Can Flex Strata replace our strata manager?
Quick answer
Flex Strata is built as a committee tool, not a managing agent replacement — it doesn't handle levies, budgets or trust accounting. Many committees use it alongside a manager, and some self-managed schemes use it as their core record system.
Key takeaways
- Flex Strata doesn't replace the statutory and trust accounting role of a manager
- Managed schemes can use it as the committee's own record alongside a manager
- Self-managed schemes still need a separate solution for levies and accounts
Whether a scheme needs a professional strata manager is a legal and practical question that goes well beyond software, but it's a common one when committees start looking at tools like this.
What a strata manager actually does
Depending on the management agreement, a strata manager typically handles levy collection and arrears, budget preparation, trust accounting, insurance placement, meeting administration, and acting as the scheme's point of contact for statutory notices. Many of these duties — particularly trust accounting and levy collection — carry legal obligations that a committee taking on self-management needs to understand fully before stepping away from a manager.
Where Flex Strata fits for managed schemes
If you keep a manager, Flex Strata gives the committee its own record of meetings, decisions, maintenance and compliance that sits alongside whatever the manager runs — useful for committees who feel like they only see the building's story through a monthly report. Your manager can be given a seat with view-only access by default, extended to whatever pages the committee decides.
Where it fits for self-managed schemes
Self-managed buildings — those that have chosen not to engage a manager, which is legal in every Australian state within scheme size and complexity limits — use Flex Strata as their core committee record: meetings, maintenance, compliance, documents and communication. But self-managed committees still need somewhere to handle levies, budgets and trust accounting, since Flex Strata deliberately doesn't include those. That's what the full Strata Pages product, a bookkeeper, or a hybrid model with limited managing agent services covers.
The honest answer
Flex Strata is not a substitute for the statutory and financial duties a manager performs. It's a substitute for the group chats, shared drives and personal inboxes that otherwise hold a committee's operational record — whether or not you have a manager.
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