Does meeting pulse work with PowerPoint?

Yes, it does. You can add MeetingPulse as a PowerPoint Add-in and see real-time results and changes right on your PowerPoint slide during Microsoft Teams meetings or others.

What platforms do you support?

MeetingPulse works in any web browser and can be accessed from any device that uses one. You can also integrate MeetingPulse into your favorite video-meeting apps, such as Zoom , Webex , and Microsoft Teams , as well as video platforms like YouTube and Vimeo.

Can I customize MeetingPulse?

To make MeetingPulse a seamless addition to your meetings, we offer custom themes. You can use your own logo and your colors in Attendee View as well as Broadcast View. Your company name can also be included in the webpage’s title. Your meeting can also have its own domain. This is great if you are going to promote your meeting offline. For example, you could use “acme2022.com” instead of “meet.ps/acme-all-hands”.

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HOA Voting Software for Board Elections, Budget Votes, and Annual Meetings

MeetingPulse is online voting software built for homeowners associations, condominium associations, and community associations. Run board elections, assessment votes, and bylaw amendments with secure electronic ballots that owners can cast from any phone or laptop, whether they are in the clubhouse or joining the annual meeting from home.

Upload your owner list once, assign voting rights by unit or ownership share, and reuse the same roster for every vote that year. Each owner receives a unique ballot link, results stay hidden until the board is ready to announce them, and every vote is recorded in an audit trail.

Why HOA votes are harder than they look

A homeowners association vote is not a simple show of hands. Most associations deal with some combination of the following:

Voting rights that vary by unit

Many governing documents assign votes by square footage, ownership percentage, or lot count rather than one vote per household.

Proxies and absentee owners

A large share of owners will not attend the meeting and will delegate their vote or vote in advance.

Quorum requirements

The meeting cannot conduct business until enough owners are present or represented, and boards often do not know whether they have reached quorum until the last minute

Secret ballot rules

Many states and governing documents require secret ballots for board elections and certain other decisions.

Hybrid attendance

Since 2020, most annual meetings have some owners in the room and some on Zoom, which means two ballots and two counts unless the software handles both at once.

Documentation

If a result is challenged, the board needs a record of who was eligible, who voted, and what was counted.

Paper ballots and generic survey tools handle none of this well. Dedicated election tools handle the ballot but leave the meeting itself somewhere else. MeetingPulse runs the meeting and the vote in one place.

How HOA voting works in MeetingPulse

Before the meeting

Upload owners and
set the rules

Import your owner list from a spreadsheet with names, emails, unit numbers, and vote weights. Set the meeting to require unique access codes so each owner can vote once. Assign proxies where your bylaws permit them. Create each ballot question in advance, from board candidates to budget approval, and keep them closed until the agenda reaches that item.

Owners get an email with a personal voting link. Clicking it logs them in automatically. No account, no password, no app to install.

During the meeting

Open each vote when the agenda reaches it

Owners scan a QR code on screen or click the link in their email. Most are voting within thirty seconds.

Open the ballot for the board election when nominations close. Owners in the room and owners on Zoom vote from their phones at the same moment. Watch participation come in live, so the chair can compare the count against the quorum in your governing documents, then close the vote when everyone has had the chance to respond.

Results stay hidden from owners until you choose to share them. The board and the manager see the tally in real time, in vote weight or raw counts, whichever your documents call for.

After the meeting

Export the record

Download a report of eligibility, participation, and results for the minutes. Export to CSV, or connect to your association management system through the API or Zapier.

HOA owner list: upload once, reuse for every vote

Most voting tools make you rebuild your owner roster for every vote. MeetingPulse does not.

Upload the owner list with unit numbers and vote weights at the start of the year. When you hold the annual meeting, a special assessment vote, and a bylaw amendment six months later, you reuse the same list. Add new owners as units change hands, update proxies, and adjust voting rights without starting over.

For community managers who run votes for many associations, this is the difference between an afternoon of setup and ten minutes.

Vote without leaving your Zoom meeting

Most HOA annual meetings now include owners who attend remotely. MeetingPulse runs alongside the meeting platform you already use.

Zoom in the browser

Owners join the meeting in a browser and the ballot appears alongside it. Nothing to download.

Zoom desktop app

If your association meets in the Zoom app, MeetingPulse runs inside the meeting itself.

Microsoft Teams and Webex

The same ballot and the same experience.

In the clubhouse and at home, counted together

Owners in the room and owners joining remotely cast the same ballot and land in one result. There is no second tally to reconcile after the meeting.

HOA voting methods:
weighted, proxy, secret ballot, and ranked choice

Weighted voting

Assign each owner their actual vote value by unit, square footage, or ownership percentage, and see the tally in those units.

Proxy voting

Delegate one owner's vote to another when your bylaws allow it. Proxy holders see the additional votes they carry when they open the ballot.

Secret ballot with an audit trail

Hide how each owner voted while keeping a record of who voted. An auditor role can confirm participation without ever seeing individual choices, which is the record a challenged election needs.

Cumulative or point voting

Let owners distribute a set number of votes across candidates in multi-seat board elections.

Ranked choice

Collect preference-order ballots for candidate or option choices.

Standard yes/no/abstain

For motions, approvals, and resolutions.

Write-ins and abstentions

Capture write-in candidates and record abstentions separately from no votes.

What HOAs and community associations
vote on with MeetingPulse

Board of directors and officer elections
Annual budget ratification
Special assessments
Reserve fund decisions
CC&R, bylaw, and rule amendments
Architectural and landscaping policy changes
Amenity, contractor, and capital project approvals
Recall and removal votes

HOA election software for community managers and self-managed boards

Community association managers run dozens of meetings a year across many properties. Self-managed boards run a handful with volunteers. Both need the same thing: a process that produces a defensible result without a week of preparation.

A community manager runs each association as its own meeting with its own link, owner list, and branded theme, all under one account. Clone last year’s meeting for this year’s, and role-based access lets the manager run the vote while a board member observes without touching the settings.

Electronic voting and your state's HOA rules

Many states now permit or regulate electronic voting for community associations, and some require specific procedures for secret ballots, notice periods, and record retention. Requirements differ substantially between states and between an association’s own governing documents.

MeetingPulse gives your association the tools to run a secure, documented electronic vote: verified individual ballots, weighted and proxy support, hidden results, and an exportable audit record. Your board and counsel remain responsible for confirming that your voting procedure follows your CC&Rs, bylaws, and state law.

Frequently asked question about
HOA voting software

Can homeowners vote online for an HOA board election?

Yes. Owners receive a unique ballot link by email, vote from any phone or computer, and their vote is recorded against their unit and vote weight. Results stay hidden until the board releases them, and the full record can be exported for the minutes.

How does weighted voting work for an HOA?

Each owner is assigned a vote value in the owner list, such as one vote per unit or a percentage based on square footage. When they vote, their response counts at that weight, and the board sees the tally in the same units your governing documents use.

Can owners vote by proxy in MeetingPulse?

Yes, where your bylaws permit it. A proxy is assigned in the owner list before the vote, and the proxy holder sees the additional votes they carry when they open their ballot. Proxies count toward participation and toward the result.

Can we run the vote during a Zoom annual meeting?

Yes. Owners attending in the room and owners joining on Zoom, Teams, or Webex cast the same ballot from their phones, and all votes combine into a single result. There is no second count to reconcile.

Is the ballot secret?

It can be. Enable the secret ballot setting to hide how each owner voted and keep results out of the attendee view until the board chooses to share them. An auditor role can still verify who voted, without seeing any individual choice, so the election is both confidential and verifiable.

Do owners need to download an app?

No. Voting happens in a browser from a link sent by email. There is no app to install and no account to create.

Does MeetingPulse make our HOA election legally compliant?

MeetingPulse provides the secure ballot, verification, weighting, proxy, and reporting tools that most electronic voting rules call for. Your association is responsible for confirming eligibility, notice, quorum, and procedure against your governing documents and state law.

See how your next annual meeting could run

Bring your owner list and your next board election, budget vote, or special assessment. In a 15-minute demo we will set it up with you and show exactly what
your owners will see.