For Australian over‑55s lifestyle communities

Did anyone
actually turn up?

Your residents already run a full social calendar. Verandah gets more of them to it — and shows you who has stopped coming.

Book a 20‑minute call

The problem

Nobody can see any of it

A sheet of paper by the clubhouse door. A Facebook group half of them never joined. Sign‑ups on a clipboard, money in envelopes.

It mostly works. It just can’t tell you anything.

1 in 5

older Australians feel lonely. More than a third live alone.

Monash University, via National Seniors Australia

What it looks like

Have a play with it

Three screens do most of the work. Built for over‑55s from the start, not shrunk down from a younger product.

9:41Wattle Grove
This weekWhat’s on
MON
Water aerobics6:30am · Pool
14
TUE
Book club2:00pm · Library nook
9
WED
Barefoot bowls4:00pm · Green
22
THU
Coach — Maleny markets8:00am · Front gate
31
FRI
Happy hour5:00pm · Clubhouse
40
▣What’s on☺Neighbours✎Post⚑Me
9:41Wattle Grove
Wednesday 4:00pmBarefoot bowls
Margaret is driving2 seats · leaving 3:45 from Unit 12 Ask for a seat
22 goingBill, Dorothy, Joan and 19 others
From your streetBill T. · Unit 62
Going
Ken has a spare seat1 seat · from the clubhouse
Ask
▣What’s on☺Neighbours✎Post⚑Me
9:41Manager
Wattle GroveWorth a knock
Joan M.Book club, most Tuesdays · Unit 14
5 wks
Dorothy K.Water aerobics, twice a week · Unit 8
6 wks
Bill T.Barefoot bowls, Wednesdays · Unit 62
3 wks
This month18 events · 214 attendances
+12%
▣Events⚑Residents■Reports

The most useful thing it does

Joan hasn’t been to anything in five weeks

Every community has a Joan. Two years of Tuesdays, then nothing. Nobody decided to stop checking on her — it’s that nothing was counting.

Worth a knock — Wattle GroveExample
Joan M.Book club, most Tuesdays · Unit 14
5 weeks
Bill T.Barefoot bowls, every Wednesday · Unit 62
3 weeks
Dorothy K.Water aerobics, twice a week · Unit 8
6 weeks

This is the screen that earns the subscription — early enough that someone can still walk over and ask why.

For you

Evidence the community you sell is real

Every operator markets connection. Almost none can prove it happened.

Who has gone quiet
Flagged in weeks, not noticed in months. The single reason to buy this.
Numbers you can show
Events run, people who came, which filled. Most communities can only describe this anecdotally.
Something to show buyers
Prospects ask whether a community is friendly. A live calendar answers better than a brochure.

The business case

What it costs, against what’s at stake

For whoever has to justify it upward. Site fees run $180–$320 a week across the major operators.

Site fee, one home
$10,400 / year
A 200‑home community
$2,080,000 / year
One home sitting empty
−$10,400 / year
Verandah, one community
$3,600 / year
Your site fee revenue$2,080,000 / year
One home sitting empty−$10,400 / year
Verandah$3,600 / year
Share of your revenue0.17%
Pays for itself if it keeps one home occupied18 weeks longer

Change the two figures to your own. Nothing is sent anywhere — the sums happen in your browser.

$300 a month is a week and a half of site fees from a single home.

We can’t attribute a sale to an app, and nor can anyone. At 0.17% of the revenue it sits against, it doesn’t need proving — it needs to be plausible and cheap. That’s why it’s $300 and not $900.

Site fee range: Lifestyle Communities, over55s.au land lease guide, 2026.

Honestly

Software finds Joan.
You still have to knock.

It won’t reach your most isolated residents — they aren’t downloading an app. It tells you early enough that a person can.

Questions you have not asked yet

The awkward ones

What about residents with no smartphone?

They’re who this is really for, and they’ll never open it. Attendance is marked by whoever hosts the event, so someone who has never touched an app still appears correctly. The app reaches the organisers; the organisers reach everyone else.

Is this monitoring our residents?

No, and we won’t let it be sold as that. It records that someone stopped coming to book club. It does not know whether anyone is unwell, and it must never be described to residents as if it does.

Who can see that someone has gone quiet?

Your staff, for their own community. Head office, across the communities they run. Not other residents.

Where does the data live?

Australian servers, Sydney. Communities are separated at the database level, not by a filter in the app, so one can never see another’s people or events.

We already run a resident portal.

Keep it. Portals handle maintenance, records and announcements. This handles who turns up. If we start duplicating your portal, tell us and we’ll stop.

What happens to our data if we leave?

You get an export of your events, attendance and residents, and we delete ours. Month to month means month to month.

Who is this not for?

Retirement villages on a deferred management fee — your revenue comes from turnover, so residents staying longer works against you. Also any community where nobody organises anything. Verandah amplifies a social life; it can’t start one.

The pilot

One community, and you help shape it

$300 per month, per community
Founding rate
Locked for as long as you stay with us. Standard rate is $500.
First invoice
After your first event runs — not before.
Commitment
Month to month. Cancel any time.
Your community live
About three months. You would be the first, and the village build is happening around you.
Communities after yours
About two weeks each.
What we ask
Honest feedback, and permission to name your community as one of the first.

Plainly: the platform runs today — it powers Bloom, an Australian social app now in store review. The village version is about three months of work, and you’d be the first on it. That is what the founding rate buys: you get a say in what it does. The pilot runs on the web, so there is nothing to install.

One community or forty — the first conversation is the same twenty minutes.

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