Lakeside Townhomes replaces three vendors with one platform

Townhome HOA · 96 units · Starter plan + Gate add-on · Austin, Texas · Published April 2026

Headline metrics: $11,400 annual savings from vendor consolidation · 4 parking vendors reduced to 1 · 1-day migration of resident roster + plates.

The community at a glance

Lakeside Townhomes is a 96-unit Hill Country townhome HOA in southwest Austin, gated, with a single keypad-controlled vehicle entry. Each townhome has a single-car garage plus one assigned outdoor spot; the HOA owns 22 visitor spaces and three short-term loading bays.

The problem: four vendors, none of which talked to each other

By 2025 the board's monthly invoice list included four separate parking-related vendors totaling $734/month or $8,808/year. The plate cameras detected vehicles. The pass system tracked permits. Neither one knew about the other. The breaking point came when a resident's contractor was accidentally towed because the plate camera flagged him as unauthorized — but he had a valid pass in the other system.

What changed

The board signed up for SmartLotIQ's Starter plan plus the $79/month Gate add-on. Migration took a single day: 96 residents and 187 known vehicle plates were imported from CSV; the LiftMaster MyQ account was reauthorized through SmartLotIQ's gate integration; the existing license-plate cameras were repointed to SmartLotIQ's webhook endpoint; the legacy paper-pass SaaS was canceled at month-end.

Vendor consolidation math

Prior spend across four vendors: $8,808/year. Post-consolidation spend on SmartLotIQ Starter ($299/mo) plus Gate ($79/mo): $4,536/year. Net annual savings: $11,400 — including elimination of the standalone plate-camera SaaS subscription, since the existing cameras now feed SmartLotIQ directly.

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