Heavy rains have once again pounded the city of Chennai and until now close to 188 people have been killed and many are injured. The rains that have virtually broken a 100-year-old record with a day’s rainfall covering a month’s average. The worst affected are the low lying areas and people living near the banks of Adyar river. Close to 4,000 people living on the banks of the river has been evacuated to safer zones.

In such adversities here’s a quick guide for being safe :

• Travelling: it’s better you don’t travel through the water logged areas especially do not drive or walk as there might be strong under currents, huge crater like potholes or worse still leeches and snakes. Travelling if at all must be done through public transport preferably busses.
• In the face of such adversities many of you must have lost many important documents. Well for those who haven’t, then do quickly put all your important documents in one plastic packet and keep it handy so that in case of an evacuation you can take them with you and there won’t be a fear of you losing them or these getting destroyed with water.
• Keep all the contact numbers especially the emergency ones written down in a pocketbook
• Don’t forget to boil the drinking water even if you are using a water purifier

List of food items that you must keep stocked up at home:

• Packaged food
• Milk
• Water Cans
• Bread, jam/butter
• Biscuit

The medicine cabinet should be well stocked up too:

• Paracetamol
• Cough Syrup
• Electral and Glucose
• Band aids, multi-purpose ointment
• Any prescribed medicine especially for diabetics and blood- pressure patients

An assorted list of household items you should have at your house:

• Candles with matches
• Torch lights with extra set of batteries
• Charge your cell-phones & battery banks
• Bedsheets & Shawls for all family members

Help line numbers:

Lastly for regional emergency number click here

At Commonfloor Groups, we aim to make your Invoicing and Payment collection process a breeze – Just configure your settings one-time, and let us do all the heavy lifting! One of the biggest issue that community admins face is ‘timely’ collection of maintenance dues. Being a non-profit body, they run the show on a day-to-day basis based on the money collected from the residents and the same is paid out for staff salaries/ vendor payments. While we provide Email/ SMS reminder features to improve collections, at times, defining strict penalty rules does the trick.

We host more than 10,000 association groups and each association is different from the next, and have their own unique calculation for Late Payments and with the below Penalty computation framework, we now support every single one of them and have become the ONLY software solution with the ability to support such a wide variety of calculations.

What’s new in this framework?

1. New Penalty Rules: Our penalty framework can now support 144 combinations of Penalty rules – making us the ONLY software which can support this kind of flexibility. Read More
2. Penalty Level: Money Manager now supports flexibility to choose between Invoice level Penalty or Line item level Penalty. You can choose to turn off penalty for certain line items OR configure different Penalty rule for each line item. Read More
3. Unpaid Penalty view: Any unpaid penalty will be shown as an ‘Unbilled view’; not as an actual Invoice – only when the Penalty is paid, system generates a Penalty Invoice. This makes sure that once Penalty invoice is generated, it will not be updated. Read More