Fobmo
Fobmo Sheet 02 of 04 Govern Rev A
For Owners Corporations

Building access, governed properly.

We run the full lifecycle of every fob and mobile credential in your building, from identity verification to deactivation, with the audit trail your insurer and your committee can actually use.

See how it works
In production today.

or email

Detail 02
Title Why this matters now
Rev A

Most buildings have great hardware and a messy access reality.

In most multi-unit buildings, nobody can tell you who has a fob. Spreadsheets get out of date. Installers leave. Tenants move. Sold lots don't always return their fobs.

30% of buildings have more active credentials than current residents.

For the committee, this isn't a tidiness problem. It's a duty of care problem. Under Model Rule 4.1(7) and the Owners Corporations Act 2006 (Vic), and the equivalent regimes in NSW, Queensland, and other jurisdictions, you have a statutory obligation to control access to common property.

If you can't prove who held a given credential when something went wrong, you may not be able to demonstrate that the obligation was discharged. That gap shows up in denied insurance claims, regulatory findings, and civil liability when a fob with no clear custodian is linked to theft, property damage, or worse.

The fix isn't more hardware. The hardware is fine. What's missing is a clean, auditable, vendor-independent record of who holds what, who authorised it, and when it should stop. That's what Govern delivers.

Legal grounding

Compliance citations, not buzzwords.

  • Owners Corporations Act 2006 (Vic) -- Model Rule 4.1(7), duty to control access to common property.
  • Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 (NSW) -- s.177, owners corporation's duty to maintain and repair common property.
  • Equivalent regimes in Queensland, South Australia, ACT, and other jurisdictions.
Detail 03
Title What Govern delivers
Rev A

Three pillars. Each one earns its place.

The OC stays in policy authority. We run the operations and produce the evidence.

Pillar 01 / Custodianship

Every credential has a named custodian and a clear reason to exist.

Each fob and mobile credential is recorded against the lot it's authorised for, the person who's responsible for it, and the authority that issued it. When the lot is sold or the tenancy ends, the credential follows, either to the new authorised holder or to deactivation. There's no 'found in a drawer' condition.

This works because every change goes through an audit wrapper that can't be bypassed. The platform is opinionated: if your committee wants to break the chain on a one-off basis, that takes an explicit authorised exception, not a back door.

Pillar 02 / Forensic-grade audit trail

Every action recorded. Every gap a red flag.

Request, authorisation, ID check, issuance, activation, every door read, every denied entry, deactivation. Appended to a log where nothing is ever overwritten or deleted. We poll your controller overnight and keep what we collect, so the record outlives the rolling buffer on the panel. A gap in it after your onboarding date isn't a rounding error, it's something to chase down.

The record starts the night your building is onboarded. Whatever your controller had already written over before then is gone before we can read it, and we will not pretend otherwise. Inner Range Inception today; Gallagher, Integriti and ICT are not built yet.

Pillar 03 / Lifecycle workflow

From identity check to deactivation, one process.

Verifying an owner's identity at purchase. Confirming an agent's licence and authority. Issuing a fob bank-card style: in transit until the recipient confirms it arrived. Deactivating on sale or end of lease. Reissuing safely when something is lost. Govern is workflow plus data, not a programmer with a screen in front of them.

Every Govern building is onboarded and run with a person in the loop today. The platform supports self-service and that is where we are going, but we would rather tell you that than let you find out.

Detail 04
Title In production
Rev A

Not a demo. A real production system.

Govern is running in production today. Every authorisation recorded, every door read collected overnight and kept, every credential accounted for against a lot and a person. The Owners Corporation has the audit trail it needs; the manager has fewer ad hoc emails to chase; the residents have a clear path when they need access.

Read only
Access to your controller
Nightly
Mirror, archive and event poll
0
Hard deletes
Live
Status
Detail 05
Title Operational shift
Rev A

Less inbox. Cleaner handovers. The same hardware.

For the strata manager

Fobmo takes the daily fob workflow off your desk. You send us your ownership records as a spreadsheet and we load them. When a lot sells, when a tenancy ends, when a fob is lost, we run the workflow, send the confirmations, and update the record.

You sign in and read the current position whenever you need it: how many credentials are active, who holds each one, which ones the reconciliation has flagged. There is no monthly report to wait for, and none to lose in your inbox.

For the building manager

Fewer one-off requests landing in your inbox. Residents and contractors follow a consistent process; you confirm presence when needed, but you're not the workflow.

For the existing Inner Range Inception setup, nothing changes at the hardware level. Fobmo connects over the controller's own interface, reads it, and mirrors what it finds. We never write to it. Your installer keeps doing what they do, and there is no configuration of ours that can lock a resident out. You don't replace hardware, and you don't replace your installer relationship.

Detail 06
Title Pricing
Rev A

Flat pricing. By building size.

No 'enterprise' tier hiding more behind a sales conversation. The full table is on this page, and every tier gets the same product.

Tier Lots Price (AUD / mo)
Boutique Under 30 $110
Mid-rise Most buildings 30 to 99 $175
High-rise 100 to 299 $250
Mega 300+ $350

Included at every tier

  • Full credential lifecycle workflow
  • Access events polled nightly and kept past your controller's rolling buffer
  • Nightly configuration mirror, archived encrypted, plus your controller's own backup files kept and listed
  • Compliance reconciliation for the building
  • Sign-in for your committee, your manager and every lot owner
  • Read-only integration with Inner Range Inception

Invoiced monthly. No annual lock-in and no per-fob surcharges. We sell and set up Govern by hand today, one building at a time, so the first step is a conversation rather than a checkout: we connect to your controller, read what is actually on it, and reconcile that against your records before anyone signs in.

Running a building's access already? Govern may not be your first stop. Operate lets you run a building on Fobmo before the Owners Corporation engages us, from $19 per building per month including GST. You sign up for that one yourself, and the first thirty days are free.

See Partners
Detail 07B
Title The limit we build around, not through
Rev A

Nobody, including us, can cancel a lot owner's fob behind their back.

Under Australian strata law, an Owners Corporation cannot unilaterally cancel a lot owner's access to their own lot, and neither can we. The owner has to ask for it. That is not a gap in the product. It is the law, and a system that let a committee quietly revoke an owner's access would be selling you a liability, not a control.

So we built for it instead. A lot owner signs in and requests deactivation themselves, in one step, and the request lands in the record with the date and the person attached to it. When you need to show that a credential was retired properly, you have the owner's own request, not an assertion by whoever was holding the console.

Everyone else in the building is different. Tenants, agents, contractors and staff hold access under an authority the Owners Corporation grants, and that authority can be ended by the party who granted it.

What this buys you

A deactivation you can defend.

An owner's request, timestamped and attributable, is stronger evidence than a revocation nobody can trace. When an insurer or a tribunal asks who ended that credential and on whose word, the answer is on the record.

Detail 08
Title Vendor-independent by design
Rev A

What you keep when you change anyone.

Change your strata manager. Change your installer. Change your building manager. The Fobmo record persists. Every credential, every authorisation, every door read -- it's yours, not ours, and it survives every operational change. We export on request, we don't lock data, and we don't depend on your access control vendor's longevity to keep your record intact.

Detail 09
Rev A

Ready to see what your building's audit trail would look like?

We onboard buildings personally today. Tell us a bit about your building -- size, your current setup, what's keeping you up at night -- and we'll show you what a Fobmo-managed audit trail looks like for your specific situation, with no commitment.

or email

Or send this page to your committee or strata manager with hello@fobmo.com copied in.