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How Housing Societies Collect Maintenance Dues (Without Losing the Ledger)

A practical dues-collection workflow for Indian RWAs: generate, remind, cash, online pay, till-today recover — and why the owner’s phone has to show the same number as the office.

24 September 20262 min read
How Housing Societies Collect Maintenance Dues (Without Losing the Ledger)

Collecting maintenance is a workflow, not a personality trait of the treasurer. If the workflow needs a hero every quarter, it will fail the month that person is at a wedding.

Generate once, do not retype

A period charge should be posted and generated for registered flats. Preview amount should match generated amount. If those two diverge, you need an integrity alert — not a quiet fudge in Excel.

Owners must see the same ledger

My dues on the resident app is how arguments die. If the office number and the owner number differ, the software has already failed, even if the gate is perfect.

Cash is not the enemy; unrecorded cash is

Indian societies will collect cash. DGate records it. Online pay through Razorpay is optional convenience, not a moral upgrade. Gateway fees are the gateway’s.

Included, not an accounting add-on

This entire flow ships in DGate’s one society subscription, next to the gate. Details on /features. Rates on /pricing.

Common questions

Can we collect only cash?

Yes. Online pay is available when you connect Razorpay; it is not a separate DGate SKU.

What about advance payments?

The product records advance credit against the flat so the owner view matches the admin ledger. Ask to see that in the demo if it matters to you.

Does this file our GST?

No. Your CA does.

Small society?

₹999/month minimum after the free month, up to 33 flats. /pricing.

Related DGate pages

If you are evaluating DGate against other society apps, these pages are the source of truth — not a recycled footer.

Ready to try it with your committee? Start onboarding (remote setup and guard training over call/video) or download the app.

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One plan for the gate and the books

DGate is society management software for India: visitor management, maintenance dues and ledgers, notices, SOS — in one published subscription. 1 month free, then per-flat bands with a ₹999/month compact minimum. Remote onboarding. Not forever free, not a module store.

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