If the treasurer is the person residents blame when money feels tight, the secretary is the person they call for everything else. A leaking terrace, a noisy tenant, a delayed AGM notice, a dispute over parking allocation, a request for a No Objection Certificate, all of it eventually lands on the secretary’s desk. It is one of the busiest, most varied roles on a managing committee, and yet very few new secretaries receive any real orientation before they start.

This handbook lays out what the role genuinely involves: the legal responsibilities that come with the title, the recurring administrative rhythm that keeps a society compliant and organised, the documents a secretary is expected to maintain, and the practical habits that separate a secretary residents trust from one they constantly second-guess.

Who is a housing society secretary? Roles and responsibilities

The secretary is the managing committee member responsible for the administrative and governance functions of the society. Depending on whether the society is registered under a state Cooperative Societies Act or governed by an Apartment Ownership Act, the specific statutory language varies, but the core mandate is broadly consistent across most states in India.

A secretary is typically responsible for:

• Convening and documenting managing committee meetings and the Annual General Meeting
• Maintaining statutory registers and records required under the society’s governing act
• Issuing notices, circulars, and official communication to members
• Managing correspondence with the Registrar of Cooperative Societies or the relevant regulatory authority
• Overseeing membership records, including transfers, nominations, and NOC issuance
• Coordinating with the treasurer on matters that intersect finance and governance, such as budget approvals and audit sign-offs
• Handling member grievances and ensuring they are logged, tracked, and resolved within reasonable timelines
• Custodian of the society’s official seal, share certificates, and legal documents

Like the treasurer role, the secretary carries fiduciary and legal responsibility, not just administrative duty. Statutory registers that are incomplete, meeting minutes that misrepresent what was actually decided, or notices that are not issued within legally mandated timelines can all create real exposure for the society and, by extension, for the secretary personally. This is why the role deserves more structure than most committees give it credit for.

The secretary’s relationship with the managing committee

The secretary does not operate in a silo, and the role overlaps constantly with the treasurer and the chairperson. Budget approvals, for instance, need the treasurer’s financial preparation and the secretary’s procedural handling, ensuring the right notice period was given, the right quorum was present, and the resolution was recorded correctly. Vendor contracts often need the secretary to confirm the agreement was approved through proper process even though the treasurer manages the payment side.

This overlap is exactly why secretaries who build a close, well-documented working relationship with the treasurer avoid a huge share of the disputes that otherwise surface at AGMs. A financial decision that was made correctly but not documented correctly is just as vulnerable to challenge as one that was made incorrectly.

Core responsibilities of a housing society secretary

Much like the treasurer’s job, the secretary’s role is less about isolated complex tasks and more about a disciplined recurring rhythm.

Daily or as-needed tasks

• Responding to member queries and grievances, or ensuring they are routed to the right person
• Issuing letters, NOCs, or certificates requested by members for bank loans, sales, or rentals
• Coordinating with the facility manager or security team on operational issues that need committee attention

Weekly tasks

• Reviewing open complaints and following up on unresolved ones
• Preparing agenda items for the upcoming committee meeting
• Reviewing incoming correspondence from vendors, authorities, or members that requires a formal response

Monthly tasks

• Convening the managing committee meeting and recording accurate minutes
• Circulating a summary of decisions taken to residents where relevant
• Updating membership records for any transfers, new occupants, or nominee changes during the month
• Reviewing pending compliance deadlines for the month ahead

Quarterly tasks

• Reviewing the status of statutory registers to ensure they are current
• Checking on any pending matters with the Registrar or local authority
• Assessing whether any bylaw amendments or policy updates are needed based on recurring issues raised by members

Annual tasks

• Convening and conducting the Annual General Meeting within the legally mandated timeline
• Preparing and circulating the AGM notice with the required advance period
• Recording and finalising AGM minutes, including all resolutions passed
• Coordinating elections for the new managing committee where applicable
• Filing the annual return with the Registrar or relevant authority
• Ensuring the audit report, once finalised by the treasurer and auditor, is formally presented and recorded at the AGM
• Handing over records cleanly to the incoming secretary if the role changes hands

Laid out this way, it becomes clear that the secretary’s real skill is not legal expertise, it is consistency and documentation discipline, applied relentlessly across a wide variety of small administrative tasks.

Essential documents every housing society secretary should know

A large part of doing this job well comes down to understanding a handful of documents deeply enough to produce, explain, and defend them without hesitation.

Meeting minutes. Minutes are not a transcript, they are the official record of what was decided and, where relevant, why. Vague or incomplete minutes are one of the most common sources of disputes later, when someone claims a decision was never actually approved. Good minutes record the resolution, who proposed and seconded it where required, and the outcome of any vote.

Statutory registers. These typically include the register of members, register of nominations, minutes book, and property or share transfer records, depending on the state and governing act. These registers are often what a Registrar or auditor asks to inspect first, and gaps here create disproportionate trouble relative to how simple they are to maintain if updated consistently.

AGM notices. Almost every governing act specifies a minimum notice period and required content for an AGM notice, agenda items, financial statements to be presented, and any resolutions up for approval. Getting the timeline or content wrong can technically invalidate the meeting, which is a bigger problem than it sounds, especially if major decisions were passed at that meeting.

Grievance and complaint logs. A well-maintained complaint log protects the secretary as much as it serves residents. When a member later claims an issue was never addressed, a documented log with dates, actions taken, and resolution status settles the matter immediately.

Correspondence with authorities. Letters to and from the Registrar, municipal bodies, or utility providers should be filed systematically, not scattered across email threads and physical folders. When a compliance question arises months later, the secretary needs to retrieve the relevant correspondence quickly, not reconstruct a timeline from memory.

Common mistakes housing society secretaries make and how to avoid them

Treating minutes as optional or informal. Skipping minutes for smaller committee meetings, or writing them loosely enough that decisions are ambiguous, creates real problems when a decision is challenged later. Every meeting, regardless of size, deserves a proper record.

Missing AGM notice timelines. This is one of the most common and most avoidable compliance failures. Building a compliance calendar at the start of the year, with every statutory deadline marked well in advance, prevents the last-minute scramble that leads to missed timelines.

Letting grievances go untracked. A verbal complaint that is addressed verbally, with no record kept, tends to resurface later as an accusation that nothing was done. Logging every grievance, even minor ones, protects both the resident’s interest and the secretary’s credibility.

Inconsistent NOC and documentation turnaround. Members needing an NOC for a bank loan or a property sale are usually working against external deadlines. A secretary who is slow or inconsistent in issuing these documents creates outsized frustration relative to how simple the task actually is.

Poor handover between outgoing and incoming secretaries. Much like the treasurer role, secretaries change periodically through elections, and a messy handover, missing registers, undocumented pending matters, unclear correspondence history, creates continuity risk for the entire society, not just an inconvenience for the next person.

Working in isolation from the treasurer. Governance and finance decisions are deeply linked. A secretary who does not coordinate closely with the treasurer on budget approvals, audit timelines, and expense-related resolutions ends up creating friction and rework for both roles.

Why is resident communication essential for housing society secretaries?

The secretary is usually the face of the committee for most residents, simply because most day-to-day queries and requests route through this role rather than the treasurer or chairperson. This makes communication style and responsiveness disproportionately important to how residents perceive the entire committee, fairly or not.

Clear, timely communication does not require constant messaging. It requires predictability. Residents who know that meeting minutes will be shared within a few days, that a grievance will get an acknowledgment within a set timeframe, and that an AGM notice will always arrive with proper advance notice, tend to trust the process even when individual outcomes do not go their way. Ambiguity and delay are what erode trust, not disagreement over decisions themselves.

A shared, accessible record of notices, minutes, and circulars, rather than information scattered across email, WhatsApp, and physical noticeboards, also reduces the volume of repetitive queries a secretary otherwise has to field one by one.

How has technology changed the role of a housing society secretary?

The secretary role has historically been the most paper-heavy position on the committee, physical registers, printed notices, minute books stored in a cupboard somewhere, and NOCs typed up individually each time. This is changing rapidly, and the shift mirrors what has already happened to the treasurer’s role.

With digital notice boards and circulars, communication reaches every resident instantly and leaves a clear, timestamped record of what was shared and when. With structured complaint and helpdesk systems, grievances are logged automatically with status tracking, removing the risk of anything falling through the cracks. With centralised member and unit records, transfers, nominations, and NOC generation become a matter of updating a record rather than retyping a document from scratch each time. With shared access to meeting minutes and resolutions, disputes over what was actually decided become far rarer, because the record is available to everyone, not held only in the secretary’s private files.

This matters enormously for the same reason it matters for treasurers: most secretaries are volunteers balancing this responsibility against a full-time job and their own family life. A system that removes the administrative grunt work, retyping notices, manually tracking who has and has not been informed, chasing paper trails for old correspondence, gives that limited time back for the parts of the role that genuinely need human judgment, like resolving a difficult neighbour dispute or deciding how to communicate a sensitive policy change.

This is where a genuinely comprehensive society management ERP earns its place. Mygate is built to support the secretary’s governance and administrative responsibilities, digital notices and circulars, structured helpdesk and grievance tracking, member and unit records, and document management, alongside the deep accounting and finance capabilities that support the treasurer’s side of the same committee. Because the two roles are so interdependent, having both functions live on one connected platform means a secretary preparing an AGM notice can pull the latest financial statements directly from the same system the treasurer maintains, rather than requesting a separate export and hoping it is current. And because Mygate’s modules are configurable, a small society’s secretary might rely mainly on notices, helpdesk, and basic member records, while a secretary managing a large township can layer in more structured compliance tracking and document workflows as the community’s administrative needs grow.

A simple onboarding checklist for new housing society secretaries

For someone stepping into the role for the first time, here is a practical starting point:

1. Get access to all statutory registers, the minutes book, and the society’s governing bylaws
2. Review the last AGM minutes and confirm all resolutions passed have been implemented or are on track
3. Check the status of any pending correspondence with the Registrar or local authorities
4. Build a compliance calendar for the year, marking AGM timelines, filing deadlines, and any recurring statutory obligations
5. Review the current member and unit records for accuracy, including any pending transfers or nominations
6. Understand the society’s grievance handling process and confirm there is a system in place to log and track complaints
7. Coordinate early with the treasurer to align on the audit timeline and upcoming budget approval process
8. Set up or confirm access to whatever digital platform the society uses for notices, records, and communication
9. Schedule a proper handover conversation with the outgoing secretary, not just a document transfer

Conclusion

The secretary role rarely gets the credit it deserves, mostly because doing it well looks like nothing going wrong, no missed AGM deadline, no lost register, no resident who feels ignored. But when it is done poorly, the consequences show up everywhere at once: disputed decisions, compliance notices from the Registrar, and a community that has quietly stopped trusting its own committee.

The secretaries who find the role sustainable are the ones who build discipline into small, repeatable habits, documenting every meeting properly, tracking every grievance, respecting every statutory deadline, and communicating with predictable consistency. None of these habits require legal expertise. They require structure, and increasingly, the right system to hold that structure in place automatically rather than relying on memory and scattered files.

Whether the society is a small independent building or a sprawling township with hundreds of units, the fundamentals in this handbook do not change. What changes is how much of the administrative load a good platform can carry, freeing the secretary’s time for the judgment calls, difficult conversations, and community relationships that no system can handle on its own.

Frequently Asked Questions

Ask any managing committee member which role on the committee is the hardest to fill, and most will say treasurer. It is the one position where a volunteer, often with no formal accounting background, ends up personally accountable for lakhs, sometimes crores, of society money. Get it right and nobody notices. Get it wrong, even slightly, and it becomes the topic of every WhatsApp group and every AGM for years.

This handbook is meant to be the practical reference that most new treasurers wish existed before they took on the role. It covers what the job actually involves, the responsibilities that carry legal weight, the recurring tasks that keep a society financially healthy, the mistakes that trip up even well-meaning treasurers, and how the right systems can turn an overwhelming volunteer job into a manageable one.

Who is a housing society treasurer? Roles and responsibilities

The treasurer is the managing committee member entrusted with the financial administration of the society. Depending on the state and the governing law, whether the society is registered under a state Cooperative Societies Act or falls under an Apartment Ownership Act, the exact statutory language differs, but the core expectations are consistent almost everywhere.

A treasurer is generally responsible for:

• Maintaining accurate books of account for the society
• Overseeing collection of maintenance charges and other dues from members
• Authorising and tracking payments to vendors, staff, and contractors
• Ensuring bank accounts are reconciled and funds are safeguarded
• Preparing the annual budget and presenting it for committee and general body approval
• Managing reserve funds such as the sinking fund and repair fund
• Ensuring statutory compliance, including audits, TDS deductions, and any applicable GST or income tax filings
• Presenting financial statements at the Annual General Meeting and answering member questions on them

It is worth being clear about something many first-time treasurers do not realise: this role carries fiduciary responsibility. A treasurer who signs off on financial statements is putting their name behind the accuracy of those numbers. If funds are mismanaged, misappropriated, or simply recorded incorrectly in a way that misleads members, the treasurer can be held personally accountable, not just criticised informally. This is not meant to be alarming, it is meant to explain why treasurers who take the role seriously invest time in getting the fundamentals right from day one.

The treasurer’s relationship with the managing committee

The treasurer does not work in isolation. Expense approvals typically require sign-off from the secretary or the full managing committee, especially above certain thresholds defined in the society’s bylaws. Major financial decisions, like breaking a fixed deposit early or approving a large capital expenditure, usually need general body approval, not just the treasurer’s discretion.

Good treasurers build this collaboration into their routine rather than treating it as a bottleneck. Sharing a simple monthly summary with the committee, income collected, expenses paid, bank balances, and any red flags, keeps everyone aligned and reduces the chance of disputes later. Transparency proactively offered is always received better than transparency demanded after something goes wrong.

Core responsibilities of a housing society treasurer

A treasurer’s job is not a single task but a rhythm of recurring activities. Breaking it down by frequency makes it far less intimidating.

Daily or as-needed tasks

• Reviewing incoming payments and confirming they are correctly matched to the right unit and invoice
• Approving urgent, small-value expenses like emergency repairs
• Responding to resident queries about their dues or payment status

Weekly tasks

• Following up on overdue payments and applying any late fee or interest rules consistently
• Reviewing vendor invoices submitted for payment and checking them against work orders or approvals
• Keeping an eye on the bank balance relative to upcoming payment obligations, salaries, utility bills, contractor payments

Monthly tasks

• Generating and issuing maintenance bills for the upcoming cycle
• Reconciling the bank statement against the society’s books
• Reviewing the trial balance for obvious errors or mismatches
• Preparing a short financial summary for the managing committee meeting
• Reviewing expenses against the approved budget to catch overruns early

Quarterly tasks

• Reviewing collection efficiency, what percentage of billed dues have actually been collected
• Checking fixed deposit maturity dates and deciding on renewals or reinvestment
• Reassessing reserve fund adequacy against the society’s age and upcoming maintenance needs

Annual tasks

• Preparing the annual budget for committee and general body approval
• Coordinating the statutory audit and responding to auditor queries
• Finalising the income and expenditure statement and balance sheet for the financial year
• Presenting audited financials at the AGM
• Filing any applicable statutory returns, TDS filings, GST if the society is registered, and income tax returns where applicable
• Handing over records cleanly if the treasurer role is changing hands after elections

Seeing the job laid out this way makes an important point clear: most of a treasurer’s workload is not complicated in isolation, it is simply relentless in frequency. The real challenge is consistency, not complexity.

Accounting basics every housing society treasurer should know

A treasurer does not need to be a qualified chartered accountant, but a working understanding of a few core concepts makes the job dramatically easier and reduces dependence on external consultants for routine matters.

Double entry bookkeeping is the backbone of society accounting. Every transaction affects at least two accounts, and understanding this prevents the common trap of treating the bank balance as the only measure of financial health. A society can have a healthy bank balance while sitting on a mountain of unpaid vendor invoices that will hit the books eventually.

The chart of accounts is the structured list of every income, expense, asset, and liability head the society tracks. Treasurers should be familiar with their society’s chart of accounts well enough to know, without looking it up, which head a given expense belongs to. This familiarity is what allows a treasurer to catch a miscategorised entry at a glance rather than discovering it months later during an audit.

The choice between cash and accrual accounting affects how income and expenses are recognised. Many societies default to cash accounting because it is simpler, recording income when cash is received and expenses when they are paid, but larger societies increasingly move to accrual accounting for a more accurate picture of financial position, since it recognises dues and liabilities as they arise rather than when cash physically moves.

The three primary financial statements, trial balance, income and expenditure statement, and balance sheet, are what every treasurer will eventually need to read and explain to members. The trial balance is the internal check that debits equal credits. The income and expenditure statement shows whether the society ran a surplus or deficit for the period. The balance sheet shows what the society owns, owes, and its net financial position at a point in time. A treasurer who can walk residents through these three documents in plain language, without jargon, earns a level of trust that pays off enormously during disputes or difficult conversations about fee increases.

Why reserve funds are essential for every housing society

One area where many treasurers, particularly first-timers, underinvest attention is reserve fund management. The sinking fund, meant for major long-term repairs and replacements like structural work, lift replacement, or repainting, and the repair fund, meant for more routine and predictable maintenance, serve different purposes and should never be lumped together or, worse, quietly used to cover operating shortfalls.

A treasurer’s job here is twofold: ensure contributions to these funds happen consistently as per the society’s bylaws or statutory minimum, and resist the pressure, which is real and often comes from well-meaning committee colleagues, to dip into these funds for short-term cash flow problems. Societies that raid their sinking fund to cover a temporary shortfall in collections often find themselves unable to afford major repairs a few years later, at which point the only options are a steep one-time special levy or deferring critical maintenance, neither of which is good for anyone.

Fixed deposits are usually where these reserve funds are parked to earn returns while remaining relatively liquid and safe. Tracking FD maturity dates, comparing renewal interest rates, and laddering deposits so the society is not caught needing funds while everything is locked in are all part of competent reserve fund management.

Common mistakes housing society treasurers make and how to avoid them?

Even conscientious treasurers fall into predictable traps, usually because nobody warned them in advance.

Treating bank balance as the full financial picture. A healthy bank balance can hide unpaid liabilities, unbilled dues, or reserve fund shortfalls. Always look at the balance sheet, not just the bank app.

Inconsistent penalty enforcement. Applying late payment interest to some defaulters and not others, even unintentionally, creates resentment and can expose the society to accusations of favouritism. Automated, rule-based penalty application removes this risk entirely.

Delaying bank reconciliation. Reconciliation that happens once a year instead of monthly means errors compound silently for months before anyone notices. By the time they are found, tracing the root cause becomes far harder.

Mixing reserve funds with operating funds. Even a temporary transfer, done with good intentions to cover a short-term gap, tends to become permanent unless tracked separately and deliberately reversed.

Poor documentation of approvals. Verbal approval for an expense, given in a hallway conversation or a quick phone call, leaves no trail. When questioned later, the treasurer has nothing to point to. Every expense above a reasonable threshold should have a documented approval trail.

Not preparing for handover. Treasurers change every one to three years depending on the society’s election cycle. A treasurer who keeps records only they understand, in a format only they can navigate, creates a painful transition for their successor and a real risk of continuity gaps in the society’s financial history.

Why does effective communication with residents matter for treasurers?

Numbers alone do not build trust, communication does. Residents are far more likely to pay on time, accept a fee increase, or support a special levy for major repairs if they understand why it is needed and can see the numbers behind the decision. Treasurers who share a simple, readable financial summary regularly, rather than only at the AGM, tend to face far less friction over money matters throughout the year.

This does not mean flooding residents with spreadsheets. It means presenting the essentials clearly: how much was collected, how much was spent, what the reserve fund balance looks like, and whether the society is on track against its budget. A dashboard that residents can check themselves, showing their own payment history and the society’s overall financial health, reduces the volume of one-off queries treasurers otherwise field individually.

How technology is transforming the role of a housing society treasurer?

A decade ago, being a society treasurer meant maintaining physical registers, manually writing receipts, and reconciling a passbook by hand. Today, the job has shifted from doing every entry manually to reviewing and approving what a well-designed system has already prepared. This is a meaningful change, not a cosmetic one.

With billing automation, invoices go out on schedule without the treasurer manually calculating each unit’s dues. With integrated payment collection, receipts reconcile against the bank statement automatically instead of requiring a manual line-by-line match. With connected expense tracking, every vendor payment flows into the correct ledger head without a separate spreadsheet entry. With built-in reporting, the trial balance, income and expenditure statement, and balance sheet are generated continuously rather than assembled under pressure right before an audit.

This shift matters most for volunteer treasurers who are holding down full-time jobs alongside this responsibility. The difference between spending ten hours a week on manual reconciliation versus thirty minutes reviewing exceptions flagged by the system is the difference between a role that burns people out and one that people are willing to take on again next term.

This is where a platform’s depth of accounting capability becomes the real differentiator, not just for the treasurer’s convenience, but for the accuracy and defensibility of the society’s financial records. Mygate is built as a comprehensive society management platform precisely with this in mind, combining genuinely deep accounting and finance capabilities, automated billing, reconciliation, expense tracking, budgeting, and reserve fund management, alongside the operational tools societies already rely on for security, visitor management, and community communication. Because the modules are configurable, a smaller society’s treasurer can start with just the accounting essentials, while a treasurer managing a large township can enable more advanced budget tracking, multi-bank reconciliation, and detailed vendor management as the society’s complexity grows. Either way, the goal is the same: give the treasurer a system that does the repetitive work correctly the first time, so their limited volunteer hours go toward decisions that actually need human judgment.

A simple onboarding checklist for new housing society treasurers

For someone stepping into the role for the first time, here is a practical starting checklist:

1. Get access to the society’s bank accounts, past financial statements, and the current chart of accounts
2. Review the last audit report and note any pending observations or unresolved queries
3. Confirm the current reserve fund balances and reconcile them against the bylaws’ required contribution rates
4. Check the status of fixed deposits, including maturity dates and current interest rates
5. Review the current year’s budget, if one exists, and compare it against actuals so far
6. Understand the society’s billing structure, whether square foot based, equal billing, or a hybrid model, and confirm penalty and interest rules are documented
7. List all active vendor contracts and their payment terms
8. Set up or confirm access to whatever accounting or ERP system the society uses, and get familiar with generating a trial balance and bank reconciliation report
9. Schedule a proper handover conversation with the outgoing treasurer, not just a document transfer

Conclusion

Being a society treasurer is rarely glamorous, and it is almost never fully appreciated, but it is one of the few volunteer roles that directly determines whether a community runs smoothly or lurches from one financial crisis to another. The good news is that the job has changed. It no longer has to mean late nights with a calculator and a passbook, or a constant, low-grade anxiety about whether the numbers will hold up at the next AGM.

The treasurers who find the role manageable, and who are willing to take it on again for a second or third term, are usually the ones who built good habits early: consistent reconciliation, documented approvals, transparent communication with residents, and reserve funds that are respected rather than raided. Layer the right system on top of those habits, one that automates the repetitive work and keeps the books accurate by default, and the role stops being a burden and starts being genuinely manageable, even for someone doing it alongside a full-time job.

Whether a society is a small independent building or a large multi-tower township, the fundamentals covered in this handbook stay the same. What changes is how much of that workload a good platform can carry, so the treasurer’s time goes toward judgment calls that actually need a human, not toward re-entering the same numbers in three different places.

Frequently Asked Questions

Most housing societies do not fail at accounting because their managing committee does not understand numbers. They fail because their numbers live in five different places at once. Maintenance bills sit in one Excel sheet. Bank statements get reconciled in another. Vendor payments are tracked on WhatsApp. Visitor logs are on paper. And somewhere in between, the treasurer is trying to close the books before the AGM with data that was never designed to talk to each other.

This is the real cost of running a society on fragmented tools. It is not just inefficient. It is the reason audits drag on, reserve funds go untracked, and residents lose trust in how their money is managed.

An end-to-end Society ERP workflow solves this by connecting every operational and financial process into one continuous system, from the moment a resident moves in to the moment the society’s annual financial statements are signed off. This article walks through what that workflow actually looks like in practice, stage by stage, and why societies that adopt it stop firefighting and start planning.

What does end-to-end society management mean?

In simple terms, end-to-end means there is no manual handoff between systems. The unit that is billed for maintenance is the same unit whose payment gets reconciled against the bank statement automatically. The expense a facility manager raises for a plumbing repair flows directly into the ledger, the budget tracker, and the financial statements, without anyone re-entering the same data three times.

A true Society ERP workflow typically covers these connected layers:

• Resident and unit master data (the foundation everything else builds on)
• Billing and invoicing
• Payment collection and bank reconciliation
• Expense and vendor management
• Core accounting (ledgers, trial balance, income and expenditure, balance sheet)
• Budgeting and reserve fund tracking
• Compliance, audit, and statutory reporting
• Operational modules like gate security, visitor management, amenity booking, and communication

When these layers are connected, a single transaction, say a resident paying their quarterly maintenance bill, automatically updates the receivables ledger, the bank reconciliation statement, the income and expenditure report, and even the resident’s own payment history visible to them in the app. Nobody re-types anything.

Stage 1: Society and unit setup for seamless operations

Every workflow starts with structure. Before a single invoice can be raised correctly, the system needs to know the society’s layout: how many blocks, how many units, which units are occupied versus vacant, who owns what, and who is renting. This master data becomes the backbone for billing, voting rights, communication, and even security access.

This is also where a society decides its Chart of Accounts, its billing structure (square foot based, equal billing, or a hybrid model), and its opening balances if migrating from another system or from manual books. Getting this stage right matters enormously, because errors here cascade through every report generated later. A society that starts with incorrect opening balances will spend the next financial year reconciling discrepancies that could have been caught on day one.

Stage 2: Billing and invoicing that reflects your society’s needs

Once the foundation is set, recurring billing takes over. This is where maintenance charges, sinking fund contributions, parking fees, and other recurring dues get generated automatically each cycle, based on the billing rules configured for the society.

A mature workflow does not stop at generating an invoice. It should also apply penalty rules and late payment interest automatically when a due date passes, send reminders through app notifications, SMS, or email, and give residents a self-service view of their outstanding dues. This removes the awkward, repetitive task committee members otherwise face: chasing neighbours for money.

Ad hoc invoices, like a one-time charge for a broken common area fixture, or clubhouse booking fees, should sit in the same system so that nothing is billed outside the books.

Stage 3: Collections and bank reconciliation

Billing without a smooth collection process just creates a longer list of dues. This stage of the workflow is where residents pay through UPI, net banking, cards, or other digital modes, and the payment should automatically match against the correct invoice and unit.

The real test of an end-to-end system shows up here: bank reconciliation. In a fragmented setup, someone manually checks the bank statement against the receipts book every month, hunting for mismatches. In a connected ERP workflow, payments received digitally reconcile themselves in near real time, and only genuine exceptions, like a wrong reference number or a bounced cheque, need human attention. This alone can cut the time spent on monthly closing by a significant margin, and it is one of the most common reasons societies switch from spreadsheets to a proper accounting-first ERP.

Stage 4: Expense management and vendor payments

Money does not just come in, it goes out, often to a long list of vendors: security agencies, housekeeping staff, electricians, plumbers, lift maintenance contractors, and utility providers. An end-to-end workflow tracks the entire expense lifecycle: a purchase or work order is raised, approved by the relevant committee member, the vendor invoice is recorded, payment is released, and the transaction is posted to the correct ledger head automatically.

This matters for two reasons. First, it creates an approval trail, which is critical when residents or auditors ask why a particular expense was incurred. Second, it keeps the general ledger current in real time rather than in batches at month end, which means the society’s financial position is always visible, not just visible once a quarter.

Stage 5: Core accounting – where everything comes together

This is the stage that most other articles in this series have covered in depth, and for good reason. It is the heart of the workflow. Every invoice raised, every payment collected, every expense recorded flows into double entry ledgers that produce the trial balance, the income and expenditure statement, and the balance sheet.

What changes in an end-to-end ERP is that these statements are not prepared separately at year end by exporting data and rebuilding it in Excel. They are generated continuously, because the underlying transactions were captured correctly the first time. A society treasurer should, in principle, be able to pull an accurate trial balance on any given day of the year, not just at closing.

This is also where the choice between cash and accrual accounting plays out operationally. Societies that follow accrual accounting need their ERP to recognise income and expenses when they are incurred, not just when cash moves, which requires the billing and expense modules to be tightly integrated with the accounting core rather than bolted on separately.

Stage 6: Budgeting and reserve fund tracking

A workflow that only looks backward, recording what already happened, is only half useful. The other half is forward-looking: budgeting for the year ahead and tracking reserve funds like the sinking fund and repair fund against their intended purpose.

In an end-to-end system, budgets are set against the same chart of accounts used for actuals, so a committee can compare budgeted versus actual spend on any head, electricity, housekeeping, repairs, without exporting two separate reports and manually lining them up. Reserve fund contributions, which many societies are legally required to maintain under their state cooperative society rules or apartment ownership acts, should be visibly ring-fenced from the operating funds rather than sitting in one undifferentiated bank balance.

This is particularly important for larger societies and townships managing crores in reserves across multiple fixed deposits. Tracking FD maturity dates, interest accrual, and renewal decisions inside the same platform that handles day to day billing prevents the common problem of reserve funds being quietly used for operating expenses because nobody was watching the ring-fence.

Stage 7: Compliance, audit, and statutory reporting

Housing societies in India, whether registered as cooperative societies or under apartment ownership acts, face recurring compliance obligations: annual audits, filing of returns, GST where applicable, and TDS on certain vendor payments above threshold limits. An end-to-end workflow keeps the data needed for these filings organised as a natural byproduct of daily operations, rather than requiring a scramble each year to reconstruct records.

When an external auditor arrives, the difference between a society running on connected systems versus fragmented ones is stark. In the former, the auditor gets a clean trial balance, a complete audit trail of approvals, and reconciled bank statements within minutes. In the latter, weeks are spent chasing missing vouchers and explaining unexplained variances.

Stage 8: Reporting and financial health visibility

Beyond statutory reports, committees increasingly want an ongoing pulse on the society’s financial health, collection efficiency, outstanding dues by unit, expense trends, and reserve fund adequacy relative to the size and age of the property. A workflow that surfaces this as a dashboard, rather than a document someone has to build manually, changes how committees make decisions. Instead of discovering a collection efficiency problem three months into a shortfall, they see it developing in real time and can act early, whether that means tightening penalty enforcement or communicating more proactively with defaulting residents.

Where operations and finance come together?

Society management is not only about money. It is also about who enters the gate, whether a visitor was pre-approved, whether the clubhouse is booked for a birthday party this weekend, and whether a resident’s complaint about a leaking pipe has been resolved. These operational modules, security and gate management, visitor logs, helpdesk and complaint tracking, amenity booking, and community communication, generate their own transactions that often have financial consequences. A booked amenity generates a fee. A repaired common area asset generates an expense. A staff attendance record can tie into payroll for society-employed staff.

The real advantage of an end-to-end platform is that these operational events do not sit in a silo separate from the books. When a facility manager logs a repair request, that request can trigger a purchase order, which triggers an expense entry, which reflects in the budget variance report, all without anyone manually bridging the gap between the operations team and the accounts team. Societies that keep these functions on separate tools inevitably lose that thread somewhere, usually right when it matters most, during an audit or a dispute over spending.

Why fragmented tools don’t work for growing housing societies?

It is worth being specific about why the multi-tool approach fails as societies grow. A small building with thirty flats might get away with a spreadsheet and a WhatsApp group for a few years. But the moment a society crosses a certain size, multiple towers, hundreds of units, dozens of vendors, the manual reconciliation between billing sheets, bank statements, and expense registers becomes a full time, error-prone job. Committee members are volunteers, not accountants, and expecting them to manually maintain double entry books across disconnected spreadsheets is unrealistic and, frankly, unfair to them.

Errors compound too. A billing mistake in month one that goes uncorrected shows up as a mismatched trial balance in month twelve, and by then nobody remembers what caused it. An end-to-end system does not eliminate human error entirely, but it catches inconsistencies far earlier because every module is checking against the same source of truth.

How to choose the right ERP for your housing society?

Not every society needs the same set of tools on day one. A ten-unit residential building has very different operational needs from a two-thousand-unit township with a school, retail spaces, and multiple gates. This is why the best Society ERP platforms are built with configurable modules rather than a single rigid package. A smaller society might start with just billing, accounting, and basic communication, while a larger township might enable full modules for security, staff management, multiple bank account reconciliation, and detailed budget variance reporting across dozens of cost centres.

This is precisely the design philosophy behind Mygate as a society management platform. Rather than forcing every society into the same workflow, Mygate is built so that operational modules, gate and visitor management, staff and household help verification, amenity booking, helpdesk, and community communication, work alongside a genuinely deep accounting and finance layer covering billing, collections, expense tracking, ledgers, budgeting, reserve fund management, and financial reporting. A society can enable what it needs today and switch on additional modules as it grows, without migrating to a new system or reconciling data between platforms later.

For committees that have spent years stitching together spreadsheets, a dedicated accounting engine, and separate security software, this consolidation is often the single biggest relief a new system provides. It is not about replacing what a treasurer already understands about accounting. It is about making sure the accounting they already understand happens automatically, accurately, and in one place, connected to everything else the society runs day to day.

Conclusion

Running a housing society well was never really about finding the perfect spreadsheet template or the most disciplined volunteer treasurer. It is about removing the gaps where information gets lost between people, tools, and handoffs. Every stage of the workflow covered here, setup, billing, collections, expenses, accounting, budgeting, compliance, and the day to day operations that generate financial events in the first place, works best when it is part of one connected system rather than a patchwork of separate tools.

Societies that make this shift usually notice the difference within a single financial cycle. Closing the books stops being a stressful month-end scramble. Audits stop taking weeks. Committee members stop chasing residents manually and stop wondering whether the numbers being read out at the AGM are actually accurate. And because platforms like Mygate are built with configurable modules, a society does not need to overhaul everything at once. It can start with the areas that hurt the most, often billing and accounting, and expand into fuller operational coverage as its needs grow, all without ever having to migrate data between disconnected systems again.

The end goal is simple: a society where the numbers are trustworthy by default, not because someone worked overtime to make them so, but because the workflow itself was built to get it right the first time.

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Yes, smart locks remain safe and functional during a power cut, and this is one of the most misunderstood aspects of how they actually work. A smart lock does not run on your home’s mains electricity at all. It runs on its own internal battery, which means a power cut in your building or neighbourhood has no direct effect on the lock itself. The lock keeps working exactly as it did before the power went out, and it stays securely locked throughout.

The confusion here is understandable, since the power cut sounds like it should affect anything electronic in the house. But a smart lock’s actual dependency is on its own battery charge, not on grid electricity, and the two are entirely separate concerns. This guide explains how smart locks are actually powered, what does and does not affect them during an outage, and what genuinely happens in the much rarer scenario where the lock’s own battery runs out.

How smart locks are actually powered?

Nearly all residential smart locks, including the ones commonly installed on Indian home doors, run on internal batteries rather than being wired into a home’s electrical supply. This is a deliberate design choice, not a limitation. A lock wired directly into mains power would stop working entirely during an outage and would also require far more complex, invasive installation involving electrical wiring through the door and frame.

Battery power avoids both problems. The lock operates independently of the building’s electricity supply, and installation stays straightforward since there is no wiring to run. This is why a home’s power cut, whether it is a scheduled outage, a grid failure, or an issue specific to your building’s supply, does not affect whether your smart lock continues to function.

What does a power cut do and does not affect?

It helps to separate what actually depends on mains electricity in a smart home setup from what does not.

The lock itself is unaffected. Fingerprint access, PIN entry, RFID card access, and the mechanical key backup all continue working exactly as normal during a power cut, since none of these depend on your home’s electrical supply.

Your home WiFi router may go down, which affects only WiFi dependent remote features, such as unlocking the door from outside your home network or receiving real time notifications while away. This does not affect the ability to physically unlock the door in person using fingerprint, PIN, or card access, since those functions run on the lock’s own local battery and hardware, not through the internet.

Bluetooth based local access typically continues working, since Bluetooth connectivity between your phone and the lock does not depend on your home’s WiFi or mains power, only on both devices having their own battery charge.

In practical terms, a typical household power cut has essentially no impact on daily use of a smart lock. You can still walk up to your door and unlock it with a fingerprint or PIN exactly as before. The only functions that pause are internet dependent remote features, and only until either the power or your WiFi connection is restored.

What actually matters: The lock’s own battery

The genuine dependency to think about is not your home’s electricity supply, but the smart lock’s own internal battery, which needs to be charged or replaced periodically regardless of whether the mains power at home is working or not.

Quality smart locks are built with battery life measured in months under typical daily use, not days, which means the lock’s own battery running low is a separate, much less frequent event than a household power cut. Most locks also provide a clear low battery warning well before the charge is fully depleted, whether through an audible alert at the keypad, a notification through the companion app, or both, giving you a reasonable window to recharge or replace the battery before it becomes an issue.

What happens if the lock’s own battery fully runs out

This is the scenario people are often actually asking about when they raise concerns about power cuts, even though it is unrelated to household electricity. If a smart lock’s own battery is allowed to run all the way down without being addressed after the low battery warning, most quality locks are still designed with a fallback rather than simply leaving you locked out.

A physical mechanical key backup is included on the large majority of residential smart locks specifically for this scenario, allowing the door to be opened manually regardless of the electronic battery status. This is generally considered a non-negotiable safety feature for any smart lock sold for home use, since a lock that can permanently trap you outside your own home due to a depleted battery would be a serious design flaw.

External emergency power options are also common on many models, allowing a portable power source, such as a 9 volt battery touched to external contact points on the lock, to temporarily power the unit long enough to unlock it electronically and allow you to then replace the internal battery properly. Not every lock includes this feature, so it is worth checking for it specifically if it matters to you, but it is a widely used industry solution precisely for the low battery scenario.

Between the mechanical key backup and, on many models, external emergency power support, a fully depleted battery is an inconvenience to be addressed, not a genuine lockout risk, provided the lock includes these standard fallback options.

Does a power cut make a smart lock less secure?

A reasonable follow up question is whether a power cut, or a lock running low on its own battery, creates any kind of security vulnerability, such as the lock defaulting to an unlocked state.

Quality smart locks are built on what is generally called a fail secure design for residential use, meaning the lock remains locked by default regardless of power status, rather than automatically unlocking if power is lost. This is the opposite of fail safe designs sometimes used in commercial fire safety contexts, where certain doors are required to unlock automatically during a power failure for emergency egress reasons. For a home’s main door, fail secure is the appropriate and standard approach, since you want your door to stay locked during a power interruption, not open itself.

This means a power cut, whether at the household level or even if the lock’s own battery eventually depletes, does not create an unlocking event. The door remains secured, and access still requires an active unlock action through one of the lock’s available methods, whether electronic or the mechanical key backup.

Comparing smart locks to traditional locks during a power cut

It is worth directly comparing how a smart lock behaves during a power cut against a traditional mechanical lock, since this is often the actual concern underlying the question.

A traditional lock is entirely unaffected by any power cut, since it has no electronic component at all, which is sometimes assumed to make it inherently more reliable. In practice, a quality smart lock during a household power cut behaves identically to a traditional lock from a functional standpoint. It remains locked, it can still be opened with a key or, more conveniently, with a fingerprint or PIN that does not depend on mains electricity, and it does not require external power to function normally.

The meaningful difference only appears in the much rarer scenario of the lock’s own internal battery being allowed to fully deplete without any response to the low battery warnings, at which point the mechanical key backup restores exactly the same access a traditional lock always had. In everyday terms, a well designed smart lock does not introduce a new point of failure tied to household power cuts, since its actual power source and the home’s electrical supply are separate systems entirely.

Practical steps to avoid battery related issues

While a smart lock’s own battery running out is a separate concern from household power cuts, a few habits help avoid it becoming an issue at all.

Respond to low battery warnings promptly rather than dismissing them, since most locks provide meaningful advance notice specifically to give you time to act before the battery is fully depleted. Keep spare batteries of the correct type on hand if your lock uses replaceable batteries, so a replacement is immediately available rather than needing an unplanned trip out. If your lock includes external emergency power support, know where the contact points are and keep a compatible battery accessible as a backup option. And periodically check that your mechanical key backup is accessible and that you remember where it is kept, since it is easy to forget about a backup method that is rarely needed until the moment it actually is.

How Mygate approaches this specifically

Mygate smart locks are built with this exact scenario in mind, given how regularly power interruptions occur across Indian households. Its locks run on their own internal battery, independent of home mains electricity, so a typical household power cut has no effect on daily use of fingerprint, PIN, or card access. Battery life is designed for extended use between charges, with a low battery warning provided in advance, and every model includes a mechanical key as a physical backup, ensuring the door can always be opened even in the unlikely event the internal battery is fully depleted without being addressed beforehand. For a country where power reliability varies significantly by region and season, this combination of long battery life, advance warning, and a guaranteed physical fallback is a deliberate design choice rather than an afterthought.

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A power cut at home has essentially no effect on a smart lock’s ability to function, since the lock runs on its own internal battery rather than mains electricity. The genuine consideration is the lock’s own battery charge, which is a separate, far less frequent concern that quality locks address with advance low battery warnings, long battery life, and a mechanical key backup as an ultimate fallback. Understood this way, a well designed smart lock is not a liability during a power cut. It performs exactly as reliably as a traditional lock, with the added convenience of fingerprint and PIN access working throughout.

Mygate sells more than one smart lock, and the differences between models are meaningful enough that picking the wrong one can mean either overpaying for features you will not use, or ending up with a lock that does not quite cover what you actually need. The current lineup spans five models, Lock SE, Lock Plus, Lock Pro 2.0, Lock Pro 2.0 Ultra, and Lock Edge, each built for a slightly different door type, budget, or security requirement.

This guide compares them directly, covering what each model actually includes, which door types they support, and which one makes sense depending on your specific situation.

Model	Positioning	Price	Deadbolts	Door Compatibility	Standout Features
Lock SE	Starter	₹9,950	1	Wooden doors, 30mm–65mm	6 unlock methods, remote unlock with OTP, timed access
Lock Plus	Advanced	₹13,990	3	Wooden doors, 35mm–65mm	Tamper alert, child lock, auto latching
Lock Pro 2.0	Luxury	₹29,990	3	Wooden doors, 34mm–65mm	Built-in door sensor, next-gen security system
Lock Pro 2.0 Ultra	Ultra Luxury	₹34,990	3	Wooden doors, 34mm–65mm	Facial recognition, rechargeable lithium battery
Lock Edge	Compact / Specialised	₹9,990	1 Latch Bolt	Wooden & metal doors, 25mm–65mm	6 unlock methods, timed access, designed for slim doors

Pricing varies by finish and retailer, and it is worth checking Mygate’s official store for current pricing before deciding, since figures listed across third party marketplaces can differ from the official rate.

Lock SE: The starting point

Lock SE is positioned as the entry level option in the lineup, built for buyers who want a reliable, genuinely keyless upgrade over a traditional lock without paying for features they may not need.

It comes with six unlock methods, giving you flexibility between fingerprint, PIN, RFID card, and other access options depending on who is using the door and how, along with remote unlock support through OTP and timed access scheduling. It is fitted with a single deadbolt and is compatible with wooden doors in the 30 to 65 millimetre thickness range, which covers the vast majority of standard residential wooden doors in India.

Lock SE makes the most sense for buyers installing their first smart lock, homes on a tighter budget, or secondary doors within a property, such as a bedroom or a lower traffic entrance, where the more advanced security features of higher models are less critical than on a main entrance.

Lock Plus: Stronger hardware for the main door

Lock Plus builds directly on Lock SE, keeping its core unlock methods while adding hardware and safety features aimed specifically at a home’s primary entrance.

The most notable upgrade is the jump from one deadbolt to three, which meaningfully increases physical resistance against forced entry compared to the single deadbolt configuration in Lock SE. It also adds a tamper alert, notifying you if someone attempts to manipulate or force the lock, a child lock feature to prevent accidental operation, and auto latching, which ensures the door locks itself automatically after closing rather than depending on someone remembering to manually secure it. Door compatibility shifts slightly to a 35 to 65 millimetre range.

Lock Plus is the more sensible choice for a home’s actual main door in most cases, since the additional deadbolts and tamper detection directly address the higher stakes of securing a property’s primary entry point, where Lock SE’s single deadbolt configuration may feel insufficient for some buyers.

Lock Pro 2.0: Broader door support and visibility

Lock Pro 2.0 sits a tier above Lock Plus, carrying forward its deadbolt and safety features while adding two capabilities that meaningfully change what the lock can do and where it can be installed.

The built-in door sensor is the headline addition, letting you check in real time through the app whether your door is actually closed and locked, rather than assuming it is based on the last action taken. This addresses a genuinely common concern, since a door that was unlocked but not fully closed can otherwise go unnoticed. Lock Pro 2.0 also expands supported door types well beyond wooden doors, covering fire doors, glass doors, metal doors, and UPVC doors, in addition to wooden doors, within a 34 to 65 millimetre thickness range. It supports up to 200 registered users, which matters for larger households, properties with significant staff turnover, or situations where many people legitimately need access.

Lock Pro 2.0 is the right tier for buyers whose door is not a standard wooden door, since Lock SE and Lock Plus are built primarily around wooden door installation. It is also a reasonable upgrade for anyone who specifically wants real time door status visibility as a security feature, beyond what tamper alerts alone provide.

Lock Pro 2.0 Ultra: The premium option

Lock Pro 2.0 Ultra sits at the top of the current lineup, carrying forward every feature from Lock Pro 2.0 and adding two further upgrades aimed at buyers who want the most advanced access and power options available.

Facial recognition adds a biometric access method beyond fingerprint, PIN, and card, which some buyers prefer for its speed and convenience, particularly for frequent daily use. The lock also moves to a rechargeable lithium battery rather than standard replaceable batteries, which some users find more convenient for long term maintenance, though it does mean charging rather than swapping batteries when a recharge is needed. Door compatibility stays at wooden doors within the 34 to 65 millimetre range, similar to Lock Pro 2.0.

Lock Pro 2.0 Ultra makes sense for buyers who specifically want facial recognition as an access method and are comfortable with the higher price point that comes with the most feature complete model in the lineup. For buyers on a standard wooden main door who do not specifically need facial recognition, Lock Pro 2.0 covers most of the same practical security ground at a lower price.

Lock Edge: Built for difficult doors

Lock Edge addresses a specific problem the rest of the lineup does not directly solve. Standard smart locks, including Mygate’s other models, are generally built around mortise style installation, which works well for wooden doors but does not always suit metal or glass doors that lack a compatible cutout or structure for that installation type.

Lock Edge is positioned specifically for these harder to fit doors, giving buyers with metal gates, glass entrances, or other non standard door types a way to add a smart lock where the rest of the lineup may not install cleanly. This makes it less of a direct competitor to the other models and more of a targeted solution for a specific installation challenge.

If you have already tried to evaluate Lock SE, Plus, Pro 2.0, or Pro 2.0 Ultra against your door and found that none of them fit due to the door material or structure, Lock Edge is worth checking specifically for that reason, rather than as a general upgrade path from the other models.

How to actually choose between them

Rather than starting with which model has the most features, it helps to work backward from your specific situation.

Start with your door type: If your main door is metal or glass rather than standard wood, Lock Edge is likely the relevant starting point, since the rest of the lineup is built primarily around wooden door installation. If you have a fire door, UPVC door, or need broader door type flexibility, Lock Pro 2.0 or Pro 2.0 Ultra are the models that explicitly support this range.

Consider which door you are actually securing: A main entrance generally justifies the stronger deadbolt configuration and tamper detection found in Lock Plus and above, while a secondary or lower traffic door may be adequately served by Lock SE at a lower cost.

Think about how many people need access: If you are outfitting a large household, a property with regular staff turnover, or a villa with several family members and household help needing individual access, Lock Pro 2.0’s higher registered user capacity is a meaningful practical advantage over the lower tiers.

Decide whether facial recognition specifically matters to you: This is the one feature genuinely unique to Lock Pro 2.0 Ultra. If it is not a priority, Lock Pro 2.0 delivers nearly the same practical security and door compatibility at a lower price.

Set a realistic budget range first: Since pricing varies meaningfully across the lineup, deciding on a budget range before comparing features tends to narrow the decision faster than starting from the full feature list and working down.

A note on the optional accessories

Beyond the locks themselves, Mygate also sells a few accessories worth knowing about when planning a purchase. A WiFi lock gateway extends remote connectivity for locks that rely on it for internet based features. A separate lock door remote supports additional control options for gates or secondary doors. RFID card packs are available separately if you need more cards than what comes standard with your chosen lock, useful for larger households or properties with several regular visitors needing card based access.

These accessories are not required for the locks to function on their own, but are worth factoring into your overall budget if your specific setup calls for them.

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Conclusion

Choosing between Mygate’s smart lock models comes down less to which one has the most features and more to matching the model to your actual door type, the specific entrance you are securing, and how many people need regular access. Lock SE covers a solid, affordable starting point for wooden doors. Lock Plus strengthens that for a main entrance with added deadbolts and tamper detection. Lock Pro 2.0 extends compatibility to a much wider range of door types and adds real time door status visibility. Lock Pro 2.0 Ultra adds facial recognition and a rechargeable battery for buyers who want the most complete package available. Lock Edge solves the specific problem of metal and glass doors that the rest of the lineup is not built around. Working backward from your door type and actual security needs, rather than simply picking the most expensive option, is the more reliable way to land on the right model.