Property management accounting. Not your general ledger.
Fortress runs operations. Sage Intacct runs the books.
Two systems. One set of numbers.
A property management system that also tries to be a general ledger forces your investment, management, and construction entities into a box that doesn't fit. So we didn't build one.
Everything that happens at the property
- Rent roll and resident ledgers
- Charges, payments, and deposits
- Move-ins, move-outs, and transfers
- Compliance and certifications
- CAM estimates and reconciliation
Fortress OSEverything your CFO signs their name to
- The general ledger
- Financial statements
- Vendor payments and bills
- Budgets and consolidations
- The chart of accounts
Sage Intacct today. Your call tomorrow.When the software does not connect cleanly to accounting, your team quietly becomes the integration.
Nobody applied for that job.
Your Systems Work. The Gap Between Them Doesn't.
Somebody Types It Twice
The deposit posts in one system, then a person re-keys it into the other. The work isn't hard. It's just the same work, done again, by someone who already did it.
Two Systems, Two Answers
Operations says one number, accounting says another, and the meeting turns into an argument about which screen to believe instead of what to do next.
The Ledger Module Doesn't Fit
A ledger built only for property data has nowhere to put your investment, management, and construction entities. So they get forced into a shape that was never meant to hold them.
Month-End Runs on Nerve
Export a trial balance from the property system, reformat it, then re-key it into the ledger, all before the close deadline hits. If the numbers don't match, someone spends the rest of the day hunting for the one line that's off.
Move-Outs Go Quiet
A resident leaves, the final account statement says a refund is owed, and it waits on someone to notice and walk it over to accounting.
CAM Runs on Last Year's Guess
Estimates were set months ago, the real spend lives in the general ledger, and nobody reconciles the two until a tenant asks a question you can't answer yet.
Where the Numbers Come From
The rest of Fortress writes to the same ledger the accounting sync reads.
AP & Procurement
Invoices get approved against the property they belong to, then go to the accounting system to be paid. The approval trail stays where the work happened.
See AP & ProcurementPayments
Rent, deposits, and fees post to the resident ledger as they land, which is what the deposit journal entries are built from in the first place.
See PaymentsReporting
Occupancy and collections read from the same ledger that feeds the accounting sync, so the operational report and the financials stop disagreeing.
See Reporting
They already liked their accounting system. That was the point.
A Miami investment group runs affordable, conventional, mixed-use, and commercial property in one portfolio. Their old system fought their accounting setup. Fortress connected to Sage Intacct, the system their team already preferred, and left the books exactly where they were.
What Actually Moves Between the Two
Start With the Books You Already Keep
Fortress connects to the accounting system your team already picked, so nothing has to be migrated, rebuilt, or argued about first.
See every integrationA Deposit Posts. The Entries Follow.
Close the Period, Not the Books
Move-Outs Settle Themselves
Then the Data Comes Back
No more messy, manual bullsh*t
soooo, what makes Fortress OS different?
Fortress OS6 / 6Built for affordable housing
Other tools make you bend to fit them. We built Fortress around how affordable housing actually runs. Every program. Every quirk.
Fortress OSYour systems finally talk to each other
Payments, compliance, maintenance, messages. All in sync. No double entry. No copy-paste tax. No swivel chair.
Live in 90 days, not next year.
Most switches drag on the better part of a year. Ours runs on a set 90-day plan, with a dedicated rep and dates your team can hold us to.
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