Levies
Body-corporate charges on a sectional-title unit. Domi Vera reconciles them against the body corporate's statement — it does not bill them.
A levy is what a body corporate charges the owner of a sectional-title unit for the running of the scheme — maintenance, insurance, security, the reserve fund.
Freehold properties have no levies, because they have no body corporate.
Reconciliation, not billing
This is the thing to understand about levies in Domi Vera.
The body corporate raises the levy. It sends one statement for the scheme, covering every unit in it. Your job is to check that what it charged matches what you recorded against each unit — and to find the gap when it does not.
Domi Vera is doing reconciliation, not billing. It does not generate the body corporate’s levy or decide what a unit owes the scheme. It checks your records against theirs.
How it works
A charge — on the owner’s side or the tenant’s — can be flagged as a levy, optionally with a component label like water or admin.
The per-unit levy view then gathers everything flagged that way for a period and shows it against the total the body corporate actually charged. Matching totals means your records agree. A gap means something is missing, doubled, or on the wrong unit.
Why the gap matters
A levy gap is money. If the body corporate charged R2,400 for a unit and you passed on R2,100, the R300 is coming out of someone — usually the owner, without their knowing, or you.
Finding it monthly is the difference between a query and a year-end problem.
Who pays
Levies are normally an owner cost, and appear on the owner’s statement like any other (expenses and disbursements).
Where a lease makes the tenant liable for a component — often water or refuse — flag that charge on the tenant’s side instead. The reconciliation gathers both, because the body corporate’s statement does not care which of them is paying.
What it does not do yet
No PDF extraction. The body-corporate total is entered by you; Domi Vera does not read their statement.
No line-by-line matching. The check is against the total for the period, not charge against charge. The component label helps you group, but the reconciliation itself is on the total.
Given that, the component label earns its keep when a gap appears — grouping by water or admin is usually how you find which part drifted.
Related
- SchemesA scheme is a sectional-title development with a body corporate. Freehold properties do not belong to one.
- UnitsThe unit is where the money is anchored — one owner, one set of books, its own invoices and statements.
- Expenses and disbursementsWhat reduces an owner's payout — costs incurred on their behalf, your fee, and the payment you make to them.
- Charges and charge templatesA template is the reusable definition kept on the unit. A charge is a real line on one lease. Editing one never changes the other.