Cohiva Quorum compared with BoardPro

BoardPro and Cohiva Quorum both give a board a tidy place for agendas, board packs, meetings, and minutes. BoardPro is known across Australia and New Zealand for being straightforward and affordable, which suits many single boards and smaller organisations. Quorum extends the board portal with a statutory entity register, cited resolutions, and oversight across a group of entities, built around the Corporations Act 2001 and the ACNC.

At a glance

| Area | BoardPro | Cohiva Quorum | | --- | --- | --- | | Board portal and papers | Yes | Yes | | Ease of use for a single board | Strong | Strong | | Region focus | Australia and New Zealand | Australia | | Statutory entity register | Limited | Yes, in the same product | | Cited Corporations Act resolutions | General | Yes, resolutions carry their citation | | Multi-entity group oversight | Single-board focus | Yes, one tenant, many entities |

For the core meeting and pack workflow, both products serve a board well. The difference is how far each goes into the statutory side of governance and group structures.

Where BoardPro is strong

BoardPro has built a strong position for good reasons, and it deserves credit:

- Simplicity and ease of use, so a board and its administrator can get going quickly with little training. - Strong value, which makes it a sensible choice for single boards and smaller not-for-profits watching their budget. - A clear focus on the meeting lifecycle, from agenda to pack to minutes and actions. - Good fit and familiarity across the Australian and New Zealand market.

If your board mainly needs a clean, affordable meeting and pack workflow and you are running a single board, BoardPro is a strong fit.

Where Cohiva Quorum is strong

Quorum is built for Australian boards and groups that want statutory governance in one product. Its wedge is:

- The board portal together with a statutory entity register, so officeholders, members, and registers sit alongside the meeting and resolution record. - Corporations Act 2001 framing built in: resolutions carry their citation, and the section 194 and 195 conflicted-voting rules are applied from the entity type so proprietary and public companies are handled differently as the Act requires. - A section 251A minute book where signed minutes are immutable and corrections are tracked. - Multi-entity group oversight, where a holding company and its subsidiaries are managed as one tenant with many entities. - ACNC framing for registered charities and support for incorporated associations.

Quorum helps you comply and is designed to meet your governance obligations, while the entity and its officers remain responsible for compliance.

Choose Quorum if / Choose BoardPro if

Choose BoardPro if you run a single board or a smaller not-for-profit, you want a simple and affordable portal, and you mainly need the meeting and pack workflow. For that situation BoardPro is a strong and sensible choice.

Choose Cohiva Quorum if you also need the statutory entity register, cited resolutions, and oversight across a group of entities in one product framed around the Corporations Act and the ACNC.

Part of the Cohiva platform

Cohiva Quorum is part of the Cohiva platform. You can see the wider set of products at [www.cohiva.com](https://www.cohiva.com). For signatures on board and circular resolutions, Quorum works with [Cohiva Sign](https://www.cohiva.com), so a signed resolution flows back into the minute book as part of the record.