Accounting
Buildium MCP connector
The Buildium connector brings your rental properties, associations, units, ownership accounts, architectural requests and property files to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any other MCP client, so each person can ask about them and act on them inside their own Buildium access.
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How it connects. Connects with an API key. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
How to connect
How to connect Buildium to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Buildium once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Buildium.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Paste a Buildium API key. One person generates a token in Buildium and pastes it once. Everyone else works through Share with, and never sees it.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
Connect Buildium to Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Connect Buildium to ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Connect Buildium to Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
Connect Buildium to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
Use cases
What teams do with Buildium through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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Property management
Pull up a rental property before a call
Ask for a rental property by name or address and get its details from Buildium, so you walk into an owner or tenant conversation already caught up.
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Leasing
Review active unit listings and their contacts
List the units currently advertised in Buildium and the listing contacts attached to each one, then take down a listing once the unit is leased.
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Association management
Track architectural requests across every association
See which homeowner architectural requests are open for each association, open the attached drawings and forms, and log a new request when one arrives by email.
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Accounting
Find owners with outstanding balances
Ask which ownership accounts carry an outstanding balance in Buildium and get the list back in plain language, ready to follow up before the board meeting.
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Operations
Set up a new association or property
Create a new association in Buildium, add its units, or record a newly acquired rental property without clicking through every setup screen by hand.
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Office administration
Keep property files current and tidy
Look up a lease, insurance certificate or inspection report stored in Buildium, correct its title or description, and remove files that are out of date.
Try asking
- “Show rentals with open architectural requests this week.”
- “List associations created since January and their ownership accounts.”
- “Which rentals are missing signed lease files?”
AI tools
Buildium tools for your AI agents
337 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Buildium, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
No tools match your search.
See it in Elaichi
What connecting Buildium gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Buildium account.
The agent
Ask about rentals in plain language.
Three starter prompts pull live Buildium rentals, associations and files into a straight answer.
- rentals
- associations
- ownership accounts
- files
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Show rentals with open architectural requests this week.
List associations created since January and their ownership accounts.
Which rentals are missing signed lease files?
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor reach Buildium here.
One org MCP endpoint over OAuth, no SDK to build and no shared API key.
Copy the endpoint
Tool catalog
337 Buildium tools, no custom code written.
Browse tool names, resources and methods across rentals, associations, ownership accounts and files.
- List all Buildium associations
- Create a Buildium association
- Get single Buildium association by ID
- List all Buildium ownershipaccounts architecturalrequests
Toolboxes
Each team gets its own Buildium toolbox.
Toolboxes are scoped per team, so leasing and accounting see different Buildium tools.
- Property Management
- Association Management
- Accounting
- Leasing
Shared connections
Teammates use Buildium without seeing a credential.
The connections table shows who connected each Buildium account and which teams share it.
- Property Management
- HOA Portfolio
- Accounting
- Leasing
Audit log
Answer who touched which rental, exactly when.
Append-only rows record time, person, action, type and the Buildium resource involved.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
Launching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
Automations
A schedule drafts your Buildium digest, someone approves.
Six steps fetch rentals, group them, draft a digest, take approval, post to Buildium.
Buildium digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch rentals
Buildium
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Michael Brennan
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Post the digest
Buildium
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Buildium numbers arrive before anyone asks.
Four metrics, 14 days of records created and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.
Buildium health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the rentals collection
Rentals
1,284 ↓ 12%
Associations
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Rentals created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Property Management 34%
HOA Portfolio 27%
Accounting 21%
Leasing 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Buildium to Claude?
First connect Buildium in Elaichi by pasting in a Buildium API key, which you generate inside your Buildium account. Then open Claude, go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste the endpoint https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. There is no OAuth application to register and no client ID or secret to generate; the whole thing takes a few minutes.
Does Buildium work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Buildium is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect Buildium once and every client you use picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Buildium data?
It can look up rental properties, associations and their units, list the units you have advertised and who the listing contacts are, and find ownership accounts with outstanding balances in Buildium. It can also open, update or remove property files, review the documents attached to architectural requests, and create new associations, units, rentals or architectural requests when you ask. Because Buildium exposes a large number of actions, short concrete asks like "show open architectural requests for Maple Grove" work better than long paragraphs.
Does connecting Buildium give the AI access to every property and association in my account?
No. Everything an agent does in Buildium runs inside the access of the person who signed in, so it sees the properties, associations and files that person can already see in Buildium. Elaichi can narrow that further, for example by hiding the ability to delete files, but it can never widen access beyond what Buildium already grants.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Buildium?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading rentals and associations while blocking the ability to delete unit listings or property files in Buildium. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT or any other client at all, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.
What happens to a Buildium connection when someone leaves the company?
When you offboard a person in Elaichi, their access to Buildium through every AI client ends at once. If they had shared a Buildium connection with their team, it keeps working for everyone else. If you ever want to remove Buildium entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and every other client together.
Put Buildium in front of your team
Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.