Colorado mutual ditch & reservoir companies
The ditch company's records, kept safe for the next secretary.
DitchBook is a share ledger and assessment-billing system built for Colorado mutual ditch and reservoir companies — so the books don't live and die with whoever's keeping them this year.
How it works
Three steps, nothing to learn
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Your share ledger moves in
Free, exportable, nothing locked in. We bring over your existing ledger, shareholders, and certificate history as-is.
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Assessments calculate themselves
Pro-rata by share, following the rules in C.R.S. 7-42 and your own bylaws — not a spreadsheet someone has to remember how to update.
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Everything prints as a mailable PDF
Every notice, invoice, and certificate is a document you can mail. Shareholders never need an account or a computer.
Shareholders keep getting paper. Nothing about this asks them to change how they do business with the company.
Pricing
What it costs
Records
Free forever
- Share ledger
- Certificates
- Transfers, with lien checks
- Meetings & proxies
- Full PDF export, any time
No trial. No expiration. No board vote required to start using it.
Assessments
Pay when you bill
- Assessment run, calculated pro-rata
- Mailed notices
- ACH collection
- Delinquency tracking
About $10 per shareholder per year. The company nets 100% of the assessment — the fee doesn't come out of what you collect.
Who this is for
Built for Colorado mutual ditch and reservoir companies operating under C.R.S. Title 7, Article 42 — the roughly 1,100 active companies still running assessments and share transfers the way they have for a century.
We're not affiliated with DARCA, but we've read the same bylaws, the same USBR landowner's guide, and the same annual-meeting minutes your company has. We did the homework before we ever picked up the phone.
Questions
What secretaries actually ask us
Do my shareholders need computers?
No. Paper and phone stay first-class. Every notice, invoice, and certificate is a document you can print and mail, and that's how most shareholders will keep receiving them.
What happens when I retire?
The ledger stays put. It doesn't live in your filing cabinet or your head — the next secretary logs in and the company's history is already there, intact.
Can I print everything?
Yes. Notices, invoices, certificates, meeting minutes, the full ledger — all of it is built to print cleanly, because we assume you will.
Is our data locked in?
No. You can export everything, any time, for free. If DitchBook isn't working for your company, you leave with your records, not without them.
What does it cost?
Keeping records is free forever. You only pay when you run an assessment — about $10 per shareholder per year — and the company keeps 100% of what it collects.
Who do I call when I'm stuck?
A person. Call Nick at TODO-PHONE or email TODO-EMAIL. No ticket queue.