Features

Community Enforcement That’s Smart and Fair

Keep your community safe and compliant with digital tools for tracking violations, logging incidents, and enforcing HOA rules with consistency and clarity.

Safer and Nicer Communities Start with Smart Enforcement

Enforcing community rules shouldn't require manual logs, awkward conversations, or scattered systems. GateWatch gives you the tools to document, notify, and resolve violations and incidents—while keeping everything tracked in one place.

Protect your community without adding conflict

Track Violations Consistently

Laptop and mobile devices displaying HOA violation tracking system with a resident logging infractions and monitoring resolution status.

Create a digital record of every violation—from pet waste to improper parking—with photos, notes, and resolution steps. Mobile support too!

✓ Log violations by category, unit, or rule

✓ Attach evidence and timestamp entries

✓ Auto-notify residents with customizable templates

✓ Track resolution status from issue to close

Automate manual processes with workflows and digital records

Enforcement with a Digital Paper Trail

Illustration of HOA violation enforcement workflow showing steps from logging an issue to resident notification, evidence upload, and resolution in a digital system

From overgrown lawns to repeated parking violations, GateWatch lets managers and guards log, track, and resolve rule violations in a structured, fully digital system.

✓ Centralized history for every unit

✓ Manage followup in each record, and automate workflows

✓ Leave internal memo’s for follow up

✓ Issue fines and collect payment digitally

Respond to Incidents in Real Time

GateWatch helps HOA guards and staff log incidents like noise complaints or accidents on the spot, without needing paper forms or follow-up emails.

Log what happens, when it happens

Incident Reports in Real Time

Dashboard view of HOA incident reporting system displaying charts and analytics for real-time event tracking and documentation by staff or guards

Whether it's a noise complaint or a gate incident, your team can document events in the field from their phone or tablet.

✓ Guards or staff can file reports instantly

✓ Include photos, video, or written notes

✓ Tag by type, unit, or location

✓ Create a searchable incident history

Empower Guards with Technology

Mobile Tools for Guards and Field Staff

Illustration of a guard using a mobile HOA incident reporting app to submit reports and sync data with a property management system.

Give your team the tech to stay responsive and consistent—without replacing their role.

✓ Log incidents or issues on the go

✓ Review past reports instantly

✓ Pulls location data for logging incidents down to the geolocation

✓ Easily upload pictures, videos, notes and any additional data

Frequently Asked Questions

  • You can create custom categories to match your bylaws—parking, landscaping, pet issues, noise, and more. You can also assign severity levels or escalation paths.

  • Yes. Photos, videos, or documents can be added to any violation or incident report and are automatically stored in the resident’s record.

  • They can be. You can set up custom notification templates and choose whether to alert residents via email or app when a violation is logged.

  • Yes. GateWatch tracks historical violations by unit or resident, so you can see trends, escalation history, and compliance outcomes.

  • Absolutely. The mobile interface makes it easy to report an incident on the spot, with photo uploads, quick typing, location awareness, and status tagging.

  • Yes. You can export detailed violation and incident logs by date, category, resident, or status to present during hearings or reviews.

Explore More of GateWatch’s Features!

Keep your community safe, compliant, and documented.

Track violations and incidents digitally, and enforce rules with less conflict.
See how easy it is to bring structure to your enforcement process.