For Australian incorporated associations
The member register, board minutes, office-bearers and meetings your committee is legally required to keep — in one tidy home, instead of a drawer full of spreadsheets, Word docs and institutional memory.
Built around the Associations Incorporation Act 2015 (WA).
Most small associations are held together by one exhausted secretary and a folder no one else can find.
The platform
Every association gets the governance backbone. Turn on extra modules — like Volunteers — only when you need them, and only pay for what you use.
Your organisation's legal record: registered name, incorporation number, ABN, registered address and financial year. Office-bearer appointments with full history, your constitution on file, and your quorum rule set once.
A proper member register — not a spreadsheet. Track people whether or not they have an email, define membership types and fees, and record the full lifecycle from joining to resigned, lapsed or life member.
Run Committee, AGM and SGM meetings end to end. Build an ordered agenda, categorise each item as Decision, Discussion or Information, attach supporting papers, then record minutes and decisions against every item.
Schedule meetings ahead of time and send proper calendar invitations. Invitees accept or decline from a link, you see the expected-attendance rollup, and reschedules update everyone's calendar automatically.
For the associations run by their members. Define volunteer roles, assign people, record availability and hours, and keep a full activity history — using the same people you already track in Membership.
Type-specific add-ons that sit on top of the same base — without bloating it for everyone else.
Compliance, built in
Common Ground is shaped around the obligations in the Associations Incorporation Act 2015 (WA), so doing the right thing is just the default way the software works. No legal degree required — and no frantic reconstruction the week before your AGM.
Get compliant from $150/yrWhy it fits community orgs
It was built with a working WA theatre company, where half the people on the books have never owned an email address. The data model bends to your reality, not the other way around.
Track anyone the organisation cares about — members, past members, volunteers — as a person. A login is something you add later, only for those who want one. Nobody falls off the register for lack of an inbox.
Multi-tenant from the ground up. One organisation can never see another's data, and roles — Secretary, Committee Member, Treasurer, Member — are scoped to your association alone.
Server-rendered, structured, and authoritative. Status changes close a period rather than erasing it — your governance history stays intact for the next committee that inherits it.
It runs in the browser on any device your committee already owns. Hosted and updated for you — your treasurer doesn't need to become an IT department.
Pricing
Priced per organisation, not per seat — invite your entire committee at no extra cost. Add modules as your needs grow.
Base
$150/ year
Everything the Act requires, for one organisation.
Base + Volunteers
$240/ year
For associations run by their volunteers.
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Theatre, sporting and other type-specific modules.
Prices in AUD, ex GST. Add-on modules are charged on top of the base subscription. Indicative launch pricing — final figures confirmed at sign-up.
Set your association up once, and the record keeps itself. Start a free trial — no card, no spreadsheet to import, no commitment.