Residence life and education, residential curriculum and curricular approaches, student housing, and technology.
Looking at the landscape of software options for housing and residence life in the past year, there has been a lot of upheaval and change. One thing we’ve tried to do is remain constant and stick to our mission and values. We’re still that family-owned business laser-focused on being the best software specifically for residence... Continue Reading →
2024 has been a great year to work with our Roompact campuses. We really value all of you who have invested in us and made our company, and our software, better. So let's take a look back at 2024 and a look forward... Looking Back On the software front, we added per-question permissions for Forms, we... Continue Reading →
This year, we celebrated our 10th birthday! We’ve come quite a long way from our scrappy days back in 2013, and we couldn’t have done it without all of you. Thank you, as always, for everything you do for us and our community. Let’s take a look back at our 10th year in business, and... Continue Reading →
At Roompact, 2022 was truly our best year yet. Our team has navigated “the new normal”, and numbers-wise, more campuses than ever trust us to provide them with software. Let’s take a look at a few of our highlights from the past year… Looking Back After about a year and a half of hard work,... Continue Reading →
2021 felt like a year of rebirth for us at Roompact. Internally, we sometimes metaphorically speak about our company as if it were a human. We had our childhood years, we stumbled through those painfully awkward teenage years, and in 2021, it finally felt like we really hit our stride and reached “adulthood” from a... Continue Reading →
In the early days of starting Roompact back in 2013, I always told myself: One day at a time. Just make a little bit of progress every single day, and after a while, those little increments of progress will compound into something great. Just keep moving forward. Throughout 2020, I had to remind myself of... Continue Reading →
I’ve noticed an alarming trend in Student Affairs. I’ve heard from a few different schools that a software vendor required them to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). What a scary thing to ask! We have never asked a potential client to sign an NDA, nor will we ever. Here’s why: NDAs imply a lack of... Continue Reading →
We often get a lot of questions from professionals and colleagues about what it's like to start a software company. The process from idea to product is an interesting one and one that requires one to take on a good deal of risk and a willingness to be adaptable and learn. Our CEO and Founder, Matt... Continue Reading →
I’m beginning to feel like a reality television host, but I have to say it: this year was our most exciting year yet. Welcome to this year’s “State of Roompact Address”! Looking Back This year we signed on more clients than ever before. We also provided on-campus software training to most of those new clients... Continue Reading →
Wow! It’s incredible to think about how much our team at Roompact has accomplished over the past year. As our clients just finish closing their halls for winter break, it’s time for us to reflect back on 2017 and look forward to 2018 in our annual “State of Roompact Address”! Door Decs submitted for our... Continue Reading →
When I was a bit younger, I was interested in creating the "Next Big Thing." I wanted to create a consumer-facing web application, convince investors to pour in millions of dollars, acquire a massive number of users, and then sell the company 5 years later. I wanted to start a "startup." Then my eyes opened to... Continue Reading →
Many of our clients wonder about our logo and its origin story. In this post Roompact’s CEO and Founder, Matt Unger, provides some background on how it came to be. After deciding on Roompact’s name, choosing a logo was the natural next step. One of the questions I get asked the most in regards to... Continue Reading →
This year, our team thought we'd start a tradition called the "State of Roompact Address." As President of Roompact, it's my privilege to guide you through a look back on 2016 and a look forward to 2017. Looking Back At the beginning of the year, Christian Charukiewicz stepped into the role of Chief Technology Officer... Continue Reading →
Before Roompact evolved into the comprehensive residential education software you know today, it began its life focusing solely on digital roommate agreements. Matt, our CEO and founder, recalls the story of how Roompact got its name... The idea for creating online roommate agreement software came to me in June of 2013, but the company needed... Continue Reading →
