Commercial leasing & CAM
Multi-tenant buildings, where the hard part is not the rent but the service charge. Budgets, apportionment across tenants, and a reconciliation each tenant can check.
What it does
Service-charge budgets
A CAM pool with a budget, against which actual expenditure accumulates.
Apportionment
Costs apportion across tenants by their share, so a tenant's charge is derived rather than assigned.
Reconciliation
Budgeted against actual, settled per tenant, with the calculation visible rather than asserted.
Commercial lease terms
Terms that differ from residential — longer horizons, escalations, break clauses — held on the lease.
CAM payments
Settlements post to the ledger against the tenant, so the service-charge position is part of the accounts.
How it works
The sequence an operator actually follows, not a feature list rearranged into steps.
- 1
A CAM pool is created for the building with a budget.
- 2
Costs accrue to the pool through procurement and maintenance.
- 3
Charges apportion to tenants by share and bill alongside rent.
- 4
At period end the pool reconciles and the difference settles per tenant.
What the database guarantees
These hold whether or not the interface remembers to check.
- A tenant's apportioned share is derived from a recorded basis, not entered by hand.
- Reconciliation settlements post to the ledger like any other transaction.
What it does not do yet
You will ask this in an evaluation, so here it is without being asked.
- Complex apportionment schedules (weighted, capped, or stepped) are simpler than some commercial leases require.
- Tenant-facing CAM statements are less detailed than the underlying data supports.
Works with
These share the same database, so nothing is re-keyed between them.