How Housing Cloud Is Revolutionizing The Housing Selection Process

Students have more accommodation choices than ever, with the private sector attracting many college-goers in major cities. As a result, having a solution that helps you attract more students can give you a leg up over the competition. Enter Housing.Cloud. 

Using a platform like Housing.Cloud can help your team attract more residents by making the housing selection application process more streamlined and successful. With Housing.Cloud, students can find roommate matches, fill out application forms, and notify you about their requirements on a centralized system, removing the need for paperwork and manual processes. Learn more about how Housing.Cloud streamlines housing selection for students and administrators below. 

Who Is Housing.Cloud?

Housing.Cloud is the student housing portal that simplifies day-to-day resident operations and attracts more people to on-campus accommodations. Purpose-built with the latest technology, this cloud-based tool offers unique features that traditional competitors can't provide, including:

• Improved roommate matches and room assignments

• Online housing application form creation and management

• New housing staff training for seamless team changes

• Custom tags to indicate characteristics of applicants and inventory for the purpose of easily and accurately matching students with roommates and to rooms

This platform is customizable, allowing you to define your unique workflows, applications, and checklists. In other words, you can make Housing.Cloud work for you, not the other way around. 

One of the biggest benefits of Housing.Cloud is its price. Even small schools can afford this platform and use it to enhance student experiences. 

How Housing.Cloud Makes Housing Selection Easier

Housing.Cloud makes it easier for potential campus residents to tell you about their housing preferences, including their favored accommodation types and the type of roommates they want to live with, which can improve student life. Here are some of the benefits of using this tool for housing selection:

Streamlined Selection Process

Historically, housing selection was a laborious process that required housing teams to manually send students applications and roommate questionnaires and then review them, taking up a large amount of resident life's time each semester. With Housing.Cloud, you can simplify selection processes in a couple of ways:

• Creating Rulesets to Consider Student Preferences: You can create rulesets that take into account students' requirements, preferences, and characteristics for room assignments and roommate matches. For example, you can set up a hard rule so students with emotional support animals don't live in the same housing accommodation as students with severe animal allergies. Alternatively, you can create a soft rule so students with emotional support animals live with animal lovers. You can customize these rules however you like and change them if students' priorities change. 

• Electronically Delivering Forms and Surveys: You can create and control housing application forms and roommate surveys in the Housing.Cloud system, removing the need to email documents or print paper forms and send them to students. Housing,Cloud, therefore, speeds up the time it takes for potential residents to share information about housing options and residency requirements with your team, and keeps the information you’re collecting within the system at your fingertips.

These features, teamed with a user-friendly interface and transparency, successfully streamline your selection process. 

User-Friendly Interface

Housing.Cloud has a modern user interface and intuitive design that enhances the housing selection process. You can quickly find the information you need, such as applicant and resident profiles, with a few clicks of a mouse. With all this information in a single system, there's no need to use several pieces of software for housing selection or other processes throughout the year.

Housing.Cloud is the industry's easiest student housing platform. Even if you've never used this type of tool, managing applications, reports, and custom fields will be a breeze. You'll be able to simplify your housing operations and improve on-campus living, both for your residents and your residence hall staff. 

Transparency

Housing.Cloud improves transparency by providing a single source of truth for all your student housing data, including applications and roommate requests. Everyone on your team can access the same information and use this data to enhance the campus experience, attract more residents to your accommodation, and retain tenants. 

This tool also enhances transparency by making its terms of service, privacy policy, and security policy available on its website. You can find out how Housing.Cloud collects, processes, and looks after sensitive data and what security protocols it uses to keep its platform safe from cyberattacks and other negative events.

Enhanced Student Experience

With Housing.Cloud, students can easily find roommates that share their lifestyles, hobbies, and preferences. For example, the platform lets you create forms with tags like "animals," "music," and other shared interests, streamlining the housing selection process. You can then filter these tags to create more effective roommate matches and more satisfying experiences for residents. 

Housing.Cloud also engages mobile-native students by allowing them to use a single log-on for roommate matching, room assignment, the application process, and more. Providing you with information about housing selection has never been easier for potential residents. 

Administrative Efficiency

Housing.Cloud improves administration by providing a unique student profile for each person living in your residence halls and other accommodations. Your team can quickly access information such as a resident's current roommates, roommate preferences, room photos, and room history. You can even add notes about a part-time or full-time student to their profile, as well as FERPA compliance information. This data helps you protect student education records while avoiding expensive governmental fines or legal troubles.

Housing.Cloud can also improve administrative efficiency by letting you manage conferences and other events during the academic year. You can create endless applications and cycles for the different populations you serve without additional fees, the need for specialized application-building skills, or computer coding expertise.

Attract More Students Today With a One-in-a-Kind Software

Housing.Cloud helps attract students to your on-campus accommodation by transforming the housing selection process. You can streamline selection by creating rulesets for roommate matches, creating and controlling application forms and roommate questionnaires, and making administrative workflows more efficient. That's not all. With Housing.Cloud, you'll benefit from increased transparency and a user-friendly interface, as well as from countless tools you can use to enhance the student experience. 

If you need a student platform that enhances campus housing selection, look no further than Housing.Cloud. Try this software for yourself with a demo.