If you’re comparing HOA software on Capterra, you’ll likely run into CINC (listed on Capterra as CINC Systems). It’s one of the longer-established names in the category, and it’s worth understanding what it’s actually built for — because, like a few other platforms on that list, it’s aimed at a different kind of customer than BoostHOA is.
Who CINC is built for
CINC Systems has been around since 2005 and, by its own account, supports a large base of community association management companies rather than individual volunteer boards. The product is built around a full accounting backbone — general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, budgeting, bank integrations, and automated lockbox deposit processing — paired with operational tools like violation tracking, architectural request review, an owner portal, and automated late notices and violation letters. CINC has also added AI-assisted features aimed at generating board packets, flagging maintenance issues from uploaded photos, and assisting with bank reconciliation. It’s 100% web-based, and its open API connects to a large number of third-party apps through Zapier.
That feature set — fund accounting, lockbox processing, portfolio-level board packet generation — is built for management companies running the back office for many associations at once.
Pricing: how each one charges
CINC doesn’t publish pricing. It’s sold through a custom quote process based on portfolio size and feature needs.
For BoostHOA’s current plans and fees, see BoostHOA pricing.
Where the comparison breaks down
CINC and BoostHOA mostly aren’t built for the same buyer. CINC’s strength is the depth of its accounting engine and lockbox processing, which matters most to a management company reconciling books across dozens or hundreds of associations. BoostHOA is built for a single volunteer board running one community directly, without a management company’s back-office needs or a sales process to get started.
A self-managed board that finds CINC in a Capterra search is likely seeing it because it’s a prominent name in the HOA category, even though CINC is built for management companies. Conversely, a management company evaluating portfolio-wide fund accounting isn’t going to find that in BoostHOA today — we don’t offer multi-association accounting or lockbox processing.
Where they’d overlap, if a board considered both
For a larger self-managed association weighing whether it needs management-company-grade tools, there’s some genuine overlap:
- Owner and property records as a single source of truth
- Online payments, replacing checks and manual reconciliation
- Document storage, for bylaws, minutes, and notices
- Violation and architectural request tracking, moving requests through a queue instead of email or a group text
Both handle these core workflows. The difference is what’s built around them — CINC for a management company’s multi-community back office, BoostHOA for a board running one association without added overhead.
The honest takeaway
CINC is built for the accounting depth professional management companies need. If your community is managed by a professional company, or your board is weighing whether to hire one, CINC is a reasonable platform for that company to be running.
If your board is self-managed and plans to stay that way, BoostHOA is built specifically for that situation: no sales process and a setup a volunteer can complete without help. Get started with BoostHOA and see whether it fits your community.