How it works
Four products. One account.
Common Elements is the always-on industry expo for community associations — vendor hall, professional community, and structured procurement, open 24/7. It complements the management and accounting software you already use; it does not replace it.
The four products
Each solves a piece of the same problem: finding, vetting, and deciding on the people and vendors a community depends on.
The Common Area
An industry-wide forum where boards, managers, vendors, attorneys, and insurance pros compare what actually works. Public threads are readable by anyone, so they double as a learning resource; member rooms (CAM Corner, Board Discussions, Vendor Talk, Legal) sit behind sign-in.
Browse the forumThe RFP Hub
The structured bid room. Post a project once, vendors answer the same typed fields, and the Compare view lines every proposal up so a board decides apples-to-apples. Post openly, blind (shop a replacement without tipping off your incumbent), or invitation-only.
See how RFPs workThe vendor directory
The vendor hall. Verified profiles searchable by service line and service area, nationwide. Verification is credential-backed against the right authority per state, never pay-to-play, and reviews are tied to specific completed engagements and the verified member who wrote them.
Explore vendorsPeople + organizations
Every user has a public profile (visibility you control), every organization has a public page (verified status, credentials, related associations), and the relationships between them are first-class data. Who manages whom, who carries the policy. Not a buried contact field.
Browse peopleOne account, every hat
A property manager who runs five associations, sits on her own condo board, and refers a roofer she trusts has, in most software, five accounts. In Common Elements she has one. The context switcher at the top of every page flips you between organizations without re-authenticating; what you can do at any moment is set by your active context, not by which login you used.
That is the “people ↔ memberships ↔ organizations” model underneath: every membership records your role at that org and what it lets you do.
How it comes together
A board treasurer signs in, sees a Compare view of three roofing proposals her management company shortlisted, accepts one in two clicks, and the platform notifies the winning and declined vendors automatically. The selected vendor’s profile gains a completion record other boards can see. Later that week she reads a CAM-Corner thread on reserve-study cadence under her state’s statute, asks a follow-up, and hears back from an attorney whose firm represents three associations in her county.
That is the loop. The forum builds trust, the directory and relationships make people findable, the RFP Hub turns a decision into a record. The single account means none of it requires logging out to play a different role.
Pick the hat that fits
Free during pilot. Create an account as a board member, management company, vendor, attorney, or insurance pro. Each path drops you into a workspace shaped to what your role does.