Senior Citizens in Mumbai Robbed at Gunpoint in their own Home

Jun 24,2015 / By Team Commonfloor Groups / No Comment

In a recent incident reported by the Times of India (http://goo.gl/qoVYAR) that took place in the first week of June 2015, where a senior citizen who was alone at his home was exploited by a person who posed as a gas agency executive has left many shaken.

The incident occurred between 2.15pm and 3.30pm when the accused charged on Sridhar Bhate (the victim) and overpowered him. He tied Bhate’s hands and legs with a nylon string which he was carrying and at knifepoint robbed him of valuables worth rupees 40,000. Fortunately the accused left without hurting Bhate. But not always are victims so lucky and many a time they are grievously injured and even murdered. Like it happened to a senior couple at the end of 2014 when Nauseer Irani (76) and his wife Nargis (74) were murdered in their flat in Palghar – Mumbai. The New Indian Express (http://goo.gl/dpivPV) reported that four unidentified persons had forcibly entered their house murdered them and debunked with a total of rupees 4.9 lakhs from the house, mostly in the form of jewelry. The incident happened during the afternoon and it was discovered only the next morning.

Domestic Help Drugs and Robs Resident in Mumbai

Jun 24,2015 / By Team Commonfloor Groups / No Comment

Domestic helps, while being a boon to working professionals to give them some respite in their hectic lives, are often known to be accomplice in robbery/ murder of their employers for money and valuables.

Recently in Khar, Mumbai as reported by the DNA (http://goo.gl/Xz3Nh0), a domestic help had attacked and robbed his employer, an elderly couple, of valuables and fled. Police are finding it difficult to trace the person as the couple only knew his first name and no other details to trace their address/ origins. This is not the first time that such daunting incidents have come to light. Many times these house-hold helps or drivers/ babysitters allow their acquintances to enter the house with the intention of robbing the residents. Police are typically clueless as victims are unable to provide any details of their domestic help, apart from just first names and a few basic details. It’s also a myth that this doesn’t happen in gated communities.

Writing-off Irrecoverable Due with the Help of Society By-Laws

Jun 22,2015 / By Team Commonfloor Groups / No Comment

Housing societies big or small needs a set of rules and regulations to run smoothly. However, to get it registered they need the by-laws in place. By-laws are nothing but guidelines which are to be followed by the members of the society so as to ensure proper working of the community is ensured. Also, with the help of the by-laws, issues can be addressed in a timely and effective fashion. These are local/private laws and are put in place just after the housing complex is registered. These laws are mandatory and extremely useful as the day-to-day functioning of the complex is monitored and issues sorted in no time with its help.

Money Manager Quick Upload of Payments

Jun 20,2015 / By Team Commonfloor Groups / No Comment

CommonFloor Groups is all set to reduce the tedious task of adding payments with our brand new section that will help uploading of payments made by the residents in bulk.

Path: Money Manager> Income > Add New> Bulk Resident Payments

Select the ‘Bulk Resident Payments’ found in the drop down list under the ‘Add New’ section. (see image below)

Once you reach the upload payment section you would first need to download the template which is an excel sheet

Bulk Payment Upload

The excel sheet has 13 columns, which allows to capture all details of Payments received from Residents. Mandatory fields are marked in asterisks (*). After uploading select whether they are for one particular Bulk invoice or for multiple invoices.

For One Invoice, select the invoice title from the dropdown(see below) and then click on the ‘Continue for Preview’ option. On the next screen, you can preview the data uploaded by you. Verify that these are correct, and then ‘Submit’ which is the third and last step in the flow.

To upload multiple invoices you have the option of selecting either ‘First In First Out’ (FIFO) or ‘Ledger Wise’.

FIFO is a method which can be out in use for collecting payments of multiple months at one go. Hence, if there are 5 invoices pending against a certain house, then Payments will be marked by sorting these invoices on first-in-first-out basis, according to the Invoice date.
Ledger-wise payments are nothing but the Ledger-wise priority by which the payments can be taken. If ‘Water charges’ are set as a priority line item, then once payments are received, ‘Water bill’ line items are adjusted first before moving on to other line items in the invoice.

To select Ledger: Settings> Module Settings> Money Manager> Advanced
Do note that if the ‘Auto Approval’ function is not clicked all the updated payments will be pending for approval. Once all updates are made do preview the same before clicking the ‘Submit’ button.

Money Manager Discounts Feature Added

Jun 17,2015 / By Team Commonfloor Groups / No Comment

With CommonFloor Groups, Treasurers can easily apply discounts either for single invoices or for bulk invoices. Purpose is to waive off a certain amount of the invoice raised, if required, so that it no longer shows as a Receivable from that house.
Path: Money Manager > Income> Single/ Bulk Invoices

Note: Discounts can only applied for unpaid invoices.

Click on the discount button and you’ll get a pop up box. Enter the discount amount, discount date and the reason for discount. Discounts can only be accessed by level 3 (L3) and level 4 (L4) admins who are the property managers and treasurers.

Once discount is applied the system will consider the invoice as partially paid and you can filter the status of the invoice as discounted and view.

This discount will now show in your ‘house statement’ and also on the ‘transaction report’.

To access the ‘House Statement’ click on Money Manager then Income and you will find ‘House Statement’. Here you can look for the invoice for the month where the discount had been applied against your house number. (In our case it would be July 1st 2015 for house A,A0102). The Discount amount imposed will appear in the Credit of the house statement.

Note: The outstanding amount of that invoice and outstanding amount for the house will decrease with respect to the discount amount.

Money Manager> Income> House Statement

As mentioned above this discount would also show up on the Transaction report. Select the Ledger of ‘Discounts on Invoices’ and here the transaction of Discount is shown as a Debit (this is the other ledger impacted by the discount entry).

Once discounts are applied both SMS/email will be triggered to the resident of the house.

Money Manager>Report> Transaction Reports> Choose Ledger>Discount on Invoices (in this case)

Lastly, to delete enter into the particular house and click the ‘delete’ button. Access it from the ‘House Statement’ option and put in your house number.

Tag Archives: Smart residential living

Senior Citizens in Mumbai Robbed at Gunpoint in their own Home

Domestic Help Drugs and Robs Resident in Mumbai

Writing-off Irrecoverable Due with the Help of Society By-Laws

Money Manager Quick Upload of Payments

Money Manager Discounts Feature Added