Consultation: easy, useful.
Reduce surprises. Test sentiment. Get actionable data to empower your building. Give your owners the voice they deserve. All with maximum customisation and minimum owner friction.
Strata managers
Your new game-changing service
Ditch the massive reply-all threads and adhoc calls. Set your questions, the audience, the close date and the visibility settings; then let approval and delivery run itself. Engagement is easy and data is actionable.
Committees
Stay in control
Nothing goes out to your owners until the committee approves the survey content, so you stay in control of communication. Survey results help you make better, data-informed decisions for the building and reduces surprises.
Owners
Make your voice heard
Easily answer surveys in your inbox with a tap from your phone. Finally you can make your voice heard and give feedback that actually matters. See survey results to find out what matters to your building as a whole.
But will we actually use it?
Communication is key.
Strata management is all about representation. Representation requires information. Owners need to feel heard and consulted before major decisions land. Test sentiment, reduce surprises, and show you consulted the people whose money and lives are affected by your decisions.
Should we proceed with the lobby refurbishment?
Closes
Fri, 26 Jun 2026
Democratise, discuss and decide
Empower your committees
Committees make better calls when the data shows what owners actually want. Guessing sentiment or priorities is never a good idea. When it comes to the matters that really matter: special levies, rule changes, major works.. OurCommons makes it easy to give committees data they can trust.
New survey
DraftTitle
Audience
Anonymity
Close date
Should we proceed with the lobby refurbishment?
How would you rate the current lobby?
Anything else the committee should consider?
Approve survey
Lobby refurbishment consultation
1 rejected · 1 pending
M. Tran
Committee member
J. Patel
Committee member
R. Lowe
Committee member
D. Singh
Committee member
K. Wu
Committee member
Your vote
Anonymous or transparent
You can hide names and blank authors on free-text. Or, keep everyone accountable for every response: chosen once, for the whole survey.
Time-bound for speed
Every survey is time-bound. With a deadline, you can close-off consultation, see the results, and move forward without silencing owners.
Required or optional answers
Force an answer or leave it open; toggled independently on each question. Use free-text, multiple choice replies, yes/no, star ratings and more.
Committee engaged
Committee members vote yes or no on survey content. Past 50% yes, the survey goes out.
Easier engagement; more engagement.
Consultation; simplified.
Surveys move through a fixed governance path. A majority of committee votes decides whether owners see it in that form, or if edits are required.
Draft
Strata manager
Your strata manager, building manager, or any committee member can propose a draft survey.
Committee votes
Every committee member
All members are notified and can cast a yes or no. The tally updates as votes land.
Published
Owners are notified
Owners are notified and can respond until the close date.
Less than 50% approval? Back to draft.
If 50% or more of the committee vote no, the survey reverts to draft for adjustment. Submitter can revise it and resubmit for another vote.
No committee? It auto-approves.
If a building has no committee, the survey skips the vote and publishes on submit, so small schemes are not held up and managers can still poll owners.
Do it your way
Flexible controls
Mix the question types in your surveys, target exactly who should answer, and decide how much of it is put on the record.
Single & multiple choice
Add your own options, pick one or pick many.
Yes / No
A clean binary for straight decisions, keeping things simple.
Rating 1 to 5
Gauge sentiment on a simple scale in a familiar rated way.
Free text
Open comments, owners getting to use their own words.
Audience targeting
All owners, committee only, or specific named lots for targeted consultation.
Anonymity
Answers can be anonymous or attributed to owners on a per-survey basis.
Required or optional
Set on every question, independently, to show owners what really counts.
Time-bound and auto-close
Give owners the option to engage without slowing down approval processes.
Zero friction replies
Answer with two taps
Owners can easily answer in the web portal, including on their phone.
Bayside Terraces · Lot 14
Lobby refurbishment consultation
Should we proceed with the lobby refurbishment?
Anything else the committee should consider?
One response per owner. No edits after you submit.
One secure response per owner
Each owner answers once. No edits and no second go. Deduplication controlled server-side for secure results and actionable data.
Anonymous; only when it should be
In anonymous mode, names are stripped and free-text answers show no author. Attribute owners to keep a record of who said what and comms friendly.
Democratised data
No live counts during the window to influence outcomes. Once closed, owners see the outcome with anonymity controls honoured.
Transparency at every stage
Immediate channelled delivery
The moment a survey is approved, OurCommons reaches owners on every channel you tick in the builder and marks the close date on the building calendar so everyone is on the same page.
Lands in every targeted owner's inbox.
SMS
A short text from OurCommons.
In-app notification
Waiting when they next open OurCommons.
Mobile push
A nudge to the mobile app.
Calendar entry
The close date is added to the building calendar.
less friction | better engagement | greater alignment
What now?
Level-up your consultation
Reduce surprises. Test sentiment. Get actionable data to empower your building. Give your owners the voice they deserve.