blocsmartHelp

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Step-by-step help for every part of blocsmart: leaseholders, compliance, issues, emails, polls and more.

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Getting started

blocsmart is a private website for running a block of flats, used by the directors of a right-to-manage (RTM) company and their managing agent: the…

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Overview

The Overview is the first page you see after logging in. It brings together the figures that matter and anything that needs doing soon. Click any…

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Leaseholders, tenants and flats

Leaseholders is organised around the building’s flats and floors. Each flat can have any number of leaseholders (for example joint owners) and…

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Correspondence and the email dropbox

The email dropbox files copies of emails in blocsmart, against the right flat, person or issue, so everyone can see what’s been said. You send email…

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Compliance register

The compliance register lists what the building and the RTM company must check, test and renew, from the fire risk assessment and lift examinations…

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Hot water cylinders

Each flat’s hot water cylinder (DHW cylinder) needs servicing every 12 months. blocsmart records each service and its certificate, when the cylinder…

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Evacuation plans (PEEP)

PEEP records residents who may need help to evacuate in an emergency, and produces the information the fire service needs.

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BSA 2022 leaseholder protections

The Building Safety Act 2022 protects qualifying leaseholders from some or all of the cost of fixing historical safety defects. blocsmart records,…

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Issues

Issues tracks anything residents raise with the directors and managing agent, from a faulty door or leak to noise or suspected short lets. Several…

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Emails to leaseholders

Email sends newsletters and company notices using a drag-and-drop email designer, and shows who received and opened each one.

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Service reminders

Service reminders are emails sent automatically to leaseholders before and after their flat’s hot water cylinder service is due. Each can include a…

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Polls

Polls let leaseholders vote online, one vote per flat, on anything from replacing the intercom to changing managing agent.

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Documents

Documents is a shared library for minutes, insurance certificates, reports, contracts and anything else the directors and managing agent need to find…

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History and change log

History keeps a full record of changes to the register, and of logins and other activity, so you can always see who did what and put things right.

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Users

Users controls who can log in to blocsmart. Only super admins see it. Logins are separate from leaseholder records: users never appear in the…

Common tasks

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