{"id":22259,"date":"2026-01-21T09:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T09:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adda.io\/blog\/?p=22259"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:18:28","slug":"why-do-large-housing-societies-move-from-mygate-to-adda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adda.io\/blog\/2026\/01\/why-do-large-housing-societies-move-from-mygate-to-adda\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do Large Housing Societies move from MyGate to ADDA?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Imagine managing a residential community with 800 apartments<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every month you need to generate maintenance invoices worth tens of lakhs of rupees. Residents raise dozens of complaints about plumbing, lifts, or electricity. Vendors submit bills that must be approved. AGM meetings must be conducted. Elections have to be organised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And this is happening while thousands of residents depend on the community app for daily updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the Management Committee, running a large society today feels less like managing a building and more like managing a small organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is why many communities that initially adopted visitor management tools <\/strong>like <\/strong>mygate are now moving toward full community ERP platforms like ADDA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reasons are simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. In 2026, the main reason which has now taken center stage is the DPDP Act of India<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Communities after running mygate for some time soon realise that visitor entry is only one small part of running a residential community. For managing the overall complexity of the community, they need something more robust like ADDA<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Ad Supported Community Apps looks great in theory, but in reality keeps stuffing ads onto the residents, which cause multiple issues<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Communities realise that when a community apps major revenue is from Ads and Monetisation of resident data, however much they say that they are not interested in data of residents, they eventually find excuses to siphon of resident data to advertisers to earn money<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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