RoadKeeper or the spreadsheet you already have?
Most road funds start in a spreadsheet, and for three owners on a short road it can be enough. This page is the honest version of when it stops being enough.
It is free, it is yours, and it never has an outage. If your road is three owners who pay on time every year, a spreadsheet plus a shoebox is a perfectly good system, and RoadKeeper's free tier is only worth it for the receipts.
Where the road fund actually leaks
You type them, you send them, you chase them.
Issued from the split, sent with a payment link, chased on a ladder you set.
The file dies on the old treasurer's laptop.
The next treasurer signs in and the history is already there.
Formulas drift and nobody notices until the meeting.
Every change logged, every year closed with a report.
Compared against a spreadsheet and a checkbook, at $0 per lot where a cost is published. Facts checked 2026-09 against the alternative's public pages.
No general accounting, no bank sync, no budgeting suite. It collects dues, keeps records, and produces the reports a road association needs, and it stops there.
The price math
For a road of 25 parcels or fewer, the category entry point is $540–$588 a year. RoadKeeper is $399 — 26–32% less. Every feature is included at every tier, and the association absorbs card and bank fees (at Stripe's card rate / at Stripe's bank rate) so owners never see a checkout fee.
Range, not a single vendor: the figure spans at least two vendors’ own pricing pages, checked 2026-09. If either page moves, the range moves; the six-month gate reads that one date.
RoadKeeper is free up to 3 parcels, then $399 / $649 / $999 a year by parcel count (25 / 60 / 150). All features at every tier.