-managed associations that still need real accounting. It publishes every tier from $49 per month and offers a 30 day free trial.
- Vantaca and CINC Systems are the like-for-like replacements for professional management companies. Neither publishes a price.
- Raklet is not an accounting product and does not try to be. It fits the self-managed association that needs a homeowner directory, dues, community email, meetings, and documents, with the ledger kept elsewhere.
- Six of the nine platforms here are private equity or venture owned, and two answer to a parent with several sibling brands. We publish the full ownership chain rather than leaving it out.
- Jump to the comparison table to see which of the nine actually carry fund accounting, violations, and architectural review.

## What Happened to TOPS Software

Almost every “TOPS alternatives” page on the internet is confused, and it is worth clearing up before you compare anything, because two of the confusions will waste your time.

### There Are Three Unrelated Products Called TOPS

There is a fleet and trucking management system called TOPS. There is a CAD and engineering tool called TOPS Pro. And there is the HOA and community association accounting platform this page is about. Several large review directories serve the wrong one: search their “Best TOPS Alternatives” pages and you can end up reading about truck routing. If a comparison page you are reading never mentions assessments, reserves, or violations, you are on the wrong product.

### The Name Changed, and the Company Behind It Did Too

TOPS Software was a Clearwater, Florida company that had been selling HOA accounting software since the 1980s. In July 2021 it took a growth equity investment from Great Hill Partners, which still [lists the company in its portfolio](https://www.greathillpartners.com/companies/enumerate) and describes it as community association management software with integrated payments, sold primarily to property management and homeowners association customers. In February 2022 it acquired Nabr Network, a homeowner communication platform. In May 2023 the combined business rebranded as Enumerate. Today the product line is Enumerate Central for accounting and operations, Enumerate Engage for resident communication, and a managed back-office accounting service. Its AI layer, [Numa AI](https://goenumerate.com/products/numa-ai), launched in May 2026, with budget drafting included and natural-language search, AI bank reconciliation, and homeowner query handling sold as a premium add-on.

One correction worth making because it circulates: Enumerate is not owned by Vantaca. Vantaca is a competitor, it appears on this list, and it publishes marketing aimed squarely at Enumerate customers. We found no primary or secondary source for a Vantaca acquisition of TOPS or Enumerate, and no ownership change at all in 2025 or 2026.

### The 2024 Sunset Forced Everyone to Move

This is the part that actually matters. TOPS Pro and TOPS IQ, the on-premise products, were discontinued at the end of 2024. Customers who had deliberately stayed on desktop software, often because it was stable and they had already paid for it, were migrated onto Enumerate Central whether the timing suited them or not. A forced migration is the moment every buyer re-opens the whole question, and it is why a category that normally turns over slowly has a large cohort of associations shopping at the same time. If you are going to be moved anyway, the reasoning goes, you may as well look at what else exists.

## Why Organizations Look for TOPS Software Alternatives

Enumerate holds a 3.8 out of 5 across 129 reviews on Capterra. That is a middling score rather than a bad one, and as usual the interesting information is in the sub-scores, not the headline.

### Value for Money Is the Lowest-Rated Dimension

Capterra reviewers give Enumerate 3.9 for Ease of Use, 3.7 for Features, 3.7 for Customer Service, and 3.4 for Value for Money. Value is the only dimension that sits clearly below the overall score. That is the signature of a product people find capable and find expensive, which lines up exactly with what the pricing page says.

### The Published Floor Is $500 a Month

[Enumerate’s pricing page](https://goenumerate.com/pricing) publishes one figure and one figure only: “our minimum monthly cost is $500.” Everything above that is set by the size of your association and the services you take. An annual contract is required, and there is a separate one-time implementation fee covering migration of your data from your existing accounting system. There is no free trial and no free version. For a management company with a hundred communities, $500 a month is not the number that decides anything. For a self-managed association of 45 doors, $6,000 a year before implementation is often more than the entire non-reserve administrative budget, and it is the reason that reader is on this page.

Quote-only pricing is normal in this category and is not by itself a red flag. Most of the platforms below do the same thing. But it does mean your year-three cost is set by negotiation rather than by a published rate card, so ask for the annual increase cap in writing before you sign.

### Support Slows Down After the Implementation Team Leaves

The most consistent complaint in Enumerate’s reviews is response time after onboarding: multiple emails before an issue is resolved, and tickets that run for weeks. Reviewers also flag specific functional limits, including bills that do not appear in the general ledger until they are approved, sort orders that are only alphabetical or numerical, and an email tool that will not embed images in the message body. None of these are catastrophic on their own. They are the kind of friction that accumulates for the person doing the work every week.

### The Migration Off the Legacy Products Was Rough for Some Customers

A recurring theme from customers who moved off TOPS Pro and TOPS IQ is data that did not transfer cleanly, with errors surfacing months later as owner balance disputes. We are flagging this as context for how you plan your next migration rather than as a mark against any one vendor. Moving an association’s ledger is genuinely hard, and the same risk applies to every platform on this list. The practical lesson is to budget for a parallel run and a balance-by-balance reconciliation, whoever you move to.

## What to Look for in a TOPS Software Alternative

These six questions map directly to the problems above. Apply all six to every platform here, including ours.

### Decide Whether You Are Replacing the Ledger or the Directory

This one question splits the list in half and it should be answered before you take a single demo. If your association’s general ledger, assessment billing, reserve accounting, and bank reconciliation live inside the software today, you need a community association platform, full stop. Seven of the nine platforms below qualify. If your books are with a bookkeeper, a CPA, or a management company, and what you actually need from software is a homeowner directory, dues collection, community-wide email, meetings and events, and somewhere to keep the CC&Rs, then you are shopping in a different and much cheaper category. For the feature-by-feature version of that distinction against this specific incumbent, see our [TOPS Software vs Raklet comparison](/alternatives/topssoftware-vs-raklet/).

### Check Whether Violations and Architectural Review Are Actually Included

Violation tracking, architectural review committee workflows, and work orders are the three modules boards most often assume are standard. They are standard in the purpose-built HOA platforms and absent from lighter tools. Two platforms on this list, Raklet and HOA Express, do not have them at all. One, Smartwebs, splits accounting into a higher tier while keeping compliance on both. Ask for a live demo of a violation going from photo to notice to cure, rather than accepting a checkmark on a feature grid.

### Ask Whether the Vendor Will Publish a Price

Three of the nine publish every tier. The rest will not tell you a number without a call. That is a legitimate business model at portfolio scale, but it changes how you budget, and it makes benchmarking harder for a volunteer board treasurer who cannot spend three weeks collecting quotes.

### Match the Tool to Whoever Actually Does the Work

A platform built for a professional community association manager assumes a trained daily user. A platform built for a self-managed board assumes a volunteer treasurer who will use it for two hours a month and hand it to a successor next year. Both designs are correct for their buyer and wrong for the other one. Be honest about which you are before you evaluate anything, because the wrong answer here produces an expensive system nobody logs into.

### Find Out Who Owns the Vendor

This is the question boards skip and it is the one that predicts the next three years. Most platforms in this category are owned by private equity firms or sit under a parent with several sibling brands, which shapes pricing resets, support staffing, and whether your product gets roadmap attention or gets merged into another one. Enumerate’s own recent history is the illustration: an investment, an acquisition, a rebrand, and then the discontinuation of the products many customers had actually bought. We publish the full ownership chain for every platform on this page further down.

### Confirm What Actually Comes Across in a Migration

Owner records and unit data move reliably almost everywhere. Historical general ledger detail, open balances, prepaid assessments, and reserve history are where migrations go wrong. Get the vendor to state in writing which of those they will convert, which they will bring across as opening balances only, and what the implementation fee covers.

## The Best TOPS Software Alternatives in 2026

## How we evaluated these alternatives

Every platform here was assessed on six things: whether it carries HOA fund accounting, whether violations and architectural review are included, whether the vendor publishes pricing, who the product is designed for, what reviewers say it does badly, and who ultimately owns it. Every price on this page was checked against the vendor’s own live pricing page on 13 August 2026. Where a vendor publishes no price we say “not public” rather than repeating a third-party estimate as though it were the vendor’s rate. Ratings are Capterra scores as of the same date. We could not retrieve G2 scores for any vendor in this batch, so none are quoted. Raklet is listed first because this is our page, and the eight after it are ordered by how directly they replace what Enumerate does. Our own card is the one place on this page where we tell you to buy something else.

### 1. Raklet: Best for Self-Managed Associations That Keep the Books Elsewhere

Founded 2013 · Independent, backed by Techstars and Microsoft Ventures · Not private equity owned

Start with what Raklet is not, because it is the fastest way to work out whether to keep reading. Raklet has no general ledger, no fund or reserve accounting, no bank reconciliation, no lockbox integration, no violation tracking, no architectural review workflow, and no work orders. It is not a replacement for Enumerate Central and we would rather you learned that here than forty minutes into a demo. If your association’s books live in the software today, skip to PayHOA, Vantaca, or CINC below. If you want a ranked list of tools built for the accounting side specifically, we keep a separate roundup of [dedicated HOA accounting software](/blog/hoa-accounting-software-top-5-ranking/).

What Raklet is, is a membership and community platform whose centre is the contact record. For a self-managed association that means a homeowner directory with custom fields per unit, dues and recurring payments collected online, email and SMS to the whole community or one segment, an events and RSVP system that covers the annual meeting and the summer social, document storage for the CC&Rs, bylaws, minutes, and notices, forms for resident requests, and a member portal with a mobile app. It is the Enumerate Engage half of the problem, not the Enumerate Central half.

The reason that combination is worth a look at all is the price step. Enumerate’s published floor is $500 a month on an annual contract. Raklet publishes every tier at [raklet.com/pricing](https://www.raklet.com/pricing/): a free plan for up to 100 contacts, Essentials at $49 a month billed annually or $59 billed monthly, Professional at $99 or $119, and Premium at $399 or $499. A 90 door association sits comfortably in Essentials or Professional. Contacts, admin seats, and email volume are sold as add-on packs, so passing one limit does not force a full tier jump. There is no annual contract requirement and no implementation fee. For a board paying a bookkeeper a few hundred dollars a month to keep the ledger clean, the combined cost still lands well under the incumbent’s floor.

Being straight about the tradeoff: this is a two-system setup, and two systems means someone reconciles the payment record against the ledger. That is a real cost and for many associations it is the wrong answer. It is the right answer when the association is small, self-managed, has no compliance workload to speak of, and is currently paying association-platform prices for what amounts to a directory and a mailing list. If that is your situation, our [homeowners association software](/homeowners-association-software/) page covers what the product does for HOAs specifically.

**Best for:** Self-managed HOAs, condo associations, and neighbourhood associations under roughly 200 doors whose accounting sits with a bookkeeper, CPA, or accounting tool, and whose real need is directory, dues, communication, events, and documents.

**Not ideal for:** Management companies, any association that needs fund accounting or bank reconciliation in the platform, and anyone with a violation or architectural review workload.

**Pricing:** Free plan up to 100 contacts. Essentials $49 per month billed annually ($59 monthly), Professional $99 ($119), Premium $399 ($499). Add-on packs for contacts, admin seats, and email. No annual contract required.

### 2. PayHOA: Best for Self-Managed Associations That Still Need Real Accounting

Founded 2018, Lexington KY · Independent, venture backed · $27.5M Series A led by Elephant, May 2024

For the largest group of readers arriving on this page, this is the honest recommendation. PayHOA was built specifically for self-managed boards rather than for management companies, and it is the only platform here that combines genuine HOA accounting with pricing you can read without a phone call. General ledger accounting, budgets and reports, bank integrations, online payments, violation enforcement against your CC&Rs, and request forms are all in the product.

[Every tier is published](https://www.payhoa.com/pricing) and banded by unit count: $49 a month billed yearly for up to 25 units, $59 for 26 to 50, $99 for 51 to 100, $129 for 101 to 150, rising to $249 for 401 to 500, then $0.55 per unit per month with a $275 minimum above that. Management companies pay the same per-unit rate. There is a 30 day free trial with no credit card. For a 60 door self-managed association, that is $99 a month against Enumerate’s $500 floor, with the accounting still inside the platform.

It carries the highest review volume-to-score combination on this list at 4.7 out of 5 across 680 Capterra reviews. The caveats reviewers raise are intermittent bugs and slow performance, limited editing flexibility in transaction and violation management, and per-transaction ACH and card fees on top of the subscription. Reserve accounting is not named explicitly on the features page, so confirm it directly if reserves are central to your books.

**Best for:** Self-managed HOAs and condo boards of any size that want assessments, accounting, and violations in one place at a published price.

**Not ideal for:** Large management companies needing deep portfolio workflow automation, or associations with heavy architectural review committee processes.

**Pricing:** Published in full. $49 per month billed yearly for up to 25 units through $249 for 401 to 500 units, then $0.55 per unit per month with a $275 minimum. 30 day free trial.

### 3. Vantaca: Best Like-for-Like Replacement for Management Companies

Founded 2016 · Minority growth investment led by Cove Hill Partners, October 2025, at a reported $1.25B valuation · JMI Equity also invested

If you are a professional community association management company leaving Enumerate, Vantaca is the most direct swap. It is built for the same buyer, it covers the same ground, and it is the platform most actively courting Enumerate’s customer base. Accounts receivable and payable, budgeting, financial reporting, integrated banking with transaction matching, violations, and architectural review are all in scope, with an AI automation layer over board packets, budgets, ARC, and violations. Work-order-type activity runs through case tracking rather than a module called work orders, which is worth confirming against your own process.

Vantaca raised more than $300 million in a minority growth investment led by Cove Hill Partners in October 2025 at a reported $1.25 billion valuation. That means a well-funded roadmap and it also means a company on an institutional investor’s clock, which is the same structural question you should be asking about Enumerate under Great Hill. It holds 4.4 out of 5 across 111 Capterra reviews. The consistent criticism is a steep learning curve: the workflow engine is powerful and takes real time to configure, and reviewers describe navigation complexity as ongoing friction rather than a first-week problem.

**Best for:** Professional management companies running a book of associations that want workflow automation and are replacing Enumerate function for function.

**Not ideal for:** Self-managed boards, small associations, and anyone who needs a price before a sales call.

**Pricing:** Not public. No pricing page. All enquiries route to a demo request.

### 4. CINC Systems: Best for Association-Only Depth at Portfolio Scale

Private equity backed · Strategic growth investment from Hg announced December 2023 · Spectrum Equity an existing investor

CINC Systems is the other serious like-for-like option for management companies, and unlike Buildium or AppFolio it does community associations only. There is no rental property side of the business diluting the roadmap. Full accounting including general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, and budgeting sits alongside banking integrations and financial reporting, plus a violations module with escalation and auto-generated monthly reports, architectural review with branded homeowner portals, and work orders that managers can handle from a mobile app in the field.

It carries 4.3 out of 5 across 71 Capterra reviews, the smallest review base of the management-company platforms here, so weight it accordingly. Reviewers report an inability to attach images and video inside the platform, support response times that sometimes lag, and cost that some individual users describe as high to maintain. Hg took a strategic growth investment in December 2023, so the private equity ownership question applies here as much as it does at Enumerate.

**Best for:** Management companies that want a platform built only for community associations, with strong violation and architectural review workflows.

**Not ideal for:** Self-managed boards, and companies with a mixed rental and association portfolio.

**Pricing:** Not public. No pricing page. Contact required.

### 5. Buildium: Best for Mixed Rental and Association Portfolios

Owned by RealPage since December 2019 (acquired for $580M) · RealPage is owned by Thoma Bravo

Buildium is a general property management platform with a genuine association product inside it, and the case for it is narrow but strong: if you manage rentals and community associations in the same company, this is the one platform here that handles both without a second system. Association and unit accounting, company financials, accounts payable with approvals, and automatic bank reconciliation with transaction matching are in the product, alongside violations management, architectural requests with committee voting, and work orders, all of which the vendor states are available on every tier.

It [publishes its pricing](https://www.buildium.com/pricing/): Essential from $62 a month, Growth from $192, Premium from $400, with a 14 day free trial. Worth noting because it is unusual in this category, those same tiers and dollar figures appear on Buildium’s association-specific page as well, with the Essential tier described as suited to small management companies or self-managed associations of 150 units and under, and with self-serve trial signup on the two lower tiers rather than a mandatory sales call. Only Premium routes to a demo. It holds 4.5 out of 5 across 2,233 Capterra reviews, by far the largest sample here. Reviewers report bugs causing slowdowns, confusion around access control and deposit processes, and banking setup and reconciliation being time-consuming. One caveat worth naming: competitor-published comparisons argue Buildium’s association features feel bolted onto a rental product rather than purpose-built. That claim comes from a competitor’s own blog rather than a neutral source, so treat it as a question to test in a demo rather than a finding.

**Best for:** Management companies running rentals and associations together, and associations that want published pricing with full accounting.

**Not ideal for:** Associations that want a vendor focused only on community associations.

**Pricing:** Published. Essential from $62 per month, Growth from $192, Premium from $400. Custom above 5,000 units. 14 day free trial.

### 6. Smartwebs: Best for Compliance-Heavy Operations

Founded 2005 · Founder-led; no parent company or outside investment disclosed publicly

Smartwebs comes at the category from the compliance side rather than the accounting side, and its tier structure reflects that. Violations, work orders, and architectural review approvals are available on both of its tiers, including on-site from a mobile device, while accounting (budgets, receivables and payables, collections, bank integrations) sits only on the higher MAX tier. If your operational pain is inspections and notices rather than the ledger, that shape means you are not paying for accounting depth you will not use.

It holds 4.4 out of 5 across 168 Capterra reviews. Reviewers ask for better integration with other property management software, note the absence of voting functionality, and report the system struggling with large data volumes, including crashing or freezing when running reports on large-scale HOAs. It is one of the few vendors here with no disclosed outside investor, which some boards will read as stability and others as scale risk. [Both tiers are quote-only](https://www.smartwebs.com/pricing) with minimums and implementation fees.

**Best for:** Management companies and associations whose day-to-day workload is violations, inspections, and architectural review.

**Not ideal for:** Very large portfolios with heavy reporting demands, and buyers who need published pricing.

**Pricing:** Not public. Two tiers, CORE and MAX. Minimums and implementation fees apply.

### 7. Condo Control: Best for Condo Boards That Lead With Resident Communication

Part of Property Control, launched as parent brand August 2025 · Backed by Vertica Capital Partners since June 2024

Condo Control leads with the resident experience and backs it with a full management system, which makes it a strong fit for high-rise and condo corporations where the daily reality is amenity bookings, package handling, service requests, and notices rather than portfolio accounting. Association accounting, accounts payable and receivable, billing, bank reconciliation, budgeting, and audit-ready records are present, along with violation tracking, architectural change requests, and maintenance and preventive maintenance work orders.

It holds 4.7 out of 5 across 245 Capterra reviews, the joint-highest score among the full management platforms here. Reviewers report inconsistent follow-through and changing points of contact, occasional long waits on service requests, and limited integration with door and building access systems. Ownership is worth noting: it now sits under Property Control, a multi-brand parent launched in August 2025 that also owns HOA Central, HOA Sites, and Patrol Points, and which acquired Condo Manager in September 2025. That is an active roll-up, with the roadmap consequences that implies. [Its three tiers](https://www.condocontrol.com/pricing) are named but carry no published prices.

**Best for:** Condo corporations and high-rise associations where resident communication and amenity management drive the requirement.

**Not ideal for:** Buyers who want pricing transparency, or single-family HOAs with no amenity or concierge workload.

**Pricing:** Not public. Three tiers named by unit-count band, quote only.

### 8. AppFolio Property Manager: Best for Large Portfolios Across Asset Types

Publicly traded, Nasdaq: APPF

AppFolio is the enterprise end of this list and the only publicly traded company on it, which for some boards is the answer to the private equity ownership question the rest of this page keeps raising: quarterly reporting and no exit clock. Its HOA product covers bank integrations, online payments, automated accounts payable, smart bill entry, corporate accounting, and multiple fund accounting with cost centers, plus mobile violations and violation letters, online architectural reviews with in-app messaging, and online maintenance requests and work orders.

It holds 4.5 out of 5 across 1,891 Capterra reviews. The dominant complaint theme is customer support: multi-day waits for callbacks, long email response times, difficulty reaching a person, and frustration with an AI chatbot acting as gatekeeper. Reviewers also report bank reconciliation and refund handling as confusing, performance degrading as portfolios grow, and cost running high for companies with low unit counts because pricing is not purely per unit. [Core, Plus, and Max](https://www.appfolio.com/pricing) are named without dollar figures, and every tier is footnoted with minimum spend and unit requirements.

**Best for:** Large management companies operating across rentals, associations, and other asset types that want one enterprise platform.

**Not ideal for:** Small portfolios and self-managed associations. The minimums make it uneconomic and reviewers say so directly.

**Pricing:** Not public. Core, Plus, and Max tiers named. Minimum spend and unit minimums apply on all three.

### 9. HOA Express: Best Pure-Budget Option for Very Small Communities

Founded 2009 · Ownership and funding not publicly disclosed

HOA Express is the cheapest thing on this page and the narrowest. It is a community website and communication tool: blast emails and texts, a resident directory, online payment collection, custom forms and surveys, a calendar, community information pages, and a domain with professional email. There is no general ledger, no assessments module, no reserves, no bank reconciliation, no violations, no architectural review, and no work orders. Like Raklet, it replaces the Engage half of Enumerate and none of the Central half, and it does less than Raklet does on the membership and dues side while costing less.

[Pricing is published in full](https://www.hoa-express.com/pricing/): a free plan for up to 50 households, an Inform plan at $15 a month billed yearly for up to 25 households, and an Engage plan at $21 a month for up to 25 households which adds blast communications, payment collection, forms, and surveys. It scores 4.9 out of 5 on Capterra, the highest here, on 47 reviews, which is a small sample and worth reading in that light. Reviewers note the lack of integration with other HOA software for account balances and fees, and payment processing fees.

**Best for:** Very small self-managed communities that want a website, a directory, and a way to email everyone, at the lowest possible cost.

**Not ideal for:** Any association that needs accounting, compliance, or dues management with real member records behind it.

**Pricing:** Published. Free plan up to 50 households. Inform $15 per month billed yearly, Engage $21 per month, both up to 25 households.

## TOPS Software Alternatives Compared

| Platform | Built for | HOA fund accounting | Violations, ARC, work orders | Published pricing | Capterra |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Enumerate (TOPS Software)** | Management companies and mid-size associations | Yes | Yes | $500/mo stated minimum, otherwise quote only | 3.8 (129) |
| **Raklet** | Self-managed associations, books kept elsewhere | No | No | Yes, free plan then $49 to $399/mo annual | Not listed in this category |
| PayHOA | Self-managed boards of any size | Yes, reserves not named | Violations yes, ARC not named | Yes, all tiers, from $49/mo | 4.7 (680) |
| Vantaca | Professional management companies | Yes | Yes, work orders as case tracking | No | 4.4 (111) |
| CINC Systems | Management companies, associations only | Yes | Yes | No | 4.3 (71) |
| Buildium | Mixed rental and association portfolios | Yes | Yes, on all tiers per vendor | Yes, from $62/mo | 4.5 (2,233) |
| Smartwebs | Compliance-heavy operations | Yes, MAX tier only | Yes, both tiers | No | 4.4 (168) |
| Condo Control | Condo corporations and high-rises | Yes | Yes | No, tiers named only | 4.7 (245) |
| AppFolio Property Manager | Large multi-asset portfolios | Yes | Yes | No, tiers named only | 4.5 (1,891) |
| HOA Express | Very small self-managed communities | No | No | Yes, free plan then $15 to $21/mo | 4.9 (47) |

Prices and ratings were checked against each vendor’s own live pricing page and Capterra listing on 13 August 2026. Platforms marked “No” under published pricing disclose no dollar figure at any tier. Raklet is not listed in Capterra’s community association management category because it is a membership platform rather than an HOA product, which is the same reason its accounting column reads “No.” Verify current figures before budgeting.

## Who Actually Owns These Platforms

Most comparison content in this category treats each platform as an independent company. Almost none of them are. Community association software has been consolidating for a decade, and the ownership chain matters to a board for two practical reasons: an investor-owned vendor is on a clock that ends in a sale or a recapitalisation, and a vendor with corporate siblings has a roadmap that gets allocated across several products rather than yours alone. Neither is disqualifying. Both are things you should know before signing a multi-year contract, and neither will come up on a sales call.

| Platform | Ultimate owner | Structure | Notable siblings or events |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Enumerate (TOPS Software)** | Great Hill Partners | Private equity, growth investment July 2021 | Acquired Nabr Network in 2022, which became Enumerate Engage |
| Buildium | Thoma Bravo, via RealPage | Private equity, two layers deep | RealPage bought Buildium for $580M in 2019, then Thoma Bravo took RealPage private in 2021. Propertyware, ClickPay, and Modern Message are corporate siblings. |
| Condo Control | Vertica Capital Partners, via Property Control | Private equity roll-up, active | Property Control launched as parent in August 2025 and also owns HOA Central, HOA Sites, and Patrol Points. It acquired Condo Manager in September 2025. |
| CINC Systems | Hg, with Spectrum Equity | Private equity, investment December 2023 | Founder and management team retained involvement at the time of the deal |
| Vantaca | Cove Hill Partners, with JMI Equity | Minority growth investment, October 2025 | Raised over $300M at a reported $1.25B valuation |
| PayHOA | Independent, venture backed | $27.5M Series A led by Elephant, May 2024 | First outside investment; founder-led since 2018 |
| AppFolio Property Manager | Public shareholders | Publicly traded, Nasdaq: APPF | The only listed company here. Quarterly disclosure, no exit clock. |
| Smartwebs | Not disclosed | Appears founder-led since 2005 | No parent company, acquisition, or outside investor found in public sources |
| HOA Express | Not disclosed | Not disclosed | Founded 2009. No ownership information published. |
| **Raklet** | Independent | Backed by Techstars and Microsoft Ventures, 2016 | Not private equity owned. No parent company and no corporate siblings. |

Two of these are worth pausing on. Buildium sits two layers inside a private equity structure: [Thoma Bravo took RealPage private](https://www.thomabravo.com/press-releases/thoma-bravo-completes-acquisition-of-realpage) in a transaction valuing it at roughly $10.2 billion including debt, and RealPage owns Propertyware alongside Buildium, so two products you might shortlist separately answer to the same owner. Condo Control is inside an active roll-up that has added brands as recently as September 2025. Ask any vendor in this table directly how long its current investor has held the position and whether a sale process is anticipated during your contract term. The answer is rarely volunteered and it is always known.

## Which TOPS Software Alternative Is Right for You?

If you are a professional management company, this is a two-horse race and neither horse will quote you a price without a call. Vantaca is the closest functional match to Enumerate and the best-funded option on the list. CINC Systems is the pick if you want a vendor whose entire roadmap is community associations rather than one that also sells to landlords. Buildium becomes the answer instead if you manage rentals alongside associations, and it is the only one of the three that will tell you a number on its website. AppFolio is where you land when the portfolio spans asset types at genuine enterprise scale, and you should go in knowing that support responsiveness is its most-cited weakness.

If you are a single self-managed association that keeps its ledger in the software, PayHOA is the recommendation and it is not close. It is purpose-built for your buyer profile, it publishes every tier, a 60 door community pays $99 a month against Enumerate’s $500 floor, and there is a 30 day trial so you can test the migration before committing. Smartwebs is the alternative if violations and architectural review dominate your workload and accounting is secondary. Condo Control is the alternative if you are a condo corporation where amenity bookings and resident notices are the daily reality.

If you are a self-managed association whose books already sit with a bookkeeper or a CPA, and the software is really being asked to hold a homeowner directory, collect dues, email the community, run the annual meeting, and store the governing documents, then you are paying association-platform prices for a directory and a mailing list. That is the case where Raklet is worth an hour of your time, and you can [start on the free plan](https://login.raklet.com/quickregister) and load your owner list before talking to anyone. Test one thing during that hour: whether you can import your homeowners, set up a dues plan, and send a community-wide email without help. If you also want a website more than you want member records, HOA Express does less for less money and is the honest cheaper option.

## Frequently Asked Questions

### Is TOPS Software the same as Enumerate?

Yes. TOPS Software rebranded to Enumerate in May 2023, following a July 2021 growth equity investment from Great Hill Partners and the February 2022 acquisition of Nabr Network. The old domain, topssoft.com, now redirects to goenumerate.com. The current product line is Enumerate Central for accounting and operations and Enumerate Engage for resident communication. If you are comparing “TOPS [ONE]” against something, you are comparing Enumerate Central.

### Were TOPS Pro and TOPS IQ discontinued?

Yes. Both legacy on-premise products were discontinued at the end of 2024, and remaining customers were migrated to the cloud product, Enumerate Central. This is the main reason so many associations and management companies are evaluating alternatives at the same time. If you were moved in that wave, it is worth reconciling your opening balances against your last desktop export, because balance errors from that migration surfaced for some customers months later.

### How much does TOPS Software cost?

Enumerate publishes a stated minimum of $500 per month and nothing else. Everything above that is quoted based on the size of your association and the services you take, an annual contract is required, and there is a separate one-time implementation fee for migrating your data. There is no free trial and no free version. Capterra confirms three named tiers, Starter, Growth, and Enterprise, all listed as “contact vendor for pricing.”

### What is the cheapest alternative to TOPS Software?

HOA Express, at a free plan for up to 50 households and $15 a month for its entry paid tier, though it has no accounting, violations, or architectural review. Among platforms that keep real HOA accounting, PayHOA is the cheapest with published pricing, starting at $49 a month billed yearly for up to 25 units. Raklet has a free plan for up to 100 contacts and paid tiers from $49 a month, but it is a membership platform without fund accounting, so it only fits associations whose books live elsewhere.

### Is Enumerate owned by Vantaca?

No. Vantaca is a competitor, not a parent company. Enumerate has been backed by Great Hill Partners since July 2021, and we found no evidence of any ownership change in 2025 or 2026. Vantaca took its own minority growth investment led by Cove Hill Partners in October 2025. The confusion is understandable, because Vantaca actively markets migration services to Enumerate customers.

### Can a membership platform replace HOA management software?

Only partially, and only for some associations. A membership platform handles the homeowner directory, dues collection, communications, events, documents, and a resident portal. It does not handle the general ledger, assessment accounting, reserve funds, bank reconciliation, violations, architectural review, or work orders. That works when the association is self-managed, has little compliance workload, and keeps its books with a bookkeeper, a CPA, or a dedicated accounting tool. It does not work for a management company or for any association that needs its financial records inside one system.

### What should we check before migrating off Enumerate?

Get the incoming vendor to state in writing which data they convert as full history and which they bring across as opening balances only. Owner records and unit data move reliably almost everywhere. Historical general ledger detail, open balances, prepaid assessments, and reserve history are where migrations fail. Budget for a parallel run of at least one billing cycle and reconcile owner balances line by line before you switch off the old system. Also confirm what the one-time implementation fee actually covers, since it is quoted separately from the subscription almost everywhere in this category.

## The Bottom Line on TOPS Software Alternatives

The reason this page has three recommendations instead of one is that the 2024 sunset pushed three very different organizations into the market at the same moment. Management companies should be looking at Vantaca and CINC Systems, and at Buildium if rentals are in the mix. Self-managed associations that need the ledger inside the software should look at PayHOA first, because it is built for exactly that buyer and publishes a price a volunteer treasurer can act on. And self-managed associations whose books are already handled elsewhere should ask a harder question than which HOA platform to buy, which is whether they need an HOA platform at all. If the software is really holding a directory, dues, an email list, a calendar, and a document library, Raklet does that for a fraction of a $500 a month floor, and we would rather win that reader honestly than sell an accounting replacement we do not have.

## Compare to Other HOA and Association Platforms

Still building a shortlist? Two of the platforms discussed above have their own dedicated comparison against Raklet, and both are useful if your requirement sits at a different point on the accounting-to-communication spectrum than this page assumes.

### [Buildium vs Raklet](/alternatives/buildium-vs-raklet/)

The right comparison if you manage rental property alongside associations and the real question is how much property management scope you actually need.

### [AssociationVoice vs Raklet](/alternatives/associationvoice-vs-raklet/)

Start here instead if your association never kept its accounting in the software and what you are really replacing is the community website and the communication tools.

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